Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a breakdown by ethnicity and pay grade of (a) all staff, (b) professionally qualified clinical staff, (c) maternity staff and (d) midwives who work in the NHS in England (i) at the most recent point for which figures are available and (i) in January 2018.
Answered by Will Quince
NHS Digital collects and publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in National Health Service trusts and commissioning bodies, but not staff working in primary care or in general practice, local authorities or other providers.
Data on the NHS workforce is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). ESR is the Human Resource and payroll system for the NHS. Data on the headcount of HCHS staff by ethnicity and pay grade for December 2017 and September 2022 is attached. Data is published quarterly and as such December 2017 is the closest point to the requested January 2018 data. The latest data available is at September 2022.
Maternity services staff have been defined as doctors working in the speciality of obstetrics and gynaecology and other professionally qualified clinical staff (midwives and nurses) and clinical support staff working in the care setting of maternity services or neonatal nursing (including special care baby units).
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley 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 potential impact of increasing the NHS mileage rates on the recruitment of NHS workers who deliver at home care.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made. The mileage rate is reviewed every six months in line with fuel costs.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley 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 NHS mileage rates on the number of Band 2 NHS vacancies in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) the UK.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals (a) were accepted onto pre-registration midwifery training courses, (b) started their pre-registration midwifery training, (c) were at any stage in their pre-registration midwifery training and (d) successfully completed their pre-registration midwifery training, in England, in each academic year since 2015-16.
Answered by Will Quince
In the 2021/22 application cycle, there were 3,720 students accepted places onto undergraduate midwifery courses in England. The following table shows the number of accepted places in midwifery courses in each academic year since 2015.
2015/16 | 2,380 |
2016/17 | 2,395 |
2017/18 | 2,600 |
2018/19 | 2,680 |
2019/20 | 3,105 |
2020/21 | 3,630 |
2021/22 | 3,720 |
Source: The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
The information requested on the number of individuals at stages on pre-registration midwifery training is not held centrally.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to increase the number of student midwife training places in future years.
Answered by Will Quince
We committed to expand midwifery training places by 3,650 over a four-year period, with an increase of 650 in September 2019 and 1,000 in each of the subsequent years. Health Education England has been working with stakeholders to support this commitment and we are confident of achieving the overall target by the end of 2022/23.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that specialist medical services for Tourette's syndrome are accessible to people in the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
The majority of services for people with Tourette’s syndrome are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs), including in Barnsley. ICBs are responsible for providing a comprehensive health service to their populations subject to local prioritisation and funding. This includes ensuring there is appropriate access to specialist medical services for people with Tourette’s syndrome.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the cost of training a student midwife is paid by (a) the student, (b) her Department and (c) other sources.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The information requested is not held centrally. Such costs will vary by training institution. The Department provides funding via the NHS Learning Support Fund for eligible students. This includes a training grant of £5,000 per year, with further financial support available for childcare of £2,000 per year, travel and dual accommodation costs and access to an exceptional support fund of up to £3,000 per year.
Asked by: Dan Jarvis (Labour - Barnsley North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the potential feasibility of providing assistance dogs to people with a mental health diagnosis of (a) depression and (b) anxiety.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made.