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1693876

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Bournemouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) she and (b) other Ministers plan to visit Bournemouth in the next six months.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	uin	17081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>Ministers regularly consider visits to health and care settings across the country. Any plans to visit specific locations will be notified to hon. Members in advance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 07/03/2024 11:08:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1693779

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Out of Area Treatment: Families
	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 she has made of the impact of having to visit (a) children and (b) babies in hospital out of area on low income families.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	17168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>There are a number of financial support schemes available to support low-income families, so that they can in turn support their children or babies while they are in hospital. These include: the NHS Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme, which offers financial support to eligible parents and carers to enable them to make the journey to hospital while their baby or child is being cared for; the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023, which is due to provide qualifying new parents with a right to 12 weeks’ leave and pay when their baby requires neonatal care, in addition to existing parental leave entitlements, to help address the financial barriers faced by families; and the Sure Start Maternity Grant, which aims to help low-income families meet the wider costs of having a new baby.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/03/2024 09:59:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1693778

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Baby Care Units: Out of Area Treatment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to ensure that families of children in Special Care Baby Units whose babies are being treated out of their area are provided with financial assistance.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	17167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme offers financial support to eligible parents and carers, to enable them to make the journey to hospital, in these circumstances. Families can contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service at their hospital for information and advice on travel costs and financial support.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/03/2024 10:00:14 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1693908

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment with NHS England of the potential merits of left ventricular assist devices as long-term therapy for patients ineligible for transplantation.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	17137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has a commissioning specification for using ventricular assist devices (VADs) as a bridge to transplantation, or as a bridge to a decision on transplant suitability. The use of VADs as a treatment and destination therapy for patients who are not eligible for a transplant, is not routinely commissioned. NHS England has recently received a policy proposition for use of VADs as long-term destination therapy for selected patients with advanced heart failure. This proposition is currently under evaluation in line with the published Policy Methods Process, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/methods-national-clinical-policies/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/methods-national-clinical-policies/</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 11/03/2024 10:09:01 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1693843

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Dental Services: Devon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department provides ringfenced funding for dentistry to the Devon integrated care board.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
	uin	17196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>We are currently considering arrangements for 2024/25. NHS England provided guidance for the integrated care boards (ICBs) that required dental allocations to be ringfenced in 2023/24, with any unused resources to be re-directed to improve National Health Service dental access in the first instance, rather than being spent on other services. In November 2023, NHS England confirmed that where ICBs had not spent all of their allocation on improving access to dentistry, they would be able to retain any underspend, and use it to balance their bottom line and any other pressures. ICBs will decide how to use any forecast underspend in line with this guidance.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/03/2024 13:20:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1693809

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Food: Hygiene
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department holds data on the number of (a) establishments that received food hygiene inspections in 2023 and (b) ratings that were issued by each category defined by the Food Standards Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	17107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency does not hold data on the number of establishments receiving a food hygiene inspection in 2023. However, the attached tables show the number of food hygiene interventions carried out by local authorities in each country, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for the periods 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 and 1 April 2023 to 30 September 2023. This includes interventions other than inspections and audits, such as visits to monitor and verify the standards of food hygiene, visits to take samples, visits to give advice, or the assessment of documents provided by the food business. It also includes the number of food hygiene inspections and audits carried out by local authorities in each country, for the period 1 April 2023 to 30 September 2023.</p><p>Local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland issued 199,262 food hygiene ratings from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023. The attached tables show the data for each country by each category of food establishment, and the aggregate totals for the three countries. A food establishment may have been subject to more than one intervention, or may have received more than one food hygiene rating during 2023.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/03/2024 13:34:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom attachment 1 file name PQ17107 interventions data (1).xlsx title PQ17107 - interventions data (1)
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1693874

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Doctors and Nurses: Bournemouth
	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) doctors and (b) nurses there were in Bournemouth in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	uin	17080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on National Health Service staff by where they reside. Data on staff working across hospital and community health services is collected and reported based on the hospital trust that employs staff. Therefore, data is presented for the relevant local hospital trust.</p><p> </p><p>The acute hospital trust that covered Bournemouth in 2010 was The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2020 there was a merger with Poole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and now Bournemouth is covered by the newly formed University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The Department does not hold data on NHS staffing levels for 2024, however the latest data published by NHS England is for November 2023, and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Direct comparisons of the change in staffing over time are difficult to make, due to the impact of the merger in 2020. However, the following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors and nurses working at The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2010, and the number of FTE doctors and nurses working at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in November 2023:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>Nurses (including health visitors)</p></td><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>Nurses (including health visitors)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>1,001</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2023</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>2,274</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 11/03/2024 14:29:54 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1693792

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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: Older Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on (a) physical and (b) mental wellbeing of the NHS workforce working beyond the age of the current state pension age.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	17180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made. National Health Service staff are not expected to work beyond state pension age, though some choose to do so. The NHS Pension Scheme is generous, and provides good pensions for retirement. The scheme offers a partial retirement option, which allows staff to draw down part of their pension and continue working in a more flexible way.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commits to going beyond statutory requirements in supporting and promoting flexible working opportunities. NHS England have produced guidance for employers on supporting their older workforce, together with a wide-ranging package of support for NHS staff. This includes tools and resources to support line managers to hold meaningful conversations with staff to discuss their well-being, and emotional and psychological health and wellbeing support.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 16985 17018 question first answered 11/03/2024 15:33:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1693924

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Heart Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the average time taken between a 999 call for help and first hospital treatment for patients suffering a severe heart attack in each financial year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	17214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/03/2024 17:59:48 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1693873

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2024
	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	Royal Bournemouth Hospital: Finance
	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 investment has been made to improve Bournemouth hospital in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	uin	17079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Bournemouth Hospital, receives funding from national programmes and operational capital. From our national programmes, the trust received the following amounts since 2020:</p><ul><li>£12.9 million from the community diagnostic centres’ Diagnostics fund for development of a community diagnostic centre, providing vital testing to local residents closer to home for the 2021/22 to 2023/24 period;<p><p></li><li>£102,000 from our Mental Health Crisis Fund to improve mental health urgent and emergency care facilities in 2022/23;<p><p></li><li>Over £9 million from our Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 for estate works and digital initiatives;<p><p></li><li>£4.3 million in 2020/21 from our £450 million accident and emergency upgrades programme;<p><p></li><li>£2.8 million in 2020/21 as part of our £600 million Critical Infrastructure Risk funding to address backlog maintenance across its estate; and<p><p></li><li>Over £28 million from the New Hospital programme, for up to 2022/23, in scheme development funding for both their hospital schemes, which includes early works to prepare the sites ahead of main construction commencing.</li></ul><p>The trust has also been allocated £147.3 million of NHS Upgrades Programme funding for the reconfiguration of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital, to a major planned site and major emergency site, with the project currently underway and construction ongoing.</p><p>In addition to the above funding, the Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB), of which the trust is a partner member, has been allocated £61 million in operational capital funding in 2023/24, totalling over £200 million during this spending review period, 2022/23 to 2024/25. This amount is prioritised by the ICB according to local needs.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 11/03/2024 18:21:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 22714 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood