Asked by: David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who have been admitted to hospital with covid-19 in the past 12 months had not received a covid-19 vaccine.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The information is not held in the format requested. However, between the week ending 2 January 2022 and the week ending 23 January 2022, there were 4,807 cases presenting to emergency care resulting in overnight inpatient admission who had not been vaccinated.
Asked by: David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
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 help increase the availability of covid-19 lateral flow tests in Greater London.
Answered by Maggie Throup
We expect to distribute 90 million lateral flow device (LFD) tests per week in the United Kingdom in the coming weeks. We are also delivering seven million LFD tests every day via GOV.UK. We therefore anticipate sufficient availability, including in Greater London.
Asked by: David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of face-to-face GP appointments in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The National Health Service has been clear that general practitioner (GP) practices must provide face to face appointments, alongside remote consultations. Patients’ input into consultation type should be sought and practices should respect preferences for face to face care unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary, such as the presence of COVID-19 symptoms.
In October 2021, with NHS England and NHS Improvement, we set out measures to support general practice during the winter, with an additional investment of £250 million in the Winter Access Fund to improve capacity in general practice.
The Winter Access Fund and local funding have contributed to initiatives to support general practices and Primary Care Networks in Bexley. These include additional sessions for practice staff including administrative staff, development of locum banks, digital booking platforms and funding for additional physicians in practices. Additional funding has been provided for the GP Extended Access Service, which has provided access to more face to face appointments and a primary care communications support package has been developed locally to support practices to provide information to their patients on accessing services.
Asked by: David Evennett (Conservative - Bexleyheath and Crayford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been invited to receive a booster vaccination for covid-19 in (a) Bexley Borough, (b) Greater London and (c) England as of 28 October 2021.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The information requested for Bexley and Greater London is not available. While the number of invitations sent in England as of 28 October is not available, by 7 November 2021 more than 13 million texts, letters and emails had been sent to eligible people in England.