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1138122

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	NHS: Staff
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 estimate he has made of staffing levels in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	275807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service employs record numbers of dedicated NHS staff that work tirelessly to make sure patients get excellent, safe care. There are over 51,900 more professionally qualified clinical staff, over 16,500 more doctors and almost 10,500 more nurses, midwives and health visitors working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups than in 2010.</p><p>The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts staff at the heart of NHS policy and delivery and sets out how we will secure a capable and motivated multidisciplinary healthcare workforce, of a sufficient size, to meet population health needs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/07/2019 15:52:12 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1138143

registered interest
date	10/07/2019
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	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to start the consultation on Healthy Start vouchers.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	275808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department is considering a range of options for consulting on Healthy Start vouchers. The consultation has been postponed until we are in a better position to identify further opportunities to improve the Healthy Start Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/07/2019 14:13:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1128413

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Life Expectancy
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 assessment he has made of the reasons for regional disparities in life expectancy.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	257601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England’s Segment Tool provides data on what causes of death are driving inequalities in life expectancy at both regional and local authority level. For regions where life expectancy is lower than England, the tool shows the causes of death which are contributing to this gap. This can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/inequality-tools" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/inequality-tools</a></p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has tackling health inequalities as a core focus.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/06/2019 13:40:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1128419

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Perinatal Mortality
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 assessment he has made of trends in rates of perinatal mortality in (a) the UK and (b) Slough constituency.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	257604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) report annual statistics on perinatal mortality. The latest release of these data show that in England and Wales, the perinatal mortality rate in 2016 was 6.6 deaths per 1,000 births. This is similar to 2015 when there was a rate of 6.5 deaths per 1,000 births. There has been a general decline in national perinatal mortality rates in recent years; for example, the rate in 2010 was 7.4 deaths per 1,000 births. Data specifically for Slough have only recently begun to be published by the ONS. Therefore, it is not possible to make an assessment of the trends in perinatal mortality in the Slough constituency at this stage. However, in 2016 there were 29 perinatal deaths recorded in Slough representing a perinatal mortality rate of 11 deaths per 1,000 births.</p><p>The Government remain committed to the national ambition to halve the 2010 rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 2025 and to achieve at least a 20% reduction in these rates by 2020. Further information about the measures in place to achieve the ambition can be found in the NHS Long Term Plan at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nhs-long-term-plan.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/nhs-long-term-plan.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/06/2019 14:10:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1127468

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Health Professions: Recruitment
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 increase the number of (a) school nurses and (b) health visitors.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	256319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>From April 2013, local authorities have been responsible for public health locally, including commissioning public health services for school aged children in their areas. In October 2015 responsibility for zero to five commissioning was also transferred to local authorities.</p><p>It is therefore for local authorities to assess the health needs of their populations and commission the appropriate health visiting and school nursing services and workforce, based around local needs.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/05/2019 16:45:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125937

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	Radiology: Recruitment
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 increase recruitment of radiologists.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>In the Cancer Workforce Plan for England published in December 2017, Health Education England set out the case for additional training support for clinical radiology. The table below shows the increase in accepted post numbers, by recruitment year. Fill rates for clinical radiology in England over the last seven years have always been 100%. Clinical radiology is a popular speciality and each year has on average double the number of appointable candidates for the number of entry points (offers of places to commence the training programme).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of accepted radiology posts</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>234</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Health Education England</p><p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:48:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125939

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS mental health support for university students.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Mental health is a priority for this Government. That is why the Department of Health and Social Care is continuing to work closely with the Department for Education to improve the mental health of university students.</p><p> </p><p>To support this, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, including a new approach to mental health services for people aged 18-25, supporting transitions to college and to adulthood, with services being adapted to create a comprehensive offer for 0 to 25 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working closely with Universities UK through the Mental Health in Higher Education programme to build the capability and capacity of universities to improve student welfare services and improve access to mental health services for the student population, including focusing on suicide reduction, and improving access to psychological therapies to support and treat students suffering from stress and anxiety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:39:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125940

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	Pharmacy: Access
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 he has taken to ensure that patients have adequate access to pharmacy services.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>In December 2016, the Department introduced the Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS), as part of a wider package of reforms to the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. The PhAS helps to support the financial viability of pharmacies in areas where there are fewer pharmacies.</p><p>The Department continues to monitor closely the market to identify and address issues that may impact patient access to pharmacy services. Access to National Health Service pharmaceutical services remains good: there are over 11,500 pharmacies in England, an increase of approximately 12% in the last decade.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:49:34 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1125944

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
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	Stem Cells: Donors
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 engage with BAME communities on stem cell donations.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	252891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Since 2011 the Department has provided more than £26 million in financial support to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan to enable the establishment of a unified United Kingdom Stem Cell Registry and improve stem cell donation. This includes improving equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for Black African Minority Ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the UK Stem Cell Registry and the Department has set specific targets about the proportion of donors that must be from BAME backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:37:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1109355

registered interest
date	03/04/2019
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	Obesity: Children
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 tackle childhood obesity rates.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	240630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care (Steve Brine MP) to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central (Jo Stevens MP) on 28 February 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-02-25/225540/" target="_blank">225540</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/04/2019 15:25:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi