Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are on NHS waiting lists for kidney transplants.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
As of 20 October 2016, there were 5,102 people on the active kidney transplant waiting list.
Waiting list figures can fluctuate daily as patients are removed or added to the transplant list as their condition improves or deteriorates.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are on NHS waiting lists to receive a liver transplant.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
As at 20 October 2016 there were 550 people on the active liver transplant list.
Waiting list figures can fluctuate daily as patients are removed or added to the transplant list as their condition improves or deteriorates.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has plans for an opt-out system for organ donation across the UK.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
There are currently no plans for an opt-out system for organ donation in England. Since 2008 donation in the United Kingdom has increased by 68% and transplants by 47%, by increasing the number of specialist nurses and strengthening the donation infrastructure. 2015/16 saw the highest ever deceased donor rate in the UK with 1,364 deceased donors resulting in 3,529 transplants.
We continue to support work to further increase donation and transplantation rates, particularly promoting collaborative working amongst organisations and raising awareness of donation in the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to become donors.
NHS Blood and Transplant launched a new UK–wide organ donation and transplantation strategy in July 2013. Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 identifies the action being taken to increase organ donation and transplantation.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
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 people switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department has not made an assessment of the number of people that have used e-cigarettes to quit or replace smoking in each of the last three years. Data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests in 2015 there were 2.6 million e-cigarette users of which nearly two out of five no longer smoked tobacco products.
ASH ‘Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain’, 2015:
http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS is of using agency nurses from overseas.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has further to centralise the delivery of acute stroke services in metropolitan areas.
Answered by David Mowat
NHS England’s National Clinical Director (NCD) for stroke is leading work to develop a full proposal which will consider the evidence and logistical issues involved in delivering mechanical thrombectomy to stroke patients across the country. This includes working with the relevant specialist societies, Royal Colleges and Health Education England to consider the workforce implications. Once the proposal has been developed, NHS England will decide whether the procedure should be made widely available.
To ensure there is equitable access to high quality hyper acute stroke care regardless of time of stroke or where a patient has their stroke, NHS England’s NCD for stroke continues to work with Clinical Networks, Urgent and Emergency Care Networks, clinical commissioning groups and the Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprints on how stroke care is best delivered to their local communities.
In some places, this is ‘the London type model’ of focussing care in a small number of centres and equipping these to be able to deliver specialist care 24/7. In other parts of the country, centralisation of care into specialist centres is not feasible for geographical reasons. In these cases, alternative solutions (such as the use of telemedicine) have to be considered. Whatever the scenario, NHS England is fully committed to ensuring that all patients receive the best quality of care and the most up to date treatments.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he anticipates an increase in the uptake of medical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute stroke in NHS hospitals; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by David Mowat
NHS England’s National Clinical Director (NCD) for stroke is leading work to develop a full proposal which will consider the evidence and logistical issues involved in delivering mechanical thrombectomy to stroke patients across the country. This includes working with the relevant specialist societies, Royal Colleges and Health Education England to consider the workforce implications. Once the proposal has been developed, NHS England will decide whether the procedure should be made widely available.
To ensure there is equitable access to high quality hyper acute stroke care regardless of time of stroke or where a patient has their stroke, NHS England’s NCD for stroke continues to work with Clinical Networks, Urgent and Emergency Care Networks, clinical commissioning groups and the Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprints on how stroke care is best delivered to their local communities.
In some places, this is ‘the London type model’ of focussing care in a small number of centres and equipping these to be able to deliver specialist care 24/7. In other parts of the country, centralisation of care into specialist centres is not feasible for geographical reasons. In these cases, alternative solutions (such as the use of telemedicine) have to be considered. Whatever the scenario, NHS England is fully committed to ensuring that all patients receive the best quality of care and the most up to date treatments.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS is of using agency doctors who are brought in from other countries.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts use agency nurses who are brought in from other countries.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested is not held by the Department.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people received kidney transplants in each of the last five years; and how many people in each of those years were listed as requiring a kidney transplant.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information available is found in the table below.
United Kingdom kidney only transplants, 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2016 | ||||||
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Transplant type | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Deceased donor kidney transplants | 1,598 | 1,750 | 1,940 | 1,880 | 2,036 | 854 |
Living donor kidney transplants | 1,009 | 1,070 | 1,116 | 1,051 | 1,038 | 395 |
Total kidney only transplants | 2,607 | 2,820 | 3,056 | 2,931 | 3,074 | 1,249 |
UK kidney only transplant list, 31 March 2012 to 31 March 2016 | ||||||
| March 2012 | March 2013 | March 2014 | March 2015 | March 2016 |
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| 6,417 | 6,114 | 5,662 | 5,468 | 5,081 |
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Source: NHS Blood and Transplant