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1361356

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	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	Joint Replacements: Waiting Lists
	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 will take under the Elective Recovery Plan to ensure that new funding for tackling the backlog will reduce waiting times for hip and knee replacement operations.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	59087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department has provided £2 billion to the National Health Service to tackle the backlog, in addition to £8 billion over the next three years to increase activity and transform elective services. Trusts are encouraged to find innovative ways to deliver elective services, including high volume, low complexity approaches including surgical hubs for hip and knee replacements. The Department is also providing a £700 million Targeted Investment Fund to enable cutting edge technologies and to increase operating theatre capacity, thereby improving productivity in hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/10/2021 14:30:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221454

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Joint Replacements
	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 hip and knee orthopaedic procedures have taken place in the NHS in each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>39,287</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>41,792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>40,369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>42,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>37,768</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>40,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>43,375</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>41,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>37,640</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>39,944</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>38,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>31,105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>7,275</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:48:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221451

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Heart Diseases: Surgery
	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 percutaneous coronary interventions have taken place in the NHS in month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>6,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>6,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>6,361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>6,983</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>6,325</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>6,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>6,695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>6,355</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>6,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>6,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>5,762</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>3,480</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:42:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221459

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Heart Diseases: Surgery
	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 heart valve replacement procedures have taken place in the NHS each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) where a heart valve replacement procedure has taken place and has an episode end date between April 2019 to April 2020 is attached. Data for 2019-20 are provisional and are a count of FCEs, not the number of patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:56:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ70517 table.xlsx title file
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1361353

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	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	Health Services: Standards
	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 and NHS England are taking to ensure that best practice set out by the Getting It Right First Time programme in areas including orthopaedics are adopted throughout the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	59085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is now embedded within NHS England and NHS Improvement’s programmes to improve quality and productivity, ensuring best practice is adopted throughout the National Health Service. GIRFT practices are incorporated into the Pathway Redesign Programme and fast track surgical hubs, which are tackling waiting lists in high volume, low acuity specialties such as orthopaedics by increasing surgical productivity across the NHS.</p><p>GIRFT metrics are also used in the model hospital system, which is a digital tool that provides an overview of a trust’s opportunities to enhance productivity. This enables peers to benchmark directly against one another and identify where improved practices can be adopted across the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/10/2021 14:07:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221452

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Cataracts: Medical Treatments
	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 cataract procedures have taken place in the NHS in each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>36,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>38,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>38,741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>42,554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>37,188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>40,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>43,774</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>43,313</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>34,948</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>42,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>39,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>26,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:45:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221561

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Aortic Aneurysm: Surgery
	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 abdominal aortic aneurysm endovascular repair procedures have taken place in the NHS each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>Information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:59:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1401912

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2022
	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: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what calculation he has made of the last date that a person working for the NHS, who is covered by the Government's Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment, would be to receive their first covid-19 vaccination in order to have received both covid-19 vaccinations by the April deadline.
	tabling member constituency	Wycombe
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
	uin	101706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>For all COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United Kingdom, the clinical advice states there should be an eight-week interval between first and second doses. Therefore, existing National Health Service staff would require a first dose by 3 February in order to have received a second dose by 1 April.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 14/01/2022 09:43:58 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1470737

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	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	Health Professions
	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 clinical jobs there are in the NHS; what proportion of those jobs are staffed by overseas workers; and how many vacancies in clinical roles there are, as of 15 June 2022. .
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Rob Roberts
	uin	19019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The information requested as of 15 June 2022 is not currently held. However, as of December 2021, there were 642,560 full-time equivalent (FTE) professionally qualified clinical staff working in National Health Service trusts and CCGs. This includes 127,959 doctors and 339,942 nurses, midwives and health visitors.</p><p>The following table shows the FTE number and proportion of professionally qualified clinical staff by self-reported nationality as at December 2021. Nationality does not imply that workers were trained or previously worked overseas.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Staff group</p></td><td><p>Total FTE</p></td><td><p>Number of staff with non-United Kingdom nationalities</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff with non-UK nationalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professionally qualified clinical staff</p></td><td><p>642,560</p></td><td><p>133,848</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Including:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ambulance staff</p></td><td><p>18,042</p></td><td><p>1,199</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS doctors</p></td><td><p>127,959</p></td><td><p>40,660</p></td><td><p>31.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff</p></td><td><p>156,617</p></td><td><p>17,708</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses, midwives and health visitors</p></td><td><p>339,942</p></td><td><p>74,281</p></td><td><p>21.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics</p><p>NHS Digital publishes quarterly vacancy data collected by NHS England and NHS Improvement for NHS hospital trusts for three staff groups: doctors, registered nurses and ‘other staff’. The following table shows the number of FTE nursing vacancies and medical vacancies as of March 2022. Many of the vacancies will be filled by bank and agency staff.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nursing</p></td><td><p>38,972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>8,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other staff</p></td><td><p>58,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total workforce</p></td><td><p>105,855</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Vacancy Statistics</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 14:34:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1343550

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2021
	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	Matt Hancock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Member for West Suffolk, declared to his Department a personal interest relating to Gina Coladangelo, a non-executive director on the Departmental Board until 26 June 2021, in the period from 1 January 2019 to 26 June 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
	uin	27052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Rt. hon Matt Hancock MP) declared his interests to the Department in line with the Ministerial Code.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/07/2021 15:02:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 12674 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper