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1172431

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether pre-registration physiotherapy students (1) already studying, and (2) due to start a course, will qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL656 HL657 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1172432

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether pre-registration physiotherapy students participating on (1) BSc, and (2) MSc, courses will qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL655 HL657 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1172433

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2020
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether there will be a limit on the number of pre-registration physiotherapy students able to qualify for maintenance grants of £5,000 and, where eligible, for further grants of up to £3,000 from 2020.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>All new and continuing students enrolled in an eligible pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate physiotherapy course at an English university from September 2020 will be eligible for at least £5,000 of the new financial support package.</p><p>Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students depending on their individual circumstances. For those studying physiotherapy, this could include £1,000 of financial support to help with childcare costs. Physiotherapy students will not be eligible for the £1,000 incentive funding announced on 19 January 2020 for students entering a pre-registration course in a shortage healthcare specialism. As set out in the announcement of 19 January, the Department is undertaking further work to develop the £1,000 incentive payment which will be targeted at specific regions or geographical areas and it is possible that some new physiotherapy students could be eligible for additional payments as part of this. Further information will be set out as soon as possible.</p><p>There are no current plans to limit the number of physiotherapy students who could receive funding they may be eligible for.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL655 HL656 question first answered 29/01/2020 17:14:04 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1176640

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2020
	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	Ambulance Services: Weather
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the demand for ambulance services over the winter period.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL1392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>To support performance this winter additional capital and revenue funding was made available to systems and trusts to support staff and bed capacity throughout the winter. This has allowed Trusts to increase bed numbers and facilities to support better flow and, as a result, the National Health Service has reported over 1,000 more hospital beds are open this winter than at the same time last year.</p><p>In addition, a further £240 million has been provided again this year for adult social care to help reduce delays in patients being discharged from hospital by providing social care support.</p><p>This is all additional to winter funding last year that provided £145 million of capital funding to hospitals. £36.3 million was also provided to ambulance services for 256 new state-of-the-art vehicles and ‘make-ready hubs’ which shorten the turnaround times for vehicles and increase their availability. The winter period is usually considered to be from December to March, therefore an assessment of demand for ambulance services can be made after winter has finished.</p><p>Despite a huge increase in demand, the Care Quality Commission’s State of Health and Adult Social Care Report 2018/19 shows that the vast majority of patients continue to receive good, safe care. Overall quality of care in NHS acute hospitals has improved, with 72% of core services rated as good or outstanding, up from 66% in the previous year.</p><p>The quality of care in NHS ambulance trusts has also improved over the last year, with seven out of 10 trusts rated as good and none rated as inadequate. And, as at January 2020, 84% of adult social care settings were rated as good or outstanding. Four out of five adult social care services are rated as good, similar to 2018, and 996 services are providing care that is rated as outstanding.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL1390 HL1391 question first answered 12/02/2020 17:21:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1191464

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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	Care Homes and Hospitals
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were discharged from hospital to care homes in England in each of the last 12 weeks; and how many of those people had been tested for COVID-19. [T]
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL3644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>At the beginning of June 2020, NHS England published an analysis of hospital discharges to care homes between 30 January 2020 and 16 April 2020, with a comparison to care home discharged from the same period in 2019. A copy of this analysis is attached, due to the size of the data. The information on how many of those people had tested for COVID-19 is not currently published to the level of detail requested.</p><p>As of 1 June, there had been 153,836 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in England.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 29/06/2020 10:42:33 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name HL3644 - Hospital-discharges-to-care-homes-2020-06-02-v1.0 (1).xlsx title Hospital discharges to care homes analysis
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1193369

	registered interest
	date	05/05/2020
	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	Care Homes: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 home tests they have (1) delivered to care homes, and (2) processed, each day since they began to distribute such tests.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL3909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>Public Health England’s Health Protection Teams have, from the outset, been testing residents when an outbreak is reported at a particular care home. More than 41,000 residents have been tested through this route. On 15 April, the Government extended testing to essential workers, including symptomatic care home staff. Since then, the Care Quality Commission has referred over 34,000 care workers for testing. We are now prioritising up to 30,000 tests per day for staff and residents at care homes in England that look after over 65s.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/06/2020 10:52:51 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1197906

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2020
	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	Care Workers and NHS: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that COVID-19 related fatalities of (1) NHS staff, (2) social workers, and (3) care workers, are accurately reported.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL4871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>On 29 April 2020 the Government introduced a new daily death reporting protocol which includes deaths that have occurred in all settings where there has been a positive COVID-19 test such as hospitals, care homes and the wider community.</p><p>The number of deaths of National Health Service healthcare workers is verified from direct reports from NHS employing and non-NHS organisations. This information is investigated and triangulated by NHS England to give a high level of confidence of validity.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics also publishes statistics on deaths involving COVID-19 by occupation, including rates and counts of deaths of social workers and care workers.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 08/06/2020 10:57:57 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1201080

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the likelihood of COVID-19 becoming endemic in the UK in the long term.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL5430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2020 answer text <p>Total eradication of SARS-CoV-2 globally is unlikely. Elimination nationally - that is, bringing the number of locally acquired cases to zero - may be possible transiently but is highly unlikely to be possible permanently. Though other countries appear to have eliminated the virus locally, it is still early in the pandemic and the virus is very likely to reappear in these countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 17/07/2020 10:13:47 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1197907

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish the R number, the reproduction index for the COVID-19 virus, for each region of the UK. [T]
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL4872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government Office for Science currently publishes the latest estimate of the United Kingdom-wide range for R on a weekly basis. The current range is estimated to be 0.7-1.0 and is based on the latest data available to determine infection and transmission rates.</p><p>The Government is committed to publishing the scientific evidence that has informed the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) advice. These papers are being published in batches. The latest batches were released on 20 May and 22 May and the next batch will be published in due course. The full list of papers reviewed to date is available in an online only format on the GOV.UK page, ‘The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE): Coronavirus (COVID-19) response’. This list will be updated to reflect papers considered at recent and future meetings.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 01/06/2020 11:01:53 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton

1199396

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 1 June (HL4872), why they will not publish the reproduction index for the COVID-19 virus for each region of the UK on a weekly basis, alongside the United Kingdom-wide range.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Thornton
	uin	HL5126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>R is an average number and so can be highly uncertain if based on small quantities of data. R should be considered alongside the number of new cases. The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies’ view is that it is unhelpful to use estimates of R rates to monitor the epidemic in different regions.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 10/06/2020 11:09:41 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1782 label Biography information for Baroness Thornton