Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"Does the Secretary of State agree that the sustainability and transformation plan for Norfolk and Waveney is a vital part of the Queen Elizabeth hospital’s future as it successfully moves out of special measures? Although there is overwhelming support for integrating health and social care, will he confirm that there …..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Written Question
Monday 31st October 2016
Asked by:
Lord Bellingham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with Eastbourne Borough Council on steps to deter or prevent people from taking their own life on Beachy Head.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
We have not had any discussions with Eastbourne Borough Council about Beachy Head as a place used by people to take their own life. Local authorities are responsible for local suicide prevention by working with local agencies to implement local suicide prevention plans.
Public Health England (PHE) published guidance in 2015, ‘Preventing suicides in public places: A practice resource’, to support local areas taking action in places known to be used for suicide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/latest?departments%5B%5D=public-health-england
PHE also published refreshed guidance on 25 October, ‘Local suicide prevention planning: a practice resource’, to support local areas to implement multi-agency suicide prevention plans which will bring together all local agencies to work collaboratively to prevent suicide:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/562280/PHE_local_suicide_prevention_planning_a_practice_resource.pdf
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"8. What progress his Department is making on turning around hospitals in special measures. ..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Secretary of State will be aware because he visited it last year, that the Queen Elizabeth hospital in my constituency has come out of special measures. It has made excellent progress, not least by introducing Saturday lists for in-patients and putting in place numerous measures to transform the out-patients …..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Written Question
Thursday 24th March 2016
Asked by:
Lord Bellingham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many unplanned admissions took place in North West Norfolk last year; and what estimate he has made of the number of such admissions this year.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS England publishes the number of non-elective general and acute admissions each month for National Health Service clinical commissioning groups and NHS hospital trusts. This data is published on NHS England’s website at the following address:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/hospital-activity/montly-hospital-activity/mar-data/
Written Question
Wednesday 9th December 2015
Asked by:
Lord Bellingham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he next expects to meet representatives of the care home industry to discuss local authority funding of care homes; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Alistair Burt
I regularly meet with representatives of the care home industry to discuss topics including local authority funding of care homes, and will continue to do so.
The Government has shown clear commitment to the adult social care sector, as evidenced during the Spending Review in which local authorities have been given access to £3.5 billion of new support for social care by 2019/20.
Written Question
Wednesday 9th December 2015
Asked by:
Lord Bellingham (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to amend the annual limit set on nurse educational places; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Ben Gummer
From 2017 we are removing the limit on the number of students that can study nursing. This reform is expected to enable universities to provide up to 10,000 additional nursing and other health professional training places over this Parliament. This will open up opportunities for applicants which universities have previously been forced to turn down.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements
"I had a similar case in King’s Lynn, although I cannot go into it because it ended in tragedy, with the individual committing suicide, having previously made an attempt. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is absolutely essential in such cases that there is proper monitoring and supervision …..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements
"Has any analysis been done of whether the families have been contacted in such cases? It is incredibly important that one strand of support for these patients is through their families. What percentage of cases involve families being informed, having given permission for the patient to be moved?..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Dec 2015
Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements
"Does the Minister agree that there is something fundamentally unsatisfactory—and, indeed, wrong—about moving someone late at night unless it is absolutely necessary for medical and clinical reasons?..."Lord Bellingham - View Speech
View all Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) contributions to the debate on: Mental Health: Out-of-Area Placements