Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Sep 2015
Dementia Care Services
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Davies. I congratulate the hon. Member for Charnwood (Edward Argar) on securing this important debate and on his commitment to making life better for dementia sufferers and their relatives. I will not take up much time, and my observations …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 09 Sep 2015
Dementia Care Services
"On free personal care, the budget in Scotland is capped. Free personal care is probably welcome, but the problem is that sufferers do not necessarily get the required level of care because demand is managed by stopping the supply. That is the problem with a capped budget. Free personal care …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 7th July 2015
Asked by:
Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on implementing its response to the independent health working group report on child sexual exploitation published in May 2014.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Health Working Group Report on Child Sexual Exploitation made 13 recommendations, some of which were directed to our arm‘s length bodies and other national organisations. We set out the actions being taken in our response to the recommendations in May 2014. Some of those actions are continuing and others are completed. An update on progress will be published in due course.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Jun 2015
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessments
"I beg to move,
That this House has considered deprivation of liberty safeguards assessments.
It is a great privilege, Mr Davies, to serve under your chairmanship.
I am highlighting an expensive bureaucratic nightmare that is engulfing councils up and down the country. Local authorities are struggling to cope with the …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 17 Jun 2015
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessments
"As I think I said in my speech, part of the problem is that the Chief Coroner is a judge and his guidance is seen as a question of law. If he could perhaps make it clearer that he is giving discretion to coroners, that might also help move things …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 16th March 2015
Asked by:
Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs to each clinical commissioning group of GPs and ambulance staff of attending after deaths in care homes of people subject to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessments.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Department does not hold information as to the costs to clinical commissioning groups of general practitioners and ambulance staff attending after deaths in care homes of people subject to Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards authorisations.
Written Question
Monday 16th March 2015
Asked by:
Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Supreme Court judgment of 19 March 2014 in the case of P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another, how many requests for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessment under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 there have been in each local authority area in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects official statistics on the number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications.
The figures can be found:
(a) For 2012/13 at:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11379
(b) For 2013/14 at:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB14825
(c) For 2014/15 to date at:
Quarter One
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15475
Quarter Two
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15856
Quarter Three
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16793
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
NHS (Five Year Forward View)
"I welcome any extra funding for the NHS, but will the Secretary of State ensure that it is fairly distributed, as on the current funding formula, Stockport is 4.9% from target, and that is affecting the ability of the clinical commissioning team to develop health services in the community as …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Nov 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"T5. Recent reports indicate that the extent of child sexual exploitation and abuse is more widespread than previously recognised. The trauma of sexual abuse can have massive, life-long consequences on the physical and mental health of victims. Will Ministers consider designating child abuse and child sexual exploitation as a public …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Jun 2014
NHS Investigations (Jimmy Savile)
"Is not one of the wider problems our perceptions of how a sexual predator looks and acts? When men like Savile are arrested, the usual reaction is shock that such a nice man could abuse children, but sex predators are not men in dirty raincoats; they come from all walks …..."Ann Coffey - View Speech
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