Asked by: Damian Green (Conservative - Ashford)
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 analysis his Department undertook to determine the cost to business of changing the picture warnings on tobacco products in the event of the UK's departure from the EU without an agreement.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Department has no plans to publish its analysis of the cost to business of changing the picture warnings as the data is unvalidated.
Asked by: Damian Green (Conservative - Ashford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of mental health services for children and young people in South Kent; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Norman Lamb
This is a matter for the local National Health Service.
The delivery of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (ChYPS) in South Kent is provided by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT), and commissioned by local NHS clinical commissioning groups and Kent County Council.
We are advised by NHS England that SPFT is compliant with contract targets, in that the current average waiting time for initial routine assessments is four weeks, and from referral to the start of routine treatment is 10 weeks. All emergency referrals are responded to within 24 hours and urgent referrals within five days.
This Government has invested £54 million into the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme over 2011-15/16, which aims to improve access to evidence-based psychological therapies and collaboration with children, young people and families. We have also invested an additional £7 million this year to provide around 50 extra Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services beds for young patients in the areas with the least provision – 53 new beds have now been commissioned.
I launched the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, which will consider key issues facing child and adolescent mental health. The Government will publish a report on the Taskforce shortly.
Asked by: Damian Green (Conservative - Ashford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses from other EU countries were employed by the NHS on 1 September (a) 2014, (b) 2013 and (c) 2012.
Answered by Dan Poulter
There are more than 1,300 nurses, midwives and health visitors working in the National Health Service than in May 2010.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publishes provisional monthly workforce statistics on National Health Services in hospitals and community health services in England. The latest month for which workforce statistics are available is August 2014. Data for September 2014 will be published on 17 December.
The number of full-time equivalent qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff from European Union (EU) countries excluding Britain employed by the NHS in England is shown in the following table.
full-time equivalent
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Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Hospital & Community Health
Service (HCHS) provisional monthly workforce statistics
Notes: As nationality is self-reported the value entered by an individual may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth. Nationality data is incomplete as many people choose not to specify their nationality
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