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347052

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Working Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department will meet the cost of making the NHS a full seven day a week service.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department is working with NHS England to ensure that seven day services will be implemented in a way that is affordable and focussed both on improving efficiency and delivering clear benefits to patients. The costs will depend on a number of factors, which will be subject to further work as detailed implementation plans are developed. The exact health budget for future years will be determined by the Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/06/2015 14:27:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347055

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Temporary Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on temporary staff in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>National Health Service spend on temporary staff for 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 as included within the Q4 data collection is shown below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014/15 Q4 data collection</p><p>Unaudited (£ billion)<sup> 1</sup></p></td><td><p>2013/14 Unaudited</p><p>(£ billion)<sup> 2</sup></p></td><td><p>2012/2013</p><p>(£ billion)<sup> 3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total NHS Spend</p></td><td><p>3.34</p></td><td><p>2.61</p></td><td><p>2.33</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following the Francis<sup>4</sup> report many trusts increased their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels. The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency staffing spend (including use of locums) responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management and to minimise temporary staffing costs in future years.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that the current rate of spending is unsustainable. The Secretary of State has announced a comprehensive package of measures to address the problem including:</p><p> </p><p>- setting a maximum hourly rate for doctors and nurses;</p><p> </p><p>- banning the use of agencies that are not approved;</p><p> </p><p>- putting a cap on total agency staff spending for each NHS trust in financial difficulty; and</p><p> </p><p>- requiring specific approval for any expensive consultancy contracts over £50,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> The 2014/15 figures reflect data collected from NHS trusts and foundation trusts as part of the Q4 data collection which is unpublished and unaudited. Whilst this data would not ordinarily be provided as part of a Parliamentary Question contribution, it has been included within this response as both Monitor and NHS Trust Development Authority have separately released data relating to temporary agency staff spend. It should be noted that their figures vary slightly from those included above. These figures may also be subject to revision as part of the 2014/15 final audited accounts production, and should therefore not be used once the final published Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup> For the first time, the Department collected unaudited financial data from NHS trusts for 2013/14 on Contract and Agency staffing costs and income to give a net expenditure figure. The data was collected on the NHS Summarisation Schedules that form the basis of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>3 </sup>The 2012/13 figures included in the 2013/14 published accounts have been included in the same table; however they were compiled on a different basis to the 2013/14 figures. The figures published for 2012/13 for trusts are based on non-permanently employed staff which is defined as “others engaged on the objectives of the organisation and will include staff on inward secondment or loan from other organisations, bank/agency/temporary staff and contract staff.” This reconciles to the figures for those organisations in note 3 (Staff Costs 2012/13), whereas the 2013/14 figures were compiled for the first time under a stricter definition of contingent labour.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>4</sup> http://www.midstaffspublicinquiry.com/</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 14:21:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347062

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on pay levels in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Pay levels in the National Health Service should support NHS organisations to recruit, retain and motivate the staff they need to care for patients whether in hospitals or patient’s own homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Pay is not the only part of the NHS employment offer. NHS staff now receive Total Reward Statements which show the value of other benefits, for example, the NHS occupational pension scheme which includes Life Assurance, child care voucher schemes, health and wellbeing benefits. Supported by good staff engagement strategies it is the overall employment offer that helps the NHS to attract and keep the staff it needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, there are more than 9,100 additional doctors and 8,200 nurses, midwives and health visitors employed in the NHS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/06/2015 14:10:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

348016

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sheffield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were waiting to see a GP for more than one week in (a) Sheffield, Heeley constituency and (b) Sheffield in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>Data on waiting times to see a general practitioner is not collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2015 16:00:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

348364

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	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 availability of talking therapies in (a) Sheffield and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	1087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The national roll out of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme began in 2008 with the aim of helping adults with common mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, to recover.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Over the spending review period 2010-2015 the IAPT programme received over £460 million of Government investment. The programme is supported by an outcomes based dataset, the IAPT dataset, which collects information and measures outcomes from IAPT services. The Health and Social Care Information Centre have a requirement to maintain the IAPT dataset.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of referrals and waiting times to the Sheffield service compared to the same nationally:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of referrals entering treatment<sup>1</sup> in the year, with mean and median waiting times (days), for IAPT services in Quarter 3, 2014-15 (October 1 to December 31).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Organisation name</p></td><td><p>Referrals<sup>2</sup> entering treatment</p></td><td><p>Mean<sup>3</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td><td><p>Median<sup>3</sup> waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>202,051</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Sheffield CCG</p></td><td><p>1,610</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> IAPT Dataset</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a treatment appointment type recorded) in the period.</li><li>This is not distinct people, as a person can have more than one referral.</li><li>Means and medians have been rounded to the nearest whole number.</li><li>Data shown for England and NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group.</li></ol><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service mandate for 2015/16 and “Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020” include the commitment to introduce the first tailored access and waiting times for mental health in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This was accompanied by a £120 million investment – an investment of £40 million new money in 2014/15 to lay the groundwork for introducing the standards, and £80 million in 2015/16 that will be realised out of existing NHS England budgets.<br> <br> One of the three access and waits standards is that 75% of people referred to the IAPT programme will be treated within six weeks of referral, and 95% will be treated within 18 weeks of referral.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/06/2015 11:07:24 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

348367

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Sheffield
	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 is in (a) Sheffield, Heeley constituency and (b) Sheffield for access to talking therapies.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	1088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Health and Social Care Act 2012 legislated for parity of esteem between mental and physical health. We have invested £400 million to make a choice of psychological therapies available in all parts of England for those who need them. We have also invested over £120 million to introduce, for the first time, waiting times standards for mental health services – a very significant milestone on the road to parity.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/06/2015 11:05:36 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

381525

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sheffield Heeley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the phased withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee on GP services and the number of GP surgeries in Sheffield, Heeley constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	2757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that 28 practices in Sheffield are affected by the withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The MPIG was introduced as part of the 2004 General Medical Services (GMS) contract as a temporary top-up payment to some general practitioner (GP) practices to smooth the transition to new funding arrangements. In the GP contract settlement in 2013, the Government decided to phase out MPIG top-up payments over a seven-year period, starting from 1 April 2014. The MPIG payments are inequitable, because practices serving very similar populations get paid very different amounts of money per patient.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The funding released from MPIG over the seven years will be reinvested in the basic payments made to all GMS practices. For the majority of practices there will be a net gain in practice income. Making changes over this period will allow the minority of practices that lose funding to adjust gradually to a reduction in payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England agreed to offer additional transitional support to some practices to help with this change. NHS England published criteria for assessing the eligibility of GP practices for support during 2014-15 and 2015-16, where they are losing £3 or more per head of weighted population per annum as a result of changes to GMS funding arrangements, and where there are high levels of need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2756 question first answered 24/06/2015 11:01:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

381526

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sheffield Heeley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries in Sheffield, Heeley constituency will be affected by the phased withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	2756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England advises that 28 practices in Sheffield are affected by the withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The MPIG was introduced as part of the 2004 General Medical Services (GMS) contract as a temporary top-up payment to some general practitioner (GP) practices to smooth the transition to new funding arrangements. In the GP contract settlement in 2013, the Government decided to phase out MPIG top-up payments over a seven-year period, starting from 1 April 2014. The MPIG payments are inequitable, because practices serving very similar populations get paid very different amounts of money per patient.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The funding released from MPIG over the seven years will be reinvested in the basic payments made to all GMS practices. For the majority of practices there will be a net gain in practice income. Making changes over this period will allow the minority of practices that lose funding to adjust gradually to a reduction in payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England agreed to offer additional transitional support to some practices to help with this change. NHS England published criteria for assessing the eligibility of GP practices for support during 2014-15 and 2015-16, where they are losing £3 or more per head of weighted population per annum as a result of changes to GMS funding arrangements, and where there are high levels of need.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2757 question first answered 24/06/2015 11:01:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

388241

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services: Sheffield Heeley
	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 availability of NHS dentist places in Sheffield, Heeley constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	5975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>NHS England commission primary care dental services based on local oral health needs assessments in collaboration with public health teams in local authorities to determine the needs of local populations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information is collected quarterly from patients on whether they sought a National Health Service dental appointment and, if so, whether they were successful. This “GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics; January to March 2015, England” provides information on how far demand for NHS dental treatment is being met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This information is available at national, and clinical commissioning group (CCG) level. It is not collected at constituency level. In the latest survey, carried out in January to March 2015, 93% of English respondents had sought an NHS dental appointment in the last two years and reported they had been successful. In the NHS Sheffield CCG area this figure was 91%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full results from the survey can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/2015/07/02/5694gpps_dentw21415/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/2015/07/02/5694gpps_dentw21415/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 5862 5974 question first answered 14/07/2015 13:44:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

388242

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services
	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 availability of NHS dentist places.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	5974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>NHS England commission primary care dental services based on local oral health needs assessments in collaboration with public health teams in local authorities to determine the needs of local populations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information is collected quarterly from patients on whether they sought a National Health Service dental appointment and, if so, whether they were successful. This “GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics; January to March 2015, England” provides information on how far demand for NHS dental treatment is being met.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This information is available at national, and clinical commissioning group (CCG) level. It is not collected at constituency level. In the latest survey, carried out in January to March 2015, 93% of English respondents had sought an NHS dental appointment in the last two years and reported they had been successful. In the NHS Sheffield CCG area this figure was 91%.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full results from the survey can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/2015/07/02/5694gpps_dentw21415/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/2015/07/02/5694gpps_dentw21415/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 5862 5975 question first answered 14/07/2015 13:44:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh