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1129686

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date	04/06/2019
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: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 May to Question 256286 on NHS: Public Appointments, how many NHS posts with salaries above £142,000 are awaiting ministerial sign-off by (a) his Department and (b) HM Treasury.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	259982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p><p>National Health Service organisations are not required to seek Departmental approval or comment on salaries of less than £150,000.</p><p>As at 6 June there are 17 NHS posts with salaries at or above £150,000 awaiting ministerial approval or comment.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/06/2019 16:15:10 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1129688

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Ophthalmology: Vacancies
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 vacancies are there in the NHS for (a) ophthalmic clinicians and (b) ophthalmic nurse specialists in each NHS hospital.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	259877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement collects vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p>It does not specifically produce vacancy data for ophthalmic clinicians or ophthalmic nurse specialists or any vacancy data for each National Health Service hospital.</p><p>NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found in the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/06/2019 13:11:26 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1129875

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 111
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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that NHS 111 commences direct booking into GP practices throughout the country and refers on to community pharmacies; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to joining up the NHS urgent care system. NHS 111 direct booking into general practitioner practices will be introduced nationally in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/06/2019 13:40:05 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1129877

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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 111
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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on embedding a single multidisciplinary Clinical Assessment Service within integrated (a) NHS 111, (b) ambulance dispatch and (c) GP out of hours services; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>The Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) as described in the Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification includes clinicians working within different organisations and in particular includes NHS 111, ambulance and general practitioner out of hours services. A CAS can be a virtual model where clinicians are based in different locations but work collectively to answer calls from patients and health care professionals via the NHS 111 telephone number.</p><p>The target to achieve 100% CAS coverage across England was reached at the end of March 2019.</p><p>Different areas will have achieved different levels of maturity in the implementation of their CAS and the exact make up of their CAS will differ depending on the interaction between different organisations and the NHS 111 call handler.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/06/2019 13:30:42 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1129879

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	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, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on embedding the Same Day Emergency Care model in (a) medical and (b) surgical specialities in each NHS hospital during 2019-20; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Hospitals Programme team conducted a review in December and January 2019 on the progress that Hospitals had made with implementing SDEC services where they had a Type 1 emergency department.</p><p>In February 2019, across England 92% of trusts had a SDEC service, 71% were open every day, 65% of those that had a service were open 12 hours a day when they were open.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/06/2019 13:28:36 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1129880

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Urgent Treatment Centres
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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to ensure England is covered by a 24/7 Integrated Urgent Care Service, accessible via NHS 111 or online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Long Term Plan an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>NHS England introduced the Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) service specification in August 2017. The service specification detailed what an integrated urgent care system could look like for commissioning purposes.</p><p>NHS England has worked through regional colleagues, as well as directly with commissioners and providers to ensure the IUC service specification is implemented via local procurement and contract variations. NHS England also holds regular meetings and events to share best practice and respond to questions around IUC.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 12/06/2019 16:07:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth