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1714864

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Streptococcus: Babies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of making Group B Strep a notifiable disease on the (a) prevention and (b) treatment of this infection in newborns.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	24343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>Notifiable diseases, listed under schedule 1 of the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010, are kept under review by the Department and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The Government published a public consultation between 12 July and 15 November 2023, seeking views on proposed amendments to the regulations, including adding diseases to schedule 1 to make them notifiable.</p><p>Adding Group B Streptococcal (GBS) Infection to schedule 1 was not included in the consultation proposals, but a small number of respondents suggested it could be suitable for inclusion. A summary of responses to the consultation has been published. The Department and the UKHSA are considering the consultation responses, and confirmation of any changes to the regulations will be published in due course.</p><p>To increase awareness and understanding of GBS, NHS England published a revised Core Competency Framework in May 2023, which covers the mandated training for all maternity services, which now includes GBS. Undertaking this training will enable midwives and doctors to be better informed when speaking to families about the risk of GBS in labour. The Core Competency Framework is incentivised through the maternity incentive scheme administrated by NHS Resolution.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/05/2024 16:41:43 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1714865

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Streptococcus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what systems her Department has in place to (a) track and (b) report cases of Group B Strep infection; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of making Group B Strep a notifiable disease on those systems.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	24344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>National surveillance systems, established and managed by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), are used to monitor trends, characteristics, and outcomes of Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection, vital to prevention efforts. These include the reporting of cases diagnosed in local microbiology laboratories, and the submission of clinical isolates to the national reference laboratory. Analyses based on this surveillance is published in annual reports.</p><p>The UKHSA has jointly co-ordinated periods of enhanced surveillance with academic and public health collaborators, allowing greater understanding of risk factors and outcomes of infection, vital in identifying opportunities for prevention. Data generated through laboratory surveillance is utilised to assess the impact of prevention efforts.</p><p>The list of notifiable diseases is kept under review by the Department, with UKHSA involvement. Should GBS be added to the list of notifiable diseases, the means to assess the impact of this change on surveillance data will be considered.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/05/2024 16:37:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1700999

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	Sodium Valproate: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's timescales are for responding to The Hughes Report, published by the Patient Safety Commissioner on 7 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	21866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the PSC and her team for completing this report, and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the PSC’s recommendations and will respond substantively in due course. Bowel mesh, also known as rectopexy mesh, did not fall within the definition of pelvic organ prolapse that the PSC investigated for her report.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 21867 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:23:37 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1701000

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
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	Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
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 Hughes Report, published by the Patient Safety Commissioner on 7 February 2024, if she will ensure that people impacted by bowel mesh are eligible for financial redress.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	21867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the PSC and her team for completing this report, and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the PSC’s recommendations and will respond substantively in due course. Bowel mesh, also known as rectopexy mesh, did not fall within the definition of pelvic organ prolapse that the PSC investigated for her report.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 21866 question first answered 19/04/2024 13:23:37 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1682117

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
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	Midwives
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 people entered the NHS midwifery workforce through (a) undergraduate training, (b) an apprenticeship, (c) a postgraduate conversion, (d) a return to midwifery programme and (e) international recruitment in the most recent period for which data are available; and if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of each such route on the size of the midwifery workforce in each of the (i) last and (ii) next five years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	9702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England is currently considering the methodology for undertaking a proper assessment of the impact of the various supply routes into the midwifery workforce.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan published in 2023 sets out the need to grow midwifery education and training, in line with the conclusions of the Ockenden Review. We will increase midwifery training placements from a baseline of 3,778 places to 4,269 places, and that by 2028 we envisage that about 5% will be through apprenticeships. We envisage that trusts will meet establishment levels set by midwifery staffing tools and achieve fill rates by 2027/28. Recent investment in midwifery of 650 training places in 2019 and 1,000 in each of the following three years means we expect to see solid growth in midwives of between 1.8 and 1.9% per year over the course of the plan. These increases are being measured against the 2018/19 baseline of 2,715 starters on midwifery programmes. And in early 2022, a funding offer was agreed to support 300 places for adult nurses on the shortened midwifery programme.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2024 11:17:53 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1682118

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
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	Midwives: Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of flexible working arrangements for midwives.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	9703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>‘We work flexibly’ is one of the elements contained in the NHS People Promise with a commitment to deliver for staff, including midwives by 2024/25.</p><p>NHS England has created and shared flexible working arrangement resources and delivered bespoke webinars and workshops on the issue. They have also brought together midwifery leaders from across the system to share good practice, foster collaboration and support the implementation of flexible working across maternity services.</p><p>In September 2021, contractual changes took effect for employees covered by the NHS Terms &amp; Conditions of Service Handbook which includes the right to request flexible working from day one without the need to provide a justification.</p><p>However, no assessment of the adequacy of the availability of flexible working arrangements specifically for midwives has been made.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/01/2024 11:55:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1191087

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	Cancer: 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, what steps the NHS is taking to reschedule as soon as possible cancer treatments and operations that were cancelled as a result of the covid-19 outbreak in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	41195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2020 answer text <p>A letter was issued to trusts on 29 April detailing the Second Phase of Response to COVID-19. This letter sets out that:</p><p>Local systems and Cancer Alliances must continue to identify ring-fenced diagnostic and surgical capacity for cancer, and providers must protect and deliver cancer surgery and cancer treatment by ensuring that cancer surgery hubs are fully operational. Full use should be made of the available contracted independent sector hospital and diagnostic capacity locally and regionally. Regional cancer Senior Responsible Officers must now provide assurance that these arrangements are in place everywhere.</p><p>Treatment must be brought back to pre-pandemic levels at the earliest opportunity to minimise potential harm, and to reduce the scale of the post-pandemic surge in demand.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/05/2020 17:57:36 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1149222

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Hospitals: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the 10 most frequent causes of admission to an NHS hospital; were in the most recent 12 month period for and how many people were admitted for each of those causes, in that time period which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested.</p><p>NHS Digital published its Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity for 2018-19 on 19 September 2019.</p><p>Data are set out in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Patient admission - sub-chapter description</p></td><td><p>Number of Finished Admissions Episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Complications of labour and delivery</p></td><td><p>1,056,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other diseases of intestines</p></td><td><p>646,953</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arthropathies</p></td><td><p>609,032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen</p></td><td><p>554,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health services in circumstances related to reproduction</p></td><td><p>539,391</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disorders of lens (including cataracts)</p></td><td><p>456,184</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory/respiratory system</p></td><td><p>440,918</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum</p></td><td><p>430,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>In situ and benign neoplasms and others of uncertainty</p></td><td><p>430,698</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue</p></td><td><p>387,191</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-admitted-patient-care-activity/2018-19</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2019 12:03:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149078

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Midwives: Training
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 (a) student midwives there were, (b) people graduated from pre-registration midwifery training and (c) training places for pre-registration midwifery students were (i) made available and (ii) filled in each of the last three academic years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	41
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table. shows the number of students accepted onto midwifery courses over the last three full academic years.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery student acceptances</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of acceptances</p></td><td><p>2,395</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>2,680</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Source: UCAS end of cycle data, 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in 2016-17. Data for 2018-19 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>Midwifery graduates</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Midwifery</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic year</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of graduates</p></td><td><p>2,162</p></td><td><p>2,091</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Health Education England (HEE) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 2016/17 HEE commissioned 2,605 midwifery places of which 2,602 were filled. Following the removal of the bursary in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned by HEE. Places are filled via the normal university application process with the Department making funding available for the provision of their clinical placements while studying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:01:52 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1149079

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Midwives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is of NHS midwives, and how many NHS midwives in each age category are (a) UK nationals and (b) nationals of EU member states other than the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	42
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The following table shows the number of midwives as at June 2019, the latest available data broken down by age and nationality. The data is headcount because nationality data relates to individuals.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age band</p></td><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>European Union</p></td><td><p>European Economic Area</p></td><td><p>Rest of World</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All age bands</p></td><td><p>26,192</p></td><td><p>23,177</p></td><td><p>1,344</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>447</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Under 25</p></td><td><p>1,394</p></td><td><p>1,327</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 to 29</p></td><td><p>3,569</p></td><td><p>3,156</p></td><td><p>324</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 to 34</p></td><td><p>3,523</p></td><td><p>3,132</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35 to 39</p></td><td><p>3,382</p></td><td><p>3,030</p></td><td><p>177</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40 to 44</p></td><td><p>3,097</p></td><td><p>2,728</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45 to 49</p></td><td><p>3,079</p></td><td><p>2,694</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50 to 54</p></td><td><p>3,923</p></td><td><p>3,473</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55 to 59</p></td><td><p>2,886</p></td><td><p>2,515</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>231</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60 to 64</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td><td><p>956</p></td><td><p>66</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65 and over</p></td><td><p>207</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/10/2019 11:09:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew