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1149377

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 his Department has made of the (a) findings, (b) conclusions and (c) recommendations of the report entitled, Duty of care: midwives' experience of the NHS charging regime, published on 9 September 2019 by Maternity Action; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to suspend The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations in relation to charges for maternity care, as recommended in the report ‘Duty of care?: The impact on midwives on NHS charging for maternity care.’</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to considering evidence it receives in relation to the Regulations, including evidence set out in the report. The Department also works closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to support NHS providers in the delivery of the charging regime; and to ensure that providers understand the guidance and how it should be properly and consistently implemented. This includes ensuring NHS Trusts fully understand that all maternity treatment must be provided to any chargeable woman, regardless of her ability to pay, and that they must not be discouraged from receiving it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 13:54:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1148841

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 report entitled Duty of Care?: The impact on midwives of NHS charging for maternity care, published on 9 September 2019, what plans he has to review the functioning of the NHS overseas visitors charging regime as a result of the findings and conclusions of that report; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to continually consider evidence it receives in relation to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors Regulations) 2015 but has no plans to formally review the functioning of the NHS overseas visitors charging regime.</p><p> </p><p>The Department works closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to support NHS providers in the delivery of the charging regime; and to ensure that providers understand the guidance and how it should be properly and consistently implemented.</p><p> </p><p>This includes ensuring NHS trusts fully understand that all maternity treatment must be provided to any chargeable woman, regardless of her ability to pay, and that they must not be discouraged from receiving it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:19:27 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1149078

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Midwives: Training
	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 (a) student midwives there were, (b) people graduated from pre-registration midwifery training and (c) training places for pre-registration midwifery students were (i) made available and (ii) filled in each of the last three academic years.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	41
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table. shows the number of students accepted onto midwifery courses over the last three full academic years.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery student acceptances</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of acceptances</p></td><td><p>2,395</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>2,680</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Source: UCAS end of cycle data, 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in 2016-17. Data for 2018-19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery graduates</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of graduates</p></td><td><p>2,162</p></td><td><p>2,091</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Health Education England (HEE) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 2016/17 HEE commissioned 2,605 midwifery places of which 2,602 were filled. Following the removal of the bursary in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned by HEE. Places are filled via the normal university application process with the Department making funding available for the provision of their clinical placements while studying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:01:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149079

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Midwives
	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 age profile is of NHS midwives, and how many NHS midwives in each age category are (a) UK nationals and (b) nationals of EU member states other than the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	42
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of midwives as at June 2019, the latest available data broken down by age and nationality. The data is headcount because nationality data relates to individuals.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age band</p></td><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>European Union</p></td><td><p>European Economic Area</p></td><td><p>Rest of World</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All age bands</p></td><td><p>26,192</p></td><td><p>23,177</p></td><td><p>1,344</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>447</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 25</p></td><td><p>1,394</p></td><td><p>1,327</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 to 29</p></td><td><p>3,569</p></td><td><p>3,156</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 to 34</p></td><td><p>3,523</p></td><td><p>3,132</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35 to 39</p></td><td><p>3,382</p></td><td><p>3,030</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40 to 44</p></td><td><p>3,097</p></td><td><p>2,728</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45 to 49</p></td><td><p>3,079</p></td><td><p>2,694</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 54</p></td><td><p>3,923</p></td><td><p>3,473</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55 to 59</p></td><td><p>2,886</p></td><td><p>2,515</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>231</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60 to 64</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>956</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65 and over</p></td><td><p>207</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:09:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149224

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Hospitals: Construction
	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 hospitals are used to near capacity before new hospitals are built; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In planning strategic change within a health economy, including the development of new capacity, commissioners are expected to look at current available capacity, projected need, the condition and adaptability of existing estates and safe and efficient levels of usage including bed occupancy. These are complex matters with many variables and are planned at local with appropriate public consultation.</p><p>All organisations are expected to develop business cases to inform their investment decisions that follows HM Treasury’s best practice guidance to develop their cases. NHS England and NHS Improvement provides guidance on the capital regime for National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts, including the principles and processes for capital investment and property transactions. This guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/capital-regime-investment-and-property-business-case-approval-guidance-nhs-trusts-and-foundation-trusts/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/capital-regime-investment-and-property-business-case-approval-guidance-nhs-trusts-and-foundation-trusts/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 13:51:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1149228

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure safe and adequate levels of staffing across the NHS to protect patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 461 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149230

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Nurses: 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 encourage and support people to enter the nursing profession.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149232

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Medicine: Education
	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 his Department has to increase the number of medical school places to meet growing demand.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 461 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149282

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Air Ambulance Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he is allocating to air ambulance services.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Autumn 2018 Budget announced £10 million of capital funding to support air ambulance services. This funding has been allocated to nine charities across England with successful bids which represented the best value for money and positive patient impact. The allocation will fund upgrades to seven operational airbases, including training facilities and fundraising headquarters. There were also three successful bids for critical care cars and medical equipment, and one bid for a new helicopter.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 15:34:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1149413

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Nurses: 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 (a) encourage and (b) support people to enter the nursing profession.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Eleanor Smith
	uin	708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>The University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage UCAS applications to the January 15 deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Ambassadors scheme encourages people working and/or studying in healthcare to volunteer one hour per year to speak in schools about their roles or participate in careers events and activities.</p><p> </p><p>Through the interim People Plan, during 2019/20 we will focus on increasing applications to undergraduate AHP education, particularly in the shortage professions of therapeutic radiography, podiatry, orthoptics and prosthetics/orthotics, and developing Allied Health Professionals faculties to work with healthcare providers to identify how to expand clinical placement activity.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see an additional 1,500 new medical school places for United Kingdom domestic students. The extra places have been distributed in geographic areas where there have been fewer training places per unit population.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 709 710 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:50:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4609 label Biography information for Eleanor Smith