Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for patients attending the accident and emergency departments at (a) Sherwood Forest and (b) Nottingham University hospitals was in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of adults in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe and (c) England have been classified as (i) overweight or (ii) obese in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The attached tables set out the proportion of both children, in reception year and year six, and adults classified as overweight or obese in Ashfield, Rushcliffe and England.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe and (c) England have been classified as (i) overweight or (ii) obese in school year six in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The attached tables set out the proportion of both children, in reception year and year six, and adults classified as overweight or obese in Ashfield, Rushcliffe and England.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children in (a) Ashfield, (b) Rushcliffe and (c) England have been classified as (i) overweight or (ii) obese in reception class in each year since 2010.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The attached tables set out the proportion of both children, in reception year and year six, and adults classified as overweight or obese in Ashfield, Rushcliffe and England.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
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 reasons for (a) the NHS and (b) individual NHS trusts not meeting the target of 85 per cent of patients starting treatment for cancer within 62 days of an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer.
Answered by Steve Brine
No formal assessment has been made on the reasons for the National Health Service and individual NHS trusts not meeting the target of 85% of patients starting treatment for cancer within 62 days of an urgent general practitioner (GP) referral for suspected cancer.
There has been a continuing rise in demand for cancer services, with urgent GP referrals for cancer rising by over 70,000 compared to last year (2016-17 compared to 2017-18).
Achieving the 62-day standard was a key objective in the Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2017-18 and this has been rolled forward into 2018-19. The NHS is committed to achieving the 62-day cancer waiting times standard, and to maintaining performance against the other cancer waiting times standards. It is investing this year in initiatives to recover and maintain the 62-day standard nationally, such as pathway coordinators and timed, standardised pathways.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vacancies there are for (a) nurses, (b) junior doctors at each grade and (c) consultants at (i) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (ii) Nottingham University Hospitals Trust.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The latest board report of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust states that as at July 2018 there were 196 full time equivalent registered nurse vacancies. This data can be found at the following link:
https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/media/4571/enc-13-final-august-trust-board-sof.pdf
The vacancies for junior doctors at each grade and consultants at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were not available.
The vacancies for Nottingham University Hospital Trust were not available.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
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 ensure that local authorities have sufficient resources to meet increasing demand for social care.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Budget in March 2017 announced an additional £2 billion to be given to councils over the three years from 2017/18 for social care. More recently the Local Government Finance settlement announced a further £150 million for social care.
This additional funding means that the Government has given councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for social care over the three years from 2017/18. Overall, councils are able to increase spending on adult social care in real terms in each of the next three years.
The Government has set out plans to publish a Green Paper by summer 2018 presenting its proposals to reform care and support for older people
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of sleep-in back pay for social care providers in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Ashfield District Council area and (c) Nottinghamshire County Council area.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
This information is not centrally held.
Social care is usually commissioned by local authorities but it can also be commissioned by the National Health Service, or paid for by self-funding individuals.
The Government recognises the pressures these liabilities are placing on providers of social care, and we are exploring options to minimise any impact on the sector.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure new mothers’ mental health problems are identified as early as possible.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home.
The Department is investing £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme to ensure that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This includes access to psychological therapies and specialist community or inpatient care.
A key element of the programme is to increase awareness and skills across the workforce, supporting better identification of perinatal mental illness, early intervention and consequently improved recovery rates. In addition, there are over 570 perinatal mental health visitor champions. Their role is to support health visitors with the identification and management of anxiety, mild to moderate depression and other perinatal mental disorders, and knowing when to refer on.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the publication of the most recent data on smear test uptake in the UK.
Answered by Steve Brine
The National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme measures coverage rather than smear test uptake rate. Data are provided by NHS Digital and are available at:
https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30134
General practice/clinical commissioning group level coverage is available at:
http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB24229