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Written Question
Maternity Services
Thursday 13th July 2017

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the remit is of the review of neonatal services; and whether that remit includes the tariff for (a) neonatal and (b) transitional care.

Answered by Philip Dunne

Better Births, the report of the National Maternity Review, recommended that a dedicated review of neonatal services should be taken forward, in light of its findings and their potential implications for the provision of neonatal care. Within that context, NHS England’s Women and Children’s Programme of Care and its Neonatal Critical Care Clinical Reference Group are undertaking a review of neonatal services under the auspices of the Maternity Transformation Programme. The review is focusing on a number of themes and variables including admission rates, length of stay, outcomes and pregnancy profiles.

The findings will inform the development and delivery of Local Maternity System Plans with recommendations that will include ensuring continuity of care for mothers whose babies are admitted to neonatal care.

The neonatal service review has a number of work streams including a pricing work stream. This involves the development of a pricing model to support the baby across the whole care pathway including transitional care.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2016
Social Care

"There are none so noble as those who care, and they include the Castle Vale carer I met who buys Easter eggs out of her own pocket to give out in her own time to those she cares for. Does the Secretary of State understand the despair being felt by …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Nov 2016
Coeliac Disease and Prescriptions

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing such an important debate on an issue that affects so many people. Does he agree that it is absolutely wrong that David Lissaman, a pensioner in my constituency, who thus far has been able to get gluten-free food on prescription, now …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 14 Sep 2016
NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans

"The hon. Lady, with her lifetime of experience in the national health service, is absolutely right about the importance of consultation. Does she therefore understand the concern being expressed by the staff at the Dove sexual health centre in one of the poorest constituencies in England, Erdington, because none of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Apr 2016
Junior Doctors Contracts

"A senior executive at Babcock once said to me that there are employers who could pick a fight with themselves. During 30 years in the world of work, I cannot remember a legitimate sense of grievance so grotesquely mishandled. Does the Secretary of State not recognise that he is poisoning …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Feb 2016
Junior Doctors Contracts

"I have spent 30 years in the world of work, representing employees, conducting negotiations and solving disputes. I have seldom seen a sense of grievance so grotesquely mishandled, insulting the intelligence of junior doctors by telling them that they do not understand what is on offer. Does the Secretary of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"With the accident and emergency crisis, over which the Secretary of State has presided, more and more police officers are queuing outside fewer A&E departments in ever-lengthening queues. Last year, there were 1,000 incidents in the Metropolitan police alone. In Liverpool, Patrick McIntosh died after waiting for an ambulance for …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Jan 2015
NHS Major Incidents

"In his attempt to gag hospitals over the growing accident and emergency crisis, the Secretary of State has sanctioned guidance that “we must avoid reputational damage”. Whose reputation? His reputation? Does the right hon. Gentleman not accept that his reputation on the national health service is damaged beyond repair?..."
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Written Question
Mental Health Services: Birmingham
Tuesday 13th January 2015

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time is for talking therapy in Birmingham.

Answered by Norman Lamb

Information on the median waiting times for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Birmingham for 2013-14 is shown in the following table.

Number of referrals entering treatment

Median waiting time (days)

NHS Birmingham and South Central CCG

3,320

26

NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG

5,135

25

NHS Birmingham Cross City CCG

9,020

29

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), IAPT Dataset

Notes:

  1. It is not possible to separate Sandwell from NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG; as such, data for Sandwell is also included in this response
  2. The IAPT dataset contains information on referrals to IAPT services which provide talking therapies.
  3. Waiting time is measured by counting the number of days between a referral being received and the first treatment appointment. Currently, the presence of a valid therapy type is used as an indicator of whether treatment was provided in the course of the appointment.
  4. This data is based upon a count of referrals received by IAPT services, not distinct people. In order to be included in these figures, a referral must have had a first treatment appointment in the reporting period (1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014)

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2013
Hospital Mortality Rates

"In a new low for British politics, the Secretary of State today descended into the gutter. How can he begin to blame the last Government for the deterioration at the 14 hospitals concerned, which took place under this Government, especially as the Government were warned about unacceptable standards in five …..."
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