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Written Question
Occupational Therapy: NHS England
Tuesday 27th September 2022

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many occupational therapists were employed by NHS England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent occupational therapists working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in May 2010 and May 2022.

May 2010 13,678

May 2022 15,976

Source: NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Statistics


Written Question
Speech and Language Therapy: NHS England
Tuesday 27th September 2022

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many speech and language therapists were employed by NHS England in (a) 2010 and (b) 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent speech and language therapists working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in May 2010 and May 2022.

May 2010

5,760

May 2022

6,821

Source: NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Statistics


Written Question
Dermatology: NHS England
Tuesday 27th September 2022

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dermatologists were employed by the NHS in England in (a) 2017 and (b) 2022.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent doctors working in the speciality of dermatology in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England in May 2017 and May 2022.

May 2017

990

May 2022

1,191

Source: NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Statistics

Note:

The data includes doctors in Foundation Years 1 and 2 who may not specialise in dermatology upon completion of the foundation years.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Ambulance Pressures

"I, too, congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his new post.

The Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee raised the question of what happens when people are ready to go into the community, but there is nowhere there for them to go. There is an even worse example: …..."

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Written Question
Prisoners: Injuries
Wednesday 13th July 2022

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new prisoners have been screened for acquired brain injury since April 2021.

Answered by Gillian Keegan

The information requested is not held centrally. Each arrival at a prison, whether sentenced or remanded, should receive a first night health screen. This screening tool contains questions on acquired brain injury which, if answered in the affirmative, would result in a referral for a specific assessment.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2022
Draft Mental Health Bill

"I warmly commend what the Secretary of State said over the weekend. Many of us have experienced suicide in our own families, and it is good when people like him can share their experience; I think it helps an awful lot of people around the country.

Can I ask the …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 May 2022
North East Ambulance Service

"It feels as if there is no sense of urgency. I introduced the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 to protect emergency workers; I hope that it is working, but assaults on ambulance staff and paramedics are still increasing. No wonder so many of them are leaving. We need …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Feb 2022
Government Contracts: Randox Laboratories

"Oh dear; I almost do not know where to start. I have to be very careful, because the Standards Committee may well want to return to some of these issues and I will not stray into that territory. There is no rule that says that a Minister cannot be inappropriately …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Elective Treatment

"The key issue seems to be the workforce. It is about trying to ensure that people do not leave the workforce now or do not leave it early. It is also about recruiting enough people, sometimes into specialties that are not necessarily the sexiest ones that people are pushed into …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Elective Care Recovery in England

"May I urge the Government to abandon this talk of a “war on cancer”? It was Richard Nixon’s term and it was thought to be outdated back then. To many people, when Ministers talk about fighting cancer and how somebody has been particularly plucky or courageous for fighting cancer, it …..."
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