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, with reference to the Oral Statement of 2 May 2018 on Breast Cancer Screening, Official Report, column 315, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women in Wolverhampton who were not sent an invitation to a final routine breast cancer screening as a result of the computer algorithm failure.
Answered by Steve Brine
Analysis of the data on the number of women affected was completed by the end of May. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has provided this information in a Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS731, published today.
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, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of its decision to change NHS funding for postgraduate nursing courses in England.
Answered by Steve Barclay
In July 2016 the Government published a revised economic impact assessment alongside the response to its consultation: Reforming healthcare education funding: creating a sustainable future workforce.
A revised version of the original Equality Analysis, published in February 2018 to accompany the reforms to pre-registration postgraduate healthcare funding, can be found with the aforementioned documents at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded
Following implementation of the policy, the Department will look for suitable opportunities, including through existing stakeholder forums, to monitor developments.
In order to meet the growing need to increase the future supply of registered nurses, additional clinical placement funding was announced by the Department in August and October 2017. This will enable around 5,000 more nursing students to enter training each year from September 2018; an historic 25% increase.
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 applications to study nursing were received in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Barclay
The Department is not responsible for collecting data on the number of applications to study nursing degree courses.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service publishes data on the number of applications to full-time undergraduate courses.
Further information and links to 2017 and 2018 application cycle data are available at:
https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to open a fast-track one-stop clinic for cluster headache patients in the West Midlands.
Answered by Steve Brine
No assessment has been made and there are no plans to make such an assessment. Decisions on local service provision are a matter for local commissioners.
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 nursing students there were in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Barclay
The table below shows the number of nursing students in training in any year of a nursing degree between 2010/11 and 2016/17.
Academic year | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Number of nursing students | 52,836 | 51,713 | 52,811 | No data | 50,139 | 51,386 | 52,606 |
Notes:
- Information prior to 2013 was sourced using the Department’s Financial Information Management System. Data collected after 2013 is sourced using the Health Education England EDCOM (Education Commissioning) reports.
- Data for the 2013/14 academic years are not available due to commissioning moving from the Department to Health Education England.
- Student numbers are recorded as of March in each academic year.
- Data for 2017/18 are not yet available.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Social Care Funding Reform Impact Assessment of 3 February 2015 is the most recent impact assessment on social care funding reform.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The most recent impact assessment on social care funding reform is the Social Care Funding Reform Impact Assessment of 3 February 2015.
Asked by: Emma Reynolds (Labour - Wycombe)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of adult social care in Wolverhampton.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
To improve the quality of adult social care, the Government has introduced a tough system of Care Quality Commission (CQC) ratings, new qualifications for care workers and new standards to ensure that everyone receives the highest quality support.
The CQC thoroughly inspects each service and if they found poor quality in any area including Wolverhampton has powers to close those that do not improve and take tough action against owners. This inspection regime is playing a key role in driving up the quality of care. As of July 2017 the CQC rates 79% of adult social care services as good or outstanding.
The Care Act 2014 placed a duty on local authorities in England to promote a diverse, sustainable, high quality market of care and support providers for people in their local area to meet those needs. The Department has published statutory guidance to support local authorities in their market shaping duties.