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1491562

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	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: Radiology
	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 full-time equivalent radiologists were employed by the NHS in (a) 2022, (b) 2021 and (c) 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	42123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in National Health Service hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent doctors working in the specialty of clinical radiology in NHS trusts and CCGs in England in March 2020, 2021 and 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>4,615</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2021</p></td><td><p>4,817</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2022</p></td><td><p>5,081</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/09/2022 14:31:30 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1491563

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	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: Radiology
	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 full-time equivalent radiographers were employed by the NHS in (a) 2022, (b) 2021 and (c) 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	42124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in National Health Service hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities and other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) digital and therapeutic radiographers working in NHS trusts and CCGs in England in March 2020, 2021 and 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FTE diagnostic radiographers</p></td><td><p>FTE therapeutic radiographers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>15,057</p></td><td><p>2,952</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2021</p></td><td><p>15,668</p></td><td><p>3,017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2022</p></td><td><p>16,123</p></td><td><p>2,957</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 20/09/2022 14:30:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1503363

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Junior Doctors: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of training placements for junior doctors that will be funded in London in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26, (d) 2026-27 and (e) 2027-28.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	44994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>There are currently more than 11,000 medical training posts in London or 18% of the national total. The medical training workforce plans for 2023/24 and 2024/2025 are currently being completed with final numbers being confirmed in the autumn. Workforce plans from 2025/26 onwards will be determined by the outcome of future spending reviews.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:33:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503401

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Ambulance Services: Ashfield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on response times for ambulances in Ashfield and Eastwood of ambulances being sent to patients who did not require emergency care.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
	uin	45064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to make a specific assessment.</p><p>National Health Service ambulance trusts employ sophisticated triage systems to minimise the unnecessary deployment of ambulance resources. The NHS is also increasing the capacity of NHS 111, including a £50 million investment in 2022/23 to ensure people receive the appropriate care and avoid unnecessary demand on accident and emergency (A&amp;E) and ambulance services.</p><p>NHS England advises that delays in handing over ambulance patients to A&amp;E, rather than ambulances being sent to patients that do not require emergency care, remains the largest operational challenge for ambulance services, including those in Ashfield and Eastwood. NHS England has written to all trusts and systems to to ensure ambulances are not held for longer than 30 minutes before transferring patients into the emergency department, including immediately moving patients who have completed their emergency medical care from the A&amp;E to create capacity for new patients.</p><p>NHS England is also providing targeted support to some of the hospitals facing the greatest delays in the handover of ambulance patients into the care of hospitals to identify short and longer-term interventions to improve delays and allow ambulances to respond to emergency calls.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 12:11:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1503769

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Midwives: Recruitment
	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 develop a long-term workforce strategy for the NHS which will support the recruitment and retention of midwives.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	45354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan and its key conclusions will be available in due course. In 2022/23, NHS England will invest £127 million in the National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. This is in addition to £95 million invested in the recruitment of a further 1,200 midwifery and 100 consultant obstetrician posts.</p><p>The Government also committed to expand midwifery training places by 3,650 in the four years to 2022/23. To support student midwives in training, the Government has made a non-repayable training grant available of at least £5,000 per academic year for eligible midwifery students. The number of applicants for nursing and midwifery courses in England has increased in each of the last three years and there has been a 21% increase in applicants compared with this period in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS People Plan focuses on supporting staff health and wellbeing, including through flexible working and a renewed commitment to tackling inequality. In addition, the NHS Retention Programme includes targeted intervention aimed at nurses and midwives at different career stages. All NHS organisations are prioritising the delivery of five actions to impact on early career, experience at work and late career staff and maximising the retention and experience of nursing and midwifery staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:43:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503771

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments
	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 reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	45356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>In order to mitigate the impact of the number of admitted patients who no longer have medical Criteria to Reside and cannot be swiftly discharged on accident and emergency services, Humber and North Integrated Care Board held a winter planning summit in August to identify actions and risks on patient flow and system pressures.</p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is examining measures to improve average length of stay within acute wards to improve flow from the emergency department; identify actions with ambulance service and system partners to improve ambulance handover times; change clinical pathways to turn around more patients on the same day; and improve morning discharges. The Trust has also opened approximately 100 additional beds to support the management of No Criteria to Reside patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:08:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503772

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Hospitals: Kingston upon Hull
	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 his Department has to increase NHS staffing levels in hospitals in Hull.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	45474
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Local National Health Service trusts are responsible for managing staffing levels and recruiting the appropriate number of health professionals required to meet local service need. In the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff has decreased by 49 or 0.6% through the transfer of approximately 280 staff from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2021. The number of FTE staff has increased by 731 or 10.5% since May 2010, which includes an increase in the number of doctors by 314 or 38.2% since May 2010. The number of FTE nurses and health visitors has increased in the last year by 80 or 3.9%.</p><p> </p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has offered 146 posts to adult nurse students and 20 posts to paediatric nurse students predominantly from the University of Hull to commence in September and October 2022. In addition, the Trust has employed 340 international nurses since 2018 and are recruiting a further 60 in 2022/23. A schools engagement programme is promoting National Health Service careers to students in Hull and East Yorkshire and a partnership is in place with a local sixth form college to provide a health and social care academy.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:30:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503835

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
	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 his Department has made of the effectiveness of the triage and call categorisation scripts used by NHS Ambulance Trust call handlers.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	45578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made.</p><p>There are currently two systems approved in England for 999 call triage: NHS Pathways and the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System. The licences issued with each approved 999 triage system states the training requirements and these standards must be met by the call handler before they are able to take calls. This is the responsibility of the ambulance trust and regular audits are taken on call handling and outcomes to maintain trusts’ accreditation status.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:31:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503839

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Emergency Calls and NHS 111
	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 his Department has made of levels of public knowledge of (a) the roles and purposes of 999 and NHS 111 and (b) when it is appropriate to contact each service respectively.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
	uin	45587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:09:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503849

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Clinical Trials: Standards
	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 Life Science competitiveness indicators 2022, published in July 2022, what assessment he has made of the performance of the UK in the metric for median time from clinical trial application and the first patient receiving a first dose for a subset of commercial trials.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	45598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The annual Life Sciences competitiveness indicators have highlighted that trial establishment times in the United Kingdom are slower than several of our competitors. In 2022, indicators showed that the median time was 247 days for a subset of commercial trials, with the UK ranked seventh out of 10. In March 2021, we published ‘Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery’ which highlighted improving the speed and efficiency of study set-up. This is being taken forward through the Recovery Resilience and Growth Programme. The Programme’s delivery partners are simplifying and streamlining processes to improve the median time from clinical application and first patient.</p><p>In 2021, a combined review by the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) reduced approval times for clinical trials to 61 days, compared to 90 days for those that did not go through combined review. ‘The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery: 2022 to 2025 implementation plan’, published on 30 June 2022, includes actions designed to improve set-up times over the remainder of this Parliament, including:</p><p>- Implementing the UK-wide National Contract Value Review for commercial research to ensure costing does not delay study set-up in the National Health Service;</p><p>- Introduction of a single UK approval service to replace the HRA and Health Care Research Wales’ approval and equivalent processes in Northern Ireland and Scotland; and</p><p>- Further development of the Integrated Research Application System by the HRA and the MHRA to streamline health technology and medicines research.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 45435 question first answered 22/09/2022 14:16:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel