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926796

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Hospitals: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support hospitals in special measures.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	905932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Trusts in Special Measures are receiving increased support and intensive oversight from NHS Improvement to turn around their performance, including tailored improvement packages and Improvement Directors.</p><p> </p><p>22 trusts are now out of Special Measures for Quality since the programme began in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 13:14:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

923898

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
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	Health: Age
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 support healthy ageing.
tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
uin	905918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister recently outlined that the first mission of the Ageing Society Grand Challenge, as announced in the Industrial Strategy, would be to ensure people enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035, whilst narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest. The Department is leading work across Government to deliver on this ambition, working closely with key partners across industry, civil society and local government.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 07:36:00 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

923270

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Health Professions: West Midlands
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 effect on the quality of patient care of gaps in rotas for higher speciality trainees in hospitals in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for staffing levels, including the 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>Rotas and any gaps are managed and quality assured by trusts, supported by NHS Improvement and assessed by the Care Quality Commission.</p><p> </p><p>Training programme fill rates vary from specialty to specialty.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/06/2018 16:34:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

923271

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Health Professions: Vacancies
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 effect of changes in the level of workforce vacancies on patient care; and if he will support doctors reaching retirement to continue working if they wish by promoting flexible working opportunities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>There is no historic robust vacancy data showing changes in the level of workforce vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of patients are continuing to receive world class high quality and prompt care, against a backdrop of increasing demand. The overwhelming majority of patients waiting to start planned treatment are seen and treated within a maximum of 18 weeks, with the current average wait around six weeks if these patients are being treated as an outpatient and 10 weeks if they need to be admitted to hospital.</p><p> </p><p>Employers are responsible for engaging doctors about their plans for retirement as they approach their ‘normal pension age’[1].The Government is supporting doctors who want to continue working after reaching retirement age by offering a range of flexible options including working fewer days or hours and options to work in less demanding roles involving fewer responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published its ‘Guidance on the re-employment of staff in receipt of their NHS Pension Scheme benefits’ in July 2017. The ‘retire and return’ policy aims to:</p><p>- Enable the National Health Service to retain the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to deliver patient care;</p><p>- Help support the health and wellbeing of older staff as they approach retirement and wish to continue working; and</p><p>- Ensure that the overall workforce costs are managed in line with budgets.</p><p> </p><p>Employers should have clear policies and procedures to deal with ‘retire and return’ applications, so they can demonstrate they have considered business and financial needs when assessing cases. Other flexible retirement options exist to support NHS staff that are approaching or working beyond normal pension age.</p><p> </p><p>More details are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/re-employing-staff-who-receive-an-nhs-pension" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/re-employing-staff-who-receive-an-nhs-pension</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publish figures on advertised posts, derived from ‘NHS Jobs’, the recruitment website used by NHS trusts, and NHS Improvement has begun a monthly collection of staff vacancies from NHS providers which, since September 2017, is published in their quarterly report of the NHS provider sector. Seasonal effects have a large impact on vacancies and as a time series of this data is not yet available, we are currently unable to accurately interpret the data for these effects, making meaningful conclusions hard to draw.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital are actively working with NHS Improvement and others to define and publish the various data on a more consistent basis.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><sup>1</sup>Normal pension ages in the NHS Pension scheme are 60, 65 and state pension age for the 1995, 2008 and 2015 NHS Pension Schemes respectively.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/06/2018 16:33:06 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

923283

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Social Services: Pay
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 make a decision on backdated sleep-in payments.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	153159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the pressure that sleep-ins back pay liabilities are placing on providers of social care. Any decisions required will be made in due course, ahead of this the Government is exploring options to minimise any impact on the sector.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2018 15:33:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

923318

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	General Practitioners: Insurance
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 publish the details of the state-backed indemnity scheme for general practice in England.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	153409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>On 12 October 2017 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that he would establish a state backed indemnity scheme for general practice in England, to put in place a more stable and affordable system of indemnity.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to implementing the scheme from April 2019.</p><p> </p><p>This complex piece of work is undergoing detailed development with general practitioner (GP) representatives, Medical Defence Organisations and NHS England. We remain committed to delivering a scheme that prioritises meeting the needs of current and future GPs and the wider primary medical care landscape, being in the interest of patients and representing value for money for taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>On 13 June 2018, the Department published further details about the scheme, highlighting that:</p><p> </p><p>- Ministers have decided that the scheme will include activities delivered under the primary medical care contracts (General Medical Services, Personal Medical Services, Alternative Provider Medical Services). Recognising that delivering these activities is not limited to GPs, other professions where they are working under the primary medical care contracts will be included in the scheme. The scheme will also include work delivered under the primary medical care contracts that are delivered in secure environments; and</p><p>- The current intention is that the scheme will exclude NHS primary care dentistry and private dentistry, private healthcare and community pharmacy and optometry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/06/2018 16:35:41 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

923385

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	General Practitioners: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to expand mental health training as part of the GP training programme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	153254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>All general practitioners (GPs) receive mental health training as part of their postgraduate general practice training, based on curricula set by the Royal College of General Practitioners, to standards set by the General Medical Council.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) is currently looking at ways to provide further additional training as part of the Foundation Programme whilst also ensuring a balanced curriculum given the wide range of skills and experience GPs need to gain in their education and training.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:17:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

923388

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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: Prisons
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 people have been employed by mental health in-reach teams in prisons in the most recent financial year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	153255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:15:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

923390

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Drugs: Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent from the public purse on drug rehabilitation services in prisons in the most recent financial year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	153256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Due to the integrated approach to prison healthcare services commissioning by NHS England, this information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:13:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

923394

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Suicide: Prisoners' Release
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 self-inflicted deaths there were of former prisoners in England within 14 days of their release in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	153257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:12:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger