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1661092

registered interest
date	15/09/2023
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 Services: Private Sector
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 he has made of the level of capacity in the independent health sector which can be used to help reduce waiting times in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	199712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Elective Recovery Taskforce heard that service planning in the independent sector, including to help reduce waiting times, is best informed by close working relationships with local systems and confidence in patient flows. To better inform planning and capacity utilisation in the independent sector, we are working with NHS England to enhance the patient choice offer. At the point of referral, patients will be actively offered a list of providers, including local independent sector providers, which are clinically appropriate for their condition.</p><p>From October 2023, all patients waiting over 40 weeks who have not had a first outpatient appointment booked, or where a decision to treat a patient has been made but the patient does not have a date for their treatment, will be able to initiate a request to transfer to another provider via the Patient Initiated Digital Mutual Aid System. This will include independent sector providers where appropriate.</p><p>To reduce waiting times for diagnostic tests, NHS England recently announced 13 Community Diagnostic Centres run by the independent sector, creating capacity, and enabling treatments to be started sooner.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/10/2023 08:18:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1660033

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Surgery: Shipley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September to Question 197441 on Surgery: Shipley, in what format the is data held.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	199044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>Data for elective referrals is collected and published in official statistics by NHS England, but none match the format of the data requested. Referrals particularly are not counted or recorded for “surgery” specifically but to see a consultant which may result in treatment including surgery.</p><p>Published referral to treatment statistics show, amongst other things, the number of referrals for National Health Service-funded care that resulted in elective inpatient treatment and can be disaggregated at NHS provider, independent provider, commissioner &amp; integrated care board level geographies, but not at a constituency or general practitioner (GP) level. The monthly outpatient referrals data shows the number of referrals for an NHS funded outpatient appointment and can also be disaggregated at the provider level, including both NHS and independent. The annual hospital episode statistics (HES) publications include the total number of admissions by provider.</p><p>Furthermore, NHS England can provide from HES data a count of Finished Admission Episodes by GP practice with an elective admission where the patient was resident in the Shipley parliamentary constituency and the placement was NHS funded for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. However, this is a count of activity rather than of referrals, namely a demand metric.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 20/09/2023 14:55:57 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1658158

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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: Consultants
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 average hourly pay for NHS consultants is (a) on a typical day and (b) when covering strike action.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Within the NHS Staff Earnings Estimates collection, NHS England publishes annual earnings estimates for staff working in Hospital and Community Health Services. This shows the estimated average annual full-time basic pay for National Health Service consultants is £105,484 for the 12 months to March 2023, giving an average hourly basic pay for NHS consultants of £50.57 per hour.</p><p>The Department does not hold data on the average hourly pay for NHS consultants when covering strike action.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 16:50:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1658159

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introudce a cap on the cost of agency workers in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Agency Rules include price caps on the total amount a trust can pay per hour for an agency worker. Trusts should not pay more than this amount except in exceptional patient safety circumstances.</p><p>Additionally, the 2023/24 NHS Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance states that NHS England must reduce agency spending across the National Health Service to 3.7% of the total pay bill in 2023/24</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 16:48:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1658160

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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: Regulation
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 the number of healthcare professional regulators; and if he will take steps to consolidate them.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>In 2021 the Government commissioned a review of the number of healthcare regulators, considering whether opportunities exist for simplifying the landscape. There are no current plans to reduce the number of healthcare professional regulators, but the Government is committed to reforming the system of regulation for healthcare professionals in the UK, making it faster, fairer, more flexible, and less adversarial.</p><p>A modernised regulatory framework will be introduced first for anaesthesia associates and physician associates, who will be brought into regulation under the General Medical Council by the end of 2024, before the reformed legislation is rolled out to doctors, and to the professions regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Health and Care Professions Council over the following couple of years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 16:52:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1658161

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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 Services: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) number of people directly employed by, (b) freelancers and (c) consultants in each of the health and care regulators in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information regarding the number of people employed, or the basis of that employment, within each health and care regulator. Healthcare regulators are independent from the Government.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/09/2023 11:48:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1658162

registered interest
date	05/09/2023
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: Productivity
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 levels of productivity in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The most recent indicator of National Health Service productivity comes from the January to March 2023 Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) quarterly total public sector productivity measure, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/publicservicesproductivity/bulletins/publicserviceproductivityquarterlyuk/januarytomarch2023#:~:text=Public%20service%20productivity%20rose%20by%200.9%25%20in%20Quarter%201%202023,increase%20of%207.3%25%20in%202021" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/publicservicesproductivity/bulletins/publicserviceproductivityquarterlyuk/januarytomarch2023#:~:text=Public%20service%20productivity%20rose%20by%200.9%25%20in%20Quarter%201%202023,increase%20of%207.3%25%20in%202021</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This measure doesn’t specifically identify health productivity but as health is around 40% of the measure, it is an indication of health productivity. The latest figures for January to March 2023 showed public service productivity was 11.6% above the average 2020/21 level suggesting NHS productivity is recovering.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/10/2023 16:13:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1657957

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
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	Surgery: Shipley
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 referrals for elective surgery were made by each GP surgery in Shipley constituency and funded through the NHS which were made to (a) the NHS and (b) independent health providers in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The data is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 11/09/2023 15:53:30 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1656129

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Care Quality Commission: Staff
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 and what proportion of (a) board members and (b) employees of the Care Quality Commission have previous experience in the sectors that they regulate.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	195835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>There are currently 11 members of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Board, of whom eight are non-executive members appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and three are executive members appointed by the non-executive members.</p><p>Of those 11 members, all but two have experience in the sectors that CQC regulates. Details of board members’ experience can be found on CQC’s website, which is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/our-board</p><p>CQC does not hold data centrally to give the number and proportion of employees with previous experience in the sectors they regulate.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/09/2023 11:52:34 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1656457

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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	Draft Mental Health Bill
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 reply to the report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	195933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has considered the Committee’s recommendations carefully and we will publish our response shortly.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/09/2023 14:17:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies