Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
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 13 June 2022 to Question 13826 on Dementia: Diagnosis, when he plans to publish further details of the financial support that will be provided by his Department to help tackle the backlog of dementia diagnoses.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Last financial year, £17 million was made available to Clinical Commissioning Groups to specifically address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. Work to improve dementia diagnosis rates will continue in 2022/23.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
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 13 June 2022 to Question 13826 on Dementia: Diagnosis, when he plans to publish his Department's funding plans for dementia support for 2022-23.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are reviewing plans for dementia in England and further information will be available in due course.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department holds any data on the number of defibrillators in (a) Huddersfield and (b) the Kirklees area.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The British Heart Foundation estimate that there are 103 defibrillators in Huddersfield and 190 in Kirklees registered on The Circuit, the national defibrillator network.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has consulted with the National Pharmacy Association on the declining number of high street pharmacies in the last 12 months.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Department regularly engages with a variety of stakeholders and representatives from the pharmacy sector, including the National Pharmacy Association.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support local pharmacy services in Huddersfield.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2019-24 commits £2.592 billion to the sector each year and sets out how community pharmacy will be integrated into the National Health Service, delivering more clinical services and providing treatment and advice for minor illnesses, including in Huddersfield.
On 22 September, we announced further services to be provided by community pharmacy in the remainder of the Framework, including a one-off investment of £100 million. We will enable community pharmacists to manage and initiate contraception, provide further support for patients newly prescribed anti-depressants and urgent and emergency care settings will be able to refer patients to a community pharmacist for a minor illness consultation or an urgent medicine supply.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children received Healthy Start Vitamins Vouchers in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to review the staff shortages in the Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
Answered by Will Quince
NHS England advises there are currently no specific shortages of staff within the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. NHS England has allocated an additional £150 million for ambulance services in 2022/23 to support improvements to response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and other funding requirements.
The number of National Health Service ambulance staff and support staff has increased by almost 40% since April 2010. Health Education England has a mandated target to train 3,000 paramedic graduates nationally per annum from 2021 to 2024.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of ambulances using bunkered fuel rather than fuel purchased at forecourts.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made. The National Health Service continually assesses the viability of new technologies to reduce costs and environmental impact. NHS Supply Chain has enhanced its fleet with sustainable vehicles which are hydrotreated vegetable oil ready.
The NHS launched its national programme for a Greener NHS in 2020. ‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero' National Health Service’ sets out actions to respond to climate change with estates and travel and transport targets for achieving net zero direct emissions by 2040 and indirect emissions by 2045.
Whilst ambulance trusts can already use bunkered fuel to achieve cost savings and improve resilience, the approach to fuel purchases is dependent on local circumstances and geography. Given the cost of installing new bunkered fuel facilities and the anticipated move towards electric vehicles, installing additional bunkered fuel facilities is unlikely to be cost effective in most locations.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve the emission quality of fuel forward purchased by NHS Ambulance Trusts; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of switching to hydrotreated vegetable oil on the emissions quality of that fuel.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made. The National Health Service continually assesses the viability of new technologies to reduce costs and environmental impact. NHS Supply Chain has enhanced its fleet with sustainable vehicles which are hydrotreated vegetable oil ready.
The NHS launched its national programme for a Greener NHS in 2020. ‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero' National Health Service’ sets out actions to respond to climate change with estates and travel and transport targets for achieving net zero direct emissions by 2040 and indirect emissions by 2045.
Whilst ambulance trusts can already use bunkered fuel to achieve cost savings and improve resilience, the approach to fuel purchases is dependent on local circumstances and geography. Given the cost of installing new bunkered fuel facilities and the anticipated move towards electric vehicles, installing additional bunkered fuel facilities is unlikely to be cost effective in most locations.
Asked by: Barry Sheerman (Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of when the NHS will complete the electrification of its ambulance fleet; and whether her Department is taking steps to help (a) reduce diesel emissions and (b) improve air quality in the meantime.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made. The National Health Service continually assesses the viability of new technologies to reduce costs and environmental impact. NHS Supply Chain has enhanced its fleet with sustainable vehicles which are hydrotreated vegetable oil ready.
The NHS launched its national programme for a Greener NHS in 2020. ‘Delivering a ‘Net Zero' National Health Service’ sets out actions to respond to climate change with estates and travel and transport targets for achieving net zero direct emissions by 2040 and indirect emissions by 2045.
Whilst ambulance trusts can already use bunkered fuel to achieve cost savings and improve resilience, the approach to fuel purchases is dependent on local circumstances and geography. Given the cost of installing new bunkered fuel facilities and the anticipated move towards electric vehicles, installing additional bunkered fuel facilities is unlikely to be cost effective in most locations.