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Written Question
Hospitals: Morecambe
Thursday 28th April 2022

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 - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

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.


Written Question
Care Homes: Finance
Tuesday 19th April 2022

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 - Secretary of State for Education

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.


Written Question
Tobacco: Sales
Monday 3rd August 2020

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 - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

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.


Written Question
Rickets: Carnforth
Thursday 21st December 2017

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


Written Question
Mental Health Services: Staff
Thursday 26th October 2017

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.

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/CCS0717505185-1_FYFV%20Mental%20health%20workforce%20plan%20for%20England_v5%283%29.pdf

2. NHS Digital, Monthly workforce statistics as at July.

https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30100

3. 2012 IAPT Workforce Census paragraph 5.1.

https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/246046/11919343/iapt-workforce-education-and-training-2012-census-report.pdf/907e15d0-b36a-432c-8058-b2452d3628de

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:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/adult-iapt-workforce-census-report-15.pdf

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.


Written Question
Anakinra
Tuesday 21st March 2017

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 steps his Department is taking to improve the availability of the drug Anakinra.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Anakinra is available for the treatment of patients in the United Kingdom, subject to decisions by the relevant commissioner. In the absence of guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for this drug, it is for commissioners to make decisions based on an assessment of the available evidence and on an individual patient’s clinical circumstances.


Written Question
Care Homes: Disclosure of Information
Monday 20th February 2017

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, if he will create a single database for incident reporting in care homes; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by David Mowat

In spring 2017 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will publish a consultation looking at how they regulate adult social care and primary medical services.

As part of their role in regulating care services CQC inspect providers. On 1 October 2014 CQC began using a new approach to inspect and regulate adult social care services, placing people who use services at the centre of this work. CQC uses a range of information to decide when, where and what to inspect, the methods for listening better to people's experiences of care and using the best information across the system.

During an inspection inspectors will use their professional judgement, supported by objective measures and evidence, to assess services against five key questions: are they safe? Are they effective? Are they caring? Are they responsive to people's needs? Are they well-led? An inspection will include the systems care homes have in place to report, monitor and manage incidents. Inspectors will talk to people who use the services to identify any safeguarding concerns.

CQC rate the services and publish the final inspection report on their website, this includes any safeguarding concerns. The ratings help people to compare services and to highlight where care is outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.


Written Question
Social Services
Friday 16th December 2016

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 steps he is taking to ensure that adequate levels of a wide range of adult social care is available in each local authority area.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Local councils are responsible for ensuring adequate provision of social care services for eligible users and carers in their area.

However, social care is a key priority for this Government, and we are giving councils access to further funding to manage social care pressures in their local area across the next few years:

- Next year councils will be able to raise the precept by up to 3%, and 3% the year after (2018/19). This could raise £200 million in additional funding for adult social care in 2017/18 and over £400 million in 2018/19.

- The Government is also providing an additional £240 million to fund adult social care through the Adult Social Care Support Grant, funded by reforms to the New Homes Bonus.

These new changes provide access to an additional £450 million for social care next year, following calls from the sector that funding was most needed in 2017/18.

Taken together with the funding announced in the autumn 2015 Spending Review, this means that local government will have access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending every year in this Parliament. The spending review gave councils the flexibility to introduce a 2% social care precept for adult social care, and access to additional funding for adult social care worth £1.5 billion by 2019/20 through the Better Care Fund, starting in April 2017.


Written Question
Care Homes: Disability
Friday 16th December 2016

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 guidelines he provides to local authorities on the commissioning of 24-hour care places for adults with severe disabilities.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The Care Act 2014 requires local authorities to meet a person’s eligible needs. Where a person requires 24 hour care local authorities should arrange services to meet those needs having regard to best practice guidance for example developed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.


Written Question
NHS Trusts: Staff
Monday 19th January 2015

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, how many (a) professionally-qualified clinical staff other than locum doctors, (b) doctors other than locum doctors and qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff, (c) HCHS doctors other than locum doctors and (d) qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff were employed in each NHS trust in May (i) 2010 and (ii) 2014.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Health and Social Care Information Centre publish monthly National Health Service workforce statistics. The information requested is set out in the attached table for the periods May 2010, May 2014 and September 2014, the latest month for which data is available.