Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to allocate for the development of new drugs to treat brain tumours in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
On 14 May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research. Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR focusses on supporting health and care research, and translating discoveries into practical products, treatments, devices and procedures.
We are relying on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this very difficult area. To encourage such applications we have released a NIHR Highlight Notice on brain tumour research asking research teams to submit collaborative applications building on recent initiatives and investments. We are also working closely with research funding partners such as Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, and brain tumour charities, who fund research into new scientific discoveries. We stand ready to translate these new discoveries as quickly as possible into new treatments and diagnostics for patients via the NIHR.
The level of research spend in a particular area, such as the development of new drugs to treat brain tumours, will depend on the number and scale of successful funding applications.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to brain tumour research in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
In May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research as part of the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.
Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support a wide range of research from early translation (experimental medicine) through clinical and on to applied research. We are relying on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this difficult area. To encourage such applications we have released an NIHR Highlight Notice on brain tumour research calling for proposals across a range of NIHR research funding programmes.
Total spend over the last five years is shown in the following table:
2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | Total |
£3,417,427 | £4,271,133 | £3,699,965 | £3,151,001 | £3,966,299 | £18,505,826 |
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to brain tumour research in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
In May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research as part of the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.
Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support a wide range of research from early translation (experimental medicine) through clinical and on to applied research. We are relying on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this difficult area. To encourage such applications we have released an NIHR Highlight Notice on brain tumour research calling for proposals across a range of NIHR research funding programmes.
Total spend over the last five years is shown in the following table:
2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | Total |
£3,417,427 | £4,271,133 | £3,699,965 | £3,151,001 | £3,966,299 | £18,505,826 |
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral contribution of 19 June 2018, Official Report, column 173, what criteria are used to assess health need when determining the siting of a local hospital; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Steve Barclay
NHS England have set out in their Planning, Assuring and Delivering Service Changes for Patients guidance the principles and the following four tests in relation to services changes, including resiting a local hospital:
- Strong public and patient engagement;
- Consistency with current and prospective need for patient choice;
- A clear, clinical evidence base; and
- Support for proposals from clinical commissioners.
The guidance also states that for any service change requiring public consultation which also requires capital funding, NHS England and NHS Improvement will assess any proposals to provide assurance that they do not require an unsustainable level of capital expenditure and that they will be affordable in revenue terms.
The guidance is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/planning-assuring-and-delivering-service-change-for-patients/
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the new funding for the NHS recently announced by the Prime Minister will be allocated to improving mental health services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Prime Minister has announced a five-year funding agreement which will see the National Health Service budget grow by over £20 billion, in real terms, by 2023-24. No decision has yet been taken on the share of funds to be allocated to improving mental health services under the multi-year financial settlement. However, the Government is clear that one of the principles the plan must deliver on is significantly improving access to good mental health services to deliver parity of esteem to an agreed timetable.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent GPs there have been in Warrington in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Brine
The information requested is presented in the following table. Full time equivalent (FTE) data is not comparable over the period. Headcount numbers have therefore been provided.
Census | Primary care trust (PCT)/clinical commissioning group (CCG) Code | PCT/CCG Name | All practitioners (excluding Retainers and Registrars, Locums) headcount |
2010 | 5J21 | Warrington PCT | 129 |
2011 | 5J21 | Warrington PCT | 135 |
2012 | 5J21 | Warrington PCT | 134 |
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2013 | 02E | NHS Warrington CCG | 124 |
2014 | 02E | NHS Warrington CCG | 126 |
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2015 | 02E | NHS Warrington CCG | 138 |
2016 | 02E | NHS Warrington CCG | 129 |
2017 | 02E | NHS Warrington CCG | 127 |
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Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
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 number of women in Warrington who have been affected by the errors in the breast cancer screening programme.
Answered by Steve Brine
Data on the number of women affected will be published by the end of May.
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
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 is from referral to first treatment for young people in Warrington requiring treatment for mental ill-health.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department does not hold the information in the format requested.
However, the Department has put two waiting time standards relevant to children and young people in place, for which national data is available.
For psychosis, first episodes are normally experienced in teenage years, hence introduction of the waiting time standard for early intervention in psychosis, which applies to all ages. Nationally this is currently exceeding its target of 50%, with 75.9% of patients receiving treatment within two weeks of referral.
The waiting time element of the eating disorder standard, which applies to those up to 19 years, is on track to meet its target of 95% by 2020/21, with 78.9% of urgent cases nationally receiving treatment within a week and 79.9% of routine cases receive treatment within four weeks of referral.
NHS Digital’s analysis of children and young people waiting times is also published and can be found at the following link:
http://content.digital.nhs.uk/suppinfofiles
Asked by: Helen Jones (Labour - Warrington North)
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 attract more GPs to Warrington.
Answered by Steve Brine
There are a number of schemes and initiatives to recruit and also to retain general practitioners (GPs) within Warrington. These include the GP Retained Doctor Scheme and also the GP International Recruitment Scheme which has received national approval and is now underway. NHS Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is part of these schemes and aims to recruit at least 12 GPs from the GP International Recruitment Programme.
Alongside this, Warrington CCG has undertaken several other pieces of work aimed at supporting GPs and general practice in the area, such as;
- Carrying out an audit of appointments which indicated that the majority of those people seen by a GP did not need to see a GP, which suggests that there are opportunities to redesign the workforce;
- Scoped out demand and capacity within general practice to establish if the correct workforce is in place and to identify and address workforce issues;
- Worked closely with NHS England to develop the role of support staff as care navigators to free up GP time;
- Worked collaboratively across groups of practices known as clusters to share skill mixes amongst practices, developing new care models for primary care pathways that will ensure collaborative working with wider health care services, to ensure patients are seen at the right time by the right part of the system; and
- Refreshed the primary care strategy with workforce as a priority.