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1035021

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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 the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:44:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

754137

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Disability Aids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether local authorities are required as providers of adult social care to ensure that any hoists which they supply to residents are replaced in a timely manner should they become damaged.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	6178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, against which the Care Quality Commission regulates, sets out that equipment used to deliver care and treatment must be maintained and used properly. The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, Section 3 puts a duty on owners and providers to maintain safe equipment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 6433 question first answered 06/09/2017 13:14:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

754728

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Disability Aids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether local authorities are required as providers of adult social care to ensure that any hoists that they supply to residents are replaced in a timely manner should they become damaged.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	6433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, against which the Care Quality Commission regulates, sets out that equipment used to deliver care and treatment must be maintained and used properly. The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, Section 3 puts a duty on owners and providers to maintain safe equipment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 6178 question first answered 06/09/2017 13:14:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

810061

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will investigate the case of a West Lancashire constituent who required an inpatient bed at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and was informed that the nearest available bed was in Somerset.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	120527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Day to day operational decisions about the management of individual patients are a matter for NHS England and/or the trusts with responsibility for patient care.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of area placements are unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution home treatment teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis response and intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where appropriate. Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning guidance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/01/2018 17:01:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

795327

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether private nursing homes are required to disclose nursing care costs in the contracts of people receiving care packages.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	115748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department is unable to comment on the specific contracts between individuals and care providers, or on individual cases.</p><p> </p><p>On 30 November 2017, the Competition and Markets Authority published a market study into care homes, which included findings and recommendations about the transparency of costs and contracts. The full study is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/care-homes-market-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/care-homes-market-study</a></p><p>The Government take seriously the findings and the recommendations of this report, all of which will need to be carefully considered. The Government is committed to publish a formal response to the Competition and Markets Authority report within 90 days. We will also need to take forward these complex issues raised by the Competition and Markets Authority as part of the Green Paper on adult social care which will be published in summer 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/12/2017 13:46:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

795326

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) powers and (b) responsibilities have been conferred on the Care Quality Commission to regulate fees charged by private nursing homes.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	115747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>As the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is responsible for deciding its own regulatory inspection and assessment framework.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC has no power to regulate fees charged by private nursing homes – or any other registered provider.</p><p> </p><p>However, the CQC (Registration) Regulations 2009: Regulation 19 places an obligation on registered providers to provide timely and accurate information about the cost of their care and treatment to people who use services. To meet this regulation, providers must make written information available about any fees, contracts and terms and conditions, where people are paying either in full or in part for the cost of their care, treatment and support. This can be assessed as part of a CQC inspection, and the CQC has the power to prosecute providers for a breach of the whole or part of this regulation. The CQC will refuse registration if providers cannot provide satisfactory assurance that they can and will continue to comply with this regulation.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/12/2017 11:15:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1035024

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether each of the access to treatment pathways will (a) be published in the timetable set out and (b) will include waiting time targets.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Five of the clinical pathways referred to on page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health have been published to date. These are for early intervention in psychosis, urgent and emergency liaison mental health services, services for children and young people with eating disorders, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies pathway for long term conditions, and the perinatal mental health pathway.</p><p> </p><p>Two more pathways, those focusing on crisis and acute mental health, and children and young people’s mental health care, are under development.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining pathways are being reviewed to ensure they align with the new commitments and direction set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. NHS England has not confirmed the date of publication for these remaining pathways.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to specific waiting times targets for emergency mental health services which will take effect for the first time from 2020, and will be set to align with the equivalent targets for emergency physical health services. The Long Term Plan also contains commitments to test and roll out comprehensive waiting time standards for adults and children over the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:45:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1035022

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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, whether he has plans to introduce waiting time standards for adults accessing treatments in secondary mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>In line with its commitments in the Long Term Plan, NHS England will be testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas. This will help build NHS England’s understanding of how best to introduce ambitious but achievable improvements in access, quality of care and outcomes. Clear standards will then be set for patients requiring access to community mental health treatment and rolled out across the National Health Service over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting time standards are already in place for Early Intervention in Psychosis. 76.2% of patients with first episode psychosis started treatment within two weeks in November 2018. Performance is above the waiting time standard, which will increase from 50% of patients in 2017/18 to 60% by 2020/21 as part of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, and is 53% in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:41:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1037012

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	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 Act 1983 Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the Government's response to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act published on 6 December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the publication of final report of the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will consider the report and its recommendations in detail and respond in due course. We remain committed to reforming mental health law and have committed to develop and bring forward legislation when parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We have already accepted two of the recommendations of the review; the establishment of new statutory advance choice documents, so that people’s wishes and preferences carry far more legal weight, and the creation of a new role of ‘nominated person’ to be chosen by the patient to replace the current nearest relative provisions. This will support the review’s overall purpose of increasing patient rights and improving the way the Act works for people.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 205229 205230 question first answered 10/01/2019 15:29:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1050588

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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: 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 plans the Government has to increase the mental health workforce to achieve the ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	214008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Across the National Health Service, expanding the mental health workforce is a top priority. In 2017, we published the Mental Health Workforce plan: ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England’ which sets out our ambition to deliver 21,000 new posts (professional and allied) across the mental health system, with the expectation that 19,000 of these places will be filled by staff employed directly by the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>For the commitments set out in the NHS’s Long Term Plan, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding to lead a rapid programme of work to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. She will report back in the spring with detailed proposals to grow the workforce rapidly, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/02/2019 12:16:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper