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1661898

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
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	Community Hospitals: Standards
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 12 September 2023 to Question 198332 on Community Hospitals: Discharges, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the level of delayed discharges in community hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	200232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2023 answer text <p>On 15 September 2023, NHS England published the Intermediate Care Framework for Rehabilitation, Reablement and Recovery following Hospital Discharge. This best practice guidance aims to improve patient experience and outcomes, as well as improving flow and discharge from acute and community hospitals, freeing-up National Health Service hospital capacity for those who need it most.</p><p>Additionally, the Better Care Fund Policy Framework sets out the government’s priorities for 2023-25. These include tackling delayed discharge and bringing about sustained improvements in discharge outcomes and wider system flow. For 2023-25, we have committed at least £16.8 billion to the Better Care Fund. As in previous years, areas are free to contribute further voluntary contributions.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 17/10/2023 09:14:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1660109

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: LGBT+ People
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 the Government is taking to help tackle incidents of (a) abuse and (b) discrimination against LGBT+ people in care settings.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	199017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>People have a right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect, and should expect high quality care and support tailored to meet their needs. Nobody should be disadvantaged due to their sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment.</p><p> </p><p>A range of measures are in place to prevent abuse and discrimination, and to investigate where any concerns are raised. Care providers have a key role in safeguarding and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines state that care homes should have a known safeguarding lead. The current Care Certificate standards cover equality and diversity.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its inspection regime, the Care Quality Commission checks that care providers have effective systems to help keep adults safe from abuse and neglect. Looking at the quality of care for LGBT people in adult social care has been one of its Equality Objectives for several years. Finally, local authorities have a legal duty to investigate safeguarding concerns under the Care Act 2014.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/09/2023 09:34:20 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 95389 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1660114

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: Labour Turnover
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 he is taking to improve workforce retention rates in adult social care.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	199084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We are investing at least £250 million over the next two years on workforce reforms, a key objective of which is to improve retention and turnover rates.</p><p>In July we announced the £570 million Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund – Workforce Fund to support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability, and enable local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care services, with a particular focus on workforce pay. Local authorities can choose to use this funding to increase the adult social care workforce and improve retention.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/09/2023 16:02:18 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1660115

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's planned timescale is for publishing a response to the consultation entitled Care workforce pathway for adult social care, which closed in May 2023.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	199085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We intend to publish the first version of the Care Workforce Pathway, focused on staff in direct care roles, in autumn 2023. This will include a response to the call for evidence which closed in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/09/2023 16:04:32 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1659092

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
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	Adult Social Care Discharge Fund
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 22 June 2023 to Question 190126 on Hospitals: Discharges, when his Department plans to allocate funding from the 2023-34 Discharge Fund.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	198328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>As in 2022/23, the 2023/24 Adult Social Care Discharge Fund has been pooled via the Better Care Fund and divided between local authorities and integrated care boards. We began distributing the 2023/24 funding to local authorities in equal monthly instalments in April 2023, along with other adult social care grants. The integrated care board component was distributed by NHS England in a single instalment at the start of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/09/2023 13:44:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1659098

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
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	Community Hospitals: Standards
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 and what proportion of patients in community hospitals had their discharges delayed since January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	198332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>On average, since January 2023, 1,956 patients per week, with a length of stay of 14 days or over in a community hospital, no longer met the criteria to reside but had not been discharged. Data is not available on the proportion of beds occupied by those that no longer meet the criteria to reside in a community hospital.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/09/2023 13:45:41 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1652422

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
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	Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
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 6 July 2023 to Question 192041 on Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination, when he expects to announce his policy position on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programme.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	193585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>Policy options based on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice on a potentially expanded respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme are being developed. If policy is approved, only then will Government announce its plans.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 17/07/2023 15:04:20 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1652426

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
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	Strokes: 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, how many and what proportion of patients are admitted to a specialist stroke bed within 72 hours of a stroke.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	193587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide data of how many and what proportion of patients are admitted to a specialist stroke bed within 72 hours of a stroke, as that metric is not measured by NHS England.</p><p>NHS England Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme showed that between January to March 2023 showed that 96.8% or 14,759 patients arrived at hospital within 72 hours of onset of symptoms of stroke. The median time from onset of symptoms to arrival at a stroke unit was 11 hours and eight minutes.</p><p>91.9% of patients went to a stroke unit as the first admitting ward, being admitted with a median of four hours and 55 minutes from arrival at the hospital.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/07/2023 08:14:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1652428

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
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	Smoking
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 19 June 2023 to Question 189197 on Smoking, whether his Department holds information on the number of stop smoking services that have been available nationally in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	193588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/08/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this data centrally as a variety of ‘Stop Smoking Services’ models are delivered by local authorities throughout England.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 15/08/2023 08:21:02 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 88184 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1649588

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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	Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
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 independent report entitled Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) immunisation programme: JCVI advice, 7 June 2023, published on 22 June 2022, whether he has a planned timetable for the introduction of RSV vaccination programmes for (a) maternal, (b) infant and (c) other people.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	192039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2023 answer text <p>Policy options based on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice on a potentially expanded respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme are being developed as fast as is feasible, including consideration for maternal, infant and/or adult programmes. This includes working with UK Health Security Agency and NHS England on potential implementation timetables, with NHS England leading on delivery.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 192040 question first answered 06/07/2023 16:43:20 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne