Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been spent on social care in each local authority in England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The information requested is available in the attached table.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2018 to Question 147893, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing mental health funding to ensure that people affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and wider mental health illnesses can access mental health treatment.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department does not generally ring-fence budgets within the National Health Service. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 gave clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) the autonomy to make decisions about the health services that best meet the health needs of their population based on local evidence of patient need.
No assessment has been made on the potential merits of ring-fencing mental health funding to ensure that people affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and wider mental health illnesses can access mental health treatment.
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme began in 2008 and has transformed treatment of adult anxiety disorders and depression in England. Over 900,000 people now access IAPT services each year, and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health has pledged to expand services further to see 1.5 million people treated for mental health problems every year by 2020/21 alongside improving quality. IAPT practitioners are able to treat common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety which people with FASD may present with.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in (a) the North East and (b) England in each of the last three years.
Answered by Steve Brine
Public Health England collect and report information on individuals with foetal alcohol syndrome however only those identified at birth are notified, so it is recognised that this is a significant underestimation of the overall prevalence.
The figures available relate to births in 2012-2016 and cover five regions in England only: the South West, East Midlands and South Yorkshire, Wessex, Thames Valley and the North, (including North East and Cumbria), prevalence tables by region and year can be found at the following link:
Rates vary from 0.00 per 10,000 - 0.16 per 10,000 births compared to a European prevalence of 0.54 per 10,000 births.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 raise awareness of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Answered by Steve Brine
The United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines advise women who are pregnant or think they could become pregnant that the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all, to reduce risks to the baby to a minimum.
Public Health England's Start4Life programme also provides information via its website on the impact of drinking alcohol during pregnancy, including the risk of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
The Government recognises that FASD can have a significant impact on the early year’s development of children, their behaviours and their life chances. Early intervention services can help reduce some of the effects of FASD and prevent some of the secondary disabilities that result. Responsibility for commissioning these services lies with clinical commissioning groups.
The Government is providing additional investment of £1 billion per year by 2020/21 for mental health services in the National Health Service to meet the ambitions set out in NHS England’s ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’. This includes the expansion of improving access to psychological therapies services which will focus on people with long term conditions, including conditions arising from fetal alcohol syndrome.
The report is available at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 provide mental health support to people affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Answered by Steve Brine
The United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines advise women who are pregnant or think they could become pregnant that the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all, to reduce risks to the baby to a minimum.
Public Health England's Start4Life programme also provides information via its website on the impact of drinking alcohol during pregnancy, including the risk of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
The Government recognises that FASD can have a significant impact on the early year’s development of children, their behaviours and their life chances. Early intervention services can help reduce some of the effects of FASD and prevent some of the secondary disabilities that result. Responsibility for commissioning these services lies with clinical commissioning groups.
The Government is providing additional investment of £1 billion per year by 2020/21 for mental health services in the National Health Service to meet the ambitions set out in NHS England’s ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’. This includes the expansion of improving access to psychological therapies services which will focus on people with long term conditions, including conditions arising from fetal alcohol syndrome.
The report is available at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 137067, whether his Department holds data on the reasons NHS operations were cancelled in England.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This data is not collected centrally. It was a matter for local National Health Service trusts to make decisions on whether to postpone operations over the winter period.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people under the age of 18 have a diagnosis of dementia in (a) England and (b) the North East.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not available in the format requested.
NHS Digital collects and publishes information on the number of patients with a diagnosis of dementia, by gender for people aged 0-29 year olds.
This is shown in the following table:
Number of patients with a diagnosis of dementia, by gender for 0-29 year olds, England, March 2018
| Counts | ||
Age Group (Years) | Male | Female | Total |
0 to 29 | 22 | 19 | 41 |
Source: NHS Digital
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 patients in A&E in the North East of England in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The mean and median duration to assessment (minutes), duration to treatment (minutes) and duration to departure (minutes) for the North East Government Office Region (GOR) are provided in the attached tables. The data shows performance for all providers in the GOR, as well as an overall summary of the GOR. This is for the 2016-17 financial year, which are the last 12 months of available validated data.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
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 adequacy in the number of neuromuscular NHS consultants available to meet the treatment needs of patients with neuromuscular conditions.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Neuromuscular is not a specialty or subspecialty defined by Health Education England for the purpose of specialty training or by NHS Digital for the purpose of monitoring numbers of staff working in the National Health Service.
However, Health Education England expects that more than 150 doctors will complete specialist training in neurology by the end of 2020 and be available to take up posts as consultant neurologists.
The following table shows there has been a 45% increase in the full time equivalent number of consultants working in relevant neurology consultant specialties in the NHS since May 2010:
Consultant specialty | May 2010 | January 2018 | Change | Percentage |
Clinical neurophysiology | 86 | 105 | 18 | 21% |
Diagnostic Neuropathology | 0 | 3 | 3 |
|
Neurology | 523 | 774 | 251 | 48% |
Total | 609 | 882 | 272 | 45% |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS Hospital and Community Health Service workforce statistics.
Asked by: Catherine McKinnell (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS operations were cancelled in (a) the North East and (b) England in each of the last three months.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This information is not available in the format requested.
NHS England publishes quarterly performance data on cancelled elective operations, which includes national, regional and provider level activity, and this can be accessed at:
Data for quarter 3 (October – December 2017) was published on 8 February 2018 with quarter 4 (January – March 2018) due for release on 10 May 2018.