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818845

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
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 guidelines his Department issues to people with mental health conditions with financial difficulties on accessing specialised support services.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	121609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not issue guidelines on accessing specialised support services for people with mental health conditions who may be experiencing financial difficulties. Where financial difficulties are identified as an issue for a person receiving treatment and care for a mental health condition, signposting already exists in some general practitioner (GP) practices and in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services.</p><p>A person who is experiencing financial difficulties or a debt crisis may approach their GP or another health professional to provide evidence of their mental health condition to their creditors to help aid any support a creditor may be able to provide to that person. The Government is currently reviewing the process for GPs and other health professionals completing Mental Health Evidence Forms to support this process.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/01/2018 12:27:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

810497

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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, how many therapists are working in primary care at (a) March 2017 and (b) the most recent date for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	120843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The latest data available are at 31 March 2017. The figures are set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><p>Census</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Therapists<sup>2</sup></p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Physiotherapists<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Full-Time Equivalent<sup>4</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Headcount</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Full-Time Equivalent<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>March 2017<sup> 1</sup></p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>17</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>35</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>All data as at 31 March, which is the most recent date for which data is available.</p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>Primary Care staff working in any of the following job roles, as defined by the Workforce Minimum Data Set (WMDS) - 'Therapist- Counsellor', 'Therapist- Occupational Therapist' or 'Therapist- Other'.</p><p> </p><p><sup>3</sup>Primary Care staff working in a job role of 'Physiotherapist', as defined by the WMDS.</p><p> </p><p><sup>4</sup>Full Time Equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time, where 1 FTE = 37.5 hours per week.</p><p> </p><p>Figures contain estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid Direct Patient Care (DPC) data. DPC staff group contains the job roles 'Physiotherapist', 'Therapist- Counsellor', 'Therapist- Occupational Therapist' or 'Therapist- Other'.</p><p> </p><p>These figures refer to therapists and physiotherapists employed directly by a primary care provider (and would not include staff working in a primary care setting but employed by other organisations - e.g. National Health Service trusts)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/01/2018 16:32:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

810501

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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, whether his Department plans to roll-out nationally Mental Health Support Teams in 2022-23 in the event that the pilot phase is successful.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	120847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Decisions about future rollout of the Mental Health Support Teams will be informed by the trailblazer programme and the outcomes of the evaluation which will help to understand what works, and will be subject to future spending reviews.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/01/2018 17:07:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

810612

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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 estimate he has made of the proportion of the total healthcare budget that is spent on mental health provision.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	120957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard reports that mental health spend represented 12.7% of the overall allocations made to clinical commissioning groups in 2016/17.</p><p>The Dashboard is available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/%20" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/ </a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/01/2018 14:01:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

810614

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
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 the average waiting time has been for a patient to receive mental health support after being referred by their GP in the most recent period for which figures are available; what targets are in place for such treatment post-referral; and whether such targets are being achieved.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	120959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital does not currently hold combined average waiting time data for all services that provide mental health support. This is because there are a wide range of services that offer mental health support and there are varying degrees of complexities about measuring waiting times, particularly where patients have a range of comorbidities.</p><p> </p><p>There are a number of targets for waiting times that the Government has signed up to, these include targets for the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, waiting times targets for eating disorders services and waiting times targets for Early Intervention in Psychosis services. Updates against these are published on the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/01/2018 17:10:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

808993

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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, how much was spent in (a) cash and (b) real terms on mental health services per head of population in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	120102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Spend per head information is not currently available. However, NHS England has advised that consideration is being given to including this in a future iteration of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health dashboard.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 120101 question first answered 21/12/2017 15:45:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

806474

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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 estimate the Government has made of how many more people will access mental health treatment between 2017 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	119550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government has committed to increasing access to psychological therapies by 2020/21, so that at least 25% of people (or 1.5 million) with common mental health conditions access services each year.</p><p> </p><p>The table below, published in <em>Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health</em>, sets out the percentage increase and total number of people that are expected to access psychological therapies from 2016/17 until 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Objective</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of people with common mental health conditions accessing psychological therapies each year.</p></td><td><p>15.8%</p></td><td><p>16.8%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number of people accessing treatment</p></td><td><p>0.96 million</p></td><td><p>1.02 million</p></td><td><p>1.16 million</p></td><td><p>1.37 million</p></td><td><p>1.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fyfv-mh.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fyfv-mh.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/12/2017 17:55:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

806688

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that current levels of service quality are maintained for patients seeking mental health treatment between 2017 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	119764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>In October 2017, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) launched a national mental health patient safety initiative. It will be supported by a national mental health quality improvement programme, led by NHS Improvement and informed by the CQC intelligence as part of a joint strategic objective to ensure a shared view of quality. All mental health providers will be involved in this initiative, which has an emphasis on shared learning and the embedding of sustainable quality improvement approaches as integral to the way mental health services are delivered across the sector.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 all providers of regulated activities, including National Health Service and independent mental health providers, have to register with the CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality below which care should never fall. If the CQC is not satisfied with the quality of services provided it can take action against the provider, from issuing warning notices to, ultimately, cancelling a provider’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/12/2017 18:03:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

806163

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
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, whether his Department intends to ringfence mental health budgets in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	119364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department has no such plans.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not generally ringfence budgets within the National Health Service. Clinicians in clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), who know their patients, have the autonomy to make decisions about the health services that best meet the health needs of their local population. They do this based on patient needs and clinical evidence.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance applies to CCGs and sets out specific requirements, including commissioning mental health services that meet the needs of local populations. This guidance also requires CCGs and NHS England specialised commissioning hubs to increase their spend on mental health services by a greater amount than the growth in their overall programme allocation.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2017 16:58:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

805246

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
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, with reference to recommendation 38 from the Independent Mental Health Taskforce's Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether Health Education England plans to work with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to develop standards for prescribing professionals.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	118918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England has met with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and other partners, to discuss this issue and the development of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society‘s comprehensive national competency framework for all prescribers, which underwent wide consultation and is due for review in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2017 18:14:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon