Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish monthly data on contact mediums for adult mental health services in the Mental Health Services Data Set.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
We have no current plans to do so.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) offer to and (b) uptake of remote mental health support services based on people's (i) ethnicity, (ii) gender and (iii) age.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
No such assessment has been made. However, research is being undertaken by the National Institute for Health Research’s Mental Health Policy Research Unit to develop broad models of telemental health services and how they could be used appropriately.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2021 to Question 179681 on Coronavirus: Homelessness, what plans his Department has to expand its work with homelessness providers (a) to West Yorkshire and (b) across England.
Answered by Jo Churchill
We are engaging with local authorities and community-based service providers across England, including in West Yorkshire, to share the learning from the pilot work and offer support and gather and disseminate best practice. Each setting is different and we know that co-designed, tailored responses are needed in each locality and across different area of service provision within the homelessness sector.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with representatives from the cardiology workstream of the Getting it Right the First Time programme on the timetable for publishing that report.
Answered by Jo Churchill
cardiology workstream of the Getting it Right the First Time programme
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of pharmacies in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) England offering lateral flow tests.
Answered by Jo Churchill
On 29 March, pharmacies in England were invited to offer Pharmacy Collect as an opt in service and from 5 April as part of the universal offer for rapid testing for all. To increase the number of pharmacies offering lateral flow tests we have directed NHS England and NHS Improvement to commission the community pharmacy COVID-19 lateral flow device distribution service. Over 90% of pharmacies across England registered to offer lateral flow tests within 10 days of the Pharmacy Collect service launch and this continues to increase.
NHS Test and Trace continues to work closely with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee who work directly with Local Pharmaceutical Committees across the country, including West Yorkshire.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with the NHS to collect data to (a) assess the affect the covid-19 outbreak has had on heart failure services, and (b) to inform patient care.
Answered by Jo Churchill
The National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) has worked with the cardiovascular professional societies and individual hospitals to ensure a continuous flow of data to assess the effect of the pandemic on patients with cardiovascular disease. NICOR’s report outlines the findings of recent analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on routine cardiovascular care including services for heart failure patents.
A close collaboration between NHS Digital, NICOR and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership with NHS England has also transformed the information governance landscape by creating a linked ‘cardiovascular data spine’. This has enabled data to be collated and analysed rapidly to inform on National Health Service patient care improvements.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the need for routine lateral flow and PCR covid-19 testing in homeless accommodation settings.
Answered by Jo Churchill
NHS Test and Trace has not made a specific assessment.
However, a number of pilots have been delivered working with homelessness providers in Wolverhampton, Peterborough and in Birmingham. The outcomes have been used to promote the Test and Trace offer by local authorities and their partners in homeless accommodation settings and to support them in the implementation and engagement of priority groups.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 March 2021 to Question 169989, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase covid-19 vaccine uptake in Wakefield constituency.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group and Wakefield Council have recently prepared a local vaccination engagement and patient experience update for the general public.
This includes commissioning voluntary and community organisations to further engage with communities and making sure messages and vaccinations are accessible to all.
A roving vaccination team has been developed to access local venues such as homeless/asylum seeker accommodation, Gypsy and Traveller sites and mosques to deliver vaccinations, including single gender sessions particularly suitable for Muslims. Outreach work continues, including planned engagement with Eastern European communities.
Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on lateral flow covid-19 testing to date.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Lateral flow device testing is provided by NHS Test and Trace using a separate budget administered through the Department. The final audited NHS Test and Trace expenditure will be published as part of the Department’s 2020-21 Annual Report and Accounts.