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1129385

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure her Department stops sending correspondence after a claimant has died.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	259386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>DWP has recently introduced improvements to the way in which it actions Tell Us Once notifications following registration of a death with a Registrar. Improved automation supports timely action across DWP service areas with clearance routinely completing within 24 hours of receipt. This investment and ongoing focus on preventing multiple letters after the notification of death is proving successful, although it is accepted that there may be cases where external factors compromise this achievement.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2019 16:33:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1536369

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	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	NHS: Vacancies
	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 impact of the 132,000 full-time equivalent staff vacancies on staff morale and burnout in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	72410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>We aim to deliver an additional 50,000 nurses by the end of March 2024, with over 29,000 more nurses currently working in the National Health Service compared with September 2019. We have also funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students in England and delivered five new medical schools. The Department has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan. The plan will consider the number of staff and the roles required and will set out the actions and reforms needed to improve workforce supply and retention.</p><p>The national health and wellbeing offer continues to be available to all NHS staff, which includes a confidential text support service, free access to a range of wellbeing apps and support for line managers in having safe and effective wellbeing conversations. In 2022/23, we have invested more than £45 million to support the continuation the health and wellbeing support offer. This includes 40 mental health hubs providing outreach and assessment services for frontline staff, Professional Nurse Advocates and expanding the NHS Practitioner Health service. The NHS Retention Programme aims to understand why staff are leaving, resulting in targeted interventions to support staff to stay whilst keeping them well.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/11/2022 17:13:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1536366

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	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	Medicine: Higher Education
	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 his Department has made of the potential impact of the current number of places to study medicine in universities on the ability of the NHS to keep pace with patient demand in the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	72408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students in England and delivered five new medical schools. In 2020/21 and 2021/22, the Government temporarily lifted this cap for students who completed A-levels in 2020 and 2021 and who had an offer from a university in England to study medicine subject to their grades.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2022 the Department commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan, following the NHS People Plan. The plan is due for completion by the end of 2022 and its key conclusions will be available in due course. It will inform how we meet the future needs of patients and the National Health Service workforce. Funding plans beyond the current Spending Review period will be subject to the outcome of future Spending Reviews.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/11/2022 12:42:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1536368

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	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	NHS: Staff
	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 will maintain the commitment to publish the NHS workforce strategy by the end of 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	72409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>In January 2022 the Department of Health and Social Care commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan. The long-term workforce plan will build on the foundations of the NHS People Plan. The plan is still being created by NHS England and they are due to complete this work by the end of 2022. The key conclusions will be shared in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/11/2022 13:21:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1536373

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	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	Hospitals: Consultants
	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 whether there will be sufficient full-time equivalent consultants to meet patient demand in the next (a) 5, (b) 10 and (c) 20 years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	72411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students in England - a 25% increase over three years. This expansion was completed in September 2020 and has delivered five new medical schools in England. The first graduates from this expansion entered foundation training in August this year.</p><p> </p><p>There has been an increase of 1,310 (2.5%) FTE consultants in the past year. This is an increase of 4,945 (10.3%) since 2019, and an increase of 14,914 (39.0%) in the last 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2022, the Department commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan. The long-term workforce plan will build on the foundations of the NHS People Plan. The plan is currently being developed by NHS England and they are due to complete this work by the end of 2022. The key conclusions will be shared in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The work of the long-term workforce plan will be used to inform future government work on how to best meet the needs of patients and the NHS workforce. Funding plans beyond the current Spending Review period will be subject to the outcome of future Spending Reviews.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/11/2022 13:33:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1551558

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments
	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 safety of the use of the Bristol Push Model in NHS hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	110782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/12/2022 16:27:01 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563429

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2022
	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	NHS: Cybersecurity
	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 implications for his policies of the cyberattack on the NHS in September 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	114773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>Following the cyber-attack in August 2022 on the third-party software supplier to health and care, Advanced, the majority of services in the National Health Service have been reconnected and we are working with Advanced to support NHS organisations that are going through the process of reconnection.</p><p>As with previous incidents, work is now being undertaken to review the response and identify lessons to support and improve the response to future incidents.</p><p>The Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Care, which will be published this year, will detail increasing focus on supply chain. This will include measures to support our critical suppliers to build resilience against attacks like the one on Advanced this Summer. By increasing regulatory control and standards, embedding stronger assurance processes and developing the tools to help health and social care organisations to triage supplier risks, it should enable us to respond more quickly and effectively to manage impact.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/01/2023 09:12:47 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1565876

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2023
	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	Home Care 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 has been made aware of cases in England where care cannot be delivered safely due to the low temperature of a person’s home.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	121007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department is not aware of any such cases in England.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/01/2023 16:40:46 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1600222

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2023
	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	Medicine: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact on numbers of applications to study medicine of barriers to student finance for those for whom medicine would be a second degree.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	156214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. Students studying medicine as a second degree can access a range of financial support from Student Finance England and through the NHS Bursary.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 156215 question first answered 08/03/2023 15:22:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1600374

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2023
	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	Medicine: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of barriers to student finance for those studying medicine as a second degree.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	156215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. Students studying medicine as a second degree can access a range of financial support from Student Finance England and through the NHS Bursary.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 156214 question first answered 08/03/2023 15:22:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill