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61540

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date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospital Beds
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hospital beds per head of the population there were in (1) England, (2) London and (3) Lewisham, in each year from 2008–09 to 2013–14.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Hospital beds data per head of population are not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Hospital beds data are collected for each National Health Service trust and NHS foundation trust.</p><p> </p><p>Population estimates and projections are available for local NHS commissioning bodies; primary care trusts (PCTs) up to 2011 and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) from 2012. These data can be aggregated up to larger areas such as strategic health authorities (SHAs) up to 2011 and local area teams from 2012.</p><p> </p><p>A table has been placed in the Library which shows the estimated hospital beds per 1,000 population in England and London each year from 2008-09 to 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to show the hospital beds per head of population in a local commissioning body such as Lewisham, because this would be based on the assumptions that the beds in a trust are available only for the population of the local commissioning body and that this population only uses these beds. These assumptions will not reflect reality as trusts serve populations from outside their commissioning areas and patients will access services in hospitals outside their local commissioning area.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/06/2014 15:56:31 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name HL309 - Lib Doc Table.xlsx title Table:Estimated hospital beds per 1,000, 2008-2014
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

61553

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that people with learning disabilities are not excluded from NHS England's five-year strategic plan for National Health Service commissioners to improve quality of and access to health care, outlined in Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15–2018/19.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hollins
uin	HL322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government's Mandate to NHS England, sets out our ambitions for the health service, which include an objective that NHS England ensures clinical commissioning groups work with local authorities to ensure that vulnerable people, particularly those with learning disabilities and autism, receive safe, appropriate, high quality care. NHS England sets out how it will achieve the objectives in the Mandate in its 2014-15 – 2016-17 business plan. The Government will hold NHS England to account for its achievement.</p><p> </p><p><em>Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15 to 2018/19</em>sets out a framework within which commissioners will need to work with providers and partners in local government to develop five year plans to secure the continuity of sustainable high quality care for all. Building on <em>Everyone Counts</em>, NHS England is beginning a programme of work to consider how to improve quality of and access to health care for people with learning disabilities. Within the framework there is specific reference to <em>Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital. </em>This is a non-negotiable item that NHS England expects to be part of every relationship between commissioners and providers. As part of this, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities and specialised commissioners should work together to implement the core specification which describes the core principles that must be present in all education, health and social care services for children, young people, adults and older people with learning disabilities and/or autism who either display, or are at risk of displaying, behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to work to reduce premature mortality amongst people with learning disability, including actions in response to the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 26/06/2014 14:01:36 question first ministerially corrected 26/06/2014 15:34:49 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe previous answer version 6304 answering member printed Earl Baldwin of Bewdley answering member 3446
tabling member	4190 label Biography information for Baroness Hollins

61559

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ambulance Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what the ambulance service 999 response rates have been over the past two years.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The following table shows performance against the response time standards for all ambulance trusts in England in the last two financial years.</p><p> </p><p>Table: Monthly performance of ambulance trusts in England for category A calls, 2012-13 and 2013-14</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Of all Category A calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Red 1 calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Red 2 calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Category A calls resulting in an ambulance arriving, proportion within 19 minutes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>76.2%</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>96.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>74.8%</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>96.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>77.5%</p></td><td><p>96.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>77.4%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>78.1%</p></td><td><p>96.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>75.9%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.9%</p></td><td><p>76.5%</p></td><td><p>96.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.2%</p></td><td><p>76.0%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>70.4%</p></td><td><p>70.8%</p></td><td><p>94.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.5%</p></td><td><p>75.8%</p></td><td><p>95.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.1%</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.4%</p></td><td><p>73.8%</p></td><td><p>95.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td><td><p>75.5%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>96.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.4%</p></td><td><p>76.0%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.9%</p></td><td><p>77.8%</p></td><td><p>96.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.4%</p></td><td><p>77.1%</p></td><td><p>96.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.5%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>95.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.0%</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>96.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>73.8%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.6%</p></td><td><p>73.6%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.1%</p></td><td><p>73.0%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>72.8%</p></td><td><p>71.7%</p></td><td><p>95.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>76.4%</p></td><td><p>76.3%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.2%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>96.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>76.2%</p></td><td><p>74.7%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>74.8%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Source: NHS England, ambulance quality indicators</em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>1. </em><em>Ambulance service response times were split in June 2012 in to the most time critical (Red 1) and serious but less time critical (Red 2). </em></p><p><em>2. </em><em>Category A Red 1 calls are the most time critical and cover cardiac arrest patients who are not breathing and do not have a pulse, and other severe conditions.</em></p><p><em>3. </em><em>Category Red 2 calls are serious but less immediately time critical and cover conditions such as stroke and fits, and a new clock start will allow call handlers to get more information about patients.</em></p><p><em>4. </em><em>Category A19 is the total number of Category A calls (Red 1 and Red 2) which resulted in a fully equipped ambulance vehicle (car or ambulance) able to transport the patient in a clinically safe manner arriving at the scene within 19 minutes of the request being made.</em></p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware of the increasing demand on urgent and emergency care services. The Urgent and Emergency Care Review is currently considering whole system change to the delivery of urgent and emergency care, including new models of delivery of care for ambulance services. The first phase of the review was published last November, and we expect NHS England to be publishing further reports later this year.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL329 question first answered 19/06/2014 11:32:32 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

61560

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ambulance Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the reason for, and what action they are taking to address, the deterioration in ambulance 999 response rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The following table shows performance against the response time standards for all ambulance trusts in England in the last two financial years.</p><p> </p><p>Table: Monthly performance of ambulance trusts in England for category A calls, 2012-13 and 2013-14</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Of all Category A calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Red 1 calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Red 2 calls, proportion responded to within 8 minutes</p></td><td><p>Of all Category A calls resulting in an ambulance arriving, proportion within 19 minutes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>76.2%</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>96.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>74.8%</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>96.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>77.5%</p></td><td><p>96.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>77.4%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>78.1%</p></td><td><p>96.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>75.9%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.9%</p></td><td><p>76.5%</p></td><td><p>96.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.2%</p></td><td><p>76.0%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>70.4%</p></td><td><p>70.8%</p></td><td><p>94.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.5%</p></td><td><p>75.8%</p></td><td><p>95.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.1%</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>73.4%</p></td><td><p>73.8%</p></td><td><p>95.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td><td><p>75.5%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>96.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.4%</p></td><td><p>76.0%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.9%</p></td><td><p>77.8%</p></td><td><p>96.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.4%</p></td><td><p>77.1%</p></td><td><p>96.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.5%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>95.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>77.0%</p></td><td><p>75.3%</p></td><td><p>96.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.1%</p></td><td><p>73.8%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.6%</p></td><td><p>73.6%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>74.1%</p></td><td><p>73.0%</p></td><td><p>95.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>72.8%</p></td><td><p>71.7%</p></td><td><p>95.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>76.4%</p></td><td><p>76.3%</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.2%</p></td><td><p>74.0%</p></td><td><p>96.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>76.2%</p></td><td><p>74.7%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>74.8%</p></td><td><p>96.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Source: NHS England, ambulance quality indicators</em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><em>1. </em><em>Ambulance service response times were split in June 2012 in to the most time critical (Red 1) and serious but less time critical (Red 2). </em></p><p><em>2. </em><em>Category A Red 1 calls are the most time critical and cover cardiac arrest patients who are not breathing and do not have a pulse, and other severe conditions.</em></p><p><em>3. </em><em>Category Red 2 calls are serious but less immediately time critical and cover conditions such as stroke and fits, and a new clock start will allow call handlers to get more information about patients.</em></p><p><em>4. </em><em>Category A19 is the total number of Category A calls (Red 1 and Red 2) which resulted in a fully equipped ambulance vehicle (car or ambulance) able to transport the patient in a clinically safe manner arriving at the scene within 19 minutes of the request being made.</em></p><p> </p><p>The Government is aware of the increasing demand on urgent and emergency care services. The Urgent and Emergency Care Review is currently considering whole system change to the delivery of urgent and emergency care, including new models of delivery of care for ambulance services. The first phase of the review was published last November, and we expect NHS England to be publishing further reports later this year.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL328 question first answered 19/06/2014 11:32:32 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

61561

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Hearing Impairment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking with regard to those Clinical Commissioning Groups that have not funded Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services for deaf people.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is now the responsibility of individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs); however 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.</p><p> </p><p>Section 20 of the Equality Act 2010 requires service providers and CCGs to make ‘reasonable adjustments' so that disabled people are not placed at a ‘substantial disadvantage' compared to non-disabled people, which would include in the provision of psychological therapies to deaf people.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 24/06/2014 12:17:09 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

61694

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genetics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many xx-positive cases have been recorded in the UK in each of the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Dr Thérèse Coffey
uin	200390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) advises that no <em>Trichinella</em> infection has been found in United Kingdom domestic livestock in the past 30 years. <em>Trichinella </em>infection in food producing animals is controlled by European Union regulations, which are directly applicable in the UK. UK industry routinely tests export pigs as required by their export markets, and all sows and boars, horses and feral wild boar going through approved establishments for Trichinella (which currently amounts to about 3–4 million pigs a year), alongside a FSA programme of surveillance in wildlife.</p><p> </p><p>Monitoring for evidence of Trichinella infection in foxes has been carried out in the UK since 1999. Foxes are tested because they are a good indicator of the presence of infection. There have been only two incidences of <em>Trichinella Spiralis </em>found in foxes in Northern Ireland, one in 2007 and one in 2009, and just one incident of <em>Trichinella Pseudospiralis</em> in a fox in Great Britain in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of human infections, Trichinellosis in humans is notifiable to the Department and any case that occurs is investigated and where possible the source of infection is identified. There have been no human cases acquired from meat produced in the UK for more than 30 years.</p><p> </p><p>Ten cases of trichinellosis were diagnosed in the UK between 2000 and 2012, including an outbreak of eight cases in England and Wales in 2000. Eight of these cases were associated with the consumption of imported meat products. The remaining two cases were travel related where infection was acquired abroad: one case in 2001, and the other 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/06/2014 16:26:57 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey

61717

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the savings to the NHS from the use of mindfulness interventions to reduce the number of GP visits.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>No such assessment of the saving to the National Health Service from the use of mindfulness interventions to reduce the number of general practitioner visits has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is aware of the Mental Health Foundation's research into the impact of mindfulness. The benefits of mindfulness are widely recognised. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance for the NHS has recommended Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression since 2004. MBCT is available through a number of Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 200425 question first answered 18/06/2014 15:02:11 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61718

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relationship of the length of time of GP patient consultation and successful diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the relationship between the length of time of general practitioner (GP) patient consultation and successful diagnosis. Data on the length of GP appointments is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/06/2014 15:19:38 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61719

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the benefits of nurse-led patient health checks immediately before GP consultations.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>We understand from NHS England that, to date, no assessment has been made of the benefits of nurse-led patient health checks immediately before general practitioner appointments.</p><p> </p><p>However, practice nurses play an invaluable role as part of the multidisciplinary practice team. For example, in some areas nurses will deliver the NHS Health Check Programme, which aims to prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease.</p><p> </p><p>NHE England will also shortly be employing a practice nurse advisor who will be working at national level to help inform and disseminate best practice in relation to health checks and the Chief Nursing Officer will work closely with the Medical Director to support further work on the Health Check Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/06/2014 15:23:54 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61720

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the relationship between the length of time of GP patient consultation and patient satisfaction.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>Overall patient satisfaction is driven by a range of factors, including accessing general practitioner (GP) appointments at a convenient time, the ability to see a preferred GP and the quality of the conversation with the GP.</p><p> </p><p>Data is not held centrally on the average length of a GP appointment, and we are not aware of any formal assessment being made of the relationship between the length of time of a GP patient consultation and patient satisfaction.</p><p> </p><p>However, the GP Patient Survey includes the following question:</p><p> </p><p>“Last time you saw or spoke to a GP from your GP surgery, how good was that GP at each of the following?</p><p>- Giving you enough time</p><p>- Listening to you</p><p>- Explaining tests and treatments</p><p>- Involving you in decisions about your care</p><p>- Treating you with care and concern”</p><p> </p><p>In the most recent GP Patient Survey, published in December 2013, 85.8% of respondents said that their GP was either ‘very good' or ‘good' at giving them enough time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/06/2014 15:21:13 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane