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856922

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that mental health services use the least restrictive options for care.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	131434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s full programme of work in line with the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health is predicated on services being commissioned to provide patients with timely access to evidence-based care as early as possible and as close to home as possible where appropriate. This includes home treatment teams and wider community mental health services. In 2017/18, NHS England has been developing a programme of work around community mental health services, including a pathway spanning primary and secondary care in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has undertaken a local visits programme to specifically examine reasons for changing rates of detention under the Mental Health Act. In January 2018 the CQC subsequently published its report, “Mental Health Act – The rise in the use of the MHA to detain people in England”. The CQC’s programme was prompted by suggestions that the changing rates of detention under the Act have a number of causes and that these vary in different parts of the country. This is consistent with recent academic findings. Building on the CQC’s findings, the Government will work with arm’s length bodies and Professor Sir Simon Wessely’s independent review of the Act to explore further the factors involved. The review will publish an interim report in the spring highlighting priorities for further investigation, and will make recommendations to the Government later in the year.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England intends to publish a response to the Crisp Commission on Adult Acute Psychiatric Care shortly. The Commission’s report emphasises the need to focus on whole system capacity management and alternatives to admission, such as home treatment. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s major programme to support areas to eliminate non-specialist acute out-of-area placements for adults by 2020/21 will build on this, supported by £400 million investment in Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams by 2020/21.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/03/2018 15:09:58 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

856984

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for NHS England to publish information on the additional mental health therapists working in primary care.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	131496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not currently available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Work is currently underway within NHS Digital to improve the National Workforce Data Set including improving information provision about the Psychologist and Psychological Therapies workforce. Changes to relevant systems should be in place by summer 2018 and NHS Digital should be in a position to begin reporting before the end of 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 131497 131498 131499 131500 question first answered 12/03/2018 17:14:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

856985

registered interest
date	07/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the targets set in the Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014 and the General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, how many additional mental health therapists are now working in primary care.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	131497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not currently available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Work is currently underway within NHS Digital to improve the National Workforce Data Set including improving information provision about the Psychologist and Psychological Therapies workforce. Changes to relevant systems should be in place by summer 2018 and NHS Digital should be in a position to begin reporting before the end of 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 131496 131498 131499 131500 question first answered 12/03/2018 17:14:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

856105

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure sufficient staffing and beds are in place in mental health services to respond to changes in the level of mental ill health among women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	131271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Regulation 18 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) requires providers of health and care services to deploy enough suitably qualified staff to meet the needs of the people using the service. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) guidance relating to Regulation 18 states that:</p><p> </p><p>‘In order for providers to meet the requirements of Regulation 18, providers must provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff to meet the needs of the people using the service at all times and the other regulatory requirements set out in this part of the regulations’.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2017, Health Education England (HEE) published ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England’. This included detailed analysis of workforce numbers and vacancy rates by key staff groups and plans to increase the size of the workforce by 21,000 additional posts by 2020/21. The plan includes a series of steps, currently underway, to improve recruitment and retention of mental health staff, as well as examining models of care and the roles played by different professionals in order to maximise the impact on service users.</p><p> </p><p>The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce was set up in early 2017 with the objective of developing collaborative proposals for action to improve women’s mental health. It brings together experts on women’s mental health and involves key national organisations responsible for policy, commissioning and delivery of services, including system partners such as NHS England and Public Health England.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that there are sufficient beds to provide specialist inpatient perinatal mental health care, NHS England is expanding the capacity of inpatient mother and baby units (MBUs). Four new, eight-bed MBUs have been commissioned to provide specialist care and support to mothers who experience severe mental ill health during and after pregnancy in areas of the country with particular access issues.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/03/2018 15:17:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

855707

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England plans to publish the next iteration of the Mental Health Dashboard.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	131013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>On 31 January, NHS England published the latest update of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard, showing data at a national level for the six-month period from April to September 2017. A full version of the Dashboard will be published by the end of March 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/03/2018 11:55:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

