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1564409

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2023
	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: Staff
	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 his Department is taking to increase staffing levels in A&E departments.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	117501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Decisions on individual staffing levels in accident and emergency are a matter for local National Health Service trusts to take in responding to patient demand and capacity pressures. We have commissioned NHS England to develop a long term plan for the NHS workforce for the next 15 years. This plan will help ensure that we have the right numbers of staff, with the right skills to transform and deliver high quality services fit for the future.</p><p>As of September 2022, there were almost 9,400 FTE doctors specialising in Emergency medicine. This is an increase of over 400 compared to a year ago. The Government is supporting accident and emergency services with £250 million announced on 9 January to support patient flow.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/01/2023 13:21:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1661883

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	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	Cancer: Havering
	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 his Department is taking to increase the cancer diagnosis rate in (a) Romford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Havering.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	200225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department is working with NHS England to increase diagnosis rate for those with cancer across England and plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity, including cancer diagnosis, as set out in the Elective Recovery Plan published in February 2022. In addition, the Government awarded £2.3 billion at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years, most of which will help increase the number of Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, prioritising CDCs for cancer services.</p><p>The National Health Service has implemented ‘non-specific symptom pathways’ for patients who have symptoms that do not align to a particular type of tumour, including for non-specific symptoms of pancreatic cancer. As of June 2023, there are 108 pathways currently in place with the aim to have national coverage by March 2024.</p><p>To encourage people to see their general practitioner if they notice symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England runs the ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaigns, which address the barriers that deter patients from accessing the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/10/2023 14:18:08 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1654637

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2023
	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	Cancer: Medical Treatments
	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 is taking steps to reduce waiting times for cancer treatment in (a) Romford constituency, (b) the London Borough of Havering and (c) England.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	195345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>To support elective recovery and reduce waiting times in England, including for cancer treatment, the Government has taken steps by working with NHS England to publish the delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlogs in elective care in February 2022.</p><p>To deliver this plan the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity, including cancer diagnosis. This will further be supported by the additional £3.3 billion of funding in each of the next two years announced at the Autumn Statement to support the National Health Service, enabling rapid action to improve emergency, elective and primary care performance towards pre-pandemic levels.</p><p>To support delivery of our cancer care priorities, including expanding treatment capacity across NHS hospital trusts, the Government is providing over £390 million in cancer service development funding to Cancer Alliances in each of the next two years.</p><p>In addition the Government has awarded £2.3 billion to transform diagnostic services over the next three years. Most of this will help increase the number of Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, prioritising CDCs for cancer diagnostics.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/09/2023 11:27:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1519234

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	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	Coronavirus: Sick Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to provide financial support to health and social care workers who have been required to self-isolate by their employer without sick pay as a result of having (a) covid-19 and (b) covid-19 symptoms.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	59502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department introduced temporary non-contractual COVID-19 sickness guidance at the start of the pandemic, to ensure National Health Service staff received full pay should they be advised to self-isolate or become ill with COVID-19. This temporary non-contractual guidance has been withdrawn as we return to the normal sickness arrangements set out in the NHS terms and conditions.</p><p>We expect all care providers to support good health and safety practice, with staff staying away from the workplace where there would be a health risk to those in their care, as before the pandemic.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/11/2022 12:22:13 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1505357

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2022
	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	Dental Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide orthodontic treatment for people over the age of 18 who were unable to receive treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	48285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>During the pandemic we provided over £1.7 billion in income protection to ensure that National Health Service dental and orthodontic capacity was retained and services were provided throughout. In Quarter 4 2021/22, we allocated a further £50 million for NHS dentistry and NHS England targeted the available care for those patients most in need. From April 2022, NHS England asked all orthodontic providers to return to full pre-COVID-19 activity.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/09/2022 16:00:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1505361

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2022
	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	Dental 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, with reference to the Answer of 27 January 2021 to Question 131189 on Dental Services: Waiting Lists, for what reason data on orthodontic waiting lists was not available.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	48289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Waiting lists for orthodontic treatments are managed directly by dental practices.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/09/2022 15:57:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1506285

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2022
	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	Dental 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, how many people are waiting to be registered with an NHS dentist in (a) Romford, (b) Havering, and (c) the United Kingdom.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	49594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, as appointments for National Health Service treatment are managed directly by dental practices.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/09/2022 10:28:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1661886

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	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	Diabetes: Havering
	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 his Department is taking to increase diabetes diagnosis rates in (a) Romford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Havering.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	200226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>In 2017/18, a system of identification of those most at-risk of diabetes was launched in the Romford constituency and the London Borough of Havering. Those identified with diabetes are then referred referrals to the National Diabetes Prevention Programme.</p><p>Starting in 2022, Primary Care Networks covering both the Romford constituency and the London Borough of Havering have National Diabetes Prevention Programme Champions, whose task is to monitor and improve diagnosis and referrals for diabetes performance.</p><p>Latest data as of August 2023 shows local clinicians are on track to exceed last year’s number of referrals to the National Diabetes Prevention Programme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/10/2023 14:20:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1658669

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2023
	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	Diabetes: 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 his Department is taking to improve NHS diabetes care (a) nationally and (b) in Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	198019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>Progress continues to be made for patients with type 1 diabetes, with over 65% of people currently using flash glucose monitoring to help manage their condition. 97% of pregnant women are being offered flash glucose monitoring and 78% accept the offer.</p><p>The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme supports those identified at high risk of type 2 diabetes to reduce their risk. Data as of February 2023 shows a 20% reduction in risk for those who are referred to the programme compared to those who are not.</p><p>The local National Health Service in Romford, Havering and the neighbouring boroughs of Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge has set out a series of improvements to care for patients with diabetes. These include home-based urine tests, to help prevent renal failure in patients with diabetes, especially those in hard to reach populations such as the housebound.</p><p>In addition, plans are in place for a new transition service for children and young adults from ages 12 to 25 that will equip them for later life and will be supported by new capabilities for insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring.</p><p>A new diabetes foot pathway has been jointly adopted by local general practices and hospital and community care clinicians across the area, including in Romford.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/09/2023 15:59:38 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1641126

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	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	Doctors and Nurses: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of F1 and F2 (a) nurses and (b) doctors were born overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	187064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>NHS England publishes quarterly data on the nationality of staff employed in the National Health Service in England by staff group. Nationality is self-reported and may not always represent the country birth. The latest data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/december-2022" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/december-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/06/2023 14:18:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell