Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times are for access to talking therapies in (a) the UK, (b) Yorkshire and (c) Halifax.
Answered by Alistair Burt
We do not hold the data in the format requested. What data we do hold is provided in the following table:
The number of referrals entering treatment1 in the year, with mean and median waiting times to first treatment (days), for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services in 2014/15. Data shown for NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and all Yorkshire CCGs combined2.
Organisation code | Organisation name | Total number of referrals entering treatment3 | Average (mean) waiting time to first treatment appointment (days)4 | Median5 waiting time to first treatment appointment (days) |
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| All England | 815,665 | 32 | 17 |
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| All Yorkshire CCGs combined | 71,690 | 39 | 21 |
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02E | NHS Calderdale CCG | 4,200 | 14 | 6 |
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1In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment (an appointment with a therapy type recorded) in the year.
2CCG is based on general practitioner (GP) Practice. Where GP Practice is not recorded, or cannot be assigned to a CCG, the referral is categorised as 'Unknown'.
3In order to enter treatment a referral must have a first treatment appointment in the year.
4The mean was used as the average.
5Means and medians have been rounded to the nearest whole number.
Notes:
Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. For 2014/15, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment.
Entering treatment figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
It is generally advised that the median is used as the more reliable measure of average waiting time, as this accounts better for any outliers in the data.
Source: IAPT
Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS staff can report patient safety incidents quickly and efficiently.
Answered by Ben Gummer
NHS England is responsible for the National Reporting and Learning System which collates information on patient safety incidents reported by staff working in NHS funded care.
There are plans to develop a new patient safety incident management system and one of the aims will be to make it quicker and easier for staff to report.
Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's comments on the PFI scheme at Calderdale Royal Hospital, reported in the Halifax Courier on 21 April 2015, what steps he is taking to restructure that PFI scheme.
Answered by Alistair Burt
This is a matter for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, which operates Calderdale Royal Hospital.