851010

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the longest period of time was that a patient has had to wait for access to mental health services in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	130205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The information requested has not been collected for the past 10 years. Waiting times only began being collected in April 2015 for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, and January 2016 for Early Intervention in Psychosis and children and young people with eating disorders. In addition, quality assurance is not as robust at the level of individual records as at a system level – therefore NHS Digital advises that statistical outliers are likely to be due to data quality or data collection errors rather than an accurate record of how long individuals are waiting for treatment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/03/2018 11:13:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

850254

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health (a) therapists and (b) supervisors worked in the NHS in each year between 2010 and 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	129822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital provides workforce statistics and mental health supervisors are not coded in the Electronic Staff Record occupation code manual, therefore we are unable to provide data for mental health supervisors. The following table shows mental health therapists as defined by care setting and level in the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 October 2017, full time equivalent (FTE).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>FTE Mental Health Therapists</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2010</p></td><td><p>8,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2011</p></td><td><p>8,394</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2012</p></td><td><p>8,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2013</p></td><td><p>9,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2014</p></td><td><p>10,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2015</p></td><td><p>10,495</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2016</p></td><td><p>11,106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September-2017</p></td><td><p>11,608</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October-2017</p></td><td><p>11,977</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>Mental health therapists are defined as the staff groups working in clinical psychology, including Consultant Therapist/Scientist, Manager, Scientist, Technician, and the staff groups working in Psychotherapy, including consultant Therapist/Scientist, manager, Therapist and Scientist.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/03/2018 14:37:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

846915

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people referred to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies waited less than (a) six and (b) 18 weeks for their first appointment to receive treatment in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	129089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing waiting times for mental health therapies across England.</p><p> </p><p>Data are presented in the table below:</p><p> </p><p>Percentage of referrals which finished a course of treatment in the year waiting less than six and 18 weeks to enter treatment, England, 2015-16 and 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting Period</p></td><td><p>Percentage of referrals which finished a course of treatment waiting less than six weeks to enter treatment</p></td><td><p>Percentage of referrals which finished a course of treat waiting less than 18 weeks to enter treatment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>81.3%</p></td><td><p>96.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>87.5%</p></td><td><p>98.2%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset, NHS Digital</p><p>This data shows that we are exceeding the national waiting time standards for IAPT.</p><p>It should be noted that the national waiting times target, and the methodology used, changed in the 2014/15 reporting year. For this reason, waiting times published in 2015-16 and 2016-17 are not comparable with previous years and have therefore not been included in this response.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/02/2018 15:19:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

846193

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to achieve the Government’s national ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements for mental health services for (a) adults and (b) children and young people in acute in-patient care by 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	128878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live.</p><p> </p><p>For adults, inappropriate out of area placements (OAPs) are unacceptable and the Government is committed to delivering the target to eliminate these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>To support this ambition, we have established a national approach to defining non-specialist acute OAPs and a regular data collection to monitor current activity and progress.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement now have a comprehensive national programme supporting reductions in OAPs, and every local area is currently developing a trajectory towards ending this practice by no later than 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The commitment to reduce OAPs has been formalised in the NHS 2018/19 planning guidance and included in the NHS Improvement Single Oversight Framework.</p><p> </p><p>For children and young people, NHS England has a major programme underway to improve inpatient care, by opening between 150 and 180 new beds and ensuring that the right beds are in the right place in the country. The ambition is that by 2020/21 no children are inappropriately admitted or sent out of area to receive anything but the most specialist mental health care.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/02/2018 16:26:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

843552

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the waiting time for mental health assessment and therapy in (a) Lewisham borough, (b) London and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	127893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing waiting times for mental health therapies across England.</p><p> </p><p>Performance against Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) waiting time standards continues to improve and we are consistently exceeding the targets. According to the 2016-17 IAPT annual report, 98.2% of those people completing treatment waited less than 18 weeks for their treatment to start in England against a target of 95% and 87.5% of people completing treatment waited less than six weeks against a target of 75%.</p><p> </p><p>Updates on clinical commissioning group (CCG) performance against these targets, including for London and Lewisham, are published on the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p> </p><p>Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group has taken action in response to an increase in IAPT waiting times and expects to see an improvement in performance towards the end of Quarter 4 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/02/2018 13:01:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft