NHS England and NHS Improvement have ensured that stroke services across England continue to provide rehabilitation and post-acute services to stroke survivors and their families and carers during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>
NHS England and NHS Improvement have funded the Stroke Association over the last six months to provide Stroke Connect, which was developed in direct response to COVID-19 to ensure stroke survivors and their carers had support when discharged from hospital.<\/p>
The Department has also funded the Stroke Association over the last six months for them to continue to provide frontline support to stroke survivors and others connected to stroke during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4380", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Churchill"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bury St Edmunds"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Churchill"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2020-11-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "114895"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2020-11-24T21:06:58.2Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2020-11-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Strokes: Health Services"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help maintain support for stroke survivors during the covid-19 outbreak.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4244", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Leicester South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jonathan Ashworth"} ], "uin" : "114894"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1251579", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1251579/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
NHS England and NHS Improvement have ensured that stroke services across England continue to provide rehabilitation and post-acute services to stroke survivors and their families and carers during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>
NHS England and NHS Improvement have funded the Stroke Association over the last six months to provide Stroke Connect, which was developed in direct response to COVID-19 to ensure stroke survivors and their carers had support when discharged from hospital.<\/p>
The Department has also funded the Stroke Association over the last six months for them to continue to provide frontline support to stroke survivors and others connected to stroke during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4380", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Churchill"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bury St Edmunds"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Churchill"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2020-11-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "114894"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2020-11-24T21:06:58.25Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2020-11-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Strokes: Health Services"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Government plans to continue delivering its commitments for stroke during the covid-19 outbreak.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4244", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Leicester South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jonathan Ashworth"} ], "uin" : "114895"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1249627", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1249627/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
An enormous amount of work has taken place to ensure we have the logistical expertise, transport and workforce to roll out a vaccine according to clinical priority, at the speed at which it can be manufactured. Over 6.5 million people across the UK have now received their first dose of a COVID vaccine and nearly half a million have received their second dose. There are now over 2700 sites across the UK already offering vaccines to those at risk by age and clinical priority.<\/p>
<\/p>
Daily updates on vaccine doses are available here: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare<\/a><\/p> <\/p> The UK Vaccine delivery plan was published on 11 January 2021 and can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/951928/uk-covid-19-vaccines-delivery-plan-final.<\/a>pdf<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1238876/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Routine face-to-face National Health Service dental services resumed from 8 June with the aim of increasing levels of service in line with infection control procedures and personal protective equipment requirements. All dental practices are able to offer routine face to face treatment that is clinically necessary. Over 600 Urgent Dental Care Centres set up at the height of the pandemic also remain open to ensure that dental treatment needed urgently can be accessed while practices expand their services as safely as possible.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1237194/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " \u2018Personal protective equipment (PPE) strategy: stabilise and build resilience\u2019, published on 28 September, sets out how the Government has moved beyond the emergency COVID-19 response by stabilising the supply for PPE and build resilience. It also includes details about how Government is preparing for and managing the ongoing response to the pandemic alongside the usual seasonal pressures. We are confident we have secured enough supply for this winter period and that we have the processes and logistics in place to distribute PPE to where it is needed. The strategy is available at the following link:<\/p>