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1010550

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date	20/11/2018
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	Allied Healthcare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on patient health and service provision in the event that Allied Healthcare cease operations.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	193422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The interruption of care services can affect the wellbeing of users and their loved ones. Local authorities have a statutory duty, under the Care Act 2014, to temporarily meet the needs of individuals when their care provider is no longer able to carry on.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Government Association has said that councils have robust contingency plans in place to ensure people are safeguarded during the Allied Healthcare sale. As joint Government and sector guidance makes clear, these contingency plans should include giving people as much time as possible to make informed choices and transition to any new services in an orderly and calm way.</p><p> </p><p>Cross-Government contingency plans have been enacted, and officials are working closely with Allied Healthcare, local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to ensure as smooth a transition as possible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:01:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1010614

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Mental Health Services
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 November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to ensure that NHS England works with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to develop the Mental Health Dashboard further to include operational data for people treated in secondary and community care under a mental health trust.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard brings together key data from across mental health services to measure the performance of the National Health Service in delivering our plans as set out in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View. Indicators within the dashboard are intended to provide a high level overview of how the NHS is performing, alongside detail on how mental health services are funded and delivered.</p><p> </p><p>The content of the dashboard was recently reviewed to ensure that the measures within the dashboard are sufficiently robust to provide an accurate picture of mental health delivery across services and regions. NHS England is working with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to improve operational data for people treated in secondary and community care and these measures will be included in the dashboard as soon as data quality demonstrates that it is appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:10:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010615

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Social Prescribing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to spend the £4.5 billion announced on 23 July 2018 for social prescribing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>On 23 July 2018 the Department announced funding of £4.5 million for 23 social prescribing schemes across England. Social prescribing involves helping patients to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to community services. Examples include befriending services, art classes and exercise classes, which might be run by the council or a local charity.</p><p> </p><p>This money is being used to either expand existing schemes or establish new ones. These schemes will aim to reduce health inequalities by building the evidence base around good practice in social prescribing, sharing lessons and widening adoption of practices that are proven to work.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of all 23 schemes can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-schemes-to-be-funded-by-the-health-and-wellbeing-fund-2018" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-schemes-to-be-funded-by-the-health-and-wellbeing-fund-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:08:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010616

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Mental Health Services
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 November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to lower the average 14-week wait for assessment and 19-week wait for treatment for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, eating disorders and other severe mental illnesses.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Right treatment, right time, by Rethink Mental Illness, highlights challenges in mental health services. The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health contains specific steps for reducing waiting times for psychosis and eating disorders. By 2020/21, at least 60% of people with first episode psychosis should start treatment with a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended package of care, via a specialist Early Intervention in Psychosis service, within two weeks of referral. For eating disorders, we have targets for ensuring that 95% of children in need receive treatment within one week for urgent cases, and four weeks for routine cases. Figures published on the Five Year Forward View dashboard show that these targets have been met or are on track to be met by the end of 2020/21. The dashboard is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:15:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010638

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Health Visitors: Resignations
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 health visitors (a) resigned and (b) otherwise left their posts in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	193546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of leavers from the health visitor staff group in England, partitioned into reasons for leaving of resignation and other reason for leaving, as at 31 July in each specified year from 2013, headcount:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All reasons for leaving</p></td><td><p>1,441</p></td><td><p>1,331</p></td><td><p>2,052</p></td><td><p>2,203</p></td><td><p>1,672</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reason for leaving of resignation</p></td><td><p>386</p></td><td><p>461</p></td><td><p>603</p></td><td><p>694</p></td><td><p>454</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other reason for leaving</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>373</p></td><td><p>837</p></td><td><p>781</p></td><td><p>588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknowns</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>614</p></td><td><p>732</p></td><td><p>633</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics</p><p> </p><p>As health visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including National Health Service trusts, CCGs, local authorities and private providers, current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. Consequently, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total number of leavers from the whole health visitor workforce.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:09:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1010674

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Social Services: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on social care charges for vulnerable people receiving benefits; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	193381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>To help local authorities design reasonable and fair policies, the Department has issued the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 and statutory guidance in the Care and Support Statutory (CASS) Guidance. The CASS Guidance is issued under section 78 of the Care Act and local authorities must have regard to it.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations and Guidance do not require local authorities to charge. They seek to ensure that, where local authorities do charge, this will be based on fairer, well-designed charging policies and ensure in particular that service users on low incomes are protected from charging and that any charges levied on disability benefits are subject to an assessment of disability costs, to ensure their reasonableness.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 193382 question first answered 23/11/2018 14:02:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1010679

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Social Services: Fees and Charges
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 review the level of charges for social care payable by vulnerable people on benefits; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	193382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>To help local authorities design reasonable and fair policies, the Department has issued the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 and statutory guidance in the Care and Support Statutory (CASS) Guidance. The CASS Guidance is issued under section 78 of the Care Act and local authorities must have regard to it.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations and Guidance do not require local authorities to charge. They seek to ensure that, where local authorities do charge, this will be based on fairer, well-designed charging policies and ensure in particular that service users on low incomes are protected from charging and that any charges levied on disability benefits are subject to an assessment of disability costs, to ensure their reasonableness.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 193381 question first answered 23/11/2018 14:02:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1010758

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Cancer
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 Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 190871 on Cancer, what the potential (a) advantages and (b) disadvantages are of implementing the national data guardian opt-out on the quality of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey data.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	193460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>As I stated in my previous response, we are giving careful consideration to the potential advantages and disadvantages of the application of the national data opt-out to the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey beyond 2018/19. A decision regarding the application of the national data opt-out to this survey and the Care Quality Commission National Patient Survey will be communicated shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:12:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1010782

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Health Services: Private Sector
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 cost to NHS England of payments to private companies for the treatment of patients with (a) learning disabilities and (b) autism in in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	193472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested prior to 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>Total spending by National Health Service commissioners to private companies for the treatment of patients with learning disabilities and autism for 2017-18 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2017-18 £ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Learning disabilities</p></td><td><p>80.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Autism</p></td><td><p>28.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total learning disabilities and autism</p></td><td><p>108.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:11:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1010783

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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, how many dowries have been paid by the NHS to local authorities for patients leaving hospital after five or more years in inpatient care at the point of discharge since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	193473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The data requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 11:06:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley