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1205413

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2020
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of mental health and other occupational health support for staff employed by the NHS in England.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL5916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The health and wellbeing of National Health Service staff is, and has always been, very important to the Government. At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak we assessed that they would potentially need additional mental health and occupational health support.</p><p>We commissioned NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive package of emotional, psychological and practical support for NHS staff - building on the support already in place in local NHS organisations. The support package was launched by NHS England and NHS Improvement on 8 April.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have also launched a new framework, which will enable employers to buy-in additional occupational health support for their staff. This will supplement support already available in NHS organisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/07/2020 15:29:58 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

429215

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Mental Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what policy the NHS has about protecting the mental health of its workforce.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Greengross
	uin	HL3699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England’s recent announcement &quot;A healthy NHS workforce&quot;, aims to raise staff awareness and understanding of mental health issues and ensure staff have access to help, support and treatment when they need it.</p><br /><p>“A healthy NHS workforce” includes, for example, line manager training and, providing NHS staff rapid access to talking therapies. This is currently being tested as part of the Healthy Workforce programme led by NHS England.</p><br /><p>NHS Employers is working with NHS England and Public Health England on improving NHS staff health and wellbeing. They offer extensive information and tools for managers to support their employees who are demonstrating signs of mental health problems, or returning to work following periods of sickness absence.</p><br /><p>These resources, which are only available online, can be found at the following link:</p><br /><p>www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing/protecting-staff-and-preventing-ill-health/supporting-line-managers/managers-guide-on-supporting-workplace-mental-health/supporting-staff-who-are-experiencing-mental-health-problems</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 01/12/2015 12:29:17 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2518 label Biography information for Baroness Greengross

429217

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Mental Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to address the stigma of mental health problems amongst healthcare workers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Greengross
	uin	HL3701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government included in its Mandate to NHS England an objective for them to “make partnership a success”. This includes “<em>championing the Time to Change campaign to raise awareness of mental health issues and reduce stigma, including in the NHS workforce</em>”.</p><br /><p>In taking this forward, NHS England recently announced the &quot;A healthy NHS workforce&quot; initiative. This aims to raise staff awareness and understanding of mental health issues, helping to ensure they have access to help, support and treatment when they need it. A copy of the announcement is attached.</p><br /><p>“A healthy NHS workforce” includes, for example, line manager trainingand, providing NHS staff rapid access to talking therapies. Thisis currently being tested as part of the Healthy Workforce programme led by NHS England.</p><br /><p>In addition, NHS Employers have launched the <em>How are you feeling NHS? </em>toolkit. This has been developed with NHS staff to help bridge a gap in understanding and enable them to: talk openly and regularly about their emotional health; assess the impact emotional wellbeing has on themselves, their colleagues and patients, and help with action planning to enable more good days than bad. The online only resource can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing/protecting-staff-and-preventing-ill-health/how-are-you-feeling-nhs-toolkit" target="_blank">www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing/protecting-staff-and-preventing-ill-health/how-are-you-feeling-nhs-toolkit</a></p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 01/12/2015 12:13:47 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Simon Stevens announces major drive to improve health in NHS workplace.docx title A Healthy NHS Workforce announcement
	tabling member	2518 label Biography information for Baroness Greengross

1126621

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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	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 mental health support are NHS trusts required to make available to staff employed on neonatal intensive care units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	254230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>National Health Service trusts are responsible for ensuring that appropriate mental health support and provision is in place for all of their staff, including those on neonatal intensive care units. Mental health support services provided by trusts could include access to occupational health services, employee assistance programmes, confidential counselling helplines, processes for open sharing of experiences, crisis and trauma response provision and team and peer support structures.</p><p>The Department is supporting them in this through the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework and NHS Improvement’s NHS staff health and wellbeing collaborative. Both incorporate the mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’ produced by Mind.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:11:35 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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

1132760

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	911417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 14:50:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1144460

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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 help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	286206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out that NHS England will provide targeted support to trusts to access fast track occupational health services and a line management development programme, building on existing work with 70 organisations. This complements the publication of the NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework in May 2018, which includes recommendations from ‘Thriving at Work: The Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers’.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 09/09/2019 17:32:55 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1190685

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2020
	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 during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	40613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive emotional, psychological and practical support package for all National Health Service staff during and after COVID-19 response.</p><p>This includes free access to well-being apps, a dedicated helpline and text service that offer support and confidential listening, and where appropriate signposting to other services that support staff welfare. A separate helpline is also now available offering bereavement support by a team of fully qualified bereavement specialists.</p><p>More information on how to access this support can be found online at the following link:</p><p>people.nhs.uk/help</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/05/2020 16:17:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

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

1192872

	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, how many calls have been made to the NHS staff mental health hotline in each week since 1 April 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	43104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>On 8 April, the National Health Service launched a mental health hotline as part of a package of measures to support the NHS’s 1.4 million staff as they help people deal with COVID-19.</p><p>As of 7 May, 1,625 calls have been made to the hotline.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 14/05/2020 15:17:36 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan