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347062

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on pay levels in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Pay levels in the National Health Service should support NHS organisations to recruit, retain and motivate the staff they need to care for patients whether in hospitals or patient’s own homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Pay is not the only part of the NHS employment offer. NHS staff now receive Total Reward Statements which show the value of other benefits, for example, the NHS occupational pension scheme which includes Life Assurance, child care voucher schemes, health and wellbeing benefits. Supported by good staff engagement strategies it is the overall employment offer that helps the NHS to attract and keep the staff it needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, there are more than 9,100 additional doctors and 8,200 nurses, midwives and health visitors employed in the NHS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 14:10:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347269

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Herefordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to ensure Kington in Herefordshire has sufficient full-time GPs.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
	uin	361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning general practitioner (GP) services, and is aware of recruiting difficulties in Herefordshire. NHS England is working with the local GP Federation to promote Herefordshire to GP trainees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Nationally, there has been an increase of 1,677 full-time equivalent GPs (including Registrars and Retainers) since September 2010. At 30 September 2014 the total number of GPs was 36,920, which represents a real increase in capacity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition this Government is committed to making 5,000 more GPs available by 2020. We will increase the number of GP trainees from 40% to 50% of all trainee doctors and expect Health Education England to ensure this happens. This will mean 3,250 training places for GPs each year from 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England, working with Health Education England, the Royal College of GPs, and the British Medical Association, published ‘<em>Building the workforce’</em> in January 2015, which sets out plans to increase the size of the GP workforce backed with £10 million funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 13:23:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

347270

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Herefordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to maintain the level of out-of-hours GP cover in Herefordshire.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
	uin	362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>This is a matter for the National Health Service locally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are advised by NHS England that Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group currently commissions out of hours general practitioner services from Primecare and confirms there are no current plans to change the level of provision of these services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 13:25:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

347271

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Locums
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many locum GPs are available; and what the average daily rate is for a locum GP.
	tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
	uin	363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The requested information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors who provide primary medical services on behalf of the National Health Service. As independent businesses, it is the responsibility of individual GP practices to employ locum GPs to meet their needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In employing locums, GP practices must meet the requirements set out in the GP contract regulations to ensure that they are appropriately qualified and registered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 13:27:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

347286

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Virtual Wards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential for virtual wards to improve health care delivery.
	tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
	uin	900002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of care at home and have identified 800,000 of the most vulnerable patients as part of the Proactive Care Programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Virtual wards could provide one way of reducing unplanned admissions by providing the staffing, systems and routines of hospital care in the patient’s own home.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/06/2015 15:52:47 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

347391

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Self-harm: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of self-harm amongst children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	438
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>Self-harm is a symptom of serious emotional distress which must be acted upon to ensure children and young people get the help they need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to making children and young people’s mental health a high priority. The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is being expanded to cover additional areas of clinical practice, and extended so that by 2018 children and young people across England will have access. This will involve additional clinical staff being trained in the most effective evidence based treatment for self-harm, depression and anxiety.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the multicentre study of self-harm, which provides monitoring data on self-harm including children and young people, and underpins knowledge about self-harm in England. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on the short term and longer term management of self-harm cite many outputs from the study.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/06/2015 13:46:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

347431

	registered interest
	date	29/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	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, how many non-UK nationals accessed NHS services in England in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14; how many such nationals were charged for those services in each of those years; and how much revenue the NHS raised from those charges in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/06/2015 14:24:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

347687

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	East Cheshire NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the report Distressed Health Communities in East Cheshire NHS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not commissioned such a report. In 2014, NHS England, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) commissioned research from four consultancies to support 11 challenged local health economies with the development and strengthening of their strategic plans. Eastern Cheshire is one of the 11 health economies covered by this research. An overarching summary, ‘Making Local Health Economies Work Better For Patients’, was published by NHS England, Monitor and TDA in December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/06/2015 12:13:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

347688

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	East Cheshire NHS Trust: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the financial viability of East Cheshire NHS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made by the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/06/2015 12:03:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

347754

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Department of Health: Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken pursuant to the meeting between the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality on 18 March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Turner
	uin	643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The previous Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Daniel Poulter), wrote to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, further to his meeting of 18 March 2015 with the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), on 24 March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Minister asked that NHS England officials continue to work with the CCG to try and resolve the issues they raised, as the allocation of funding to CCGs now rests with NHS England, rather than the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has confirmed that their allocations working group is continuing to look at the CCG funding formula to ensure it accurately reflects the true cost of service provision for all areas of the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 13:52:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1426 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Turner