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868360

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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: 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 information his Department holds on the number of applications to university nursing courses in England in the 2018 undergraduate cycle (a) by nursing discipline and (b) in each region of the country.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	133580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department is not responsible for collecting data on the number of applications to study nursing degree courses.</p><p> </p><p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service publishes data on the number of applications to full-time undergraduate courses.</p><p> </p><p>Further information and links to 2017 and 2018 application cycle data are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:50:31 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

868513

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	Hospital Beds
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 he has made of the adequacy of bed capacity in NHS hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	133733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Bed availability and occupancy is rightly managed at a local level. Nationally, the National Health Service planned earlier than ever before to cope with winter this year when we know demand for beds increases. This was supported by an additional £337 million which included funding to make sure additional beds were made available to patients during heightened seasonal demand.</p><p> </p><p>Hospitals have a responsibility in ensuring that they are operating with the necessary beds available to support effective patient flow and safety.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:53:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

868601

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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	St Leonard's Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date St Leonards Hospital, Ringwood, will close; what alternative patient accommodation will be available; and what the net change in the number of hospital beds in Dorset will be as a result of that closure.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	133820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that the decision to close St Leonard’s Community Hospital has been made as part of Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG’s) Clinical Service Review (CSR). The CSR is intended to address sustainability issues in the county through reconfiguration of acute services and development of an integrated out-of-hospital model. More information on the CSR is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.dorsetsvision.nhs.uk" target="_blank">http://www.dorsetsvision.nhs.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>In September 2017, NHS Dorset CCG’s Governing Body agreed the proposed CSR changes to health and care services in Dorset.</p><p> </p><p>Dorset CCG has advised that community beds will not be closed until the CCG is satisfied that suitable alternative provision has been made in the system. This will be sometime in 2018, although no firm date has been set.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:46:40 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

867297

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths of young people from cardiac arrest.
tabling member constituency	Lewes
tabling member printed	Maria Caulfield
uin	904479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has provided £2 million to make Public Access Defibrillators more widely available and to increase the number of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Fetal Anomaly and the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination screening programmes offer heart screening to detect abnormalities early.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research in this area.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/03/2018 14:45:51 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield

867298

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	NHS: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the level of capital investment in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	904481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The spring and autumn budgets last year announced over £3.9 billion of additional capital investment for the National Health Service in England to upgrade existing buildings and facilities and build new ones. This will support better services for patients and drive efficiency improvements and better value for money for taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 20/03/2018 14:47:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

867423

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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 Treatments: France
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 (a) the number of UK citizens who will travel to Calais hospital for treatment in 2018 and (b) the total sum his Department plans to spend on medical procedures delivered in France in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	133398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:49:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

867446

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group
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 he has made of the financial viability of Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	133421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement recently published shared planning guidance on 2 February 2018, in which it was announced that the resources available to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in 2018-19 will be increased by £1.4 billion. This will principally fund levels of emergency activity, additional elective activity needed to tackle waiting lists, universal adherence to the Mental Health Investment Standard and transformation commitments for cancer services and primary care.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of this, NHS Warrington CCG will receive an additional £2.3 million in 2018-19, bringing its allocation for core services to over £282 million, a cash terms growth of more than 3% compared to 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:45:03 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

867473

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group
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 has been allocated to Blackburn and Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in each of the last 5 years; and if he will make an assessment o the effect of changes to the level on that funding on the provision of treatments by that CCG.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	133448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations on its website. The published CCG allocations for NHS Blackburn and Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for the past five years for core services are set out in the table below. It should be noted that these figures are as published, and do not reflect any adjustments that may have occurred since the time of publication.</p><p> </p><p>The allocation of funding to local CCGs is informed by the estimation of the relative health needs of local areas, based on a set of funding formulae. This formulae produce a target allocation, or 'fair share' for each area, based on a complex assessment of factors such as demography, morbidity, deprivation, and the unavoidable cost of providing services in different areas.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS Blackburn and Darwen CCG</p></td><td><p>Allocation (£000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>195,648</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>199,835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>211,409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>217,854</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>222,309</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:52:02 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

867554

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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 doctors were (a) trained to specialise in addiction services and (b) entered the addiction services workforce in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	133529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows how many doctors were trained to specialise in addiction services in each year since 2010 in England:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Academic year ending in:</p></td><td><p>Completers (substance misuse psychiatry specialty component, with a completion in general psychiatry)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information on the number of doctors who work in addiction services is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The historic medical expansion of 1,500 additional medical school places in England will help ensure the National Health Service has enough doctors to continue to provide safe, compassionate care in the future. As part of this expansion, five brand new medical schools have been announced, including Edge Hill University, University of Sunderland, Anglia Ruskin University, University of Lincoln and Canterbury Christ Church University.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the bidding process for the allocation of new medical school places, bids from universities were assessed against the following priorities:</p><p>- widening participation and improving access so that the medical workforce is more representative of the population it serves;</p><p>- aligning expansion to local NHS workforce need with an emphasis on priority geographical areas, including rural and coastal areas;</p><p>- supporting general practice and other shortage specialties so that the NHS can deliver services required to meet patient need;</p><p>- ensuring sufficient provision of high quality training and clinical placements; and</p><p>- encouraging innovation and market liberalisation.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 15:48:33 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

867590

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
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	South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust of February 2018 to a constituent of the hon. member for Christchurch, what steps he has taken in response to that letter's finding that there is a resource gap which will prevent the Trust achieving its performance targets.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	133565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The funding of National Health Service ambulance trusts is a matter for local NHS commissioners.</p><p> </p><p>In conjunction with its lead commissioner South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is currently developing plans for 2018/19, including discussions about the levels of resourcing required to deliver national performance standards.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2014/15, funding provided to the trust has increased by nearly £7 million, and its paramedic workforce has increased by nearly 50 since 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 26/03/2018 16:23:22 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope