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825284

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	date	17/01/2018
	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	Prescription Drugs: Misuse
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to establish a national helpline for people affected by dependence on prescribed drugs.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to introduce a national helpline specifically to support people affected by prescribed drug dependence. People who feel that they might be dependent on either prescribed or over the counter medicines should seek help from a health professional in the first instance, such as a general practitioner (GP) or pharmacist. Help and advice is also available from the 111 helpline or the online NHS Choices service. People who have developed problems with benzodiazepines, antidepressants, painkillers and other medicines should seek help from their GP in the first instance. Specialist advice for GPs and support for patients with complex and severe problems is available from substance misuse services which are available in each local authority across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has commissioned Public Health England to undertake an evidence review to better understand the scope of the problem of prescribed drug dependence. The review will bring together the best available evidence on prevalence and prescribing, the nature and likely causes of dependence or withdrawal among some people who continue to take these medicines and effective prevention and treatment responses for each indication.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 29/01/2018 17:46:05 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

825266

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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	Agency Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 10 January (HL Deb, col 182), how many of the 10,000 extra nurses on wards are agency nurses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics for substantive staff employed by the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups. Nurses on our wards are coded on the Electronic Staff Record as Acute, Elderly and General Nurses and are a subset of all nurses and health visitors. As at September, NHS Digital data shows there were 14,185 full time equivalent more nurses on our wards than in May 2010. All of these nurses are professionally qualified clinical nurses. As such, none are agency nurses.</p><p>Figures are provided as full time equivalent as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL4800 question first answered 29/01/2018 17:47:11 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

825267

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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	Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 10 January (HL Deb, col 182), how many of the 10,000 extra nurses on wards are qualified, registered nurses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics for substantive staff employed by the National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups. Nurses on our wards are coded on the Electronic Staff Record as Acute, Elderly and General Nurses and are a subset of all nurses and health visitors. As at September, NHS Digital data shows there were 14,185 full time equivalent more nurses on our wards than in May 2010. All of these nurses are professionally qualified clinical nurses. As such, none are agency nurses.</p><p>Figures are provided as full time equivalent as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL4799 question first answered 29/01/2018 17:47:11 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

825292

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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	Hospital Beds
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many beds there were in English hospitals in each of the last five years.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
	uin	HL4825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested. Data is not collected on total number of beds. NHS England collects quarterly data from all National Health Service organisations on available overnight and day only beds and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant led specialty, excluding critical care beds.</p><p> </p><p>There has been a long-term reduction in the number of general and acute beds open overnight because hospitals are dealing with patients more efficiently. The NHS now performs more day cases, length of stay is decreasing and more people are treated in community settings.</p><p> </p><p>A table showing the numbers of these NHS hospital beds is attached owing to the size of the data.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England statistics show that the bed occupancy rate has remained stable, between 84% and 89% (all beds) since 2000. Bed availability does fluctuate but the NHS has practice and experience in managing capacity to cope with both routine and emergency care.</p><p>The majority of patients are discharged quickly, with average lengths of stay falling from just over six days in 2006-07 to just under five days in 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 29/01/2018 17:50:10 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen attachment 1 file name HL4825 tables formatted.docx title NHS Hospital beds data
	tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly