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1140170

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Heart Diseases and Strokes: Females
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 respond to the recommendations in the report entitled Call for Action: Inquiry into heart attack and stroke, published by the all-party Parliamentary group on women’s health in July 2019; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	279083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has acknowledged the recently published report and will be considering the content.</p><p>Improving the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and stroke are key aims in the NHS Long Term Plan, with an important milestone being for the National Health Service to help prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years. The NHS Long Term Plan highlights that outcomes from heart attack and stroke can be improved, and that there should be a focus on inequalities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/07/2019 16:54:04 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1140171

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Heart Diseases and Strokes: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) outcomes, (b) early identification and (c) treatment of heart attack and stroke for women.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	279084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>Improving the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and stroke are key aims in the NHS Long Term Plan, with an important milestone being for the National Health Service to help prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years. The NHS Long Term Plan highlights that outcomes from heart attack and stroke can be improved, and that there should be a focus on inequalities.</p><p>In addition, addressing variations in outcomes from cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart attacks and stroke, is one of Public Health England’s (PHE) top priorities, and in February 2019, PHE announced new 10-year CVD ambitions for England, which are intended to complement the NHS Long Term Plan and are the first ever national ambitions to improve the detection and treatment of the major causes of CVD.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/07/2019 16:48:22 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1125324

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
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	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making on introducing comprehensive calorie labelling for food and drink served out of the home; and when his Department plans to publish the results of the consultation on that matter, which closed on 25 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	252038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The consultation on calorie labelling for food and drink served outside of the home took place between 14 September and 7 December 2018. We will publish the results and set out the timetable for further action later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 15:45:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050253

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Staff
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 (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The most recent data reported in Q2 2018/19, as at the end of September 2018, shows that in mental health National Health Service trusts there are 190,185 whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce staff in post, with 19,889 vacancies. This is a vacancy rate of 9.5% out of a total workforce establishment (210,074 WTE).</p><p>There are 53 mental health NHS trusts, defined as those with over half of their outpatient activity in mental health specialties. Not all staff in these trusts provide mental health services and some mental health services are provided by other trusts.</p><p>NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates from individual NHS providers and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. NHS Improvement defines a vacancy as the current workforce gap between current substantive staff in post and the required staffing level for the respective period.</p><p>NHS Improvement count staff working substantively within a designated mental health NHS trust in England as one definition of the size of the mental health workforce. Currently, there is no single agreed way to count the entire mental health workforce. The Department, working together with NHS Digital, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and NHS England, are in a process of agreeing a new definition to count the mental health workforce in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:18:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1050254

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Termination of Employment
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 mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	213409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>In England, 12,798<sup>1</sup> mental health staff left the National Health Service between 31 May 2018 and 31 October 2018, headcount.</p><p>The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce available from NHS Digital and includes:</p><p>- All staff in mental health, learning disability and care trusts;</p><p>- Psychiatry doctors;</p><p>- Nurses specialising in ‘community psychiatry’, ‘other psychiatry’, ‘community learning disabilities’, ‘other learning disabilities’</p><p>- Staff with a primary area of work of ‘psychiatry’, for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.</p><p> </p><p>Data for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not included in the figure above.</p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/01/2019 17:25:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1002605

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	Knee Replacements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of elective knee replacement surgery has been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	188867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of elective knee replacement operations which have been commissioned by the National Health Service from the private sector in the last three years is shown in the following table. Figures represent the number of operations – not the number of patients – as some patients may have more than one operation.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Proportion Carried out by Private Providers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>38%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/11/2018 17:26:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

997139

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	National Emergency Pressures Panel
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 times the national emergency pressures panel has met during the 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	184974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Escalation Pressures Panel (NEPP) has not yet formally met in the 2018-19 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes meeting notes online when NEPP meets. These can be located on their website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/national-emergency-pressures-panel-nepp/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/national-emergency-pressures-panel-nepp/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 01/11/2018 17:44:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

994299

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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	Hip Replacements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of elective hip replacement surgery has been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	183518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of elective hip replacement operations which have been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years is shown in the following table. Figures represent the number of operations – not the number of patients – as some patients may have more than one operation.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>All providers</p></td><td><p>Private providers</p></td><td><p>Proportion Carried out by Private Providers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>78,328</p></td><td><p>20,245</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>81,484</p></td><td><p>22,870</p></td><td><p>28%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>78,172</p></td><td><p>23,340</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 29/10/2018 17:26:58 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

990438

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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 Illness: Equality
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 bring forward legislative proposals to extend Equality Act 2010 to include people with episodic and fluctuating mental health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	181354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is aware of concerns that some people with mental health conditions have experienced problems in accessing the Equality Act 2010’s protections. The Government is therefore exploring a number of options including legislation to extend protections from discrimination in the workplace for people with mental health conditions, including through the Equality Act 2010. We will make an announcement on these issues in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/10/2018 16:17:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

983282

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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	Nurses: Students
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 students started mental health nursing degree courses in the 2018-19 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	176371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) collect data on acceptances to mental health nursing degree courses.</p><p> </p><p>Acceptances for 2018/19 entry can still be made until the end of clearing on 23 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The final number of acceptances for mental health nursing degree courses for 2018/19 will be available following the publication of end of cycle data by UCAS in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/10/2018 11:57:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff