Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with clinical commissioning groups on the provision of support to people with mild to moderate dementia to allow them to remain in their own homes as long as possible.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Whilst we are not aware of such specific discussions, dementia is a key priority for the Government. On 6 March 2016, we launched the Implementation Plan to support the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020. The Implementation Plan sets out the actions partners, including clinical commissioning groups, will take to ensure commitments in the PM Challenge 2020 are delivered. A key commitment in the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 is to support people with dementia to be able to live longer in their own homes.
The publication ‘Dementia & Homecare: Driving Quality & Innovation’ published as part of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia provides clear, practical ideas and suggestions to further dementia care in the community. Driving improvements in homecare will not only help ensure people stay independent for longer but will also support our ambition for people to receive meaningful care following a diagnosis of dementia.
As part of the Implementation Plan, the Department will work with the Life Story Network to focus on older people and people with dementia who live in social housing to ensure they are supported to live in their homes for longer with a greater focus on independent living.
NHS England is fully supportive of enabling people with dementia to live at home independently for as long as they want to do so. NHS England’s well-pathway for dementia includes streams on both living well and supporting well.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses have been recruited by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The information requested is not available in the format requested.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre advises the available data is based on all nurses and doctors who are paid through the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and complete ESR data of the quality required is only available from 2009.
Such information as is available is in the following table.
Numbers of new Joiners in the 12 month period from 30 September Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
| 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 |
NHS Hospital & Community Health Service (HCHS) Doctors | 122 | 134 | 131 | 141 | 171 | 160 |
Nurses and health visitors | 129 | 146 | 82 | 152 | 212 | 139 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, HCHS workforce statistics.
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Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people receiving social care in (a) Dartford and (b) Kent who are entitled to public funding to support that care.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department does not hold this information in the format requested.
Data collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre indicates that in 2014/15 there were 4,175 local authority supported long term residential and nursing care users aged 65 years and over supported by Kent County Council. This data is not available for the individual district councils in Kent, of which Dartford is one.
The data can be found at:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB18663
An internal estimate carried out by the Department in 2012/13 estimated that 48% of people aged 65 and over in residential and nursing care in Kent were receiving local authority support at that time.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of specialist dementia (a) residential and (b) nursing home places in Kent.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information:
Active care home locations with the Dementia Service User Band in the Kent local authority
Type of home | Number of beds | Number of locations |
Nursing home | 3,663 | 62 |
Residential home | 4,229 | 136 |
Grand Total | 7,892 | 198 |
Source: CQC database at 11 April 2016
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he holds on the number of dentists in Dartford able to accept new NHS patients.
Answered by Alistair Burt
This is a matter for the local National Health Service.
NHS England advises that out of 12 dental surgeries in Dartford, there are six surgeries that are currently accepting new NHS patients.
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve services for people with coeliac disease; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The treatment of coeliac disease is a lifelong gluten-free diet. It is therefore important clinicians understand the symptomatic picture of the condition and the investigations required to support an appropriate diagnosis. It is also important that patients who are diagnosed with coeliac disease are given suitable advice and support about how to manage their diet accordingly and can be referred to specialist services if clinically appropriate.
To support NHS services in the diagnosis, treatment care and support of children and adults with coeliac disease, in September 2015 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence updated its best practice guideline Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management. The new guideline sets out seven recommendations to improve services for coeliac patients and includes implementation advice for the local NHS on the provision of the laboratory testing and interpretation of results and access to healthcare professionals trained to give specialist dietetic advice in relation to coeliac disease. The guidance can be found at the following link
www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng20
Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding his Department provided to Darent Valley Hospital in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The information is shown in the following table.
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust – Revenue from Department of Health
2012-13 | 2011-12 | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2006-07 |
£000s | £000s | £000s | £000s | £000s | £000s | £000s |
20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,366 | 12,086 | 11,714 |
Source: Audited summarisation schedules, 2006-07 to 2012-13
Notes:
1. Financial accounting information is collected from each NHS trust, and figures are not disaggregated further by individual hospitals.
2. The table provided, sourced from the Trust's audited summarisation schedules submitted annually to the Department, summarises the income received for each year from 2006-07 onwards. Audited figures for 2013-14 will be available later this year, once the Department's Annual Report and Accounts are laid before Parliament.