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1174314

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	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	Respiratory System: Medical Equipment
	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 adequacy of the availability of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation beds in winter 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	9681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) bed capacity is assessed and managed through an agreed standard operating procedure. During the period 1 November to 31 March, NHS England monitors capacity on a weekly basis (increasing this frequency to daily if required). No patient eligible for ECMO treatment has been unable to access an ECMO bed in either the last 12 months or the last five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 9682 9684 question first answered 05/02/2020 14:56:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1200715

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2020
	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	Health Services: EU Countries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) what is their policy on the negotiation of reciprocal healthcare agreements with (a) the European Union and (b) each member country of the European Union, and (2) what progress has been made in each case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL5300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government is currently negotiating with the European Union Commission on future reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the European Union as part of the negotiating group on ‘mobility and social security coordination’. Negotiating rounds have been constructive. The Government published <em>The Future Relationship with the EU: The UK’s Approach to Negotiations</em> in February 2020 and the draft legal text of a social security agreement, including reciprocal healthcare, in May 2020. A copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 15/06/2020 12:49:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name DRAFT Social Security Coordination Agreement May 2020.pdf title Draft legal text May 2020
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1204228

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2020
	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	Health Services: Migrants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government (1) when the immigration healthcare surcharge for health and care workers and their families will be removed, (2) whether those who have already paid the surcharge in the current year will receive a refund, and (3) whether any such refund will be backdated to the day on which the Prime Minister made the announcement that the surcharge would be removed.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL5777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office are working at pace to deliver this exemption. Any National Health Service or care worker that has paid the surcharge since the Prime Minister’s announcement on 21 May will receive a refund. We will announce further details on the scope of the arrangements shortly.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL5778 question first answered 29/06/2020 10:38:12 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1203095

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how long it will take, under the test and trace service, to trace people's contacts following a COVID-19 test; and what assessment they have made of whether this is quick enough to isolate people before infection spreads.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL5604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched its new NHS Test and Trace service on 28 May 2020.</p><p>If someone experiences symptoms of COVID-19 and gets tested, systems are in place to ensure that the NHS Test and Trace service automatically receives information if their test result is positive. Providing NHS Test and Trace have contact details, such as email, text or landline, they will aim to contact people within 24 hours of receiving the test result.</p><p> </p><p>The more rapidly we can identify people who may have been at risk of infection and, if necessary, tell them to self-isolate, the more effectively we can reduce the R rate and the spread of the virus and maintain transmission at low levels.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 24/06/2020 10:33:19 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1199210

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Neurology
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many (1) outpatient neurology appointments have been cancelled to date, and (2) neurology inpatients were sent home from hospital early in England, as a result of COVID-19.
	tabling member printed	Lord Dubs
	uin	HL4955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that this information is not collected.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 18/06/2020 11:16:42 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	805 label Biography information for Lord Dubs

1175248

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	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	General Practitioners
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many GPs have been in practice for each year since 2010.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornhill
	uin	HL726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors working in general practice in each year since 2015 has been provided in the following table. Data is not included prior to 2015 as improvements were made to the methodology for recording all staff working in general practice in September 2015 and data prior to this is not comparable.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of all doctors in general practice</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>34,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>35,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>34,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>34,534</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>34,862</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><ol><li>Data as at 30 September 2019.</li><li>Figures shown do not include general practice staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings.</li><li>Figures contain estimates, for practices that did not provide fully valid General Medical Practice general practitioner (GP), nurse or direct patient care staff records.</li><li>The figures presented include GP registrars and GP locums.</li><li>Data collected and published prior to September 2015 is not comparable due to a change in data collection methodology.</li><li>Data must be compared from the same time point in the year, therefore September data is provided to allow comparison for the earliest available data.</li><li>FTE refers to the proportion of full-time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In Registrars' contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours. To ensure consistency, these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours in the table.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/02/2020 15:09:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4558 label Biography information for Baroness Thornhill

1202661

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many antibodies have been identified which have had a neutralising effect on the COVID-19 virus.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL5523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>Characterisation of neutralising antibodies is still in its infancy. The role of neutralising antibodies in providing treatment or as a marker for protection against reinfection is not yet fully understood. Scientists at Public Health England and elsewhere are working in this area, and conclusions will be reported in scientific journals as new evidence emerges.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 22/06/2020 10:50:04 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1203121

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2020
	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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many care home residents were admitted to hospital for another condition, and died in hospital of COVID-19, since 1 April.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL5599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2020 answer text <p>The data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 22/06/2020 10:41:46 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1175306

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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	Pregnancy: Carbon Monoxide
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many non-smoking pregnant women, who have their carbon monoxide levels routinely monitored, have been found to have raised levels of carbon monoxide.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
	uin	HL791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/02/2020 16:19:54 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

1176666

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2020
	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	Midwives: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many of the 3,000 additional training places announced in May 2018 for midwifery students have (1) been filled in the current academic year, and (2) been commissioned for each of the next three academic years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
	uin	HL732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Since the changes to the bursary system in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned. The Department makes funding available for clinical placements, with places filled via the normal university application process. The Government has committed to expand midwifery training places by 3,650 over a four year period with an increase of 650 in September 2019 and 1,000 in each of the subsequent years.</p><p>Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table shows acceptances to midwifery courses increased by 425 in the academic year 2019-20. The table also shows the number of acceptances in each of the three preceding academic years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of acceptances</p></td><td><p>2,395</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>2,680</p></td><td><p>3,105</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>: UCAS end of cycle data, 2019</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL733 question first answered 30/01/2020 15:56:07 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle