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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

1503288

	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	Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2021 to Question 85238 on Diagnosis, when he plans to publish NHS England’s evaluation report on Rapid Diagnostic Centres.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	44955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The National Health Service cancer programme commissioned an external evaluation of the faster diagnosis programme, including rapid diagnostic centres, for the period until March 2024. The final report will be considered for publication in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:59:49 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

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

1503384

	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	Evusheld
	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 publish (a) the full clinical and scientific advice that his Department received on Evusheld and (b) his Department's reasoning for its decision not to procure the drug for treatment of long covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	45044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has decided not to procure Evusheld for prevention through emergency routes at this time. This is a decision based on independent clinical advice by the multi-agency initiative, RAPID C-19 and a national expert policy working group. These groups considered a range of evidence, including clinical trial data, in vitro analysis and emerging observational studies and concluded there is currently insufficient evidence of benefit to recommend deployment. The Chief Medical Officer for England is content that the correct process for providing clinical advice has been followed and agree that this should now be referred to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for further evaluation.</p><p>The Department wrote to patient groups on 5 September 2022 with information on this decision and evidence considered. The letter summarised the evidence considered by RAPID C-19 which contributed to the decision not to procure and deploy Evusheld and detailed the next steps the Government will take. The Department intends to publish further details of the clinical advice received shortly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 15:02:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 17526 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

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

1503433

	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	Health Services: North West
	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 progress his Department has made on tackling backlogs in NHS provision in the North-West as a result of the outbreak of covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	45130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>In the North West, the number of people waiting two years or more for treatment has been reduced by 86% between January and June 2022.</p><p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ commits the National Health Service to deliver nine million additional treatments and diagnostic procedures over the next three years and approximately 30% more elective activity by 2024/25, compared to pre-pandemic levels. We have allocated more than £8 billion to support the delivery plan, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:58:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1503520

	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: Dorset
	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 tackle increased waiting times for ambulances in Dorset.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	uin	45170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>NHS England advice that there are a range of interventions to address increased waiting time for ambulances in Dorset. These measures aim to improve the flow of patients through accident and emergency departments, reduce waiting times and delays in the transfer of patients from ambulances and allow crews to respond to calls more efficiently.</p><p>This includes the earlier identification of patients needing complex discharge support and ensuring multi-disciplinary engagement in the discharge plans to increase bed capacity. An expected date of discharge is determined within 48 hours of admission. The operation of transfer of care hubs is being streamlined and demand and capacity modelling for local and community systems is being developed.</p><p>NHS England has allocated an additional £150 million for ambulance service pressures in 2022/23, supporting improvements to response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and other funding requirements. A further £20 million has been invested in the upgrade of the ambulance fleet by reducing its age profile and fuel emissions while increasing productivity and capacity. Additionally, St John Ambulance has been contracted to deliver auxiliary ambulance services, providing national surge capacity of at least 5,000 hours per month as needed to support the ambulance response during periods of increased pressure, allowing National Health Service ambulance crews to respond to emergency calls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:36:26 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

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