Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice is being issued to dentists on covid-19.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
NHS England issued guidance, on 20 March 2020, setting out expectations for primary care dentistry to minimise spread of disease and protect dentists and patients during the current pandemic. The advice includes radically reducing the number of routine check-ups and agreeing local arrangements to consolidate, where necessary, the provision of any essential, routine National Health Service work that cannot be delayed and urgent dental problems. NHS England has now established over 550 urgent dental care centres across England to provide face to face dental treatment to patients who need this urgently. They are expected to offer the full range of clinically necessary dental treatment. The guidance is available at the following link:
Notification of the measured resumption of dental services was issued by NHS England on 28 May with further guidance to the profession to follow.
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) dentists and (b) NHS dentists contracts will be covered by emergency financial support.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
NHS England and NHS Improvement issued guidance on 25 March setting out arrangements for National Health Service dental care during the pandemic period and the financial support being put in place for NHS dental contract holders and those working on NHS dental contracts. The intention is that as far as possible remuneration levels are unaffected.
The full guidance is available at the following link:
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether dentists should cease all use of aerosol producing procedures during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
NHS England and NHS Improvement has issued guidance setting out that routine dentistry should be stopped. Practices can continue to offer urgent care only, remotely. This means they are restricted to offering advice, analgesia and antibiotics. Urgent, hands on dentistry, is being provided by urgent dental care centres where full personal protective equipment is available to reduce the risks associated with aerosol generating procedures. The latest NHS England and NHS Improvement guidance can be viewed online at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/dental-practice/
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when further guidance will be issued on dentistry during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
NHS England has issued a series of guidance notes setting out expectations for primary care dentistry to minimise spread of disease and protect dentists and patients during the current pandemic. The advice includes radically reducing the number of routine check-ups and agreeing local arrangements to consolidate, where necessary, the provision of any essential, routine National Health Service work that cannot be delayed and urgent dental problems. The full series of guidance notes is available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/primary-care/dental-practice/
The latest guidance was issued on 15 April 2020. This included the fourth dental preparedness letter as well as guidance on standard operating procedures:
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether routine treatment will be stopped during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
National Health Service organisations were advised, in a letter to them from NHS England and NHS Improvement dated 17 March, that they should assume to need to postpone all non-urgent elective operations from 15 April at the latest, for a period of at least three months. NHS trusts also have full local discretion to wind down elective activity over the next 30 days as they see best, to free up staff for refresher training, beds for COVID-19 patients, and theatres/recovery facilities for adaptation work. Emergency admissions, cancer treatment and other clinically urgent care should continue unaffected.
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Spending Review will include targeted investment in public health to improve regional health outcomes.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. Future funding priorities will be determined through the Spending Review process. In its Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has already committed to strengthen action on prevention and health inequalities. All local health systems will be expected to set out in 2019 how they will reduce health inequalities by 2023/24 and 2028/29.
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of funding was, per patient, for North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group in the last financial year for which figures are available.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England’s published clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocation figures are published, and accessible via the link below. Per capita allocations are found in column nine, and figures from the last financial year – 2016-17 – begin on page one. Data for North Tyneside CCG can also be found on this page.
These figures are as published when allocations were updated in January 2016, and thus do not include any adjustments that may subsequently have been made locally. It should be noted that these figures relate to funding for core CCG services only; they do not, for example, include primary medical care.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ccg-allocations.pdf
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the mean level of funding was, per patient, for each English Clinical Commissioning Group in the last financial year for which figures are available.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England’s published clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocation figures are published, and accessible via the link below. Per capita allocations are found in column nine, and figures from the last financial year – 2016-17 – begin on page one. Data for North Tyneside CCG can also be found on this page.
These figures are as published when allocations were updated in January 2016, and thus do not include any adjustments that may subsequently have been made locally. It should be noted that these figures relate to funding for core CCG services only; they do not, for example, include primary medical care.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ccg-allocations.pdf
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on legal advice by North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group in each of the last three years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England advises that NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCGs) spending on legal advice since 2014/15 is as follows:
2014/15 £9,826
2015/16 £49,064
2016/17 £40,837
2017/18 £40,692 (year-to-date, up to end of October 2017, month seven)
Please note that legal costs listed include all costs incurred as a result of direct patient care, and do not just relate to advice in respect of organisations or contracts.
The year-to-date figure for 2017/18 includes £17,281 in respect of the CCG’s response to the legal challenge to the urgent care procurement process earlier this year, and £1,281 in relation to the new urgent care work which is currently underway. There are no further costs associated with the urgent care procurement process, as this work is carried out by officers of the CCG and North of England Commissioning Support as part of their normal work.
Asked by: Alan Campbell (Labour - Tynemouth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent by North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group on the formal process entered into in January 2017 to secure a new provider for urgent care services in North Tyneside.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England advises that NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCGs) spending on legal advice since 2014/15 is as follows:
2014/15 £9,826
2015/16 £49,064
2016/17 £40,837
2017/18 £40,692 (year-to-date, up to end of October 2017, month seven)
Please note that legal costs listed include all costs incurred as a result of direct patient care, and do not just relate to advice in respect of organisations or contracts.
The year-to-date figure for 2017/18 includes £17,281 in respect of the CCG’s response to the legal challenge to the urgent care procurement process earlier this year, and £1,281 in relation to the new urgent care work which is currently underway. There are no further costs associated with the urgent care procurement process, as this work is carried out by officers of the CCG and North of England Commissioning Support as part of their normal work.