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
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent registered nurse positions are vacant in the NHS in England; and what proportion that number is of all registered nurse positions.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information is not available in the format requested.
Health Education England (HEE) provides estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues as part of their Workforce Plan for England publication. The latest figures are available at the following link:
https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf
HEE plans to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.
In addition, NHS Digital does publish the number of vacancies that are advertised on NHS Jobs, the dedicated online recruitment service for the National Health Service. However, as the basis of the figures is the number of vacancies advertised for the first time in each given month, it is not possible to determine from these figures the number of vacancies live at any given point in time. The figures only cover those vacancies advertised via NHS Jobs, and it is not always possible to determine how many posts are associated with any given advertisement.
The latest figures are available at the following link:
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of full-time equivalent consultant positions which are vacant in the NHS in England; and what proportion that number is of all consultant positions.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information is not available in the format requested.
Health Education England (HEE) provides estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues as part of their Workforce Plan for England publication. The latest figures are available at the following link:
https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf
HEE plans to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.
In addition, NHS Digital does publish the number of vacancies that are advertised on NHS Jobs, the dedicated online recruitment service for the National Health Service. However, as the basis of the figures is the number of vacancies advertised for the first time in each given month, it is not possible to determine from these figures the number of vacancies live at any given point in time. The figures only cover those vacancies advertised via NHS Jobs, and it is not always possible to determine how many posts are associated with any given advertisement.
The latest figures are available at the following link: