Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Leak reveals worst case scenario for nursing after Brexit, published by the Health Service Journal on 6 April 2017, whether (a) he and (b) other Ministers of his Department had sight of the modelling by his Department referenced in that report before that report was published.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
It has been the policy of successive Governments not to comment on specific leaks and the Government takes such incidents very seriously. Leaks are investigated thoroughly and effectively, with established policies and procedures in place.
Notwithstanding this, the Department continues to monitor and analyse overall staffing levels across the National Health Service, and we are working across Government to ensure there will continue to be sufficient staff to deliver the high quality services on which patients rely following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Our overall programme of work is comprehensive, thorough and continuously updated.
Our plans include working with NHS and social care employers to ensure that the 167,000 EU nationals working across health and care are aware of the straightforward and user friendly EU settlement scheme which will allow them to secure long-term status in the UK and enjoy broadly the same rights and benefits as they do now.
From the NHS Digital monthly Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics, as at June 2018, there are over 4,300 more EU27 nationals working in the NHS and clinical commissioning group’s since the referendum.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has compiled information on the number of NHS staff whose immigration status would be affected by the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We do not want or expect a no deal scenario. As a result of the significant progress made in negotiations, we remain confident we will agree a mutually advantageous deal with the European Union.
We have been clear from the beginning of this process that we want EU nationals currently working in the National Health Service to stay after we leave the EU and we are working to safeguard their future, regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. They, and their close family members, will be able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to secure their settled status. This offer will stand irrespective of whether a deal is reached by the time the United Kingdom leaves the EU.
As of March 2018 there were around 63,000 EU excluding UK nationals employed in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, or 5.2% of all employees, who would be eligible to apply for such a scheme.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Leak reveals worst case scenario for nursing after Brexit, published by the Health Service Journal on 6 April 2017, whether the information contained in the report was made public by his Department.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
It has been the policy of successive Governments not to comment on specific leaks and the Government takes such incidents very seriously. Leaks are investigated thoroughly and effectively, with established policies and procedures in place.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the NHS has been of providing emergency medical provision for incidents on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport in each of the last six years.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were admitted to the A&E or Acute Trauma Wards of each London hospital for treatment for knife wounds in each of the last three years for which data are available; and what the cost was to the public purse of such treatment in each such year.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The requested information is not centrally held.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the costs to the public purse of the treatment of side effects from long-term use of antidepressants.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department has made no such assessment.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of NICE-recommended treatments for patients at risk of recurrent depression in England.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a number of clinical guidelines for mental health conditions that recommend psychological therapies. NICE’s guidelines on this topic, recommendations on the use of specific drugs, interventional procedures and computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be found at the following link:
Clinical guidelines represent best practice and should be taken fully into account by clinicians.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme provides NICE approved services to people in England with common mental health conditions including depression. Since the start of the IAPT Programme in 2008, more than four million adults have entered the IAPT programme. Of that four million, over 2.7 million have completed treatment and over 950,000 are in recovery.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
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 additional (a) staff, (b) wards and (c) beds that will be required in each of the hospitals that will take patients transferred from the Royal Brompton Hospital in the event of the closure of that hospital's congenital heart disease services.
Answered by Philip Dunne
As part of its ongoing work to help providers meet the new congenital heart disease commissioning standards NHS England is undertaking assessments to establish the impact its proposals might have on interventional and surgical services, including considering issues such as capacity and workforce.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the impact assessment made on (a) NHS England's proposed closure of congenital heart disease services at Royal Brompton Hospital and (b) the potential transfer of patients from that hospital to (i) Great Ormand Street Hospital, (ii) Barts Hospital, (iii) St Thomas' Hospital and (iv) other hospitals.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England intends to publish its impact assessment in due course.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department is monitoring content that is publicly available on social networking sites using overt monitoring techniques.
Answered by David Mowat
The Department routinely and overtly monitors content that is publically available in social networking sites to inform communications and policy making work.