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date	12/02/2019
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: Transport
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 Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that mental health crisis cases are transferred to hospital in an NHS vehicle rather than a police car.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act 1983 is clear that “hospital or ambulance transport will usually be preferable to police transport, which should only be used exceptionally, such as in cases of extreme urgency or where there is an immediate risk of violence”. There are cases, as recognised in the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, where a patient may request police transportation to minimise their own distress, and where police officers do not request an ambulance.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Review recommended in December that NHS England should invest capital and revenue to improve the ambulance fleet for mental health conveyance, to create new joined up functions between mental health services, ambulance services and other urgent and emergency care services. NHS England has confirmed in the NHS Long Term Plan that will be the case, and it will introduce new mental health transport vehicles to reduce inappropriate conveyance by police.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of how police transportation affects the recovery and health of people in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 220198 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:56:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1059956

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: Transport
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 Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what assessment his Department has made of (a) how mental health patients have been affected (b) how their recovery has been impacted by the experience of being transferred to hospital by a police car and not an ambulance.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act 1983 is clear that “hospital or ambulance transport will usually be preferable to police transport, which should only be used exceptionally, such as in cases of extreme urgency or where there is an immediate risk of violence”. There are cases, as recognised in the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, where a patient may request police transportation to minimise their own distress, and where police officers do not request an ambulance.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Review recommended in December that NHS England should invest capital and revenue to improve the ambulance fleet for mental health conveyance, to create new joined up functions between mental health services, ambulance services and other urgent and emergency care services. NHS England has confirmed in the NHS Long Term Plan that will be the case, and it will introduce new mental health transport vehicles to reduce inappropriate conveyance by police.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of how police transportation affects the recovery and health of people in mental health crisis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 220197 question first answered 18/02/2019 16:56:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1059957

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: Transport
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 Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, whether his Department plans to reverse the reduction in funding to ambulance services over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The following table sets out the total income received by National Health Service ambulance trusts in the last five financial years. Total income has increased each year over this period.</p><p> </p><p>Total income received by NHS ambulance trusts 2013/14 – 2017/18</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Total NHS ambulance trust income</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,088,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,179,338</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2,194,798</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2,333,710</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2,465,389</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Published NHS financial accounts</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/02/2019 15:15:28 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1059958

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
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: Transport
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 Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what proportion of the £20.5 billion announced for the NHS in the NHS Long Term Plan will be allocated to ambulance services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Implementation Framework, which is to be published in the spring, will provide further information on how the NHS Long Term Plan will be implemented. Further details, based on local health system five year plans will be brought together in a detailed national implementation plan in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/02/2019 12:24:30 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1059959

registered interest
date	12/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hospitals: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Huffington Post article entitled Police Driving Mental Health Patients To Hospital In 48 per cent Of All Crisis Cases, published on the 11 February 2019, what assessment he has made of the cost to his Department of mental health crisis cases being transferred to hospital in a police car, not an NHS vehicle, in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	220201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>While it is expected that a person experiencing a mental health crisis should normally be transported by ambulance, there are circumstances in which for public safety reasons use of a police vehicle may be deemed necessary. Where police vehicles were used during 2017/18 in 62% of cases this was due to a risk assessment or an ambulance was not requested or the reasons was not recorded.</p><p>The costs of such use will vary depending on the circumstances of individual cases and cannot easily be calculated. Nevertheless the Government has been very clear that the inappropriate use of police vehicles is undesirable from a patient perspective and abstracts police from their core policing duties.</p><p>The Home Office is therefore working with police and health partners to find ways of identifying the reasons for and reducing conveyance by police vehicle. In addition the NHS Long Term Plan includes plans to introduce new mental health vehicles to reduce inappropriate use of ambulances and police vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 18/02/2019 15:58:11 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger