Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time was for a GP appointment in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey, (c) the South East and (d) England in each of the last seven years.
Answered by David Mowat
Information on the average waiting time for general practitioner (GP) appointments at local and national level is not collected or held centrally.
The GP Patient Survey, published by NHS England, asks respondents across England how long it took for them to see a GP or a nurse after contacting their practice. The full set of survey releases can be found here:
https://gp-patient.co.uk/surveys-and-reports
According to the latest release, published in July 2016:
- Almost two in five patients (37.6%) said that they were able to see or speak to someone on the same day as initially contacting the surgery,
- One in ten (10.7%) saw someone on the next working day,
- Three in ten patients (29.3%) saw or spoke to someone a few days later,
- 18.6% waited a week or more to see or speak to someone.
This does not take account of circumstances where patients express a preference to pre-book an appointment for a later date.
The Government is committed to improving access to general practice. By 2020, everyone will have access to routine evening and weekend appointments.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital appointments were missed in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey, (c) the South East and (d) England in each of the last seven years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The numbers of missed appointments are not collected at constituency level.
The numbers of missed appointments reported by commissioning organisations are shown in the attached table.
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) replaced primary care trusts (PCTs) on 1 April 2013. The area covered by North West Surrey CCG includes Woking; prior to April 2013, all areas within Surrey were covered by Surrey PCT.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of progress in diagnosing and treating bowel cancer in the last seven years.
Answered by David Mowat
One-year survival from colorectal cancer has improved from 75% in 2010 to 77.2% for patients diagnosed in 2014, the most recent year for which figures are available. Screening is critical in improving earlier diagnosis of bowel cancers and improving outcomes. The current screening test, guaiac faecal occult blood test will be replaced with a new easier to use screening test (Faecal Immunochemical Test for haemoglobin, FIT) from April 2018. In addition, from April 2016 NHS England has begun to commission the Bowel Scope Screening Programme, which will ultimately offer a flexi-sigmoidoscopy (bowel scope) to all 55 year olds in England.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the costs and benefits to the NHS of widening access to the HPV vaccine known as Gardasil.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for girls was introduced in 2008 to reduce future incidence of cervical cancer. This was based on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the independent expert body that advises ministers on immunisation matters, and took into account a range of evidence including costs and benefits to the National Health Service.
In October 2013 JCVI considered a potential extension of the HPV programme to adolescent boys. Modelling was requested to re-examine the impact and cost-effectiveness of extending the HPV vaccination programme to adolescent boys which should be completed later this year. JCVI will then make a formal assessment of the cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination for boys.
JCVI advised that a programme for men who have sex with men (MSM) is introduced for those aged up to 45, subject to procuring the vaccine at a cost effective price. Following this advice, Public Health England and its partners have introduced a pilot HPV programme for MSM in England in 2016. The pilot will continue in 2017-18 and will inform decisions on the potential national roll-out of a HPV vaccination programme for MSM.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the per capita funding for the (a) North West Surrey, (b) Guilford and Waverley, (c) Surrey Downs, (d) Richmond, (e) Hounslow, (f) Hillingdon, (g) Slough, (h) Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead, (i) Bracknell and Ascot and (j) Surrey Heath clinical commissioning groups was in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The following table sets out the per capita funding to all of the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) requested above, in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
CCG | 2014-15 Per capita allocation (£) | 2015-16 Per capita allocation (£) |
NHS North West Surrey | 1,085 | 1,090 |
NHS Guildford and Waverley | 1,028 | 1,033 |
NHS Surrey Downs | 1,089 | 1,098 |
NHS Richmond | 997 | 1,018 |
NHS Hounslow | 951 | 1,009 |
NHS Hillingdon | 974 | 1,045 |
NHS Slough | 1,029 | 1,084 |
NHS Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead | 951 | 1,000 |
NHS Bracknell and Ascot | 969 | 1,018 |
NHS Surrey Heath | 1,159 | 1,168 |
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs there were employed in the (a) Primary Care Trust and (b) Clinical Commissioning Group serving Woking constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Ben Gummer
National Health Service workforce data is not available at constituency level. Such information is available in the following table. Due to differences in boundaries, primary care trust (PCT) data from 2010 to 2012 is not comparable to clinical commissioning group (CCG) data in 2013 and 2014.
General practitioners (GPs) by selected area in England: Headcount and full-time equivalent 2010-2014
Headcount | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Surrey PCT |
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All GPs | 906 | 906 | 880 | . | . |
GPs (excluding Retainers and Registrars) | 758 | 770 | 743 | . | . |
NHS North West Surrey CCG |
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All GPs | . | . | . | 238 | 229 |
GPs (excluding Retainers and Registrars) | . | . | . | 222 | 222 |
Full-Time Equivalents |
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Surrey PCT |
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All GPs | 805 | 811 | 789 | . | . |
GPs (excluding Retainers and Registrars) | 679 | 696 | 682 | . | . |
NHS North West Surrey CCG |
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All GPs | . | . | . | 224 | 216 |
GPs (excluding Retainers and Registrars) | . | . | . | 211 | 211 |
Source: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
Notes:
Data as at 30 September 2014 for each year. NHS workforce data is not available at constituency level. Woking constituency is contained within and serviced by NHS North West Surrey CCG. Prior to 1 April 2013, Woking constituency was contained within and serviced by Surrey PCT. Due to the differences in boundaries, PCT data from 2010-2012 is not comparable to CCG data in 2013 and 2014.
The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP appointments were available in Woking constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
There are currently no general practitioner (GP) practices in Woking receiving funding from the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (known formerly as the PM Challenge Fund).
Information on the availability of GP appointments in Woking is not collected centrally. GP practices are responsible for managing their appointments in accordance with the needs of their patients.
The Government is committed to improving access to GP and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, there are 57 schemes covering over 2,500 practices and 18 million patients.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices in Woking constituency have received funding from the GP Access Fund.
Answered by Alistair Burt
There are currently no general practitioner (GP) practices in Woking receiving funding from the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (known formerly as the PM Challenge Fund).
Information on the availability of GP appointments in Woking is not collected centrally. GP practices are responsible for managing their appointments in accordance with the needs of their patients.
The Government is committed to improving access to GP and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, there are 57 schemes covering over 2,500 practices and 18 million patients.
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what NHS spending per head of the population in Surrey was in each of the last two years.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The information is shown in the following table:
Spending per capita (£)
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
NHS East Surrey CCG | 1,020 | 1,033 | 1,074 |
NHS Guildford and Waverley CCG |
1,020 |
1,028 |
1,033 |
NHS North West Surrey CCG | 1,074 | 1,085 | 1,090 |
NHS Surrey Heath CCG | 1,142 | 1,159 | 1,168 |
NHS Surrey Downs CCG | 1,077 | 1,089 | 1,098 |
NHS England Surrey and Sussex Area Team | 1,118 | 1,134 | 1,157 |
Source: NHS England
Asked by: Jonathan Lord (Conservative - Woking)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce the rate of stillbirths in Surrey and Sussex; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dan Poulter
We have made reducing stillbirth an improvement area for the National Health Service in the NHS Outcomes Framework.
We are advised by NHS England that NHS clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Surrey have collectively done significant work relating to perinatal mortality rates, which includes stillbirths. An independent review by the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health in 2013 determined that Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) was not an outlier with respect to stillbirths. The North West Surrey and Guildford and Waverley CCGs continue to work with ASPH on maternity and paediatric pathways.