Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many EEA nationals from countries other than the UK were employed in the NHS in each year since 2015.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the headcount figures for all HCHS staff in England who have specified an European Economic Area (EEA) nationality as at 30 September for each of the years specified.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
HCHS staff who have specified an EEA nationality | 371 | 401 | 432 | 467 |
HCHS staff who have specified an EU27 nationality | 52,808 | 59,796 | 61,974 | 63,484 |
Source: National Health Service HCHS quarterly workforce statistics, NHS Digital
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what statistics his Department holds of the number of vacancies for (a) nursing staff and (b) doctors in the NHS in England.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Since April 2017, NHS Improvement has collected vacancy rates of medical and nursing staff from individual National Health Service providers and publish them as part of their Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector report.
The latest NHS Improvement estimate is that in England, there are 41,722 whole time equivalent nursing vacancies, of which approximately 80% are being filled by a combination of bank and agency staff, as at 30 June 2018.
NHS Improvement also estimated that in England there are 11,576 whole time equivalent doctor vacancies, of which approximately 85% are being filled by a combination of bank and agency staff, as at 30 June 2018.
However, the bank and agency staff are not purely covering the vacancy gap. The temporary staff will also be used to backfill for sickness, maternity and secondments. We are committed to ensuring nursing remains an attractive career so the NHS builds on the record number of nurses currently on wards.
We have put in place several actions to increase nursing workforce supply, covering improving staff retention, return to practice, overseas recruitment, expanding nursing associates, improving sickness absence and review of language controls.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
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 effect of the abolition of student bursaries on the number of people applying to become nursing students.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The latest Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) data from October 2018 shows that demand for nursing courses remains strong, with applications exceeding available places in 2018. The number of acceptances to nursing and midwifery courses in 2018 is consistent with earlier years, at approximately 22,000.
Final UCAS data will be published in December 2018.
The Department is working with relevant bodies across health and education to monitor the effects of the healthcare funding reforms.
We have been working with Health Education England and the university sector to ensure students continued to apply for courses this year. In September 2018 Health Education England launched a campaign to improve the perception of nursing to encourage applications to relevant undergraduate courses for UCAS applications in 2019.
The Department has also put in place significant interventions to boost the supply of nurses, ranging from training more nurses, offering new routes into the profession, enhancing reward packages to make nursing more attractive and improve retention, and encouraging those that have left to return to nursing.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money the NHS has spent on mental health services in the West Midlands in each year since 2010.
Answered by Matt Hancock
The following tables show expenditure on mental health, including learning disabilities. NHS England does not hold information on mental health spend prior to 2013/14.
West Midlands specialised commissioning hub expenditure on mental health services (includes learning disabilities)
Year | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Expenditure £ million | 156.8 | 162.6 | 161.4 | 156.7 | 155.3 |
Notes:
West Midlands CCG expenditure on mental health services for West Midlands residents and patients including spend on learning disabilities and dementia
| Total mental health spend | ||||
Organisation | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
| £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million | £ million |
NHS Wolverhampton CCG | 35.3 | 32.9 | 41.6 | 46.6 | 46.5 |
NHS Dudley CCG | 38.8 | 48.6 | 45.9 | 48.3 | 50.9 |
NHS Walsall CCG | 54.5 | 44.3 | 64.3 | 62.1 | 61.0 |
NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG | 71.7 | 83.5 | 95.6 | 102.6 | 96.5 |
NHS Solihull CCG | 28.61 | 46.0 | 50.6 | 43.1 | 44.0 |
NHS Birmingham and CrossCity CCG | 105.8 | 124.9 | 134.8 | 141.5 | 149.0 |
NHS Birmingham South and Central CCG | 39.7 | 50.0 | 64.2 | 68.0 | 65.9 |
NHS Warwickshire North CCG | 23.5 | 23.1 | 34.9 | 36.4 | 34.8 |
NHS Coventry and Rugby CCG | 83.2 | 83.0 | 92.7 | 99.0 | 101.3 |
NHS South Warwickshire CCG | 35.6 | 43.6 | 49.4 | 51.0 | 49.9 |
NHS Herefordshire CCG | 33.7 | 36.9 | 36.8 | 38.0 | 39.1 |
NHS South Worcestershire CCG | 40.5 | 41.4 | 44.0 | 46.2 | 39.7 |
NHS Wyre Forest CCG | 19.5 | 15.8 | 18.2 | 19.3 | 17.0 |
NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove CCG | 27.0 | 22.3 | 25.4 | 26.7 | 23.5 |
Total | 637.3 | 696.2 | 798.4 | 828.9 | 819.1 |
Note:
Figures for CCG expenditure for 2015/16 and 2016/17 are slightly higher than those published in the online dashboard as they are outturn expenditure, whereas the online dashboard excludes non-recurrent spending in order to help make the figures more comparable over time. The financial values have been consolidated through the use of National Programme of Care (NPoC) codes and are taken from NHS England’s annual CCG expenditure exercise. This exercise uses Provider Aggregate Contract Monitoring (ACM) as the basis for the data; where this data is incomplete hubs will apportion / estimate any missing values.