Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on locum services in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Will Quince
The following table shows the National Health Service agency spend for the years 2013/14 to 2020/21. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.
Year | Total agency spend £ billion |
2013/14 | 2.55 |
2014/15 | 3.33 |
2015/16 | 3.70 |
2016/17 | 2.93 |
2017/18 | 2.40 |
2018/19 | 2.39 |
2019/20 | 2.38 |
2020/21 | 2.44 |
The Department does not hold this data for general practice.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many medical students have not gone on to work in the NHS upon completion of their training in each of the last five years; and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of medical students entering the NHS workforce.
Answered by Will Quince
There is published information on numbers of students, and doctors from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Office for Students, the General Medical Council and NHS England. However, there is no published estimate of what proportion of medics on graduation go onto to work in the National Health Service and the different sources cannot easily be compared. No assessment of the direct impact on Government policies has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many (a) junior doctors, (b) consultants and (c) nurses have left the NHS to work in healthcare services abroad in each of the last five years, and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of staff leaving the NHS workforce to work abroad.
Answered by Will Quince
The information requested is not held centrally, and no specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) junior doctors, (b) consultants and (c) nurses have left the NHS to work in private healthcare in each of the last five years; and whether he has made an assessment of the consequences for his policies of changes in the levels of staff leaving the NHS workforce to work in private healthcare.
Answered by Will Quince
The information requested is not held centrally and no specific assessment has been made of the impact of policies on moves into the private sector.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the decline in the birth rate.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the decline in the birth rate.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
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 help increase the birth rate.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with his Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the decline in the birth rate on the (a) delivery of and (b) demand for public services over the next 30 years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We currently have no plans to assess the potential impact of changes in the birth rate on the delivery of and demand for public services.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to ONS data entitled Conceptions in England and Wales: 2020 published on 14 April 2022, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for its policies of the (a) declining fertility rate among women under 24, (b) stagnating fertility rate among women aged 25-29 and (c) increasing fertility rate among women aged 30 - 39.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department has made an assessment of the potential merits of updating guidance ear wax removal services, to allow the service to be made available at GPs.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued guidance no longer advising manual ear syringing due to risks associated, such as trauma to their ear drum or infection. NICE guidance suggests alternative arrangements for treatment of excessive ear wax, such as considering ear irrigation using an electronic irrigator, micro suction, or another method of earwax removal such as manual removal using a probe.
General practitioner services follow this guidance and are increasingly recommending self-care methods as the primary means to support the safe removal of ear wax, such as in cases of deafness.
Commissioners should ensure that there is appropriate access to ear wax removal services which are free at the point of use, where these are necessary and clinically appropriate for a patient.