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Written Question
Cancer: Halton
Monday 11th July 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people with a suspected cancer diagnosis in the Halton local authority area who wait more than two weeks for an appointment with a specialist.

Answered by James Morris

We are unable to make a specific estimate as data on waiting times for blood tests and appointments for suspected cancer diagnosis is not collected at borough or local authority level.

Written Question
Blood Tests: Halton
Monday 11th July 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2022 to Question 19572 on Blood Tests: Halton, if he will make an estimate of the waiting time for patients requiring a blood test following a GP referral in Halton Borough in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by James Morris

We are unable to make a specific estimate as data on waiting times for blood tests and appointments for suspected cancer diagnosis is not collected at borough or local authority level.

Written Question
Blood Tests: Halton
Monday 27th June 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the waiting time for patients requiring a blood test following a GP referral in Halton constituency in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The information is not collected in the format requested as data on waiting times for patients requiring a blood test following a general practitioner referral is not collected at constituency level.

Written Question
Breast Cancer: Diagnosis
Tuesday 21st June 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients are diagnosed with breast cancer at stage 4 (a) in the Borough of Halton and (b) on average in England.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

This information is not held in the format requested. However, the standardised incidence rate for new female breast cancers diagnosed between 2014 and 2018 in the Halton local authority area is 102.2. In 2019, of 47,860 breast cancers diagnosed, there were 2,008 diagnosed at stage 4 in England.

Written Question
Breast Cancer: Screening
Tuesday 21st June 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average breast screening uptake is in (a) the Borough of Halton and (b) England.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The information is not held in the format requested. However, in 2020/21, breast screening coverage in people aged 53 to 71 years old in the Halton local authority area was 55.8% and 64.2% for England.

Written Question
General Practitioners: Halton
Wednesday 6th April 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the ratio of patients to GPs in the NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group area as of (a) April 2015 and (b) 22 March 2022.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The following table shows the ratio of patients to full-time equivalent (FTE) general practitioners (GPs) per 10,000 registered patients in Halton Clinical Commissioning Group as at September 2015 and September 2021, the latest available comparable data.

September 2015

5.4

September 2021

6.5

Source:

General Practice Workforce, 31 December 2021. NHS Digital

Notes:

  1. 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 Grade 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. It is not recommended that comparisons be made between quarterly or monthly figures due to the unknown effect of seasonality on workforce numbers.
  2. 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.
  3. Data includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records. The percentage of FTE that is estimated is presented for each staff group and includes full and partial estimates.
  4. Full Estimation: Estimates are made for both headcount and FTE for those practices which did not provide any valid data for one or more of the four staff groups (or in the case of practices providing no valid direct patient care staff data, estimates are only made for those practices also failing to provide valid data for at least one other staff group). The absence of data for a staff group could be due to poor data quality or no submitted data. For these practices, clinical commissioning group-level estimations are made.
  5. Partial Estimation: In some cases, practices provide valid records about their staff but do not include information about their working hours. In these cases, the record is retained and estimates calculated for their working hours and full-time equivalence based upon the national averages for the job role. These figures are referred to as ‘partial estimates’ and the scale of these estimates varies by staff group.

Written Question
General Practitioners: Halton
Thursday 31st March 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the requirement for the number of full-time equivalent GP's is in the Halton CCG area; and how many are practicing in that area as of 22 March 2022.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

There is no recommendation for how many general practitioners (GPs) required in a clinical commissioning group (CCG) area nor for how many patients should be assigned to a GP. The demands each patient place on their GP can be affected by various factors, such as rurality and patient demographics. Under the GP Contract each practice is required to provide primary medical services to meet the reasonable needs of their registered patients. The latest available data as of 31 January 2022 shows 86 full time equivalent doctors in general practice in the Halton CCG area.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 28th March 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer the letter from the hon. Member for Halton of 30 April 2021 in respect of Laura Higginson.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Department received the hon. Member’s letter in November 2021. We replied on 25 March 2022.

Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
Monday 28th March 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide a substantive Answer to Question 80914, tabled on 24 November 2021.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Department received the hon. Member’s letter in November 2021. We replied on 25 March 2022.

Written Question
Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
Monday 28th March 2022

Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide a substantive Answer to Question 80914, tabled on 24 November 2021 by the hon. Member for Halton.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Department received the hon. Member’s letter in November 2021. We replied on 25 March 2022.