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179624

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12/02/2015

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Department of Health

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answering dept short name

Health

answering dept sort name

Health

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Health Services and Social Services

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25259

pref label	House of Commons

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the proportion of Government funding which is allocated to health and social care.

tabling member constituency

Thirsk and Malton

tabling member printed

Miss Anne McIntosh

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224374

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

24/02/2015

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My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has frequent discussions about the proportion of Government funding allocated to health and social care, both internal and external, and receives a large amount of correspondence on the issue.

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 14:39:04

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

384

label	Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

179625

registered interest

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12/02/2015

answering body

Department of Health

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answering dept short name

Health

answering dept sort name

Health

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Social Services

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25259

pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of trends in levels of eligibility for social care set by councils between 2005 and 2010.

tabling member constituency

Meon Valley

tabling member printed

George Hollingbery

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224385

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date of answer

24/02/2015

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During 2005/06 to 2009/10, the number of councils which set their local eligibility at the “substantial” banding within the existing guidance increased by nearly a third, and the number of councils setting their eligibility at “moderate” decreased by a similar proportion. This indicates councils making restrictions in access and eligibility over this period. The following table sets out the percentage of councils in each of the bandings between 2005/06 and 2009/10. The bandings were set out in 2003 guidance and updated in 2010 by Prioritising Need in the Context of Putting People First: A whole system approach to eligibility for social care, which retained the same eligibility framework based on four bandings. <table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td>Percentage of LAs at Critical</td><td>Percentage of LAs at Substantial</td><td>Percentage of LAs at Moderate</td><td>Percentage of LAs at Low</td></tr><tr><td>2005/06</td><td>2.2%</td><td>55.0%</td><td>36.7%</td><td>6.1%</td></tr><tr><td>2006/07</td><td>1.4%</td><td>62.2%</td><td>33.2%</td><td>3.2%</td></tr><tr><td>2007/08</td><td>2.1%</td><td>69.7%</td><td>26.5%</td><td>1.7%</td></tr><tr><td>2008/09</td><td>2.1%</td><td>70.5%</td><td>25.7%</td><td>1.7%</td></tr><tr><td>2009/10</td><td>2.0%</td><td>71.1%</td><td>25.0%</td><td>2.0%</td></tr></tbody></table> Source: The Care Quality Commission. This is provided as % as the total number of local authorities (LAs) providing social care changed over this period. To resolve substantial and longstanding concerns from people with care needs that the existing framework is opaque and not applied consistently across England, the Government is introducing a national minimum eligibility threshold for adult care and support from 1 April 2015. This will provide more clarity on what level of needs are eligible for care and support. LAs will no longer be able to tighten the criteria beyond this threshold, but they will have the flexibility to meet other needs that are not eligible, if they chose to do so.

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 13:50:07

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

4016

label	Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery

179162

registered interest

date

11/02/2015

answering body

Department of Health

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answering dept short name

Health

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Health

hansard heading

Mental Health Services: North East

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legislature

25259

pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for mental health talking therapies in (a) Hartlepool constituency and (b) the North East.

tabling member constituency

Hartlepool

tabling member printed

Mr Iain Wright

uin

224147

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

24/02/2015

answer text

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies. Information is provided both for Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) and for all 12 North East CCGs combined for the year 2013/14. Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG includes Hartlepool constituency and the CCG is the smallest geographical breakdown available. <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4">The number of referrals entering treatment1 in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT services in 2013/14. Data shown for NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG and all North East CCGs combined2.</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Organisation name</td><td>Referrals entering treatment</td><td>Mean3 waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</td><td>Median3 waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG</td><td>7,050</td><td>27</td><td>11</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>All North East CCGs combined</td><td>50,845</td><td>25</td><td>11</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">1In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="5">2CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">3Means and medians have been rounded to the nearest whole number.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table> Notes: Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2013/14, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment. Entering treatment figures are rounded to the nearest 5. It is generally advised that the median is used as the more reliable measure of average waiting time, as this accounts better for any outliers in the data. Source: IAPT Dataset, Health and Social Care Information Centre

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 14:40:57

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

1478

label	Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

179310

registered interest

date

11/02/2015

answering body

Department of Health

answering dept id

answering dept short name

Health

answering dept sort name

Health

hansard heading

Anaemia

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legislature

25259

pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 Febraury 2015 to Question 223094, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings by the Pernicious Anaemia Society members' survey, published in the British Journal of Nursing in April 2014, that over 60 per cent of people with pernicious anaemia are unhappy with their treatment and that many such people self-medicate to reduce their pain; and if he will consider the potential merits of revising the relevant guidelines to recommend more regular treatment.

tabling member constituency

Ealing, Southall

tabling member printed

Mr Virendra Sharma

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224293

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

24/02/2015

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The treatment of pernicious anaemia, the result of a vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency, is well established and reported in the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) document, Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Cobalamin and Folate disorders, which was updated in May 2014. The BCSH operates independently of the Department and NHS England. Current clinical practice within the United Kingdom is to treat pernicious anaemia with Vitamin B12 intramuscular injections. The BCSH produces evidence based guidelines for both clinical and laboratory haematologists on the diagnosis and treatment of haematological disease, drawing on the advice of expert consultants and clinical scientists practicing in the United Kingdom. The guidelines can be found via the BCSH website at the following link: <a href="http://www.bcshguidelines.com/" target="_blank">www.bcshguidelines.com</a> Any patient with pernicious anaemia who has concerns about their treatment should discuss this matter with their general practitioner.

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 13:57:27

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

1604

label	Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

178530

registered interest

date

09/02/2015

answering body

Department of Health

answering dept id

answering dept short name

Health

answering dept sort name

Health

hansard heading

Mental Health Services

house id

legislature

25259

pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for mental health talking therapies in (a) England, (b) the North West, (c) East Lancashire and (d) Hyndburn constituency.

tabling member constituency

Hyndburn

tabling member printed

Graham Jones

uin

223817

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

24/02/2015

answer text

The average national waiting time for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme therapies for the last quarter of 2014/15 (quarter two) was 4.8 weeks. The quarter two data for the North of England region show that the average waiting time is 5.3 weeks. The average waiting time for the East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group is 6.3 weeks. Data are not collected by constituency. Over £400 million is being invested over the spending review period to make a choice of psychological therapies available for those who need them in all parts of England. The Department’s 2014-15 Mandate to NHS England makes clear that ‘everyone who needs it should have timely access to evidence based services’. The Mandate sets a clear objective for NHS England to deliver the key objectives of the IAPT programme – providing access to therapies to 15% of those eligible (around 900,000 people) per year by 2015, with a recovery rate of 50%. We have put in place the first waiting times standards in mental health, a significant milestone on the road to parity. The new five-year plan for mental health, Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020, sets out our ambition and the immediate actions we will take this year and next to achieve better access and waiting times in mental health services. We have identified £40 million additional spending to kick start change in the current year. We have freed up a further £80 million from existing budgets for 2015/16. This will, for the first time ever, enable the setting of access and waiting time standards in mental health services. This will include treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to the IAPT programme, with 95% of people being treated within 18 weeks. Starting this year, the Department and NHS England will work together with mental health system partners to develop detailed proposals for the introduction of further access and waiting time standards from 2016 onwards.

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 14:07:00

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

3999

label	Biography information for Graham P Jones

178554

registered interest

date

09/02/2015

answering body

Department of Health

answering dept id

answering dept short name

Health

answering dept sort name

Health

hansard heading

Care Quality Commission

house id

legislature

25259

pref label	House of Commons

question text

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Care Quality Commission inspection reports have been published within the 50-day target period in the last 12 months.

tabling member constituency

Copeland

tabling member printed

Mr Jamie Reed

uin

223752

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

24/02/2015

answer text

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. The CQC is responsible for developing and consulting on its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the levels of safety and quality, including the decisions of when to publish an inspection report. The CQC has provided the following information. The CQC has published 20% of inspection reports within the 50 days for the period 1 February 2014 to 31 January 2015. The CQC has provided the following further information about its performance in hospital, adult social care and primary medical service settings. In CQC’s Business Plan for 2014/15 to 2015/16 it listed its operations key performance indicators which included an aim to publish final reports of inspections undertaken with CQC’s new approach within 50 days. Since the Business Plan published in May 2014, there have been differences in the time taken to publish inspection reports across the sectors (detailed below). The reasons for these variations are due in part to processes being refined. The Hospitals directorate in CQC now works to a deadline of 65 working days after finding 50 days did not allow sufficient time for the post-inspection process. The new approach to inspection reports are also more detailed and in-depth and require more time to prepare, especially for the more complex inspections that CQC now undertakes. A timeline of 11 – 12 weeks from conclusion of the physical inspection to publication of the final report balances speed with accuracy to produce a comprehensive report. Hospitals data summary - Hospitals data includes community and mental health services <table><tbody><tr><td>Total number of new approach inspection reports published by CQC from the period 1 February 2014 to 31 January 2015</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td>Total number of new approach inspection reports published within 50 days</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Total number of new approach inspection reports published within 50 days as a percentage</td><td>18.75%</td></tr><tr><td>Total number of new approach inspection reports published within 65 days</td><td>42</td></tr><tr><td>Total number of new approach inspection reports published within 65 days as a percentage</td><td>65.63%</td></tr></tbody></table> Adult Social Care1 data summary <table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2">New approach inspection reports published by CQC from the period 1 February 2014 to 31 January 2015</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>Completed within 50 days</td><td>Total</td></tr><tr><td>Number of inspection reports</td><td>205</td><td>902</td></tr><tr><td>Percentage of inspection reports</td><td>22.7%</td><td>100.0%</td></tr></tbody></table> 1 The data presented is limited to reports where there is a publication date and last site visit date recorded. Primary Medical Services2 data summary <table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2" rowspan="2">New approach inspection reports published by CQC from the period 1 February 2014 to 31 January 2015</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>Completed within 50 days</td><td>Total</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Number of inspection reports</td><td>48</td><td>373</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Percentage of inspection reports</td><td>12.9%</td><td>100.0%</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table> 2 The data presented is limited to reports where there is a publication date and last site visit date recorded.

answering member constituency

North Norfolk

answering member printed

Norman Lamb

question first answered

24/02/2015 14:29:49

answering member

1439

label	Biography information for Norman Lamb

tabling member

1503

label	Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed