Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the 10 most frequent causes of admission to an NHS hospital; were in the most recent 12 month period for and how many people were admitted for each of those causes, in that time period which data is available.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This information is not collected in the format requested.
NHS Digital published its Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity for 2018-19 on 19 September 2019.
Data are set out in the following table.
Patient admission - sub-chapter description | Number of Finished Admissions Episodes |
Complications of labour and delivery | 1,056,809 |
Other diseases of intestines | 646,953 |
Arthropathies | 609,032 |
Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen | 554,882 |
Health services in circumstances related to reproduction | 539,391 |
Disorders of lens (including cataracts) | 456,184 |
Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory/respiratory system | 440,918 |
Diseases of oesophagus, stomach and duodenum | 430,757 |
In situ and benign neoplasms and others of uncertainty | 430,698 |
Malignant neoplasms of lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue | 387,191 |
Further information is available at the following link:
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is of NHS midwives, and how many NHS midwives in each age category are (a) UK nationals and (b) nationals of EU member states other than the UK.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of midwives as at June 2019, the latest available data broken down by age and nationality. The data is headcount because nationality data relates to individuals.
Age band | All nationalities | United Kingdom | European Union | European Economic Area | Rest of World | Unknown |
All age bands | 26,192 | 23,177 | 1,344 | 11 | 447 | 1,213 |
Under 25 | 1,394 | 1,327 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 26 |
25 to 29 | 3,569 | 3,156 | 324 | - | 14 | 75 |
30 to 34 | 3,523 | 3,132 | 293 | 2 | 13 | 83 |
35 to 39 | 3,382 | 3,030 | 177 | 2 | 39 | 134 |
40 to 44 | 3,097 | 2,728 | 156 | 2 | 79 | 132 |
45 to 49 | 3,079 | 2,694 | 117 | 1 | 96 | 171 |
50 to 54 | 3,923 | 3,473 | 75 | 1 | 86 | 288 |
55 to 59 | 2,886 | 2,515 | 83 | - | 57 | 231 |
60 to 64 | 1,132 | 956 | 66 | - | 45 | 65 |
65 and over | 207 | 166 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 8 |
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) student midwives there were, (b) people graduated from pre-registration midwifery training and (c) training places for pre-registration midwifery students were (i) made available and (ii) filled in each of the last three academic years.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table. shows the number of students accepted onto midwifery courses over the last three full academic years.
Midwifery student acceptances
Midwifery | |||
Academic year | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Number of acceptances | 2,395 | 2,600 | 2,680 |
Source: UCAS end of cycle data, 2018 | |||
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The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in 2016-17. Data for 2018-19 is not yet available.
Midwifery graduates
Midwifery | ||
Academic year | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Number of graduates | 2,162 | 2,091 |
Source: Health Education England (HEE) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record | ||
In 2016/17 HEE commissioned 2,605 midwifery places of which 2,602 were filled. Following the removal of the bursary in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned by HEE. Places are filled via the normal university application process with the Department making funding available for the provision of their clinical placements while studying.
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent research she has commissioned on the safety of (a) milk and (b) meat that enters the human food chain of cattle slaughtered as a result of bovine TB incidence.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
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 reduce waiting times for eye care appointments.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make an announcement on the updating of the NICE guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of (a) pernicious anaemia and (b) autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) develops clinical guidelines on topics referred to it by NHS England and NHS Improvement. NICE has been asked to develop a guideline on pernicious anaemia but this work has not yet begun and there is currently no timescale for guideline development. Once started, NICE works to produce guidelines as quickly as possible, but also has a detailed development process that includes extensive engagement with experts and stakeholders to ensure a high quality guideline. NICE has not produced any guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis, and has no current plans to do so.
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make be an announcement on the updating of the NICE guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of (a) pernicious anaemia and (b) autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will commission an investigation on recent trends in the number of prescriptions being split between more than one paper prescription; and what assessment he has made of the effect on the NHS drugs budget of such practices.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Prescription Cost Analysis data, which is published by the NHS Business Services Authority, shows that overall the number of prescription items in primary care has been fairly stable over the last few years giving no indication that prescription items, which could be issued for a longer time period, are being split between multiple prescriptions. There could be valid reasons for prescribing a shorter period of treatment, for example when the medicine is first initiated. The cost of prescribed drugs is met by the prescriber’s clinical commissioning group (CCG). Prescribing the same quantity of a medicine over time for people with a long-term condition, even if prescription duration varies, has largely a neutral effect on National Health Service drug budgets held by CCGs.