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1135499

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2019
	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	Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
	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 ensure that ensure that patients diagnosed with eating disorders begin treatment within four weeks.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	270815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the importance of early intervention when treating people with an eating disorder and we recognise that the earlier treatment is provided, the greater the chance of recovery.</p><p>The Government set up the first ever waiting time standards to improve access to eating disorder services for children and young people, supported by £30 million a year to develop 70 new or extended community eating disorder services across the country. These have improved access to effective eating disorder treatment in the community, with the number of children and young people accessing treatment increasing from 5,243 in 2016/17 to 6,867 in 2017/18.</p><p>NHS England is on track to deliver the waiting time standard for children and young people by 2020/21 and as need continues to rise, extra investment will allow us to maintain delivery of the standard beyond 2020/21.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas that will include eating disorders. This will form part of the overall testing of new models of primary and community mental health care in 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2019 16:00:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1135500

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2019
	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	Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
	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 average time people waited to begin treatment for eating disorders in 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	270816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>Waiting times standards for eating disorder treatment are currently only available for children and young people. NHS England is on track to deliver the waiting time standard for children and young people by 2020/21. The latest available information (January – March 2019) shows:</p><p>- 80.6% of young people started treatment for an urgent case within one week against a target of 95% by 2020/21; and</p><p>- 82.4% of young people started treatment for a routine case within four weeks against a target of 95% by 2020/21.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas that will include eating disorders. We are also investing in new models of care focusing on early intervention and prevention which will ultimately reduce the need for inpatient beds and ensure that people receive treatment in the most appropriate place. By improving care in the community, we can improve outcomes and recovery, reduce rates of relapse or prevent eating disorders continuing into adulthood and, if admission is required as a very last resort, reduce lengths of stay.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2019 16:01:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1135501

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2019
	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	Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services
	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 has made of the effectiveness of early intervention services to treat eating disorders before patients are hospitalised.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	270817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published its guideline on ‘Eating disorders: recognition and treatment (NG69)’ on May 2017 based on the evidence available. These highlight the importance of assessing and treating eating disorders at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>The Government set up the first ever waiting time standards to improve access to eating disorder services for children and young people, supported by £30 million a year to develop 70 new or extended community eating disorder services across the country.</p><p>NHS England is on track to deliver the four-week waiting time standard for children and young people by 2020/21 and, as need continues to rise, extra investment will allow us to maintain delivery of the standard beyond 2020/21.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas that will include eating disorders. This will form part of the overall testing of new models of primary and community mental health care between 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2019 15:56:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013116

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children
	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 ensure parity of esteem between children’s physical and mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	195098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to moving towards parity of esteem between mental health and physical health services, ensuring that high quality mental health support is available for those that need it, in appropriate, safe settings. Funding for mental health services will grow as a share of the overall National Health Service budget over the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>Last year alone the Government invested over £1 billion in children’s mental health services, which will help ensure that an additional 70,000 children will receive mental health support by 2021. In December 2017, we published a joint health and education Green Paper, and will be rolling out new Mental Health Support Teams to provide early intervention support for mental health in and near schools and colleges, as well as piloting a four-week waiting time standard.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long-term plan and has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:46:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013117

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	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 ensure that all children and young people referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are seen within six weeks.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	195099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>There is no general six week target for access to specialist National Health Service children’s mental health services. The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health is at the heart of Government plans to transform mental health services and a key part of this is ensuring a reduction in waiting times for key services. Following publication of the Five Year Forward view, the Government agreed the following waiting times and access targets with NHS England to be achieved by 2020/21:</p><p>- For accessing ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ services 75% of referrals should be seen within six weeks and 95% should be seen within 18 weeks.;</p><p>- For eating disorder services 95% of referrals should be seen within four weeks for routine cases and 95% of urgent referrals should be seen within one week; and</p><p>- For the Early Intervention in Psychosis programme 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should start a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended package of care within two weeks of referral, rising to 60%.</p><p>We are on track to meet these targets, which are tracked on the Five Year Forward View dashboard. The Five Year Forward View can be accessed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Mental-Health-Taskforce-FYFV-final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:47:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1013118

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	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 ensure that Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are sufficiently staffed.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	195100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>‘Stepping Forward to 2020/21: The Mental Health Workforce Plan for England’ was published in July 2017 and sets the ambition to deliver 21,000 new posts across the mental health system, with the expectation that 19,000 of these places will be filled by staff employed directly by the National Health Service by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The plan aims to increase the size of the mental health workforce, including the workforce for children and young people’s mental health services, through increased recruitment, improved retention and through development of new roles and ways of working to improve efficient use of the most qualified staff.</p><p> </p><p>All regions have developed and are implementing mental health workforce plans which include plans to expand the number of professionals working in children and young people’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 17:27:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1012474

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of the Children’s Commissioner for England's recommendation in her November 2018 briefing for £1.7 billion of additional annual funding for child and adolescent mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	194781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of this recommendation. The Government announced its long term financial settlement for the National Health Service in June. This will represent an increase of £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023/24. The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and ensure every penny is well spent. Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Budget set out some of aspects of what the long-term plan will contain, and further details will follow when the plan is published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/11/2018 17:09:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

931376

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2018
	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	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the publication of the Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care for All Ages Pathway.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	157822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care for All Ages Pathway is being reviewed to ensure that it is in line with and supports the developing long-term plan for the National Health Service. The aim is to ensure it provides the most helpful and relevant guidance to both commissioners and providers within the current context. No timescale for publication has currently been established.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2018 15:50:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

931377

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2018
	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	Mental Health Services
	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 Acute Mental Health Care Pathway for Adults and Older Adults is planned to include waiting times benchmarks.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	157823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>Prompt access is an essential component of safe care for acutely unwell people. The Acute Mental Health Care Pathway for Adults and Older Adults Pathway, which is currently being finalised for publication, is planned to include key interventions focused on ensuring that people are not waiting an undue length of time to access acute mental health care, whether in an inpatient or community setting.</p><p> </p><p>The pathway will draw on existing good practice examples from areas where timely access is consistently delivered, highlighting the common features of these systems which make this possible, such as robust community-based provision and whole-system capacity management.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2018 15:51:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

918486

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2018
	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 Blood and Transplant
	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 has made of the capability of the National Health Service Blood and Transplant to maintain six days supply of blood across all blood groups at all times.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	150733
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), which is accountable to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, is responsible for the provision of a reliable, efficient supply of blood to hospitals in England and associated services to the wider National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>NHSBT aims to retain six days’ supply of blood at any one time. This is in addition to the stock held within hospitals, which is typically five – six days’ stock. Following the poor weather earlier in the year, followed closely by the Easter and May bank holidays, NHSBT’s stock levels of blood groups B negative and O negative have remained around three days. However, there is no shortage of blood and NHSBT has continued to meet hospitals’ requirements.</p><p> </p><p>In order to increase, and maintain, stocks for blood groups B negative and O negative, NHSBT has put out urgent appeals for those donors to come forward. It has put on extra sessions and donors are being particularly encouraged to attend one of NHSBT’s 23 donor centres where there are still a number of appointments available.</p><p> </p><p>NHSBT regularly reviews its blood donation programme to ensure that the venues, staff numbers and session frequency are all in place to allow the correct amount of blood to be collected to meet patient needs. It has to balance a reduction in hospitals’ demand of blood (around 4% for each of the last few years) against not wasting precious donations by collecting too much blood.</p><p> </p><p>As part of ongoing governance and accountability arrangements, officials in the Department meet, and liaise with, NHSBT on a regular basis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 150734 150735 question first answered 14/06/2018 15:16:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes