Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to review the effectiveness of NHS (a) diagnoses and (b) treatment of pineal cysts.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No such plans have been made.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding the Government is providing for research into the treatment of pineal cysts.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Department funds health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including pineal cysts. However, the NIHR has not recently conducted any research into this health area.
It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends on the volume and quality of scientific activity.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to increase the availability of regular follow up MRI scans for people with pineal cysts.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
No plans are currently in place.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
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 09 July 2019 to Question 275188 on Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services, if he will publish a list of the local areas in which NHS England plans to begin testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS England will make information available in the coming months on the sites developing new models of integrated primary and community mental health care in 2019/20 and 2020/21, including those testing four week waiting times.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
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 09 July 2019 to Question 275188 on Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services, on what date NHS England plans to begin testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS England will make information available in the coming months on the sites developing new models of integrated primary and community mental health care in 2019/20 and 2020/21, including those testing four week waiting times.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
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 25 June 2019 to Question 267305 on Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services, what the timetable will be for the overall testing of new models of primary and community mental health care.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
For adults with an eating disorder, the NHS Long Term Plan has made a renewed commitment that mental health services will grow faster than the overall National Health Service budget, with additional investment worth at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. This includes investment in community-based adult eating disorder services as part of the Plan’s commitment to transform community-based care for adults with mental health needs.
The NHS is also investing over £30 million in services every year to meet and maintain ambitious waiting targets, with 70 community treatment teams now covering the whole of the country so that more children and young people can get eating disorder care closer to home and out of hospital.
As part of a broader programme of work on community based mental health care for adults, alongside work to explore the effectiveness of different approaches to integrated delivery with primary care and starting this summer, NHS England will test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams with selected local areas to build understanding of how best to introduce ambitious but achievable improvements to access, quality of care and outcomes. In doing so, NHS England will also consider the interfaces with specialist community mental health services, particularly where there is an existing evidence base for rapid direct access (such as eating disorders).
Learning from these test sites about the required inputs to increase access and reduce waits will inform future policy discussions about a suitable timeframe for implementation of any future access and waiting time targets, for core community provision or for specialist provision.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
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 25 June 2019 to Question 267305 on Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services, when he plans to provide further information on the funding arrangements for the proposed pilot schemes of four-week waiting time targets for adult eating disorder treatment.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
For adults with an eating disorder, the NHS Long Term Plan has made a renewed commitment that mental health services will grow faster than the overall National Health Service budget, with additional investment worth at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. This includes investment in community-based adult eating disorder services as part of the Plan’s commitment to transform community-based care for adults with mental health needs.
The NHS is also investing over £30 million in services every year to meet and maintain ambitious waiting targets, with 70 community treatment teams now covering the whole of the country so that more children and young people can get eating disorder care closer to home and out of hospital.
As part of a broader programme of work on community based mental health care for adults, alongside work to explore the effectiveness of different approaches to integrated delivery with primary care and starting this summer, NHS England will test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams with selected local areas to build understanding of how best to introduce ambitious but achievable improvements to access, quality of care and outcomes. In doing so, NHS England will also consider the interfaces with specialist community mental health services, particularly where there is an existing evidence base for rapid direct access (such as eating disorders).
Learning from these test sites about the required inputs to increase access and reduce waits will inform future policy discussions about a suitable timeframe for implementation of any future access and waiting time targets, for core community provision or for specialist provision.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applicants to the Government's ex-gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants have received payments as of 24 June 2019.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
As of 24 June 2019, a total of 1,451 completed applications for payment had been received and 1,385 payments made.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications have been received for the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former British child migrants as of 24 June 2019.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
As of 24 June 2019, a total of 1,451 completed applications for payment had been received and 1,385 payments made.
Asked by: Lisa Nandy (Labour - Wigan)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department have made trends in the level of demand for support provided by the Family Restoration Fund for former child migrants as a result of the introduction of the Government's ex gratia payment scheme for former child migrants.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
On current plans, the Family Restoration Fund for former British child migrants will continue until April 2020. In the nine years that it has been in place, the Fund has helped nearly 700 former British child migrants to make over 1,200 trips to be reunited with their loved ones. Future funding will be considered as part of the forthcoming spending review.
The Child Migrants Trust, who manage the Family Restoration Fund on behalf of the Government, provide monthly data to the Department. Data provided up to the end of March 2019 does not suggest that patterns of demand have changed significantly as compared to the previous year.