Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many apprenticeship starts in England were funded by the NHS in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19 at each apprenticeship level.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department does not centrally collect the information requested.
Public sector organisations in scope to meet the public sector apprentice target provide data annually to the Department for Education on numbers of apprentice starts. Data provided by the Department for Education show the National Health Service organisations in scope had 13,800 apprentice starts in 2017/18.
Published statistics which cover public sector apprenticeships in England in the first year of the target, 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-sector-apprenticeships-in-england-2017-to-2018
Data is not available on 2018/19 starts until later this year.
Any NHS organisations not in scope for the apprenticeship target will not be included in the return, though they may have apprentices training within their organisation.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what outcomes NHS England plans to achieve for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities during the lifespan of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Aspirations for children and young people are set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the recently published Implementation Framework. Services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and learning disabilities and autism are separate workstreams under the new Children and Young People Transformation Board.
Funding to deliver the improvements set out in the Long Term Plan will be provided through clinical commissioning groups allocations and additional service development funding.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding NHS England has allocated to improving outcomes for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities during the lifespan of the NHS Long-Term Plan.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Aspirations for children and young people are set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the recently published Implementation Framework. Services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and learning disabilities and autism are separate workstreams under the new Children and Young People Transformation Board.
Funding to deliver the improvements set out in the Long Term Plan will be provided through clinical commissioning groups allocations and additional service development funding.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total value of the NHS England Children’s Hospice Grant will be in (a) 2020-21 (b) 2021-22 (c) 2022-23 and (d) 2023-24.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
NHS England has committed to increase the national grant funding from £12 million to £25 million a year by 2023/24. The planned grant allocations by financial year are as follows: 2020/21 £15 million; 2021/22 £17 million; 2022/23 £21 million; 2023/24 £25 million.
NHS England is undertaking a review of the current grant allocation formula which is due to complete by the end of this year. Following agreement with the sector, it is planned to notify the 2020/21 grant allocations prior to the start of 2020/21 financial year in line with National Health Service operational planning processes.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the total value of the children’s hospice grant does not fall below £12million between the years 2020-21 and 2023-24 inclusive.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
NHS England has committed to increase the national grant funding from £12 million to £25 million a year by 2023/24. The planned grant allocations by financial year are as follows: 2020/21 £15 million; 2021/22 £17 million; 2022/23 £21 million; 2023/24 £25 million.
NHS England is undertaking a review of the current grant allocation formula which is due to complete by the end of this year. Following agreement with the sector, it is planned to notify the 2020/21 grant allocations prior to the start of 2020/21 financial year in line with National Health Service operational planning processes.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for publishing the 2020-21 NHS England children’s hospice grant allocations.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
NHS England has committed to increase the national grant funding from £12 million to £25 million a year by 2023/24. The planned grant allocations by financial year are as follows: 2020/21 £15 million; 2021/22 £17 million; 2022/23 £21 million; 2023/24 £25 million.
NHS England is undertaking a review of the current grant allocation formula which is due to complete by the end of this year. Following agreement with the sector, it is planned to notify the 2020/21 grant allocations prior to the start of 2020/21 financial year in line with National Health Service operational planning processes.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 ensure that children’s hospices receive notice of their individual 2020-21 NHS England children’s hospice grant allocation in time to inform their budget planning for that year.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
NHS England has committed to increase the national grant funding from £12 million to £25 million a year by 2023/24. The planned grant allocations by financial year are as follows: 2020/21 £15 million; 2021/22 £17 million; 2022/23 £21 million; 2023/24 £25 million.
NHS England is undertaking a review of the current grant allocation formula which is due to complete by the end of this year. Following agreement with the sector, it is planned to notify the 2020/21 grant allocations prior to the start of 2020/21 financial year in line with National Health Service operational planning processes.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s public consultation entitled Calorie labelling for food and drink served outside of the home, which closed on 7 December 2018, how many responses the consultation received; and if he will commit to publish a response to that consultation before the next Parliamentary recess.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The consultation on mandating calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector received a high level of interest with over 1,000 responses from members of the public, businesses and organisations. We will publish the results and set out the timetable for further action later this year.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the NHS Long Term Plan did not include commitments on waiting time targets for (a) treatment in Accident & Emergency, (b) routine operations and (c) cancer treatment.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The clinically-led review of standards was announced by the Prime Minister in June 2018. The review is considering the appropriateness of operational standards for physical and mental health relating to planned, unplanned urgent or emergency care, including cancer.
The Long Term Plan provides a platform upon which innovative models of patient care can and are being developed. In that context, the National Health Service’s National Medical Director has been working with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Healthwatch England and many others to consider what matters most to patients, on the clinical issues with the current target regime, and what NHS staff believe will help them provide the best quality care for patients.
The review will report its interim findings in the spring of 2019, after which any recommended changes will be carefully field tested across the NHS.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 23 July 2018 to Question 165015 on breast cancer: surgery, which clinical audit topics have (a) been selected and (b) not yet been selected by NHS England; and what the timescale is for that process.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) on behalf of NHS England.
Currently, there are five cancer clinical audits including breast cancer in older people. The newly established NCAPOP partners group will look at opportunities to review the audit programme based on audit commissioning cycle opportunity and eligibility criteria related to alignment with National Health Service priorities, like the forthcoming long-term plan for the NHS, impact, value and need.
NCAPOP is made up of a rolling programme of audits commissioned at different times on a 3-5 year basis.