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1490460

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	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 Centres: Sefton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether he has plans to fund a new health centre in Maghull, Sefton.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	901164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>As of 2020/21 Integrated Care Systems have been empowered to prioritise their funding as they see fit to best improve care in local areas.</p><p>£20 billion capital will be provided at a national level for the period 2022/23 to 2024/25, of which £218 million has already been allocated for 2022/23 to Cheshire and Merseyside (Integrated Care Board).</p><p>Local health system planners acknowledge the need for a primary care estate in Maghull, and are working together to develop an estates strategy, which is currently in early development.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 19/07/2022 15:28:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1623587

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2023
	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: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on encouraging schools to appoint mental health leads.
	tabling member constituency	Bosworth
	tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
	uin	904618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>There are 399 operational Mental Health Support Teams now in place, supporting over 3 million children and young people. That means we have already achieved our 35% coverage target, 8 months ahead of schedule.</p><p> </p><p>I am planning to deliver an additional 101 teams by spring 2024 taking us to 500. The NIHR – who undertook a review of the programme – found that 77% of children and young people surveyed saw positive improvements in their mental health and wellbeing. We have also set an ambition for all state schools and colleges to train a senior mental health lead by 2025-26 in 10 state-funded secondary schools in England now have a dedicated mental health lead.</p><p> </p><p>I am thankful to the support of the Department for Education in supporting this rollout.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 25/04/2023 16:43:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1548682

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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: 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 his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for NHS treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
	uin	902630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>In the Autumn Statement we committed an additional £3.3 billion per year until 2024-25 to respond to significant pressures facing the NHS. This is on top of the £8 billion already committed until 2025 to reduce waiting times. This funding will increase capacity to get patients diagnosed and treated quickly, by creating new Community Diagnostic Centres and Surgical Hubs and prioritising the patients waiting longest.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay grouped question UIN 902623 question first answered 06/12/2022 16:56:12 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

1548684

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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: 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 his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for NHS treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	902623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>In the Autumn Statement we committed an additional £3.3 billion per year until 2024-25 to respond to significant pressures facing the NHS. This is on top of the £8 billion already committed until 2025 to reduce waiting times. This funding will increase capacity to get patients diagnosed and treated quickly, by creating new Community Diagnostic Centres and Surgical Hubs and prioritising the patients waiting longest.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay grouped question UIN 902630 question first answered 06/12/2022 16:56:12 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1665176

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	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: 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 his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for NHS treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	906563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2023 answer text <ul><li>The NHS is working incredibly hard to ensure those who have been waiting the longest receive treatment as soon as possible.</li><li>We met our target to virtually eliminate waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. Waits of over 78 weeks were also virtually eliminated by the end of June 2023, in line with the conditions set out in the elective recovery plan. We have now moved our focus to cutting waits of 65 weeks or more to as near zero as possible, by March 2024.</li><li>The government has allocated an additional £8 billion revenue funding and £5.9bn investment in NHS capital from 2022-25 to tackle the elective backlog and provide new beds, equipment, and technology.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 17/10/2023 16:13:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1548680

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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: 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 is taking to reduce ambulance handover times.
	tabling member constituency	South West Hertfordshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Gagan Mohindra
	uin	902628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>Reducing handover delays and improving ambulance response times for patients is one of my top priorities. We are increasing hospital capacity by 7,000 beds and providing £500 million to increase patient discharges. NHS England is providing targeted support to hospitals facing the greatest delays to help get ambulances back on the road quickly.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 06/12/2022 17:02:40 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4804 label Biography information for Mr Gagan Mohindra

1651791

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2023
	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	Ashford Hospital
	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 with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that Woking residents can access Ashford hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
	uin	905909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2023 answer text <p>I congratulate my Honourable Friend for his efforts and ongoing campaign and petition to secure a direct bus route between Woking and Ashford Hospital in Surrey.</p><p>He has made me aware that increasing numbers of appointments for Woking residents have been scheduled at Ashford Hospital over recent times and that current public transport links between Woking and the hospital are far from ideal.</p><p>To help expand wider access Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has received £15 million in the 2020/21 to 2021/22 period for the expansion of the emergency department and urgent treatment centre that serves, amongst others, the Woking area. This scheme is completed, and the site is operational.</p><p>In addition to this, the trust was also allocated £10 million in the 2022/23 to 2023/24 period from our Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund for theatres and procedure rooms.</p><p>I wish my Honourable Friend a successful outcome to his important campaign on this matter.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 12/07/2023 12:43:23 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1651793

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2023
	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 steps he is taking to improve access to mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	905911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2023 answer text <p>We have invested record amounts into NHS mental health services committing £2.3 billion a year compared to four years ago for the expansion and transformation of mental health services in England by 2024.</p><p>This has enabled 2 million more people to access NHS mental health support.</p><p>Specifically, we invested £15.5 billion in mental health across 2022/23, representing 24% more than in 2018/19 and helping to:</p><ul><li>Grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 staff</li><li>Invest in up to 100 new mental health ambulances over 2 years with £7 million funding</li><li>Ensure emergency mental health support through NHS111 available everywhere in England by April 2024</li></ul> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 12/07/2023 12:44:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1537871

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	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	General Practitioners
	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 improve access to and availability of GP (a) services and (b) appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
	tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
	uin	901960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>We expect the measures in 'Our Plan for Patients'<em> </em>to make over a million more appointments available this winter.</p><p>We have provided 31,000 additional phone lines to practices, freed up funding rules to bolster general practice teams with other professionals, and accelerated support for practices to secure high-quality cloud-based telephony systems.</p><p>From November 2022, we will publish practice-level data for the first time, giving patients information on appointments at every GP practice in England.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay grouped question UIN 901962 question first answered 01/11/2022 17:02:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

1537873

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	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	General Practitioners
	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 improve access to GP services.
	tabling member constituency	Buckingham
	tabling member printed	Greg Smith
	uin	901962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>We expect the measures in 'Our Plan for Patients'<em> </em>to make over a million more appointments available this winter.</p><p>We have provided 31,000 additional phone lines to practices, freed up funding rules to bolster general practice teams with other professionals, and accelerated support for practices to secure high-quality cloud-based telephony systems.</p><p>From November 2022, we will publish practice-level data for the first time, giving patients information on appointments at every GP practice in England.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay grouped question UIN 901960 question first answered 01/11/2022 17:02:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith