Since the publication of Hard Truths: The Journey to Putting Patients First, the Government has taken huge strides to boost safety, transparency, compassion and accountability in the National Health Service. We have legislated to make the Care Quality Commission independent, and a new rigorous inspection regime for hospitals, primary care and adult social care has been introduced, resulting in a clear rating on the quality of care. We have also introduced a robust special measures regime for struggling hospitals, so that poor care is identified and rectified. In addition, we have legislated to place a new duty of candour and fit and proper person requirement for directors of NHS bodies, as well as to create a new offence of wilful neglect and ill treatment. This Government has also placed an unprecedented amount of data on the MyNHS website, so that the public can see how their local services perform.<\/p>
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We will be publishing an update and summary of this progress shortly.<\/p>
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There have been a series of recent checks to confirm the adequacy of the IT systems used in the national security vetting process. These include: a comprehensive Defence Information Assurance audit, penetration tests and the re-awarding of the vetting system by the Defence Assurance Information Secretary. In addition, a complete refresh of all the electronic forms used in the vetting process is planned to take place in 2015.<\/p>
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NHS England is committed to increasing access to treatments and techniques of proven clinical benefit. There are no specific financial figures for each element as the expenditure is in the Area Team budgets.<\/p>
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<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> The Prime Minister set an ambitious challenge to the National Health Service to ensure that a minimum of 24% of patients who required radical radiotherapy were able to access inverse planned Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) from April 2013. This ambition was achieved in May 2014. The success of this planned expansion of access is demonstrated in the increase in the number IMRT episodes, which have risen from just over 8,500 per year in 2012-13 to a projected figure of over 25,000 for 2014-15.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> NHS England launched a 12 week consultation on proposed changes to the shape of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Radiotherapy services across the country on 3 November 2014, which will run until 26 January 2015. Following this consultation, and once a decision has been made by NHS England about the future configuration of services; NHS England will launch a procurement exercise to ensure the right level of service is accessible to patients, regardless of where they live.<\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/164370/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Patient experience surveys are a valuable source of evidence and the results are used in a range of ways, including the assessment of National Health Service performance as well as in regulatory activities such as registration, monitoring ongoing compliance and reviews. The Care Quality Commission has developed a new Intelligent Monitoring tool to give inspectors a clear picture of the areas of care that need to be followed up within an NHS acute trust or a specialist NHS trust. The system is built on a set of indicators that look at a range of information including patient experience, staff experience and performance.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> In addition to the patient experience surveys hospital boards and other providers and commissioners of services can also consider the results of the Friends and Family Test (FFT) to consider the implications for quality and safety. While not a traditional survey, the FFT provides near real-time feedback to identify both good and poor quality patient experience. A NHS England review of the FFT found that it is performing well as a service improvement tool, with 85% of trusts reporting that it is being used to improve patient experience, and 78% saying that FFT has increased the emphasis placed on patient experience in their trusts.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/164173/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " NHS England advised that on 14 November it decided not to publish the winter weekly report for week ending 12 November because the statistical and operational commentary was not finalised in time.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> On 20 November NHS England decided to suspend the publication of the winter weekly report for week ending 19 November, in order to undertake a short review of information requirements. The review will consider what data to include in daily collections, whether the burden of reporting can be reduced, and assess alternative information sources for inclusion in future reporting.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> All acute and general NHS and foundation trusts submit data for weekly accident and emergency situation reports all year round.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when it was decided to delay the publication of winter pressure weekly reports.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jamie Reed"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/164174", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/164174/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " NHS England advised that on 14 November it decided not to publish the winter weekly report for week ending 12 November because the statistical and operational commentary was not finalised in time.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> On 20 November NHS England decided to suspend the publication of the winter weekly report for week ending 19 November, in order to undertake a short review of information requirements. The review will consider what data to include in daily collections, whether the burden of reporting can be reduced, and assess alternative information sources for inclusion in future reporting.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> All acute and general NHS and foundation trusts submit data for weekly accident and emergency situation reports all year round.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any NHS and Foundation Trusts have submitted data to NHS England for winter pressure weekly reports.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156179", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "HM Treasury"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what representations he has received which make a case for more funding to be allocated to the NHS in the autumn statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/155934", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/155934/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Baroness Hanham\u2019s appointment as Chair continues until 31 March 2016. A further recruitment process will take place towards the end of 2015.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to appoint a permanent chair of Monitor.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/105958/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The information requested is shown in the following table.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> A count of (a) finished admission episodes1<\/sup> admitted via accident and emergency2<\/sup> (A&E) where the consultant's main specialty was dental3<\/sup>, (b) all finished admission episodes admitted via A&E and (c) the percentage of all admissions via A&E that were under a consultant with a dental specialty for the years 2009-10 to 2012-134<\/sup>, the last four years of published data.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> (a) Dental FAEs admitted via A&E<\/p><\/td> (b) All FAEs admitted via A&E<\/p><\/td> (c) Percentage of all FAEs admitted via A&E that were Dental<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009-10<\/p><\/td> 20,317<\/p><\/td> 3,968,881<\/p><\/td> 0.51%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010-11<\/p><\/td> 21,285<\/p><\/td> 4,104,995<\/p><\/td> 0.52%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011-12<\/p><\/td> 22,356<\/p><\/td> 4,124,390<\/p><\/td> 0.54%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012-13<\/p><\/td> 21,265<\/p><\/td> 4,235,976<\/p><\/td> 0.50%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> 1<\/sup>Finished admission episodes<\/p> <\/p> A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.<\/p> <\/p> 2<\/sup> Admission via A&E<\/p> <\/p> Admissions where the method of admission is recorded as<\/p> <\/p> 21 - Emergency Admission via A&E<\/p> <\/p> 28 - Emergency Admission - Other (including A&E of a different provider)<\/p> <\/p> 3<\/sup>Consultant Main Specialty<\/p> <\/p> The specialty under which the consultant responsible for the care of the patient at that time is registered. Care is needed when analysing Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data by specialty, or by groups of specialties (such as "acute"). Trusts have different ways of managing specialties and attributing codes so it is better to analyse by specific diagnoses, operations or other patient or service information.<\/p> <\/p> Consultant Main Specialty Codes<\/p> <\/p> 140 Oral Surgery<\/p> <\/p> 141 Restorative Dentistry<\/p> <\/p> 142 Paediatric Dentistry (available from 1999-2000)<\/p> <\/p> 143 Orthodontics<\/p> <\/p> 145 Oral & Maxillo Facial Surgery (available from 2004-05)<\/p> <\/p> 146 Endodontics<\/p> <\/p> 147 Periodontics<\/p> <\/p> 148 Prosthodontics<\/p> <\/p> 4<\/sup>Assessing growth through time<\/p> <\/p> HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, apparent reductions in activity may be due to a number of procedures which may now be undertaken in outpatient settings and so no longer include in admitted patient HES data.<\/p> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p> Source<\/em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre<\/p> <\/p>"}
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