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1691371

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2024
	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	Dementia: General Practitioners
	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 she is taking to help improve the knowledge of GPs on the symptoms of young onset dementia.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
	uin	15484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>We want all general practitioners to have received appropriate training, in order to provide high quality care to people with dementia, regardless of the person’s age or individual needs.</p><p>The standard of training for health care professionals is the responsibility of the health care independent statutory regulatory bodies who set the outcome standards expected at undergraduate level and approve courses and Higher Education Institutions to write and teach the curricula content that enables their students to meet the regulators outcome standards.</p><p>Whilst not all curricula may necessarily highlight a specific condition, they all nevertheless emphasize the skills and approaches a Health Care Practitioner must develop in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients, including for dementia.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out NHS England’s commitment to improving training for workers caring for people with dementia.</p><p>The Long Term plan also sets out the plan for there to be more healthcare staff working in and with GP practices, which will mean people will be able to get an appointment with the right professional depending on their needs. This means that those with dementia will be able to access the most appropriate support more quickly.</p><p>The plan will include more GPs, nurses and 20,000 additional pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, physician associates and social prescribing link. These bigger teams of staff will work with other local services to make sure people, including those with dementia, get better access to a wider range of support for their needs.</p><p>We are seeing more people from younger cohorts with multimorbidity. Multimorbidity challenges the specialised approach to medicine, which has improved our ability to successfully treat single diseases. The Long Term Plan also addresses the increased need for medical and other clinical professionals with generalist and core skills to manage and support patients with seemingly unrelated diseases.</p><p>There are also a variety of resources available on the NHS England E-learning for Health platform, including a programme on dementia care, designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/04/2024 12:49:37 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1694511

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	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	Magnetic Resonance Imagers
	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 announcement at page 34 of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, published on 6 March 2024, on upgrading more than 100 MRI scanners with AI, what the average time taken for patients to receive relevant test results is; and if she will make an estimate of the average time for such results to be received when the new scanners are in use.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	17633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the average time taken for patients to receive relevant Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test results. The Department is, therefore, unable to make an estimate of the average time for such results to be received when the new scanners are in use. <br> <br> The National Health Service expects that upgrading one MRI scanner with Artificial Intelligence (AI) acceleration software will lead to an average of 3.71 additional patients being scanned per day in addition to the current average of 24 scans a day.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the figures which estimate that upgrading 100 MRI scanners will mean 130,000 additional patients receive an MRI test each year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Additional tests</strong> <strong>per upgraded scanner (hourly)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(daily)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests</strong> <strong>per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(weekly)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(annual)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scanners upgraded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional Activity (annual)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0.31</p></td><td><p>3.71</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>130,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>MRI AI acceleration software enables scan acquisition time to be reduced, in turn enabling scans to be delivered in shorter time frames and therefore improving the time taken for patients to receive a test result from the point of referral. This is currently supporting the achievement of optimal levels of throughput to be achieved in 80 trusts, where 216 scanners have been upgraded.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 17634 question first answered 14/05/2024 17:21:07 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 23781 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1694512

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2024
	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	Magnetic Resonance Imagers
	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 paragraph 2.20 of Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, if she will publish the modelling used to estimate the number of patients that will be impacted by the proposed upgrading of 100 MRI scanners.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	17634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the average time taken for patients to receive relevant Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test results. The Department is, therefore, unable to make an estimate of the average time for such results to be received when the new scanners are in use. <br> <br> The National Health Service expects that upgrading one MRI scanner with Artificial Intelligence (AI) acceleration software will lead to an average of 3.71 additional patients being scanned per day in addition to the current average of 24 scans a day.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides the figures which estimate that upgrading 100 MRI scanners will mean 130,000 additional patients receive an MRI test each year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Additional tests</strong> <strong>per upgraded scanner (hourly)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(daily)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests</strong> <strong>per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(weekly)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional tests per upgraded scanner </strong> <strong>(annual)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scanners upgraded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Additional Activity (annual)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0.31</p></td><td><p>3.71</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>130,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>MRI AI acceleration software enables scan acquisition time to be reduced, in turn enabling scans to be delivered in shorter time frames and therefore improving the time taken for patients to receive a test result from the point of referral. This is currently supporting the achievement of optimal levels of throughput to be achieved in 80 trusts, where 216 scanners have been upgraded.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 17633 question first answered 14/05/2024 17:21:07 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 23783 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1697083

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2024
	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	NHS: Expenditure
	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 Answer of 12 October 2021 to Question 51702 on NHS: Expenditure, how much NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and integrated care boards spent in aggregate on (a) mental health services, (b) acute health services, (c) social care services, (d) primary medical services, (e) specialised services, (f) NHS continuing healthcare and (g) all other recorded spending categories in each financial year since 2015-16; and how much those organisations plan to spend in aggregate in each of those areas in the (i) 2023-24 and (ii) 2024-25 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	19413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The information requested up to 2023/24 is in the attached table due to its size. NHS England continues to work with integrated care boards (ICB) to develop their financial plans for 2024/25. Until that process is complete, we will not have a final agreed set of financial plans for the year ahead.</p><p>The £38 billion increase in clinical commissioning group and ICB direct commissioning spend between the 2019/20 and 2023/24 budgets reflects the record settlement for health and social care funding confirmed at the 2021 Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 01/05/2024 16:20:23 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson attachment 1 file name FORMATTED TABLE FOR MINISTERIAL CLEARANCE PQ19413 table.docx title PQ19413 Table previous answer version 25896 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1697839

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	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	Palliative Care: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if NHS England will (a) fund and (b) publish a data dashboard to help integrated care boards commission children and young people’s palliative and end of life care.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	uin	19763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has developed an all-age palliative and end of life care dashboard, which brings together all relevant local data in one place in an easily accessible format. The dashboard is accessible to integrated care boards (ICBs) and their commissioners and helps them understand the palliative and end of life care needs of their local population, including children and young people. This supports commissioners in their statutory duty for palliative and end of life care, enabling ICBs to put plans in place to address and track the improvement of health inequalities, and ensure that funding is distributed fairly based on prevalence.</p><p>Funding has been confirmed to ensure continued maintenance of the dashboard for 2024/25, with discussions ongoing regarding further development and use. There is, however, existing publicly available data, such as the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities ‘Fingertips’ data on palliative and end of life care.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/04/2024 12:47:06 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1698391

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2024
	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	United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has provided to the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	20153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department allocates resource funding to NHS England who then use that to fund a series of local budgets, managed by integrated care boards (ICBs) and national budgets, managed by NHS England themselves.</p><p>ICBs then use those agreed budgets to fund the purchase of healthcare services for their local population, mostly from NHS providers.</p><p>The Department does not hold a breakdown of the sources of income received by individual trusts, but for the years requested the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust reported the following total income for its services in their year-end accounts:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Operating income from patient care activities (£000)</p></td><td><p>Other operating income (£000)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£708,886</p></td><td><p>£48,792</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£638,695</p></td><td><p>£41,499</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£531,696</p></td><td><p>£112,182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£475,065</p></td><td><p>£64,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£413,754</p></td><td><p>£33,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£394,512</p></td><td><p>£38,649</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£392,427</p></td><td><p>£44,897</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£386,840</p></td><td><p>£36,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£395,007</p></td><td><p>£38,243</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust published annual report and accounts, 2014/15 to 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 22/04/2024 16:26:12 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1698966

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	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	Dementia and Parkinson's Disease: Health Services and Social Services
	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 she is taking to ensure that health and social care professionals are trained in Parkinson’s-related dementia care.
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	uin	20658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The standard of training for health care professionals is the responsibility of the health care independent statutory regulatory bodies. They set the outcome standards expected at undergraduate level and approve courses and Higher Education Institutions to write and teach the curricula content that enables their students to meet the regulators outcome standards.</p><p>Whilst not all curricula may necessarily highlight a specific condition, they all nevertheless emphasize the skills and approaches a health care practitioner must develop in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients, including for dementia.</p><p>Individual employers across health and social care are responsible for ensuring their staff are trained and competent to carry out their role, and for investing in the future of their staff by providing continuing professional development (CPD) funding. The required training needs are set out in the Dementia Training Standards Framework, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/info-hub/dementia-2015-updated-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/info-hub/dementia-2015-updated-2018/</a></p><p>The framework was commissioned and funded by the Department, and developed in collaboration with the sector. It sets out the essential knowledge, skills, and expected learning outcomes applicable across the health and care spectrum.</p><p>It is applicable to health and social care staff who work with people living with dementia, staff providing direct care and support, and those who provide leadership in transforming care, including social care managers and leaders.</p><p>To supplement local National Health Service employer investment for CPD, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out NHS England’s commitment to continue national CPD funding for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals. There are a variety of resources available on the NHS England e-learning for health platform, designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce. This includes a programme on dementia care, and modules in Parkinson’s disease in geriatric medicine.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 20624 question first answered 23/04/2024 12:45:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1698987

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	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	Dementia and Parkinson's Disease: Health Services and Social Services
	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 her Department is taking to provide training in Parkinson’s-related dementia care for health and social care professionals.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	20624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The standard of training for health care professionals is the responsibility of the health care independent statutory regulatory bodies. They set the outcome standards expected at undergraduate level and approve courses and Higher Education Institutions to write and teach the curricula content that enables their students to meet the regulators outcome standards.</p><p>Whilst not all curricula may necessarily highlight a specific condition, they all nevertheless emphasize the skills and approaches a health care practitioner must develop in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients, including for dementia.</p><p>Individual employers across health and social care are responsible for ensuring their staff are trained and competent to carry out their role, and for investing in the future of their staff by providing continuing professional development (CPD) funding. The required training needs are set out in the Dementia Training Standards Framework, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/info-hub/dementia-2015-updated-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/info-hub/dementia-2015-updated-2018/</a></p><p>The framework was commissioned and funded by the Department, and developed in collaboration with the sector. It sets out the essential knowledge, skills, and expected learning outcomes applicable across the health and care spectrum.</p><p>It is applicable to health and social care staff who work with people living with dementia, staff providing direct care and support, and those who provide leadership in transforming care, including social care managers and leaders.</p><p>To supplement local National Health Service employer investment for CPD, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out NHS England’s commitment to continue national CPD funding for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals. There are a variety of resources available on the NHS England e-learning for health platform, designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce. This includes a programme on dementia care, and modules in Parkinson’s disease in geriatric medicine.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 20658 question first answered 23/04/2024 12:45:10 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1699968

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	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	Pharmacy: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of medication costs on community pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Gosport
	tabling member printed	Dame Caroline Dinenage
	uin	20988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>Through the medicine margin survey, the Department assesses whether the reimbursement arrangements pay pharmacy contractors as agreed as part of the community pharmacy contractual framework (CPCF). The medicine margin survey considers what pharmacies paid for medicines by looking at their invoices compared to the amount reimbursed by the National Health Service. Where the survey finds that they have been underpaid, we increase the pharmacy contractors’ payments, and where they have been overpaid, we decrease payments.</p><p>Furthermore, where pharmacies cannot purchase products at or below the Drug Tariff NHS reimbursement price, Community Pharmacy England can request that the Department reassesses the reimbursement price. If a new reimbursement price is issued, this is known as a concessionary price.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 20979 question first answered 19/04/2024 09:54:36 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage

1699969

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	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	Pharmacy: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to increase core community pharmacy funding.
	tabling member constituency	Gosport
	tabling member printed	Dame Caroline Dinenage
	uin	20989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>As part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework five-year deal, we committed £2.6 billion every year to community pharmacy, and agreed not to recover £212 million in over delivered fees and margin from community pharmacies in recent years. In addition, we are now investing up to £645 million across 2023/24 and 2024/25 in Pharmacy First, for more blood pressure checks and more contraception consultations in pharmacy. We have begun the consultation with Community Pharmacy England on the national funding and contractual framework arrangements for 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 18/04/2024 16:00:23 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage