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 address regional disparities in ambulance response times.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.
Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
2017/18 | 0:08:23 | 0:25:51 | 1:04:36 | 1:30:32 |
2018/19 | 0:07:18 | 0:21:47 | 1:01:46 | 1:25:42 |
2019/20 | 0:07:18 | 0:23:50 | 1:11:04 | 1:26:09 |
2020/21 | 0:07:03 | 0:20:57 | 0:54:41 | 1:22:51 |
2021/22 | 0:08:39 | 0:41:17 | 2:13:40 | 2:49:43 |
April to May 2022 | 0:08:36 | 0:39:58 | 2:09:32 | 2:47:57 |
Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.
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 the average ambulance response time was in England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.
Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
2017/18 | 0:08:23 | 0:25:51 | 1:04:36 | 1:30:32 |
2018/19 | 0:07:18 | 0:21:47 | 1:01:46 | 1:25:42 |
2019/20 | 0:07:18 | 0:23:50 | 1:11:04 | 1:26:09 |
2020/21 | 0:07:03 | 0:20:57 | 0:54:41 | 1:22:51 |
2021/22 | 0:08:39 | 0:41:17 | 2:13:40 | 2:49:43 |
April to May 2022 | 0:08:36 | 0:39:58 | 2:09:32 | 2:47:57 |
Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.
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 improve ambulance response times.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre. An additional £150 million has been allocated in 2022/23 to improve response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and relieving other funding pressures.
Information on the average response time in England is not collected in the format requested. Ambulance response times are measured by category at regional ambulance trust level since the introduction of the current national response time standards in 2017/18. Average ambulance response times were not collected under the previous ‘Category A’ national response time standards. The following table shows the mean average ambulance waiting times in hours, minutes and seconds for Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 incidents in England in each year from 2017/18 to May 2022.
| Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 |
2017/18 | 0:08:23 | 0:25:51 | 1:04:36 | 1:30:32 |
2018/19 | 0:07:18 | 0:21:47 | 1:01:46 | 1:25:42 |
2019/20 | 0:07:18 | 0:23:50 | 1:11:04 | 1:26:09 |
2020/21 | 0:07:03 | 0:20:57 | 0:54:41 | 1:22:51 |
2021/22 | 0:08:39 | 0:41:17 | 2:13:40 | 2:49:43 |
April to May 2022 | 0:08:36 | 0:39:58 | 2:09:32 | 2:47:57 |
Source: NHS Ambulance Quality Indicators.
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 the average wait time is between (a) referral and (b) first appointment for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Barnsley in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The information requested is not collected centrally.
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 (a) recruit and (b) retain NHS dentists.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
In its ‘Advancing Dental Care Review’ published in September 2021, Health Education England (HEE) made recommendations to address recruitment, retention and attracting dentists and other dental professionals into the National Health Service. These recommendations are being implemented through HEE’s Dental Education Reform Programme. We are also working with stakeholders, including the British Dental Association, to ensure the NHS dental contract is more attractive to the profession and negotiations are currently underway on initial improvements.
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 advice his Department provides to people who are unable to register with a NHS dentist as a result of lack of local availability.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Dental patients are not registered to a particular practice. A practice can accept a patient for a course of treatment and there are no geographical restrictions on which dental practice a patient may attend. NHS England’s customer service centre can advise patients on available practices and those with urgent needs should contact NHS 111.
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 extra support his Department is providing for unpaid carers facing financial hardship due to the rising cost of living.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The Government continues to provide financial support to unpaid carers through Carer’s Allowance, the Carer Element in Universal Credit and through other benefits. Carers in low-income households will benefit from the Means-Tested Benefit Cost of Living Payment. Those those living in the same household as the disabled person for whom they care will benefit from the disability Cost of Living Payment, while families with a pensioner in the household will benefit from the Pensioner Cost of Living Payment.
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 will set a target for wait times upon referrals to the Veterans High Intensity Service for mental health.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
There are no plans to set a target waiting time for referrals to the Op COURAGE High Intensity Service. This service augments existing provisions and veterans will receive support within Op COURAGE or mainstream mental health services such as the Crisis Team. The following table below shows the average waiting time for an assessment in the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, the Complex Treatment Service and the High Intensity Service within Op COURAGE from January to April 2022. Data for May is not yet available.
| Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service | Complex Treatment Service | High Intensity Service |
January 2022 | 9 days | 11 days | 2 days |
February 2022 | 9 days | 8 days | 3 days |
March 2022 | 9 days | 7 days | 3 days |
April 2022 | 10 days | 5 days | 3 days |
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 the average waiting time was for an assessment conducted by the (a) Transition, Intervention and Liaison veterans' mental health service, (b) Community Therapeutic Services and (c) High Intensity Services following a person's first contact with Op COURAGE in each month from January 2022 to May 2022 inclusive.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
There are no plans to set a target waiting time for referrals to the Op COURAGE High Intensity Service. This service augments existing provisions and veterans will receive support within Op COURAGE or mainstream mental health services such as the Crisis Team. The following table below shows the average waiting time for an assessment in the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, the Complex Treatment Service and the High Intensity Service within Op COURAGE from January to April 2022. Data for May is not yet available.
| Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service | Complex Treatment Service | High Intensity Service |
January 2022 | 9 days | 11 days | 2 days |
February 2022 | 9 days | 8 days | 3 days |
March 2022 | 9 days | 7 days | 3 days |
April 2022 | 10 days | 5 days | 3 days |
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of people in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) Barnsley who are awaiting a cancer diagnosis as of 9 June 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information is not held in the format requested.