Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has plans to make (a) adult MMR and (b) shingles vaccines available in community pharmacies for people who meet the NHS eligibility criteria.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
Routine vaccinations, including the shingles vaccine, are not currently available at community pharmacies via the National Health Service. This is with the exception of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine where, in response to the current measles outbreak, some areas have stood up community pharmacy sites on a time-limited basis, to deliver the MMR vaccine to specific cohorts.
The NHS vaccination strategy signals an intent to give local systems the responsibility and flexibility to design and deliver vaccination services to meet their population needs. This includes commissioning the optimal provider network, which may include community pharmacy and hospital hubs, and continuing to use the expertise of primary care, including general practices and practice nurses, to maximise uptake.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has submitted plans for a new single site hospital to his Department.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Department has provided both the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust with £3.7 million to develop plans for improving facilities at each Trust. The Trust has not submitted any formal plans for a single site hospital to the Department.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what factors are assessed when deciding the fee level a local authority will pay per funded care home place; and whether he has plans to raise fee levels.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities have a duty to manage local care markets. The Care Act guidance states that local authorities should assure and have evidence that fee levels are appropriate to provide the agreed quality of care and enable providers to effectively support care users and invest in staff development, innovation and improvement.
We are committing £1.36 billion to the Market Sustainability and Fair Cost of Care Fund over the next three years. On 24 March 2022, we published guidance which provides advice to local authorities for completing and returning cost of care exercises to the Department and templates which local authorities must use as part of an acceptable submission. These state a standard list of cost lines to assess care home providers. Where average fee rates are below the fair cost of care, we expect local authorities to use the Fund to begin to move towards paying providers a fair cost of care and to set out in the Market Sustainability Plans how this will be achieved.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
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 level compliance with the prohibition on the sale of menthol cigarettes under the EU Revised Tobacco Products Directive.
Answered by Jo Churchill
No assessment has been made. We expect the tobacco industry to comply with the requirements of The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, and this includes the recent ban on the sale of menthol flavoured cigarettes. A breach of the regulations could result in enforcement action being taken.
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has received any reports of rickets in the Carnforth area in the last five years.
Answered by Steve Brine
Information is not held in the format requested. The information available is shown in the table below. This shows a count of finished consultant episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of rickets, for the Lancashire Area Team of treatment, for the financial years between 2012/13 and 2016/17. The Lancashire Area Team of treatment includes the Carnforth area. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care in the same year.
Financial year | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
Lancashire Area Team of Treatment | 10 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the increase is in the (a) size of the mental health staff workforce and (b) number of professionally qualified clinical mental health staff employed since 2010.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS Digital data shows that the number of National Health Service staff (full-time equivalent) working in Mental Health and Learning Disability trusts increased by 4,295 from July 2013 to July 2017, of these 2,156 are professionally qualified clinical mental health staff. The number of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) staff (headcount) increased by 2,728 between 2012 and 2015.
Figures begin in 2012/13 due to the changes in services resulting from the dissolution of primary care trusts in 2012/13.
Source:
1. Health Education England (July 2017). Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England.
2. NHS Digital, Monthly workforce statistics as at July.
https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30100
3. 2012 IAPT Workforce Census paragraph 5.1.
4. The overall IAPT workforce number from the 2015 census was calculated as follows: sum of Low Intensity Therapy: Total Number of individuals (Staff in Post) on page 17 and High Intensity Therapy (HIT): Total Number of individuals (Staff in Post) on page 21. The 2015 IAPT workforce census is available at the following link:
5. The overall IAPT workforce number from the 2014 census was calculated by adding total headcount for Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), non CBT HIT modalities and non-qualified counsellors and therapist, Table 4, page.11. The total funded establishment for whole-time equivalent psychological wellbeing practitioners was obtained from table 2, p. 9. The 2014 IAPT workforce census is available at the following link:
http://www.ewin.nhs.uk/tools_and_resources/2014-adult-iapt-workforce-census-report.