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1506509

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the potential timeframe for establishing a new teaching hospital in York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	51781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>A process to select the next eight hospitals for the New Hospital Programme was launched in summer 2021, where all interested trusts could submit an expression of interest. No expression of interest was received for a new teaching hospital in York.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:23:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506596

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Cystic Fibrosis: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to provide free prescriptions to people with cystic fibrosis; and if she will consider the potential merits of ensuring that all people with long-term health conditions have access to free prescriptions.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	51798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>There are no current plans to review or extend the prescription charge medical exemptions list to include cystic fibrosis or other long-term conditions. Approximately 89% of prescription items are dispensed free of charge in England and there are arrangements in place to help those with the greatest need. Eligibility depends on the patient’s age, whether they are in qualifying full-time education, whether they are pregnant or have recently given birth, or whether they are in receipt of certain benefits or a war pension. Those with cystic fibrosis or another long-term condition may therefore meet the eligibility criteria for prescription charge exemptions and be in receipt of free prescriptions.</p><p>To support those who do not qualify for an exemption of prescription charges, the cost of prescriptions can be capped by purchasing a prescription pre-payment certificate, which can be paid for in instalments. A holder of a 12-month certificate can get all the prescriptions they need for just over £2 per week. Additionally, people on a low income who do not qualify for an exemption from prescription charges can also seek help under the NHS Low Income Service, which provides help with health costs on an income-related basis.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 11:02:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506614

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Community Nurses
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 NHS nurses are working in a community setting in England as on 12 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	51847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2022 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. These include National Health Service staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but excludes staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers. Within the statistics nurses are assigned a ‘setting’ in which their primary activities take place. The data shows that there are 59,374 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) nurses primarily within a community care setting, as at July 2022, the latest data available. The number of FTE nurses working primarily in a community setting has increased by 4,487 (8.2%) since July 2019. Community care settings are defined as community services, school nursing, community learning disability services and community mental health services. This number does not include health visitors.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 06/10/2022 14:09:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 20318 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1506631

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Nurses: Temporary Employment
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 total number of shifts covered by (a) agency and (b) bank nurses was in NHS England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	51848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Total number of shifts for bank and agency nurses by year are set out below. Data for bank shifts in 2017/18 is not included as the collection of this data began in 2018/19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Bank shifts</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Agency shifts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Data not collected</p></td><td><p>1,938,238</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>4,447,491</p></td><td><p>2,175,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>4,767,397</p></td><td><p>2,320,307</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>4,874,358</p></td><td><p>1,952,481</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>5,168,634</p></td><td><p>2,252,400</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The number of full-time equivalent nurses employed directly in Hospital and Community Health Service and General Practice settings has increased by 29,110 (9.7%) since September 2019. To reduce unnecessary expenditure on agency staff in the NHS, in 2015 NHS England introduced measures to bring agency spending under control. Measures involved the introduction of price caps limiting the amount a Trust can pay to an agency for temporary staff. Since then, total spend on agency staffing has fallen by c.£1.2bn per year, from a peak of £3.6bn in 2015/16 to £2.4bn at the end of 20/21.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2022 13:30:20 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 20316 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1506635

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Dementia: 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, whether her Department has systems in place to monitor developments in global life sciences for new dementia treatments; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	51589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The National Health Service Accelerated Access Collaborative and Commercial Medicines Directorate monitor the development of innovative new medicines, including those to treat dementia.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 10:36:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1506663

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Diabetes: 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, whether her Department has had recent discussions with (a) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and (b) clinical commissioning groups on the rollout of Libre Two sensors to manage diabetes.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	51656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>There have been no recent discussions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence updated its guidance on real-time and intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring, such as FreeStyle Libre 2 sensors for eligible patients. The newly established integrated care boards will take this guidance into account in commissioning services for local populations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:36:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1506666

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Community Diagnostic Centres: Hinckley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a community diagnostics centre in Hinckley.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	52006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2022 answer text <p>NHS England works with local systems to prioritise bids for future community diagnostic centre (CDC) sites and assesses business cases. The locations of further CDCs will be announced in due course, with completion dates dependent on the nature of each project. The Department and NHS England continue to develop plans to increase the number of CDCs to 160 by March 2025.</p><p>Local health system planners are responsible for determining local health infrastructure in collaboration with NHS England. From 2022/23 to 2024/25, £12 billion of operational capital will be provided to the National Health Service. NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board will consider how this funding is allocated in the local area, including any assessment of the merits of a day case unit at Hinckley.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 52007 question first answered 10/10/2022 14:34:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1506667

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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: Hinckley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a day case unit in Hinckley.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	52007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2022 answer text <p>NHS England works with local systems to prioritise bids for future community diagnostic centre (CDC) sites and assesses business cases. The locations of further CDCs will be announced in due course, with completion dates dependent on the nature of each project. The Department and NHS England continue to develop plans to increase the number of CDCs to 160 by March 2025.</p><p>Local health system planners are responsible for determining local health infrastructure in collaboration with NHS England. From 2022/23 to 2024/25, £12 billion of operational capital will be provided to the National Health Service. NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board will consider how this funding is allocated in the local area, including any assessment of the merits of a day case unit at Hinckley.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 52006 question first answered 10/10/2022 14:34:42 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1506679

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Medical Equipment: Recycling
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 her Department are taking to help increase the recycling of hospital equipment, including crutches; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a returns scheme for this equipment.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	52061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>National Health Service organisations are locally responsible for policies on the reuse and recycling of hospital equipment. Patients are encouraged to contact the local NHS trust which can advise on how equipment can be returned or re-used where it is safe to do so.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/09/2022 11:06:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1506686

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	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, how many training posts were offered to medical graduates in the last 12 months; how many and what proportion of medical graduates were not offered a training post in that period; and whether her Department plans to increase the number of medical training posts available to graduate doctors in future years.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	51941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2022 answer text <p>Following graduation from medical schools in the United Kingdom, graduates can apply to enter year one of the Foundation Programmes (FP) to commence training in the National Health Service. All UK medical school graduates who applied for year one of the 2022 FP were offered a post, with 8,209 foundation training places filled.</p><p>From 2023, the number of FP training posts will increase to accommodate the expansion of medical school intake of 1,500 between 2018 and 2020. From 2025, the number of FP posts will also increase in line with the temporary increase in medical students who completed A-Levels in 2020 and 2021 who had an offer from a university in England to study medicine, subject to their grades.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/10/2022 14:39:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury