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1668043

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that a patient's GP practice be informed if that patient visits different hospitals in the same NHS trust with similar illnesses or injuries.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2023 answer text <p>A patient’s general practice (GP) would usually be informed when they attended hospital, either via a discharge letter, or via a notification on an electronic patient record system. This is dependent on the National Health Service trust knowing the patient’s registered GP. A patient may object to the sharing of their information with their GP when visiting a trust, for example when attending accident and emergency, and the trust will need to follow data protection legislation and guidance to determine whether it is in its best interests to still share this with the patient’s GP.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 10/11/2023 14:32:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1660288

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	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	Healthy Start Scheme
	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 families were (a) eligible for and (b) claimed Healthy Start Scheme vouchers by 12 September 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority operates the Healthy Start scheme on behalf of the Department. Monthly uptake figures for the Healthy Start scheme are published on the NHS Healthy Start website, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/" target="_blank">https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/healthcare-professionals/</a></p><p>The latest uptake figures were published on 31 August 2023. In August 2023, uptake for the NHS Healthy Start scheme was 66.0%, with 557,460 eligible beneficiaries.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 19/09/2023 10:08:09 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1650508

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Resignations
	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 have left the NHS since June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of fully qualified general practitioners (GPs) who left the National Health Service between March 2022 and March 2023, the latest month for which the data is available:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Full-time equivalent</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fully Qualified GPs (excludes GPs in Training Grade)</p></td><td><p>2,407</p></td><td><p>3,681</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>While GPs leave the NHS, new doctors join general practice and there are 1,900 more than in 2019. Measures to refine pension tax will help to retain experienced GPs.</p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full-time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In GPs in Training Grades’ contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.</p><p>- Figures shown do not include staff working in prisons, army bases, educational establishments, specialist care centres including drug rehabilitation centres, walk-in centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.</p><p>- It is not recommended that comparisons be made between quarterly or monthly figures (e.g. Mar 2016 to Sept 2016) due to the unknown effect of seasonality on workforce numbers. Any such comparisons should therefore be treated with extreme caution.</p><p>- The data shows GPs who joined and/or left the cohort workforce between the beginning and end of each specified time period.</p><p>- A leaver is a GP whose identifying information was present in the relevant dataset at the beginning but not at the end of the specified time period.</p><p>- Please note that these figures do not capture GP migration between practices during this period.</p><p>- In addition, due to data quality, a GP recorded as a leaver in these figures may have left one practice and joined another practice with poor data completion. In instances such as this, a GP will be incorrectly recorded as a leaver due to the identifying information no longer being present in the dataset. Conversely, a GP could appear in the practice cohort as a joiner but may have joined from a practice with poor data completion rather than being a new addition to the GP workforce.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 11/07/2023 14:28:09 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1624072

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Notice Boards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 April 2023 on General Practitioners: Notice Boards, how many times his Department has been made aware that information on patient noticeboards is out of date since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182851
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. The Department is not made aware of information on patient noticeboards that is out of date. As independent contractors, it is up to each individual general practice to check for out of date information and update patient noticeboards.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 03/05/2023 11:31:54 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1610332

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Notice Boards
	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 issues guidance to GP surgeries on the frequency with which patient noticeboards are (a) checked for out of date information and (b) updated.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not issue guidance to general practice (GP) surgeries on the frequency with which patient noticeboards are checked for out-of-date information and updated. As independent contractors, it is up to each individual GP surgery to check for out-of-date information and update patient noticeboards.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/04/2023 14:37:15 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1610334

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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	Out of Area Treatment: Medical Records
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a patient's GP Practice will be informed if that patient visits different hospitals in other NHS trusts in relation to similar illnesses or injuries.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	180467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>A patient’s general practice (GP) would usually be informed when they attended hospital, either via a discharge letter, or via a notification on an electronic patient record system. This is dependent on the National Health Service trust knowing the patient’s registered GP. A patient may object to the sharing of their information with their GP when visiting a trust, for example when attending accident and emergency, and the trust will need to follow data protection legislation and guidance to determine whether it is in best interests to still share this with the patient’s GP.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/04/2023 15:04:22 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1523048

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	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	Social Services: Wirral South
	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 she has made of the adequacy of social care capacity in Wirral South constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	64070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. Local authorities have a responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to ensure that the care needs of the local population are met.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 64405 question first answered 20/10/2022 14:58:13 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1523055

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2022
	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	Care Homes: Wirral South
	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 and what proportion of care homes were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Wirral South constituency as of 17 October 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	64074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2022 answer text <p>As of 17 October 2022, 17 or 56.7% of care homes in Wirral South are currently rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘good’ overall.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 20/10/2022 14:35:45 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1522583

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2022
	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	General Practitioners: Wirral South
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to increase the availability of face-to-face GP appointments in Wirral South constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	63198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>On 22 September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which contains measures to assist people make an informed choice on their general practitioner (GP) practice, book an appointment more easily, benefit from more care options and increase the diversity of general practice teams. This aims to increase the availability of appointment types, such as face-to-face, in England, including in Wirral South.</p><p>NHS England’s guidance states that GP practices must provide face to face appointments and remote consultations and should respect preferences for face-to-face care unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary.  While remote consultations can provide additional choice, flexibility and convenience for patients, this is not suitable for all patients or in all circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 02/11/2022 11:49:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 25130 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1522584

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2022
	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	Care Homes: Wirral South
	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 estimate her Department has made of the number of residential care homes that have closed in Wirral South constituency since December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	63199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>There have been no care home closures in Wirral South constituency since December 2019.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission records care homes which have closed as ‘deactivated’. The ‘deactivated’ locations data excludes care homes where the provider continues to operate under a new, separate registration. This could be due to a legal entity change or a change in the provider.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/10/2022 12:31:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 25137 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern