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229128

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients waited more than six weeks for (a) an initial NHS hearing assessment and (b) a follow-up NHS hearing aid assessment in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
	tabling member printed	John Woodcock
	uin	228784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Information concerning the number of patients who waited more than six weeks for an initial NHS hearing assessment and a follow-up NHS hearing aid assessment in each of the last five years is not available. Audiology is not one of the key referral to treatment functions which are recorded as a data set.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the following table, we have provided a count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary or secondary operative procedure of 'operation on cochlea' by five year age brackets for the years 2013-14, and provisional data for April to November 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that FCEs are not the number of patients because one patient may have had more than one episode of care within the time period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p><p>Age</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15 <br> April to November<br> provisional</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80+</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,124</p></td><td><p>736</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) Health and Social Care Information Centre.<br> <br></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information. HES figures includes activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>3. The data for 2014-15 is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 228811 question first answered 26/03/2015 13:09:37 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

229137

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Aids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on (a) hearing aids, (b) cochlear hearing aids and (c) bone anchored hearing aids in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	228771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on spend for audiology services and specific procedures for hearing problems are not available in the format requested. The following table provides NHS programme budgeting figures on ‘problems of hearing’ for the five year period 2008-09 to 2012-13, which is the latest available data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Expenditure (£ billion)</p></td><td><p>0.42</p></td><td><p>0.50</p></td><td><p>0.45</p></td><td><p>0.46</p></td><td><p>0.46</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More information about programme budgeting data can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 228770 question first answered 26/03/2015 13:04:11 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

229139

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the causes of increases in the number of hospital admissions of older people for cold-related illnesses since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Andy Burnham
	uin	228717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>A greater number of people die, or are admitted to hospital, during the winter than any other time of year. There are, on average, around 25,000 excess winter deaths each year in England; for every one excess winter death it has been estimated that there are approximately eight extra hospital admissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The causes of excess winter death and illness are complex and interlinked, and include circulating diseases such as influenza, cold temperatures and wider determinants of health, such as poor housing. It is difficult to precisely attribute the relative impacts of each on overall levels of death and illness and there is a degree of variation year on year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cold weather directly increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, flu, falls and injuries and hypothermia. Indirect effects of cold include mental health illnesses such as depression, risk of carbon monoxide poisoning if appliances are poorly maintained or poorly ventilated, and disruption to service provision. Some groups, such as older people, very young children, and people with serious medical conditions are particularly vulnerable to the effects of cold weather.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England publishes the Cold Weather Plan for England to avoid preventable illness and deaths in winter by setting out a series of actions for organisations, communities and individuals, to take throughout the year.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 26/03/2015 13:06:19 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	1427 label Biography information for Andy Burnham

229147

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cochlear Implants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 769-70W, on cochlear implants, how many cochlear operations there were in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 to date; and what the ages were of the patients who had those operations.
	tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
	tabling member printed	John Woodcock
	uin	228811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Information concerning the number of patients who waited more than six weeks for an initial NHS hearing assessment and a follow-up NHS hearing aid assessment in each of the last five years is not available. Audiology is not one of the key referral to treatment functions which are recorded as a data set.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the following table, we have provided a count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) with a primary or secondary operative procedure of 'operation on cochlea' by five year age brackets for the years 2013-14, and provisional data for April to November 2014-15.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that FCEs are not the number of patients because one patient may have had more than one episode of care within the time period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p><p> </p><p>Age</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15 <br> April to November<br> provisional</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>346</p></td><td><p>219</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80+</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,124</p></td><td><p>736</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) Health and Social Care Information Centre.<br> <br></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. A finished consultant episode (FCE) is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data. Conversely, apparent increases in activity may be due to improved recording of diagnosis or procedure information. HES figures includes activity ending in the year in question and run from April to March, e.g. 2012-13 includes activity ending between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>3. The data for 2014-15 is provisional and may be incomplete or contain errors for which no adjustments have yet been made. Counts produced from provisional data are likely to be lower than those generated for the same period in the final dataset. This shortfall will be most pronounced in the final month of the latest period, ie November from the (month 9) April to November extract. It is also probable that clinical data are not complete, which may in particular affect the last two months of any given period. There may also be errors due to coding inconsistencies that have not yet been investigated and corrected.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 228784 question first answered 26/03/2015 13:09:37 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney