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926797

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he has taken to reduce inappropriate out-of-area placements for mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	905936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Inappropriately placing people away from their home area is unacceptable and the Government is committed to eliminating these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21. NHS England and NHS Improvement now have a comprehensive national programme supporting reductions in inappropriate placements. Every part of the country now has a clear, realistic plan for ending out of area placements safely by 2021, with many areas having already ended this practice altogether.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2018 15:48:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1010401

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Mental 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, with reference to page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether each access to treatment pathway will (a) be published according to the timetable set out in that document and (b) include waiting time targets.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	192939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the clinical pathways referred to on page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the following have already been published.</p><p> </p><p>- Early Intervention in Psychosis;</p><p>- Urgent and Emergency Liaison Mental Health Services;</p><p>- Services for Children and Young People with Eating Disorders;</p><p>- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) pathway for Long Term Conditions; and</p><p>- The Perinatal Pathway.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, guidance in relation to IAPT for people with long-term conditions has also been published (in March) along with guidance on commissioning physical healthcare for people with severe mental illness and for developing accident and emergency liaison psychiatry services.</p><p> </p><p>The acute pathway for adults and older adults are still in development alongside an updated Pathway for children and young people with eating disorders, so that more young people can be treated closer to home.</p><p> </p><p>Other pathways will now need to be considered within the context of the long-term plan. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:43:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1132972

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Mental 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, with reference to page 12 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that all acute hospitals will have mental health liaison teams for all age groups by 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	266263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>Between 2016 and 2018, NHS England has awarded transformation funding for liaison mental health services to 71 hospital sites to achieve the ‘core 24’ service standard as set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.</p><p>To track progress, NHS England has commissioned the annual survey of liaison psychiatry, which took a snapshot of progress as at June 2018. The survey is nearly complete and results are expected to be published by NHS England in the coming weeks and are expected to demonstrate positive progress. The survey has been re-commissioned to take place again in 2019.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan confirmed continued further investment in liaison mental health services, with an expectation that not only would all hospitals have a liaison mental health service, but 70% will be achieving the ‘core 24’ service level by 2023/24. NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently inviting applications from sustainability and transformation partnerships for the second wave of national funding.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/06/2019 16:26:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1010400

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recent Rethink Mental Illness survey which found that patients with severe mental illness wait on average 14 weeks for an assessment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	192938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services. The recent survey and publication of ‘Right Treatment, Right Time’ by Rethink Mental Illness provides a valuable additional contribution to discussions about priorities for mental health going forward.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the National Health Service to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and we have been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:44:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999278

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	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	Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department provides to NHS doctors on (a) eye movement desensitisation and (b) reprocessing treatment for cases of post traumatic stress disorder.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	186381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186380 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

896369

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	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	Psychiatry: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of child and adolescent mental health psychiatrists who have been hired in (a) Manchester and (b) the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	140826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/05/2018 15:39:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1016447

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Mental 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 adequacy of the provision of community mental health services for people with severe mental illness.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	196877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is developing a new framework for community mental health services focussing on care for adults with severe mental illnesses.</p><p> </p><p>This work draws on a wide range of sources of data and intelligence, including the Care Quality Commission’s annual community mental health surveys and inspections of services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the National Health Service to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and we have been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan. It will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/12/2018 16:57:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1027770

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups
	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 Royal College of Psychiatrists' statement on racism and mental health, published in March 2018 recommending the appointment of a new equalities champion to drive cross-Government action on race equality in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	203453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to addressing inequalities across mental health. Plans to appoint a mental health equalities champion will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:27:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1110755

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 7 January 2019 to Question 203453 on Mental Health Services: Ethnic Groups, if he will publish a time-frame for the Department’s plan to appoint a mental health equalities champion.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	242892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has appointed Jacqui Dyer MBE as the Mental Health Equalities Champion. She took up her appointment on 22 February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/04/2019 12:22:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999275

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	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	Mental 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, how many people accessed eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy on the NHS in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	186380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186381 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith