Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of National Living Wage costs on care providers in the charitable sector.
Answered by Lord Bethell
The Department does not make separate assessments of the cost of the National Living Wage in respect of for-profit, local authority-run and not-for-profit providers, or at the level of individual providers.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people diagnosed with COVID-19 on admission to hospital have died while still an in-patient after 28 days.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Public Health England does not collect the data in the format requested.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to respond to the Report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review First Do No Harm, published on 8 July.
Answered by Lord Bethell
The recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review are being considered carefully.
The Government will provide an update in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made to ensure that staff in arm's-length bodies who work with the Department of Health have access to training on autism, as laid out in their refreshed adult autism strategy <i>Think Autism</i>.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Think Autism, the April 2014 update to the Adult Autism Strategy has over 30 actions for Government departments and other organisations and is overseen by the Autism Programme Board. A summary of progress will be published in August 2015.
Work is underway to look at how staff in the Department of Health and arm’s length bodies have access to autism training, such as the Hidden Impairment Toolkit developed by the Department for Work and Pensions and the National Hidden Impairment National Group. The needs of older people with autism, the appropriate and timely diagnosis of adult autism, and the provision of care and support services for adults with autism are also identified in Think Autism and are part of the consultation on the revised statutory guidance for local authorities and the National Health Service which runs until 19 December.
Local authority areas will also report back on progress they are making on implementing these and other issues in Public Health England’s forthcoming national autism self-assessment exercise on implementing the Adult Autism Strategy. 42 Autism Innovation Fund projects totalling £1 million to help support people with autism and share learning for wider replication in other areas were also recently announced.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether all staff in the Department of Health have access to autism training, as laid out in their adult autism strategy <i>Think Autism</i>.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Think Autism, the April 2014 update to the Adult Autism Strategy has over 30 actions for Government departments and other organisations and is overseen by the Autism Programme Board. A summary of progress will be published in August 2015.
Work is underway to look at how staff in the Department of Health and arm’s length bodies have access to autism training, such as the Hidden Impairment Toolkit developed by the Department for Work and Pensions and the National Hidden Impairment National Group. The needs of older people with autism, the appropriate and timely diagnosis of adult autism, and the provision of care and support services for adults with autism are also identified in Think Autism and are part of the consultation on the revised statutory guidance for local authorities and the National Health Service which runs until 19 December.
Local authority areas will also report back on progress they are making on implementing these and other issues in Public Health England’s forthcoming national autism self-assessment exercise on implementing the Adult Autism Strategy. 42 Autism Innovation Fund projects totalling £1 million to help support people with autism and share learning for wider replication in other areas were also recently announced.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure (1) that the particular needs of older people with autism are met by the final statutory guidance implementing the adult autism strategy, (2) the appropriate and timely diagnosis of adult autism, and (3) the provision of care and support services for adults with autism.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Think Autism, the April 2014 update to the Adult Autism Strategy has over 30 actions for Government departments and other organisations and is overseen by the Autism Programme Board. A summary of progress will be published in August 2015.
Work is underway to look at how staff in the Department of Health and arm’s length bodies have access to autism training, such as the Hidden Impairment Toolkit developed by the Department for Work and Pensions and the National Hidden Impairment National Group. The needs of older people with autism, the appropriate and timely diagnosis of adult autism, and the provision of care and support services for adults with autism are also identified in Think Autism and are part of the consultation on the revised statutory guidance for local authorities and the National Health Service which runs until 19 December.
Local authority areas will also report back on progress they are making on implementing these and other issues in Public Health England’s forthcoming national autism self-assessment exercise on implementing the Adult Autism Strategy. 42 Autism Innovation Fund projects totalling £1 million to help support people with autism and share learning for wider replication in other areas were also recently announced.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what categories of Quality and Outcomes Framework payments are available to general practitioner practices.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
The national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary incentive scheme that provides additional reward to general practitioner (GP) practices for how well they care for patients based on performance against a number of agreed indicators. Each indicator is worth a maximum number of points and GP practices are then rewarded financially on the number of points they achieve. All GP practices can choose to take part in QOF and the majority choose to do so.
NHS Employers publish detailed guidance on the QOF. A copy of this guidance has been placed in the Library.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of proposals by King's College London to reduce scientific staff posts in the South London<i></i>and Maudsley<i></i>catchment area by 10 to 15 per cent in (1) clinical services, (2) autism research, and (3) mental health research.<i></i>
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
It is not for the Government but for local hospitals to decide how many staff they employ. Local National Health Service organisations are best placed to determine the skill mix of their workforce and must have freedom to deploy staff in ways appropriate for their locality.
Safe staffing is not solely about numbers, but also importantly about the quality of care patients receive and how staff spend their time.