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1104947

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Speech and Language Disorders: Children
	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 Public Health England has to align the Healthy Child Programme service specification with the Speech, Language and Communication pathway for children under five.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	236261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>To support the speech, language and communication elements of the Healthy Child Programme (HCP), Public Health England (PHE) is partnering with the Department for Education to develop a model speech, language and communication pathway for services for children aged zero to five years. The pathway is built on the best evidence and good practice and will be published by September 2019. This will support local joint commissioning and service provision.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (HCP): the health visitor and school nurses commissioning guidance’ was refreshed in March 2018 and is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-0-to-19-health-visitor-and-school-nurse-commissioning" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/healthy-child-programme-0-to-19-health-visitor-and-school-nurse-commissioning</a></p><p> </p><p>The guidance supports local commissioning and delivery of the HCP and the delivery of the HCP, including the speech, language and communication elements.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/04/2019 11:35:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1016361

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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 Illness
	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 Health at a Glance: Europe 2018, published by the OECD on 22 November 2018, whether he plans to respond to the findings on the estimated direct and indirect costs of mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	196659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not plan to respond to the report.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:51:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1124592

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Digital will include the number of speech and language therapists working in (a) children and young people’s and (b) adult NHS mental health services in its estimate of the mental health workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	250421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital’s estimate of the mental health workforce is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). ESR is the HR and payroll system for the National Health Service.</p><p>In ESR, staff who are identified to either have an Occupation Code or who work in an area suggesting that they primarily work to provide or support the provision of mental health are included in NHS Digital’s estimate of the mental health workforce. This includes speech and language therapists who meet these criteria</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/05/2019 14:27:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1124727

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Speech and Language Disorders
	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 he has to improve access to adult NHS mental health services for people with speech, language and communication needs.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	250738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department is working hard to improve mental health services for all adults, including those with speech, language and communication needs, so that many more people can access the high-quality, vital mental health support they need.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) commission local services, including mental health services, on behalf of their local populations taking into account local needs and priorities. CCGs and NHS England have a duty to have regard to the need to reduce inequalities in access to health services and the outcomes achieved.</p><p>Under the NHS Long Term Plan, local areas will design and implement models of care that are age appropriate, closer to home and bring together physical and mental health services. These models will support health development by providing holistic care across local authority and NHS services, including primary care, community services, speech and language therapy, school nursing, oral health, acute and specialised services.</p><p>The National Implementation Framework, to be published later this spring, will provide further information on how the NHS Long Term Plan will drive improvements in people’s mental health care.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/05/2019 11:09:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1042307

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	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	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals on mental health care.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	209277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the publication of final report of the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will consider the report and its recommendations in detail and respond in due course. We remain committed to reforming mental health law and have committed to develop and bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We have already accepted two of the recommendations of the review; the establishment of new statutory advance choice documents, so that people’s wishes and preferences carry far more legal weight, and the creation of a new role of ‘nominated person’ to be chosen by the patient to replace the current nearest relative provisions. This will support the review’s overall purpose of increasing patient rights and improving the way the Act works for people.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/01/2019 11:32:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1042308

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	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	Mental Health Services
	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 adults in receipt of mental health services have (a) speech, language and communication needs and (b) dysphagia.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	209278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>At the end of October 2018, there were 4,224 people aged 18 and over recorded as having a speech related disability in contact with National Health Service funded secondary mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of adults in contact with mental health services who have dysphagia is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/01/2019 11:33:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1055260

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2019
	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	Mental Health Services
	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 24 January 2019 to Question 209278 on Mental Health Services, (a) what proportion of people aged 18 and over in contact with National Health Service-funded secondary mental health services the 4,224 figure represents and (b) how his Department defines a speech related disability.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	216910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>At the end of October 2018, 941,561 people were recorded as being in contact with National Health Service-funded mental health services and aged 18 and over. Therefore, the figure of 4,224, for people who were also recorded as having a speech related disability, represents 0.45% of the total.</p><p> </p><p>The data is sourced from the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS). In the MHSDS User Guidance, the specific Code used to record speech related disabilities defines its use as appropriate in cases where “the patient has difficulty speaking or using language to communicate or make their needs known”. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/mental-health-services-data-set/mental-health-services-data-set-specifications-and-guidance" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-sets/mental-health-services-data-set/mental-health-services-data-set-specifications-and-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 13/02/2019 15:09:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies