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1347351

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2021
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason it was not possible to answer Question 28127 tabled by the hon. Member for Forest of Dean on the named day of 12 July 2021; and when he plans to provide a substantive response to that question.
	tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
	uin	33869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Rt hon. Member to the answer of 20 July to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-07-06/28127" target="_blank">28127</a>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/07/2021 16:51:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 15688 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

1304069

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2021
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason it was not possible to respond to Question 167173 tabled by the hon. Member for Forest of Dean by the named day deadline.
	tabling member constituency	Forest of Dean
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Harper
	uin	171545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2021 answer text <p>We continually evaluate Lateral Flow Device and PCR testing and are working to ensure we have the correct information to respond to Question 167173.</p><p>We are working rapidly to provide all hon. Members with accurate answers to their questions, as well as supporting the Government’s response to the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. The hon. Member’s question will be answered as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 01/04/2021 09:40:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 92821 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper

1221561

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Aortic Aneurysm: Surgery
	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 abdominal aortic aneurysm endovascular repair procedures have taken place in the NHS each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>Information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:59:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221452

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Cataracts: Medical Treatments
	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 cataract procedures have taken place in the NHS in each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>36,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>38,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>38,741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>42,554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>37,188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>40,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>43,774</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>43,313</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>34,948</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>42,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>39,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>26,658</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:45:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1470737

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	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
	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 clinical jobs there are in the NHS; what proportion of those jobs are staffed by overseas workers; and how many vacancies in clinical roles there are, as of 15 June 2022. .
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Rob Roberts
	uin	19019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers. The information requested as of 15 June 2022 is not currently held. However, as of December 2021, there were 642,560 full-time equivalent (FTE) professionally qualified clinical staff working in National Health Service trusts and CCGs. This includes 127,959 doctors and 339,942 nurses, midwives and health visitors.</p><p>The following table shows the FTE number and proportion of professionally qualified clinical staff by self-reported nationality as at December 2021. Nationality does not imply that workers were trained or previously worked overseas.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Staff group</p></td><td><p>Total FTE</p></td><td><p>Number of staff with non-United Kingdom nationalities</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff with non-UK nationalities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professionally qualified clinical staff</p></td><td><p>642,560</p></td><td><p>133,848</p></td><td><p>20.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Including:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ambulance staff</p></td><td><p>18,042</p></td><td><p>1,199</p></td><td><p>6.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HCHS doctors</p></td><td><p>127,959</p></td><td><p>40,660</p></td><td><p>31.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scientific, therapeutic and technical staff</p></td><td><p>156,617</p></td><td><p>17,708</p></td><td><p>11.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses, midwives and health visitors</p></td><td><p>339,942</p></td><td><p>74,281</p></td><td><p>21.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Workforce Statistics</p><p>NHS Digital publishes quarterly vacancy data collected by NHS England and NHS Improvement for NHS hospital trusts for three staff groups: doctors, registered nurses and ‘other staff’. The following table shows the number of FTE nursing vacancies and medical vacancies as of March 2022. Many of the vacancies will be filled by bank and agency staff.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Nursing</p></td><td><p>38,972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medical</p></td><td><p>8,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other staff</p></td><td><p>58,867</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total workforce</p></td><td><p>105,855</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Vacancy Statistics</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/06/2022 14:34:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1221459

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Heart Diseases: Surgery
	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 heart valve replacement procedures have taken place in the NHS each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>A count of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) where a heart valve replacement procedure has taken place and has an episode end date between April 2019 to April 2020 is attached. Data for 2019-20 are provisional and are a count of FCEs, not the number of patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:56:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ70517 table.xlsx title file
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1221454

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Joint Replacements
	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 hip and knee orthopaedic procedures have taken place in the NHS in each month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>39,287</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>41,792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>40,369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>42,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>37,768</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>40,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>43,375</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>41,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>37,640</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>39,944</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>38,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>31,105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>7,275</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:48:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1310203

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2021
	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	Surgery: Sheffield City Region
	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 are waiting for operations postponed as a result the covid-19 outbreak in the Sheffield City Region.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	183148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2021 answer text <p>Data on postponed care is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/04/2021 14:19:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1221451

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2020
	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	Heart Diseases: Surgery
	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 percutaneous coronary interventions have taken place in the NHS in month since April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
	uin	70513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2020 answer text <p>The data requested is provided in the following table. It should be noted that the data is provisional and subject to review.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>2019</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>6,319</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>6,876</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>6,361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>6,983</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>6,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>6,325</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>6,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>6,695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>6,355</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>2020</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>6,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>6,169</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>5,762</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>3,480</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures provided do not represent the number of different patients as a person may have more than one episode of care.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/07/2020 16:42:08 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1250961

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2020
	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	Cauda Equina Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided to research into cauda equina syndrome in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bosworth
	tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
	uin	114339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including cauda equina syndrome. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. Information on individual projects funded by the NIHR is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/" target="_blank">https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/</a></p><p>The NIHR has not funded any research specifically into cauda equina syndrome in the last five years. However, the NIHR funded over £270,000 between 2015/16 and 2019/20 on a research project which investigated chronic neurogenic bladder dysfunction, which can result from cauda equina syndrome.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 24/11/2020 15:11:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans