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1296968

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2021
	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: Mental Health
	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 9 February 2021 to Question 147019, if he will publish the analysis of how many NHS staff have accessed the government-funded mental health and wellbeing package; how many staff have accessed that service through the (a) dedicated app, (b) website and (c) telephone and text helplines; and if he will publish the total number of staff who have accessed those services.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	161853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>A comprehensive national offer of support has been in place since the pandemic began. This has been accessed on over 750,000 occasions.</p><p> </p><p>There have been almost 185,000 downloads of self-help apps and over 570,000 views of the website which signposts further resources to support staff wellbeing. In addition to this, there have been over 9,000 contacts with the National Helpline that is provided in partnership with the Samaritans and over 4,000 conversations with the 24 hour text support line run in partnership with SHOUT.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 09/03/2021 13:20:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 88154 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1280195

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2021
	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: Mental Health
	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 prevalence among hospital healthcare workers of (a) anxiety, (b) depression and (c) other clinically significant mental health symptoms (i) at the time of and (ii) subsequent to the first peak of the covid-19 outbreak; what steps he is taking to support those healthcare workers; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Wycombe
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
	uin	142911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>Assessments of staff mental health, which includes anxiety and depression, are routinely undertaken locally through analysis of sickness absence data and proactive engagement with staff to understand what support can be provided. A comprehensive package of health and wellbeing services are in place for National Health Service staff, including helplines for counselling and support and free access to well-being apps. £15 million is being invested to strengthen mental health support for NHS staff. This funding will be used to set up mental health hubs that will provide outreach and assessment services to help frontline staff receive rapid access to mental health services. Staff referred will be treated by local mental health specialists and those with the most severe needs will be referred to a specialist centre of excellence.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/02/2021 12:37:46 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1204430

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2020
	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: Mental Health
	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 need for the provision of increased mental health support to (a) nurses, (b) doctors and (c) other NHS staff (i) during and (ii) after the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	59894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, we recognised there would be a need for additional mental health support for all National Health Service staff. We commissioned NHS England to develop a comprehensive emotional, psychological and practical support package for all NHS staff in addition to existing support that is already available.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement launched the support package on 8 April 2020 and it includes a helpline and text service for counselling and support, a dedicated bereavement helpline, and a range of well-being apps. All the support available can be accessed via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://people.nhs.uk/help/" target="_blank">people.nhs.uk/help/</a></p><p>The NHS is continuing to update the support available in this package, in line with the feedback they receive.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/06/2020 10:17:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 31046 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1201164

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding has been made available to the NHS for the (a) mental health hotline for staff and (b) package of measures to support NHS staff through the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	56102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2020 answer text <p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 response, the Department commissioned NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive package of emotional, psychological, and practical support for National Health Service staff.</p><p>In response, NHS England and NHS Improvement have funded a range of services to support the health and mental wellbeing of NHS staff, including a dedicated staff support helpline (in partnership with Samaritans), virtual staff common rooms for mutual support, and a separate helpline offering bereavement support (in partnership with Hospice UK). More information on support available to all NHS staff is online at the following link:</p><p>people.nhs.uk/help</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 19/06/2020 11:00:27 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1129107

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	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: Mental Health
	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 protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	259272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Employers across the National Health Service are responsible for protecting the mental health of their staff. This has been identified as a priority in the interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June, which says “we will develop a new offer with our people setting out explicitly the support they can expect from the NHS as a modern employer”….“Ensuring everyone feels they have voice, control and influence, including a focus on (amongst other issues) staff physical and mental health and wellbeing and reducing sickness absence”.</p><p>This new offer will be developed over the summer and published in the final People Plan after the Government’s spending review later this year. It is expected to address the staffing pressures causing stress and burnout by implementing recommendations from the recent Health Education England report on NHS staff and learner wellbeing, which set out some of the most serious causes of harm to our people’s mental health and wellbeing. Staff can already report working excess hours via their employer’s “Guardian of Safe Practice”.</p><p>The interim People Plan will build on the good work already underway across the NHS to protect staff mental health through the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework which helps organisations diagnose and implement services to meet staff needs including, for example, counselling and talking therapies to support their mental health.</p><p>The Framework and NHS Improvement’s NHS staff health and wellbeing collaborative of 73 trusts are incorporating the core and enhanced mental health standards from ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’ commissioned by the Government from the mental health charity MIND.</p><p>NHS England’s 2017/19 Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) incentive scheme has also been encouraging organisations to put in place appropriate interventions to support staff mental health based on improvements to the NHS Staff Survey question: “During the last 12 months have you felt unwell as a result of work related stress?” with providers expected to achieve an improvement of 5% points in the answer “no” compared to baseline staff survey results or achieve 75% of staff surveyed answering “no”.</p><p>The Department, over a number of years, has commissioned NHS Employers to provide a wide range of advice, guidance and good practice to support trusts in maintaining and improving their staff mental health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/06/2019 15:53:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1342337

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2021
	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: Mental Health
	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 NHS workers have access to adequate mental health support.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	25131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2021 answer text <p>Forty dedicated mental health hubs have been established to proactively identify at-risk staff with more complex needs, ensuring they receive rapid access to evidence-based mental health services. National Health Service staff have access to a comprehensive psychological and emotional support package, including a 24 hours a day, seven days a week support line, specialist bereavement support and free access to mental health and wellbeing apps.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/07/2021 10:32:57 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 11607 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1222448

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2020
	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: Mental Health
	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 the mental health of NHS workers in North Wales during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Simon Baynes
	uin	71922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/08/2020 answer text <p>Health is a devolved matter so this would be a matter for the Welsh government.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 06/08/2020 15:14:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes

1192869

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	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: Mental Health
	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 had made of the correlation between staff mental health issues and levels of job retention.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	43102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2020 answer text <p>Improving the psychological wellbeing of those working in the National Health Service is an essential factor in retaining NHS staff. Therefore, improving psychological wellbeing has been a key focus of the NHS People Plan. An interim version of the NHS People Plan was published on 3 June, setting out the vision for how this will be achieved by creating a new offer for all NHS staff, developed through widespread engagement with our people and staff representatives.</p><p>Publication of the final NHS People Plan has been deferred to allow the NHS to provide maximum operational effort to COVID-19 response. However, we have commissioned NHS England to develop a comprehensive emotional, psychological and practical support package for NHS staff during and following the COVID-19 response. Details of the support available as a part of this package are online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://people.nhs.uk/help/" target="_blank">people.nhs.uk/help</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/06/2020 13:52:17 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1304282

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2021
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what programmes are in place to provide mental health support for NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Sir George Howarth
	uin	172015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have developed a comprehensive package of mental health support for National Health Service staff, including virtual staff common rooms for mutual support, free access to a range of well-being apps and a helpline and text service for counselling and support. Last autumn, £30 million was invested to strengthen mental health and occupational health support. This funding is being used to set up mental health hubs that will provide outreach and assessment services to help staff receive rapid access to mental health services. Staff referred will be treated by local mental health specialists and those with severe needs will be referred to a specialist centre.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/03/2021 15:57:36 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1608600

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2023
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	176625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>NHS England does not hold or gather data on the mental health of National Health Service staff nationally. Rather, this is held at a local level, for example with occupational health teams.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/04/2023 08:24:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell