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	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on improving access to GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	905556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s £50 million Challenge Fund is currently improving general practitioner access for over two million patients across England. This includes offering evening and weekend appointments, as well as better use of technology, such as telehealth, to look after patients. By January, 7.5 million patients will be covered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>And, we have recently announced another £100 million of funding for next year to improve access for even more patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 21/10/2014 15:48:51 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

93561

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that NHS bursaries are funded for the full degree course; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
	uin	210657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The NHS bursary is available to students in each year of their degree. The only exception to this is medical and dental students where the responsibility for funding these courses is shared between the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department of Health. These students receive the standard student support package in the early years of study and the NHS bursary in the later years. Undergraduate students receive the bursary from their fifth year and graduate entry students from their second.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to change the support that is made available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 22/10/2014 15:27:27 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

93579

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospitals used contract and agency staff in each of the past five years; and how many contract and agency staff have been employed by NHS hospitals in each of the past five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	210800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of National Health Service hospitals using contract and agency staff in each of the past five years. It also does not hold information on how many contract and agency staff have been employed by NHS hospitals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Annual Report and Accounts records the cost of temporary and agency staff used by the different types of NHS organisation including NHS foundation trusts and trusts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/10/2014 16:08:13 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

93581

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Midwives: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered midwives were employed in (a) Warrington hospital and (b) the North West in each year from 2010 to 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	210801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9" rowspan="2"><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Registered Midwives in England, Health Education North West region and Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each specified year</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Full-time equivalent</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td><p>2010<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2011<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2012<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>2013<sup>1</sup></p></td><td> </td><td><p>Jun-14<sup>2</sup></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>20,126</p></td><td><p>20,519</p></td><td><p>20,935</p></td><td><p>21,284</p></td><td> </td><td><p>21,862</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p>Health Education North West</p></td><td><p>2,944</p></td><td><p>2,913</p></td><td><p>2,905</p></td><td><p>2,968</p></td><td> </td><td><p>3,046</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p>Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td> </td><td><p>102</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p></td><td colspan="8" rowspan="2"><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p><sup>1</sup> Data is taken from the Non-Medical Workforce Census as at the 30 September in each specified year.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Data is taken from the Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics as at the 30 June 2014. This is the latest data available.</p><p>Full time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.</p><p>These statistics relate to the contracted positions within the Trust and may include those where the person assigned to the position is temporarily absent, for example on maternity leave.</p><p> </p><p>Data Quality:</p><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly data:</p><p>As from 21 July 2010 the Health and Social Care Information Centre has published provisional monthly NHS workforce data. As expected with provisional statistics, some figures may be revised from month to month as issues are uncovered and resolved. The monthly workforce data is not directly comparable with the annual workforce census; it only includes those staff on the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) (i.e. it does not include Primary care staff or Bank staff). There are also new methods of presenting data (headcount methodology is different and there is now a role count). This information is available from September 2009 onwards at the following website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/1165/Search-catalogue?topics=1/Workforce/Staffnumbers&amp;sort=Date&amp;size=10&amp;page=1#top" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/1165/Search-catalogue?topics=1/Workforce/Staffnumbers&amp;sort=Date&amp;size=10&amp;page=1#top</a></p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em></p><p>Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census.</p><p>Health and Social Care Information Centre Provisional Monthly Workforce Statistics.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 20/10/2014 16:04:13 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

93583

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of compulsory redundancy payments for staff in NHS England was for each year from 2009-10 to 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
	tabling member printed	Dr Eilidh Whiteford
	uin	210785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The NHS England Commissioning Board, known as NHS England, came into being on 1 October 2012 and took on its full responsibilities on 1 April 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on compulsory redundancies made during 2013-14 is available as part of NHS England’s 2013-14 Annual Report, which is available on NHS England’s website at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nhs-comm-board-ann-rep-1314.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Annual Report notes that no compulsory redundancies were made between 1 October 2012 and 31 March 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 22/10/2014 15:22:43 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3911 label Biography information for Dr Eilidh Whiteford

99883

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote early intervention in improving child health.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	905557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government promotes early intervention through the Healthy Child Programme, which is the key universal National Health Service programme for the health and wellbeing of children, and Family Nurse Partnerships, a licensed preventive programme which targets vulnerable first time young mothers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 21/10/2014 15:51:41 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah