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922406

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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	Home Care Services
	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 patients have received homecare help under the NHS in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	152705
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 10:23:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1280062

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2021
	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	Home Care Services
	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 people in England employ their own personal assistants for health and social care at home.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	142984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>Data from Skills for Care’s ‘Individual Employers and the Personal Assistant Workforce’ report estimates that in 2019/20, approximately 70,000 people in England employed their own personal assistant/s (PAs) with funding from social care direct payments, dispersed by local authorities. The Department does not hold data on numbers of individuals who employ PAs outside of social care direct payments.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/02/2021 12:30:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 78260 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1310718

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	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	Home Care Services
	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 support local authorities insourcing domiciliary and residential social care.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	184521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 places a duty on local authorities to develop a diverse market in care and support services that meets the needs of their local communities and promotes the efficient and effective operation of the market for adult care and support as a whole.</p><p>We support local authorities to manage their local markets effectively. This includes funding the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to deliver the Care and Health Improvement Programme, an annual programme of support to local authorities. In addition, the Department has worked with sector partners to produce guidance and support about market shaping, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-market-shaping/adult-social-care-market-shaping" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-market-shaping/adult-social-care-market-shaping</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 11:05:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1354246

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2021
	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	Home Care Services
	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 2 August 2021, to Question 31414, on Home Care Services: Local Government, if he will publish the content of the service continuity and care market review referred to in that Answer.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	45840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2021 answer text <p>The Service Continuity and Care Market Review took the form of all local authorities carrying out a self-assessment in autumn 2020, to ascertain the risk to the continuity of care across all adult social care markets in England over the winter to the end of March 2021. We are unable to provide the content of these self-assessments as they are commercially sensitive and the disclosure of information may prejudice local authorities’ ability to deliver their services.</p><p>However, the National Audit Office published a high-level summary of the review findings in, ‘The adult social care market in England’ in March 2021, which is attached.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 29/09/2021 11:14:28 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan attachment 1 file name The-adult-social-care-market-in-England (1).pdf title The adult social care in England previous answer version 21446 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1345955

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2021
	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	Home Care 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 assessment he has made of the potential effect of a market failure in the domiciliary care sector on local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	31414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets according to local needs, which includes securing the right balance of domiciliary, residential and other provision. Throughout the pandemic, we have made available over £2 billion in specific funding for adult social care, in addition to over £6 billion for local authorities to address pressures on their services. In partnership with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association, we carried out a service continuity and care market review to understand the robustness of local authorities’ plans and the level of support needed to maintain continuity of provision through winter 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/08/2021 12:31:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 14577 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1310714

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	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	Home Care 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 guidance he has provided to the Care Quality Commission on examining the business history of providers of domiciliary care companies.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	184519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) acts to ensure that all adult social care providers seeking to register their services comply with the registration requirements set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and its associated regulations. The CQC (Registration) Regulations 2009 include a requirement that providers seeking to register are financially viable.</p><p>In addition, the Care Act 2014 provides for the CQC to monitor the financial health of the largest and most difficult-to-replace adult social care providers, including qualifying domiciliary care providers, through the Market Oversight Scheme. The scope of these provisions is set out by the Department in the Care Act 2014 statutory guidance.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2021 11:07:44 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

922067

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2018
	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	Home Care 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 his policy is on (a) supporting and (b) increasing the number of patients that are looked after in their own home.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	152243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>As set out by the National Health Service in their Five Year Forward View, out-of-hospital care needs to become a bigger part of NHS provision, and we recognise that community health services are a key part of achieving this.</p><p> </p><p>When patients have been admitted to hospital and are ready to be discharged, the focus should be on discharging them to their usual place of residence wherever possible. As part of their Better Care Fund plans, all areas are expected to implement the High Impact Change model to support system-wide improvement in discharging patients. This model includes a ‘home first’ approach which supports timely discharge and the delivery of health and care closer to home.</p><p> </p><p>We are also increasing capacity in the community so that more people can receive care in their own homes. To date, the NHS has boosted clinical capacity and capability of NHS 111, which now takes 16 million calls each year, with more than 50% of callers receiving clinical input in April this year. The NHS has also expanded ‘Hear and Treat’ and ‘See and Treat’ ambulance services so that they now cover 3.5 million people, with the provision of telephone advice and treatment of people in their homes saving needless trips to hospital.</p><p> </p><p>We want people to be able to live in their own home for as long as possible. The Department funds the Disabled Facilities Grant to support older and disabled people on low-incomes to adapt their homes to make them suitable for their needs. The Department also provides funding to build specialised housing options - through the Care and Support Specialised Housing Fund – to provide more suitable home environments for older people and those with learning and physical disabilities, and mental ill health.</p><p> </p><p>Housing will be a crucial part of considerations for reform of care and support which we expect to be set out in the Green Paper in autumn 2018. We intend to set out proposals for existing, new, and specialised housing, to ensure people can live in a ‘safe and suitable’ home, for as long as possible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2018 15:04:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1235066

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2020
	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	Home Care 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 plans he has to add the category of domiciliary care to the organisation type page of the test booking website, supported by the CQC ID location number in the background database.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	91072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>All residents in care homes and asymptomatic care home staff have been offered testing through the whole care home portal, as well as all patients discharged from hospital into care homes. All residential and domiciliary/homecare care staff, volunteers and unpaid carers can access testing via the self-referral or employer referral portal if they have symptoms, and everyone in the United Kingdom with symptoms can now be tested for COVID-19 through the self-referral portal at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://self-referral.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/antigen/name" target="_blank">https://self-referral.test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/antigen/name</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/11/2020 13:38:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1188699

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	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	Home Care 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 trends in the level of health of people reliant on care provided by domiciliary care staff; and what protection is being provided to those staff visiting multiple private homes in one day.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	uin	37975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>We do not currently hold data on trends in the level of health of those receiving domiciliary care. NHS Digital do however collect and publish an annual survey on the quality of life of individuals in state funded domiciliary care, their satisfaction with services, and other important outcomes which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-outcomes-framework-ascof" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-social-care-outcomes-framework-ascof</a>.</p><p>Care staff visiting multiple private homes in one day should receive personal protective equipment (PPE) from the care provider they work for in line with the latest government recommendations. To support staff in using this equipment, Public Health England published tailored guidance on the use of PPE in domiciliary care on 27 April. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/882376/Domiciliary_guidance_England.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/882376/Domiciliary_guidance_England.pdf</a>.</p><p>It includes clear guidance and illustrative case studies that explain how care workers visiting multiple homes in one day should use PPE.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/05/2020 12:05:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

894739

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2018
	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	Home Care 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 (a) elderly and (b) vulnerable people are not discharged from hospital before adequate home care provision is in place.
	tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
	tabling member printed	Laura Smith
	uin	139595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>Patients should only be discharged from hospital when there has been an assessment of the support they need to be discharged safely. This requires local health and care organisations to work together to ensure transfers between care settings are centred around patients and their carers.</p><p> </p><p>The requirements for National Health Service bodies and local authorities where patients are likely to have on-going care and support needs, such as elderly and vulnerable people who may need domiciliary support, on discharge from hospital are set out in the Care Act 2014 and the Care and Support (Discharge of Hospital Patients) Regulations 2014.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/05/2018 15:12:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith