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1146110

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government plans to publish its Green Paper on improving social care.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	290933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister said on the steps of Downing Street, the Government will set out its plans to fix the crisis in social care once and for all, to give every older person the dignity and security that they deserve.</p><p>We will set out our proposals in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/10/2019 15:15:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1146143

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	York Hospital: Health Professions
	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 full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other doctors, (c) nurses and midwives and (d) other health professionals were employed at York Hospital in (a) 2010 and (b) the most recent date for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	290950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 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. These statistics are available for National Health Service trusts, CCGs and Health Education England (HEE) regions only and not by individual hospital sites. The following table shows the number of consultants, doctors, nurses and health visitors, other professionally qualified staff, support staff and infrastructure staff in York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust as at September each specified year and June 2019, the latest available data, full time equivalent is attached.</p><p>York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust data cannot be accurately compared to 2010 due to a merger with Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust in 2012.</p><p>The NHS Digital data that the Department holds provides information by NHS trusts, CCGs and HEE regions. The Department does not hold information for individual hospitals such as York Hospital. NHS trusts and CCGs often span geographical boundaries with staff potentially working in multiple geographical regions and hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 290951 question first answered 03/10/2019 16:30:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name PQ290951 950 formatted.docx title York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1146144

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Staff
	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 full-time equivalent (a) medical consultants, (b) other medical staff, (c) nurses, (d) other professional staff, (e) administrative and clerical staff and (f) auxiliary staff were employed by York NHS Trust in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	290951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 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. These statistics are available for National Health Service trusts, CCGs and Health Education England (HEE) regions only and not by individual hospital sites. The following table shows the number of consultants, doctors, nurses and health visitors, other professionally qualified staff, support staff and infrastructure staff in York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust as at September each specified year and June 2019, the latest available data, full time equivalent is attached.</p><p>York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust data cannot be accurately compared to 2010 due to a merger with Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust in 2012.</p><p>The NHS Digital data that the Department holds provides information by NHS trusts, CCGs and HEE regions. The Department does not hold information for individual hospitals such as York Hospital. NHS trusts and CCGs often span geographical boundaries with staff potentially working in multiple geographical regions and hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 290950 question first answered 03/10/2019 16:30:30 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name PQ290951 950 formatted.docx title York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1146149

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	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	York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Hospital Beds
	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 in-patient discharges from beds in York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were delayed because of the unavailability of step-down care beds or community care services in 2014 -15 and each subsequent year; how many days on average those patients' discharges were delayed; and what the cost was to the Trust of delayed discharges in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	290954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested. Information on the number of days patients were delayed, rather than number of patients, is published by NHS England each month at provider level, including where the reason for the delay is a wait for further non-acute NHS care (including intermediate care, rehabilitation services etc). Information is not collected centrally specifically on ‘step-down’ care.</p><p>The information requested on costs is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/10/2019 15:47:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1147175

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
	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 he has made of the number of patients that waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	292123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2009-10 there were 20,511,908 attendances of which 353,617 patients waited longer than four hours in accident and emergency.</p><p>In 2018-19 there were 24,826,981 attendances of which 2,976,112 people waited more than four hours but in the face of rising demand, <del class="ministerial">over 4,315,000</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,692,578 </ins>more patients were seen within four hours compared to 2009-10.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/10/2019 15:09:59 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2019 10:47:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 137002 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1147177

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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: Nurses
	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 trends in the level of the NHS mental health nursing workforce in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	292124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Although overall trends since 2010 show a decline in numbers of mental health nurses, recent years have seen numbers begin to improve. As of June 2019, there are now 36,101 mental health nurses – 776 more than in June 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has carried out work to increase the nursing workforce, such as expanding the number of nurse training places and introducing nurse degree apprentices and nursing associate apprentices.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service has also put in place national programmes focused on improving staff retention, return to practice, overseas recruitment and improving sickness absence.</p><p> </p><p>The interim NHS People Plan recognises that there is a shortage of nurses, especially mental health nurses, and sets out immediate actions to reduce vacancies and secure the nursing staff we need for the future. This includes addressing pensions tax concerns and bolstering the workforce through greater international recruitment. Furthermore, the Department has made available placement funding for an additional 5,000 more nurses.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 03/10/2019 15:51:10 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1147196

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	General Practitioners: Recruitment
	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 GPs were recruited to the NHS under the GP International recruitment scheme in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019; and what the cost to the public purse has been of that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
	uin	292341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The International GP Recruitment (IGPR) Programme was announced in August 2017 and recruitment began from April 2018. Prior to this, four pilot schemes were established between May 2016 and November 2017. The IGPR programme has now recruited over 150 doctors from overseas through the extended national programme and the pilots. These are part of the pipeline of over 350 doctors who are currently working through the Induction and Refresher scheme aimed at supporting both international general practitioners joining general practice in England and domestically trained doctors wishing to return to practice.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 15:04:03 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1147062

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Infectious Diseases: Vaccination
	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 ensure that people who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated against certain infectious diseases remain protected in society and able to lead a normal life.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	292220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons receive protection from many infectious diseases through ‘herd immunity’, which occurs as a result of high vaccination uptake rates within the wider population.</p><p>It is therefore critical that vaccination rates for all UK programmes remain as high as possible to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, and we are working to increase uptake across all of our vaccination programmes. In order to deliver that, the Department is reviewing all potential options – including the mandation of certain vaccines. This is why we are looking at making some vaccination programmes mandatory.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 13:30:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147135

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Dementia
	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 ensure that all adult social care workers caring for dementia patients are trained to level Tier 2 of the Dementia Training Standards Framework.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	292137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The national dementia strategy for England, the Challenge on Dementia 2020, set the expectation that all relevant health and care staff would have the appropriate dementia training, with the requisite training needs at different “tiers” set out in the ‘Dementia Training Standards Framework’.</p><p>Good progress has been made to date in training the social care workforce. It is estimated that around half of social care workers considered to need tier 2 dementia training have undertaken training to a level equivalent to it. The Department is currently exploring value for money options for further increasing take up of tier 2 training to everyone who needs it.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/10/2019 13:32:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1147226

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Healthy Start Scheme: Drinks
	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 potential merits of extending the Healthy Starts Voucher Scheme to include the purchase of fortified plant milks.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	292141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department has no current plans to make changes to the milk which can be purchased with Healthy Start vouchers, but we are prepared to consider the merits of allowing the purchase of certain plant-based drinks.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 13:18:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly