Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered question first ministerially corrected answering member label previous answer version answering member printed answering member
tabling member	label

Search

1541777

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Learning Disability: 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 assessment he has made of the sufficiency of learning difficulties services; and what steps he is taking to increase services in areas where there is a shortfall.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	86534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning services for the local population in line with relevant guidance. In 2022/23, we are investing an additional £90 million to develop community provision and to support discharge for people with a learning disability and autistic people in England.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/11/2022 12:28:24 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1541778

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Learning Disability: 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 he is taking to increase the number of health professionals working with people with learning difficulties and complex needs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	86535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>NHS England is currently working with local systems to understand the health workforce supporting those with a learning disability and autistic people. In 2020, the Chief Nursing Officer for England launched the ‘All-England Plan for Learning Disability Nursing’. In the last three years, there has been an annual increase in the number of registrations to the learning disability nursing programmes.</p><p>Since September 2020, all eligible nursing, midwifery and allied health profession students have received a non-repayable training grant of a minimum of £5,000 per academic year, with further financial support available to students for childcare, dual accommodation costs and travel. Additional funding worth £1,000 per academic year is also available for those studying certain courses, including learning disabilities nursing.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2022 16:37:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

169678

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address variations in uptake and quality of annual health checks for people with a learning disability.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hollins
uin	HL3665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2014 answer text <p>General Practitioners are supported to deliver annual health checks for people with learning disabilities from the age of 14 through the Designated Enhanced Service payment scheme. The promotion of and increased access to annual health checks is a priority for NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working in partnership with the Improving Health and Lives team in Public Health England to deliver workshops for stakeholders, and to improve information to people with learning disabilities and their families and carers to support them to access the services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s work in 2014-15 has focused on analysing the variation in uptake at the level of its Area Teams, including engaging with a range of stakeholders to assess the barriers and obstacles to improving uptake. This early engagement and analysis has highlighted the importance that local clinical leadership has had in driving up uptake in areas where there is higher uptake.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 23/12/2014 17:07:14 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	4190 label Biography information for Baroness Hollins

61553

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that people with learning disabilities are not excluded from NHS England's five-year strategic plan for National Health Service commissioners to improve quality of and access to health care, outlined in Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15–2018/19.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hollins
uin	HL322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government's Mandate to NHS England, sets out our ambitions for the health service, which include an objective that NHS England ensures clinical commissioning groups work with local authorities to ensure that vulnerable people, particularly those with learning disabilities and autism, receive safe, appropriate, high quality care. NHS England sets out how it will achieve the objectives in the Mandate in its 2014-15 – 2016-17 business plan. The Government will hold NHS England to account for its achievement.</p><p> </p><p><em>Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15 to 2018/19</em>sets out a framework within which commissioners will need to work with providers and partners in local government to develop five year plans to secure the continuity of sustainable high quality care for all. Building on <em>Everyone Counts</em>, NHS England is beginning a programme of work to consider how to improve quality of and access to health care for people with learning disabilities. Within the framework there is specific reference to <em>Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital. </em>This is a non-negotiable item that NHS England expects to be part of every relationship between commissioners and providers. As part of this, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities and specialised commissioners should work together to implement the core specification which describes the core principles that must be present in all education, health and social care services for children, young people, adults and older people with learning disabilities and/or autism who either display, or are at risk of displaying, behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to work to reduce premature mortality amongst people with learning disability, including actions in response to the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 26/06/2014 14:01:36 question first ministerially corrected 26/06/2014 15:34:49 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe previous answer version 6304 answering member printed Earl Baldwin of Bewdley answering member 3446
tabling member	4190 label Biography information for Baroness Hollins