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1149377

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 (a) findings, (b) conclusions and (c) recommendations of the report entitled, Duty of care: midwives' experience of the NHS charging regime, published on 9 September 2019 by Maternity Action; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to suspend The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations in relation to charges for maternity care, as recommended in the report ‘Duty of care?: The impact on midwives on NHS charging for maternity care.’</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to considering evidence it receives in relation to the Regulations, including evidence set out in the report. The Department also works closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to support NHS providers in the delivery of the charging regime; and to ensure that providers understand the guidance and how it should be properly and consistently implemented. This includes ensuring NHS Trusts fully understand that all maternity treatment must be provided to any chargeable woman, regardless of her ability to pay, and that they must not be discouraged from receiving it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 13:54:25 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1149209

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Radioisotopes: Imports
	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 August 2019 British Nuclear Medicine Society's open letter to the Prime Minister on radioisotope delivery, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the costs of radioisotope delivery of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is doing everything appropriate to prepare for leaving the European Union. We want to reassure patients that our plans should ensure the uninterrupted supply of medicines and medical products, including medical radioisotopes, once we have left the EU.</p><p>The Department’s plans include implementing a multi-layered approach to mitigate potential disruption to supply, which consists of stockpiling where possible, securing freight capacity, changing or clarifying regulatory requirements, procuring additional warehousing, working closely with industry to improve trader readiness and putting in place the National Supply Disruption Response to manage potential shortages. Further details can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans</a>.</p><p>The supply of medical radioisotopes is being handled by dedicated officials, in collaboration with Devolved Administrations, the Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, as these products have particularly short shelf lives and therefore cannot be stockpiled, as well as having complex transport requirements given the radioactivity involved.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, together with other Government Departments and representatives from industry (suppliers and couriers), has also successfully completed an operational testing exercise to help to ensure the uninterrupted flow of medical radioisotopes if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. This has allowed us to test the resilience of the supply chain arrangements for medical radioisotopes.</p><p> </p><p>Prices of medicines often vary due to a wide variety of factors under normal conditions and there is no evidence that the cost of medicines to the NHS are outside of expected ranges. We will continue to monitor this<em>. </em>The UK Government is working closely with the Devolved Administrations, the NHS and suppliers of medical radioisotopes to monitor the costs of radiopharmaceuticals to the NHS in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 402 403 405 question first answered 21/10/2019 13:06:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1149222

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Hospitals: Admissions
	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 10 most frequent causes of admission to an NHS hospital; were in the most recent 12 month period for and how many people were admitted for each of those causes, in that time period which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested.</p><p>NHS Digital published its Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity for 2018-19 on 19 September 2019.</p><p>Data are set out in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Patient admission - sub-chapter description</p></td><td><p>Number of Finished Admissions Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Complications of labour and delivery</p></td><td><p>1,056,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other diseases of intestines</p></td><td><p>646,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arthropathies</p></td><td><p>609,032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen</p></td><td><p>554,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health services in circumstances related to reproduction</p></td><td><p>539,391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disorders of lens (including cataracts)</p></td><td><p>456,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory/respiratory system</p></td><td><p>440,918</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum</p></td><td><p>430,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In situ and benign neoplasms and others of uncertainty</p></td><td><p>430,698</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue</p></td><td><p>387,191</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2019 12:03:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149224

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Hospitals: Construction
	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 hospitals are used to near capacity before new hospitals are built; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In planning strategic change within a health economy, including the development of new capacity, commissioners are expected to look at current available capacity, projected need, the condition and adaptability of existing estates and safe and efficient levels of usage including bed occupancy. These are complex matters with many variables and are planned at local with appropriate public consultation.</p><p>All organisations are expected to develop business cases to inform their investment decisions that follows HM Treasury’s best practice guidance to develop their cases. NHS England and NHS Improvement provides guidance on the capital regime for National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts, including the principles and processes for capital investment and property transactions. This guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/capital-regime-investment-and-property-business-case-approval-guidance-nhs-trusts-and-foundation-trusts/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/capital-regime-investment-and-property-business-case-approval-guidance-nhs-trusts-and-foundation-trusts/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 13:51:00 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1149228

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	NHS: Staff
	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 safe and adequate levels of staffing across the NHS to protect patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 461 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149230

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Nurses: 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 encourage and support people to enter the nursing profession.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 462 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149232

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Medicine: Education
	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 the number of medical school places to meet growing demand.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Appropriate staffing levels are an important element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime. It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS People Plan, NHS Improvement and Health Education England are considering how best to support the NHS in ensuring it has access to the staff it needs across England. This has focused on areas such as retaining nurses already employed; supporting their existing nursing workforce in areas such as flexible working; investing in nursing staff’s Continuous Professional Development; and increasing undergraduate supply through attracting more students to study nursing.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement working with Health Education England are also delivering a major communication campaign ‘We are the NHS’. The campaign aims to reduce vacancy rates across the NHS, with a focus on the nursing profession. There has been a strong focus on recruitment to courses starting in September 2019. From September 2019, a further campaign has been launched to encourage the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) applications to the 15 January deadline for nursing courses starting in September 2020.</p><p> </p><p>UCAS reported that applicants to study nursing have increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ongoing 25% expansion of medical school places in England will see 7,500 new doctors available annually by 2020/21. This expansion has delivered five brand new medical schools in Sunderland, Lancashire, Chelmsford, Lincoln and Canterbury. The upcoming NHS People Plan will examine options for growing the medical workforce further. This includes the possibility of further medical school expansion, as well as increasing part-time study and expanding the number of accelerated degree programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 460 461 question first answered 22/10/2019 13:53:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1149240

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the merits of (a) splitting Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust into separate trusts and (b) retaining that Trust as a single trust.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>No comparative assessment has been made of the merits of splitting Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust into separate trusts and retaining it as a single trust.</p><p><br> Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust is committed to delivering improved services for its patients in Norfolk and Suffolk in line with the agreed local mental health strategies for children, adults and older people in Norfolk and Suffolk. It is working collaboratively with its National Health Service and local authority partners to strengthen the local accountability of services and ensure that they are developed in a more integrated way with other local providers, for the benefit of patients in both Norfolk and Suffolk.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/10/2019 13:12:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1149282

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Air Ambulance Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he is allocating to air ambulance services.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Autumn 2018 Budget announced £10 million of capital funding to support air ambulance services. This funding has been allocated to nine charities across England with successful bids which represented the best value for money and positive patient impact. The allocation will fund upgrades to seven operational airbases, including training facilities and fundraising headquarters. There were also three successful bids for critical care cars and medical equipment, and one bid for a new helicopter.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 15:34:24 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1149284

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Hospitals: York
	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 hospital capacity is increased in line with population growth in the York area.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>As part of their planning process, sustainability and transformation partnerships /integrated care systems need to assess changing needs, additional activity and the new services that are envisaged for the National Health Service in future plans. The level of hospital capacity required in line with population growth would be a part of the modelling of service demand.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2019 11:50:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy