Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
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 decrease waiting times for (a) A&E admissions, (b) routine operations and (c) cancer care.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Data is not available in the format requested. NHS England collects and publishes annual national level accident and emergency, referral-to-treatment and cancer waiting times performance data. The national performance for each financial year from 2009-10, where available, is shown in the table below:
Financial year | Accident and Emergency (95% standard) | Referral-to-Treatment (92% standard) | Cancer - 2 week (93% standard) | Cancer - 31 day (96% standard) | Cancer - 62 day (85% standard) |
2009-10 | N/A | N/A | 95.6% (Data collected from October 2009) | 98.4% (Data collected from October 2009) | 86.6% (Data collected from October 2009) |
2010-11 | 97.4% | N/A | 95.5% | 98.3% | 87.0% |
2011-12 | 96.6% | 91.3% | 95.9% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2012-13 | 95.9% | 94.4% | 95.5% | 98.4% | 87.2% |
2013-14 | 95.7% | 94.1% | 95.3% | 98.2% | 85.9% |
2014-15 | 93.6% | 93.3% | 94.2% | 97.7% | 83.4% |
2015-16 | 91.9% | 92.5% | 94.2% | 97.6% | 82.4% |
2016-17 | 89.1% | 90.7% | 94.4% | 97.5% | 81.9% |
2017-18 | 88.3% | 89.1% | 94.1% | 97.5% | 82.2% |
Data is not collected by individual hospital site. Data as is available can be accessed via the following links:
Accident and Emergency (Data available from 2010-11):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/
Referral-to-treatment (Data available from 2011-12):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/
Cancer (Data available from 2009-10):
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/
The Long Term Plan, launched by the National Health Service on 7 January 2018, will transform patient care and make sure every penny of taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. This is supported by the Government’s investment of £20.5 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24. The additional funding will allow the NHS to get back on the path to delivering core performance standards. More than that, it will also drive the reforms that deliver a better and more sustainable NHS with improved care for patients.
In addition, NHS England’s ‘Operational and Planning Guidance for 2019/20’ sets out deliverables against key performance areas and the Government expects the NHS to deliver these actions set– in full – as key steps towards fully recovering performance against core access standards.
The Government has also supported the NHS with an additional £1.6 billion for 2018/19 to improve emergency and elective performance. In addition, more than £420 million has been provided specifically for this winter.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what were the average waiting times to be seen by a health worker in sexual health clinics in Lambeth were in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and 2018.
Answered by Steve Brine
Waiting times for sexual health services are not monitored centrally. Local authorities are best placed to understand and meet the public health needs of their local communities.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the average waiting times at A&E Departments for (a) Guy's Hospital, (b) Kings College Hospital and (c) St George's Hospital in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
This information is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to mental health services for young people in each year from 2010 to 2018.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The following table shows the expenditure on children and young people’s mental health services from 2013/14 to 2017/18. Information on expenditure for 2012-13 and earlier is not available.
| 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Clinical commissioning group spend | N/A | N/A | £516 million | £619 million | £687 million |
Specialised commissioning spend | £252 million | £260 million | £319 million | £342 million | £361 million |
Total spend | N/A | N/A | £836 million | £961 million | £1,048 million |
Source: NHS England
The 2019 Budget confirmed that the National Health Service will continue to increase mental health investment, by at least £2 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how funding is allocated to local authorities to tackle sexual health concerns.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government provides funding to local authorities for their public health responsibilities, including sexual health services, through a public health grant. It is for individual local authorities to decide their spending priorities based on an assessment of local need, including the need for sexual health services taking account of their statutory duties. They are required by regulations to provide services on sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and contraception.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people there were with HIV in Lambeth in each age category in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Steve Brine
There were 3,842 people aged 15-59 with diagnosed HIV in Lambeth in 2015 and 3,412 in 2017. Data are not available for 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010. Data was only presented at local authority level from 2011 onwards. Data on HIV diagnosis in local authorities in England from 2011 is available at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth
Data on the change in the number of people with HIV in Lambeth between 2010 and 2018 is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of people with HIV by age category is also not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the change was in the number of people with HIV in Lambeth between 2010 and 2018.
Answered by Steve Brine
There were 3,842 people aged 15-59 with diagnosed HIV in Lambeth in 2015 and 3,412 in 2017. Data are not available for 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010. Data was only presented at local authority level from 2011 onwards. Data on HIV diagnosis in local authorities in England from 2011 is available at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth
Data on the change in the number of people with HIV in Lambeth between 2010 and 2018 is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of people with HIV by age category is also not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in Lambeth had HIV in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005, (d) 2010, (e) 2015 and (f) 2017.
Answered by Steve Brine
There were 3,842 people aged 15-59 with diagnosed HIV in Lambeth in 2015 and 3,412 in 2017. Data are not available for 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2010. Data was only presented at local authority level from 2011 onwards. Data on HIV diagnosis in local authorities in England from 2011 is available at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth
Data on the change in the number of people with HIV in Lambeth between 2010 and 2018 is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of people with HIV by age category is also not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS Improvement's Quarter three 2017-18 performance report, published in February 2018, how many of the (a) 35,000 nurse vacancies and (b) nearly 10,000 doctor post vacancies identified in that report have now been filled.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
This information is not held in the format requested.
NHS Improvement estimate as at 30 September 2018, around 80% of nursing vacancies and 85% of medical vacancies are being filled by a combination of bank and agency staff.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England has spent on NHS staff to (a) support and (b) performance manage Primary Care Support England (PCSE) since the commencement of the PCSE contract to provide services to the NHS.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England employed a dedicated team to support Primary Care Support England (PCSE) between 1 September 2016 and 31 January 2018. The cost of the staff employed by this team to support PCSE was £1.69 million.
NHS England has a dedicated team who oversee the delivery of primary care support services and performance manage PCSE. The cost of the staff employed by this team between 1 September 2015 and 31 January 2018 was £3.42 million. However, set against this, the National Health Service has saved over £30 million a year in administrative costs as a result of the new PCSE contract.