Gloria De Piero: DHSC: All Documents

Written Question

In Vitro Fertilisation

Wednesday 1st March 2017

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will hold discussions with Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group on the reasons for its decision to restrict free-of-charge IVF treatment to women aged under 34.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The provision of National Health Service funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment services is a matter for local determination.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 February, to Question 65437, which sets out the action being taken to improve the commissioning of IVF services.

Written Question

NHS: Finance

Tuesday 28th February 2017

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to NHS Improvement's quarterly performance data, published most recently in September 2016, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce the deficit in the NHS budget.

Answered by Philip Dunne

NHS England and NHS Improvement together set out their plan for balancing the books of the National Health Service in its Strengthening Financial Performance and Accountability document in July 2016. This includes the agreement of control totals, controls on agency spending, and the introduction of a new financial special measures regime. The NHS has worked hard to manage its finances in response to this plan and the latest quarterly performance data shows the majority of hospitals are on track to hit their targets by the end of the year. NHS Improvement will be working closely with those providers that are off plan, to bring them back as close as possible back to plan this year.

Written Question

In Vitro Fertilisation

Tuesday 28th February 2017

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 steps his Department is taking to reduce regional variations in the availability of free of charge IVF treatment.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The provision of National Health Service funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment services is a matter for local determination. In making decisions on the level of funding, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are expected to take account of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guideline recommending that three full cycles of IVF should be provided for qualifying couples. On 10 February 2017 I wrote to the National Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh, to ask that NHS England re-emphasise to all those involved in commissioning fertility services that they should have regard to the NICE fertility guideline as it currently stands.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Great Grimsby on 30 January 2017, to Questions 61798 and 61799, in which I set out the work currently underway to assist CCGs to commission fertility services more effectively.

Written Question

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: Surgery

Thursday 26th January 2017

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 operations were cancelled by Nottingham University Hospitals Trust on the day they were scheduled to take place in 2016.

Answered by Philip Dunne

NHS England collects and publishes the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons on a quarterly basis. Data for cancelled elective operations, by provider, up to quarter 2 of 2016-17 can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/cancelled-ops-data/

NHS England does not collect the total number of cancelled operations, a breakdown of the type of operations that have been cancelled, or the specific reason for the cancellation. Operations cancelled for clinical reasons are not collected as the patient is not available for the operation. A last minute cancellation is defined as when a patient’s operation is cancelled by the hospital on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery) for non-clinical reasons.

Written Question

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Surgery

Thursday 26th January 2017

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 operations were cancelled by Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on the day they were scheduled to take place in 2016.

Answered by Philip Dunne

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/cancelled-ops-data/

Written Question

Care Homes: Nottinghamshire

Tuesday 20th December 2016

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is held by the Care Quality Commission. It can be accessed here:

http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/how-get-and-re-use-cqc-information-and-data

Written Question

General Practitioners: Ashfield

Tuesday 6th December 2016

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 GPs were practising in Ashfield constituency (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

Answered by David Mowat

The information is not available in the format requested.

The number of general practitioners (GPs), excluding registrars, retainers, and locums, in the former Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) in 2010, and in each of the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that succeeded the PCT, in 2015 and 2016 is shown in the following tables:

	September 2010	September 2015	March 2016
Headcount
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT	414	..	..

NHS Mansfield And Ashfield CCG	..	108	99
NHS Newark And Sherwood CCG	..	73	75
NHS Nottingham North And East CCG	..	93	93
NHS Nottingham West CCG	..	67	64
NHS Rushcliffe CCG	..	70	78
Total of above CCGs	..	411	409

	September 2010	September 2015	March 2016
Full Time Equivalent
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT	360	..	..

NHS Mansfield And Ashfield CCG	..	94	87
NHS Newark And Sherwood CCG	..	63	68
NHS Nottingham North And East CCG	..	81	81
NHS Nottingham West CCG	..	55	53
NHS Rushcliffe CCG	..	66	74
Total of above CCGs	..	358	363

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

Data as at 30 September 2010, 30 September 2015 and 31 March 2016.
Prior to 2015, figures are sourced from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) System. From 2015 onwards, figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset and include estimates for missing data. Figures from September 2015 and March 2016 are provisional experimental and are not comparable with previous years. GP Registered Patient data is taken from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) system for all years.
March data was collected and published in full on the workforce Minimum Dataset for the first time in March 2016. These figures have been included to provide the most up-to-date information.
In 2010, Ashfield constituency was contained within and serviced by Nottinghamshire County PCT. From 2013 onwards, Ashfield constituency has been within NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG. The four other CCGs which emerged from Nottinghamshire County PCT have been included in the data also to provide comparability with previous years.
'..' denotes not applicable.
Headcount Methodology: The latest headcount methodology means this data is not fully comparable with previous years, due to improvements that make it a more stringent count of absolute staff numbers. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the Census publication. Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components.
Full Time Equivalent refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours, 0.5 that they worked half time.
Data Quality: NHS Digital seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

Written Question

General Practitioners: Ashfield

Tuesday 6th December 2016

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 unfilled GP posts there were in Ashfield constituency (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is not centrally held.

Written Question

General Practitioners: Ashfield

Tuesday 6th December 2016

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 the GP to patient ratio was in Ashfield constituency (a) on the last date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.

Answered by David Mowat

The information is not available in the format requested.

The number of general practitioners (GPs), excluding registrars, retainers, and locums, per 100,000 patients, in the former Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) in 2010, and in each of the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) that succeeded the PCT, in 2015 and 2016 is shown in the following table:

	September 2010	September 2015	March 2016
Headcount
Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT	62.1	..	..
NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG	..	57.0	52.1
NHS Newark and Sherwood CCG	..	55.7	57.0
NHS Nottingham North and East CCG	..	61.9	61.9
NHS Nottingham West CCG	..	70.8	67.6
NHS Rushcliffe CCG	..	56.4	62.7
Total of above CCGs	..	59.6	59.2

Source: NHS Digital

Notes:

Data as at 30 September 2010, 30 September 2015 and 31 March 2016.
Prior to 2015, figures are sourced from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) System. From 2015 onwards, figures are sourced from the workforce Minimum Dataset (wMDS) and include estimates for missing data. Figures from September 2015 and March 2016 are provisional experimental and are not comparable with previous years. GP Registered Patient data is taken from NHAIS GP Payments (Exeter) system for all years.
March data was collected and published in full on the wMDS for the first time in March 2016. These figures have been included to provide the most up-to-date information.
In 2010, Ashfield constituency was contained within and serviced by Nottinghamshire County PCT. From 2013 onwards, Ashfield constituency has been within NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG. The four other CCGs which emerged from Nottinghamshire County PCT have been included in the data also to provide comparability with previous years.
'..' denotes not applicable.
Headcount Methodology: The latest headcount methodology means this data is not fully comparable with previous years, due to improvements that make it a more stringent count of absolute staff numbers. Further information on the headcount methodology is available in the Census publication. Headcount totals are unlikely to equal the sum of components.
Data Quality: NHS Digital seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.

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National Health Service Funding

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