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416724

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to update the national stroke strategy when the implementation period ends in December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	8962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Good progress has been made on stroke since the launch of the National Stroke Strategy in 2007. Examples include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- All ambulance trusts now treat stroke as a medical emergency and use the Face Arm Speech screening test to triage patients;</p><p> </p><p>- 80% of eligible stroke patients now receive clot busting drugs, giving them a better chance of regaining their independence following a stroke;</p><p> </p><p>- All hospitals admitting acute stroke patients have access to brain imaging 24 hours a day. 44% of stroke patients are scanned within one hour of hospital arrival and 88% within 12 hours; and</p><p> </p><p>- 96% of stroke patients are treated at a stroke unit at some time during their hospital stay.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to update the National Stroke Strategy. However we want to ensure that the gains made are not lost and that this work is taken forward. This is why we published the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England hosts a CVD expert forum focused on improving outcomes, which brings together the relevant National Clinical Directors, the main relevant national charities, NHS Improving Quality, the National CVD Intelligence Network, Public Health England and the Department of Health. This collaborative continues to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke is working with the strategic clinical networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 8963 question first answered 09/09/2015 15:57:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

416725

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes: Health Education
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 effect of the Stroke-Act FAST campaign.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	8960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Since the Act FAST campaign started in 2009 an estimated 38,646 extra people who were having a stroke got to hospital within three hours, saving 9,875 quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and preventing 4,337 disabilities. There has also been a 29% increase in stroke-related 999 calls.[1]</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Act FAST campaign will run this year from 19 October – 15 November.</p><p> </p><br /><p>[1] Public Health England (2015) Social Marketing Strategy 2014-17: One year on. (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-health-england-marketing-strategy-2014-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-health-england-marketing-strategy-2014-to-2017</a>)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/09/2015 16:22:13 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

416726

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been allocated by his Department to the Stroke-Act FAST campaign in each year between 2009 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	8961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England took over all the public health campaigns formerly run by the Department on 1 April 2013 including Act FAST.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The funding allocated to the Act FAST marketing campaign is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Stroke Act FAST media spend</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/2009</p></td><td><p>2009/2010</p></td><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>£4,520,000</p></td><td><p>£2,450,000</p></td><td><p>£540,000</p></td><td><p>£800,000</p></td><td><p>£810,000</p></td><td><p>£870,000</p></td><td><p>£850,000</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>A higher level of investment was required in the first two years of the campaign to build awareness of the new brand and recognition of the FAST acronym. Since then we have continued to invest in the campaign at lower levels in order to maintain awareness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Act FAST campaign will run once again this year from October 19 - November 15.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/09/2015 16:29:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

416727

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress his Department has made on the implementation of the national stroke strategy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	8963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Good progress has been made on stroke since the launch of the National Stroke Strategy in 2007. Examples include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- All ambulance trusts now treat stroke as a medical emergency and use the Face Arm Speech screening test to triage patients;</p><p> </p><p>- 80% of eligible stroke patients now receive clot busting drugs, giving them a better chance of regaining their independence following a stroke;</p><p> </p><p>- All hospitals admitting acute stroke patients have access to brain imaging 24 hours a day. 44% of stroke patients are scanned within one hour of hospital arrival and 88% within 12 hours; and</p><p> </p><p>- 96% of stroke patients are treated at a stroke unit at some time during their hospital stay.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to update the National Stroke Strategy. However we want to ensure that the gains made are not lost and that this work is taken forward. This is why we published the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England hosts a CVD expert forum focused on improving outcomes, which brings together the relevant National Clinical Directors, the main relevant national charities, NHS Improving Quality, the National CVD Intelligence Network, Public Health England and the Department of Health. This collaborative continues to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke is working with the strategic clinical networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 8962 question first answered 09/09/2015 15:56:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

388632

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
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 effect of hospital car parking charges on (a) pensioners, (b) carers, (c) people with long-term conditions and (d) people on low incomes; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	6202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made any national assessment of the effect of hospital car parking charges on specific groups. Decisions on hospital car parking, including charging, are taken locally by National Health Service foundation trusts and NHS trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 23 August, 2014, the Department published the <em>NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles</em>, which set out a nationally consistent approach for hospitals to take to car parking. This includes guidance on the provision of concessionary parking. The principles are available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To help NHS organisations deliver the above principles the Department published <em>NHS Car Parking Management: Environment and Sustainability (HTM 07-03)</em> on 25 March 2015. This guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-car-parking-management-htm-07-03" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-car-parking-management-htm-07-03</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Both documents make it clear that NHS organisations should work with patients, staff, visitors, local authorities and public transport providers when planning their parking provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/07/2015 15:04:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

385008

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Warrington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent GPs there are in Warrington.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	3645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Number of General Practitioners (GPs); Full-time Equivalent (FTE); Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>NHS Warrington</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>All Practitioners</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>GP Providers</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Other GPs</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>GP Registrars</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>GP Retainers</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Notes:</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>All Practitioners include GP Providers, Salaried/Other GPs, Registrars and Retainers.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Practitioners are All Practitioners excluding Registrars and Retainers.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Full time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number, totals may not add up to the sum of their components as a result of rounding.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>'-' denotes zero.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Data as at 30 September 2014</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Data quality:</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>Sources:</em></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 29/06/2015 15:58:56 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

385015

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on the financial position of Warrington and Halton NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	3665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has not had any recent discussions with Warrington and Halton NHS Foundation Trust. However, the Secretary of State meets a number of National Health Service organisations regularly to discuss a wide range of issues, including financial matters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 29/06/2015 16:06:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

225192

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for mental health talking therapies is in (a) the North West and (b) Warrington.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	226419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>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 Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and for all 33 North West CCGs combined for the year 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>The number of referrals entering treatment<sup>1</sup> in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT<sup>2</sup> services in 2013/14. Data shown for NHS Warrington CCG and all North West CCGs combined<sup>3</sup>.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation name</p></td><td><p>Referrals<sup>4</sup> entering treatment</p></td><td><p>Mean<sup>5</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td><td><p>Median<sup>5</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Warrington CCG</p></td><td><p>3,250</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>All North West CCGs combined</p></td><td><p>94,775</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>2</sup>IAPT services are psychological therapies services commissioned by the NHS through the IAPT programme.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>3</sup>CCG 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'.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>4</sup>This is not distinct people, as a person can have more than one referral.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><sup>5</sup>Means and medians have been rounded to the nearest whole number.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" rowspan="2"><p>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.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Entering treatment figures are rounded to the nearest 5, except for England totals.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>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</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Source:</em> Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Dataset, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government has announced the first ever access and waiting standards for mental health services for 2015/16. These standards will include treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to IAPT, with 95% of people being treated within 18 weeks.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:06:43 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

225194

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent dental surgeons there were per head of population in (a) Warrington and (b) the North-West in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	226420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>There are now over 7,500 more nurses, midwives and health visitors working in the National Health Service than in May 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information is not available in the format requested. Information such as is available is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 09/03/2015 17:32:53 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name NHS Hospital and Community Health Services.docx title Dental surgeons FTE in Area Teams in North West
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

224734

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Greater Manchester
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 potential effect of devolution of spending to Greater Manchester on (a) patients who live outside the Greater Manchester area but who are registered with a GP there and (b) patients who wish to receive treatment at a hospital in Greater Manchester but who live outside the area.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	226124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>This is a historic partnership between local organisations in Greater Manchester (GM), with general practitioners as clinical leaders working with elected leaders to improve services for people living in the area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service bodies involved, including NHS England and the relevant clinical commissioning groups, will remain statutorily accountable for the exercise of their functions. GM will work collaboratively with local non-GM bodies and take into account the impact of GM decisions upon non-GM bodies and their communities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The fundamental national policies including Choice, inspection regimes, guidance and regulations will continue to apply to GM but, in line with the Five Year Forward View published by NHS England, GM will exercise greater freedom in how they are implemented so that local services better reflect the priorities of local patients and service users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 06/03/2015 14:37:14 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones