Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to enable the use of digital technology to increase access to healthcare for people in rural communities.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Digital technology is improving access to healthcare for rural communities:
- In April 2018, NHS Digital published a digital inclusion guide for health and social care aimed at local health and care organisations to help them to take practical steps to support digital inclusion in their communities, including those in rural areas who are more likely to be digitally excluded;
- We are working closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to ensure that health and care needs are taken into account in national digital infrastructure policy, are running two test beds under Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s 5G programme focused on improving access, and the 5G programme itself will address rural connectivity; and
- The NHS App is now connected in over 52% of general practitioner (GP) practices. It provides a universal offer regardless of postcode. It gives patients a single safe and secure means to interact with their GP, including access to their GP record, make GP appointments, order repeat prescriptions, access 111 online for urgent medical questions. The improved NHS website has over 40 million visits a month.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of changes to the Nutrient Profile Model on the likely intake of Vitamin D and calcium by children and young adults.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Nutrient Profiling Model considers the balance of the ingredients and nutritional content of a food or drink. It does not measure the contribution of foods and drinks to the diet overall. No assessment of vitamin D or calcium intake of children has been made.
The Nutrient Profiling Model is available to view at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nutrient-profiling-model
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money has been spent from the public purse on children's cardiology in (a) Cornwall and (b) North Cornwall constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Steve Brine
The information is not available in the requested format. Paediatric cardiology spend on patients in Cornwall in each of the last five years is as follows:
- 2013/14: £514,308.17;
- 2014/15: £563,029.70;
- 2015/16: £509,222.37;
- 2016/17: £588,220.66;
- 2017/18: £854,337.98.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding for mental health has been allocated from the public purse to Cornwall in each of the last three years; and how much such funding is planned to be allocated to Cornwall in 2018-19.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Expenditure on mental health services for the years 2015/16 and 2016/17 spend by clinical commissioning group (CCG) is available in the mental health Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (FYFVMH) dashboard, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
For NHS Kernow CCG, which is responsible for commissioning services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, the FYFVMH Dashboard shows that for 2015/16 its spend on mental health was £121.8 million, and for 2016/17, £120.7 million
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds records on the amount of money spent in (a) Cornwall, and (b) North Cornwall constituency on children’s mental health services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information requested is not collected in the format requested.
However, information on the spend made by clinical commissioning groups on children and young people’s mental health services is published by NHS England in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard.
The latest information is for quarter 4 for 2016/17 and is available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money spent on research into Rhabdomyosarcoma in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department funds research into all aspects of human health, including cancer, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) at the level of £1 billion per year. NIHR cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. The Department does not routinely collect data on research expenditure on individual tumour types.
As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of money spent on research into childhood cancers in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department funds research into all aspects of human health, including cancer, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) at the level of £1 billion per year. NIHR cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. The Department does not routinely collect data on research expenditure on individual tumour types.
As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the childhood obesity rate is in Cornwall.
Answered by Steve Brine
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for reception age children (aged four to five years) is 10.0%.
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for Year Six age children (aged 10-11 years) is 15.1%.
The data are publicly available on the Public Health England fingertips tool here:
Prevalence rates for childhood obesity for children at other ages are not collected in large enough samples to generate reliable county-level data.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the £1.6 billion extra NHS funding announced in autumn 2017 will be spent in (a) North Cornwall constituency and (b) Cornwall.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
NHS England allocates funding to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), rather than to individual constituencies. Cornwall is served by NHS Kernow CCG.
Following the Autumn Budget’s announcement of an extra £1.6 billion of revenue funding for the National Health Service in 2018-19, NHS England has issued new planning guidance detailing how funding will be distributed in the coming year. The amount of extra funding allocated to NHS Kernow CCG in 2018-19 can be found page 4, column 7 of the document available here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Revised-CCG-allocations-2018-19-1.pdf
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses were employed in North Cornwall constituency in (a) 2013-2014, (b) 2014-2015 and (c) 2016-2017.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The information is not available in the format requested.