Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
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 provide support to hospices for end-of-life care units.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
As stated in the Health and Care Act 2022, integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative and end of life care services, which may include services delivered by independent charitable hospices such as end of life care units, in response to the needs of their local population. ICBs determine the distribution of this funding according to local need, including to providers such as hospices.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide ongoing support to children’s hospice support grants.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In June 2023, NHS England confirmed that it would be renewing the Children and Young People’s Hospice Grant for 2024/25, once again allocating £25 million grant funding for children’s hospices. NHS England will confirm the funding mechanism and individual allocations in due course.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) algorithmic and (b) other automated decision making systems his Department uses; and for what purposes.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department of Health and Social Care does not use or deploy algorithmic or automated decision-making systems on its staff or for internal analysis in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to provide people who have survived cardiac arrest with an individualised rehabilitation plan.
Answered by Will Quince
Improving access to cardiac rehabilitation is a priority of the NHS Long Term Plan. In 2023/24, NHS England will provide funding to improve access to cardiac rehabilitation services, including the provision of different modes of delivery to enable individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plans. In addition, all patients in England with heart disease will be better supported by multi-disciplinary teams as part of primary care networks.
NHS England are working to support patients with heart failure in the community through the roll-out of NHS Managing Heart Failure @home. This scheme aims to support people living with heart failure to self-manage in their own home through patient education and remote monitoring.
Cardiac arrest survivors will require different pathways depending on the severity of the damage caused by the cardiac arrest. Patients discharged from secondary care will receive cardiac rehabilitation services which are available in every region. For more severe cases of cardiac arrest there are Level 1 & 2 specialist inpatient rehabilitation services. NHS England are committed to improving these services and are working with charities and other bodies to further develop these rehabilitation pathways for patients.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to provide people affected by cardiac arrest with ongoing and personalised support.
Answered by Will Quince
Improving access to cardiac rehabilitation is a priority of the NHS Long Term Plan. In 2023/24, NHS England will provide funding to improve access to cardiac rehabilitation services, including the provision of different modes of delivery to enable individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plans. In addition, all patients in England with heart disease will be better supported by multi-disciplinary teams as part of primary care networks.
NHS England are working to support patients with heart failure in the community through the roll-out of NHS Managing Heart Failure @home. This scheme aims to support people living with heart failure to self-manage in their own home through patient education and remote monitoring.
Cardiac arrest survivors will require different pathways depending on the severity of the damage caused by the cardiac arrest. Patients discharged from secondary care will receive cardiac rehabilitation services which are available in every region. For more severe cases of cardiac arrest there are Level 1 & 2 specialist inpatient rehabilitation services. NHS England are committed to improving these services and are working with charities and other bodies to further develop these rehabilitation pathways for patients.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to develop a formal care pathway for cardiac arrest survivors.
Answered by Will Quince
Improving access to cardiac rehabilitation is a priority of the NHS Long Term Plan. In 2023/24, NHS England will provide funding to improve access to cardiac rehabilitation services, including the provision of different modes of delivery to enable individual post-cardiac arrest rehabilitation plans. In addition, all patients in England with heart disease will be better supported by multi-disciplinary teams as part of primary care networks.
NHS England are working to support patients with heart failure in the community through the roll-out of NHS Managing Heart Failure @home. This scheme aims to support people living with heart failure to self-manage in their own home through patient education and remote monitoring.
Cardiac arrest survivors will require different pathways depending on the severity of the damage caused by the cardiac arrest. Patients discharged from secondary care will receive cardiac rehabilitation services which are available in every region. For more severe cases of cardiac arrest there are Level 1 & 2 specialist inpatient rehabilitation services. NHS England are committed to improving these services and are working with charities and other bodies to further develop these rehabilitation pathways for patients.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure of 14 June 2023 at Topical Questions, T7, Official Report, column 286, what plans his Department has to (a) utilise the provisions in Part 3 of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill and (b) use smart data in new sectors.
Answered by Will Quince
There is exciting potential to explore Smart Data in further sectors, beyond Open Banking. Government, regulators and industry experts are working together via the Smart Data Council to ensure that the United Kingdom continues to be at the forefront of developments in this space.
Before committing to utilise the provisions in Part 3 of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill in any given sector, there is work to be done to understand how Smart Data can empower consumers and turbo charge competition.
There are no current plans for the Department to utilise the provisions in Part 3 of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 24 January 2023 on Government Action on Major Conditions and Diseases, HCWS514, whether the Major Conditions Strategy will be a 5 or 10 year strategy.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Strategy will support our health and care system, working in partnership with others, to tackle the biggest causes of mortality and ill-health over both the short and long term.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of MS nurses in England.
Answered by Will Quince
Individual National Health Service employers are responsible for planning local staffing levels in line with service priorities, including the number of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) nurses.
Whilst there are no specific targets for increasing numbers of MS nurses at a national level, the Government is on track to recruit 50,000 more nurses across hospital and general practice settings overall by 2024.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of qualified neurologists.
Answered by Will Quince
The number of doctors who accepted a specialty training post in neurology increased by 20% from 44 in 2021 to 53 in 2022.
In January 2023, Health Education England announced that nearly 900 additional medical specialty training posts have been created for this year, including five additional training posts for neurology.
The Government has funded 1,500 (25%) more medical school places each year for domestic students in England, a 25% increase over three years. This expansion was completed in September 2020 and has delivered five new medical schools in England. This expansion will increase the supply pipeline in coming years for qualified doctors, including neurologists.
As of October 2022 there are 1,672 full-time equivalent neurologists working in the National Health Service. This is an increase of 559 (50.3%) from 10 years ago (October 2012).