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1503363

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Junior Doctors: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of training placements for junior doctors that will be funded in London in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26, (d) 2026-27 and (e) 2027-28.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	44994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>There are currently more than 11,000 medical training posts in London or 18% of the national total. The medical training workforce plans for 2023/24 and 2024/2025 are currently being completed with final numbers being confirmed in the autumn. Workforce plans from 2025/26 onwards will be determined by the outcome of future spending reviews.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:33:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503401

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Ambulance Services: Ashfield
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 make an assessment of the potential impact on response times for ambulances in Ashfield and Eastwood of ambulances being sent to patients who did not require emergency care.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	45064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to make a specific assessment.</p><p>National Health Service ambulance trusts employ sophisticated triage systems to minimise the unnecessary deployment of ambulance resources. The NHS is also increasing the capacity of NHS 111, including a £50 million investment in 2022/23 to ensure people receive the appropriate care and avoid unnecessary demand on accident and emergency (A&amp;E) and ambulance services.</p><p>NHS England advises that delays in handing over ambulance patients to A&amp;E, rather than ambulances being sent to patients that do not require emergency care, remains the largest operational challenge for ambulance services, including those in Ashfield and Eastwood. NHS England has written to all trusts and systems to to ensure ambulances are not held for longer than 30 minutes before transferring patients into the emergency department, including immediately moving patients who have completed their emergency medical care from the A&amp;E to create capacity for new patients.</p><p>NHS England is also providing targeted support to some of the hospitals facing the greatest delays in the handover of ambulance patients into the care of hospitals to identify short and longer-term interventions to improve delays and allow ambulances to respond to emergency calls.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 12:11:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1503433

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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 Services: North West
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 progress his Department has made on tackling backlogs in NHS provision in the North-West as a result of the outbreak of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	45130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>In the North West, the number of people waiting two years or more for treatment has been reduced by 86% between January and June 2022.</p><p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ commits the National Health Service to deliver nine million additional treatments and diagnostic procedures over the next three years and approximately 30% more elective activity by 2024/25, compared to pre-pandemic levels. We have allocated more than £8 billion to support the delivery plan, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:58:05 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1503520

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Ambulance Services: Dorset
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 tackle increased waiting times for ambulances in Dorset.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	45170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>NHS England advice that there are a range of interventions to address increased waiting time for ambulances in Dorset. These measures aim to improve the flow of patients through accident and emergency departments, reduce waiting times and delays in the transfer of patients from ambulances and allow crews to respond to calls more efficiently.</p><p>This includes the earlier identification of patients needing complex discharge support and ensuring multi-disciplinary engagement in the discharge plans to increase bed capacity. An expected date of discharge is determined within 48 hours of admission. The operation of transfer of care hubs is being streamlined and demand and capacity modelling for local and community systems is being developed.</p><p>NHS England has allocated an additional £150 million for ambulance service pressures in 2022/23, supporting improvements to response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and other funding requirements. A further £20 million has been invested in the upgrade of the ambulance fleet by reducing its age profile and fuel emissions while increasing productivity and capacity. Additionally, St John Ambulance has been contracted to deliver auxiliary ambulance services, providing national surge capacity of at least 5,000 hours per month as needed to support the ambulance response during periods of increased pressure, allowing National Health Service ambulance crews to respond to emergency calls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:36:26 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1503769

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Midwives: 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 develop a long-term workforce strategy for the NHS which will support the recruitment and retention of midwives.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan and its key conclusions will be available in due course. In 2022/23, NHS England will invest £127 million in the National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. This is in addition to £95 million invested in the recruitment of a further 1,200 midwifery and 100 consultant obstetrician posts.</p><p>The Government also committed to expand midwifery training places by 3,650 in the four years to 2022/23. To support student midwives in training, the Government has made a non-repayable training grant available of at least £5,000 per academic year for eligible midwifery students. The number of applicants for nursing and midwifery courses in England has increased in each of the last three years and there has been a 21% increase in applicants compared with this period in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS People Plan focuses on supporting staff health and wellbeing, including through flexible working and a renewed commitment to tackling inequality. In addition, the NHS Retention Programme includes targeted intervention aimed at nurses and midwives at different career stages. All NHS organisations are prioritising the delivery of five actions to impact on early career, experience at work and late career staff and maximising the retention and experience of nursing and midwifery staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:43:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503771

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments
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 help reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>In order to mitigate the impact of the number of admitted patients who no longer have medical Criteria to Reside and cannot be swiftly discharged on accident and emergency services, Humber and North Integrated Care Board held a winter planning summit in August to identify actions and risks on patient flow and system pressures.</p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is examining measures to improve average length of stay within acute wards to improve flow from the emergency department; identify actions with ambulance service and system partners to improve ambulance handover times; change clinical pathways to turn around more patients on the same day; and improve morning discharges. The Trust has also opened approximately 100 additional beds to support the management of No Criteria to Reside patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:08:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503772

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Hospitals: Kingston upon Hull
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 NHS staffing levels in hospitals in Hull.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Local National Health Service trusts are responsible for managing staffing levels and recruiting the appropriate number of health professionals required to meet local service need. In the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff has decreased by 49 or 0.6% through the transfer of approximately 280 staff from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2021. The number of FTE staff has increased by 731 or 10.5% since May 2010, which includes an increase in the number of doctors by 314 or 38.2% since May 2010. The number of FTE nurses and health visitors has increased in the last year by 80 or 3.9%.</p><p> </p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has offered 146 posts to adult nurse students and 20 posts to paediatric nurse students predominantly from the University of Hull to commence in September and October 2022. In addition, the Trust has employed 340 international nurses since 2018 and are recruiting a further 60 in 2022/23. A schools engagement programme is promoting National Health Service careers to students in Hull and East Yorkshire and a partnership is in place with a local sixth form college to provide a health and social care academy.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:30:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503783

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, through which consultation process or processes, have (a) relevant stakeholders and (b) members of the public been given the opportunity to contribute to the UK’s position on the World Health Organization’s new international agreement on pandemic preparedness and response; and if he will publish a list of participants.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	45483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is engaging with a range of stakeholders on the instrument, through roundtables with civil society and discussion with relevant groups. Non-state actors had the opportunity to present views on the working draft of the instrument at recent meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, the Member State-led process for drafting and negotiating the pandemic instrument. The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding public hearings seeking input from interested parties, including the public. We will continue engaging relevant stakeholders as it progresses.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:44:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1503835

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
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 his Department has made of the effectiveness of the triage and call categorisation scripts used by NHS Ambulance Trust call handlers.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	45578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made.</p><p>There are currently two systems approved in England for 999 call triage: NHS Pathways and the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System. The licences issued with each approved 999 triage system states the training requirements and these standards must be met by the call handler before they are able to take calls. This is the responsibility of the ambulance trust and regular audits are taken on call handling and outcomes to maintain trusts’ accreditation status.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:31:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503839

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Emergency Calls and NHS 111
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 his Department has made of levels of public knowledge of (a) the roles and purposes of 999 and NHS 111 and (b) when it is appropriate to contact each service respectively.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	45587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:09:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson