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Written Question
General Practitioners: Oldham
Thursday 29th February 2024

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered full time equivalent GPs serve the borough of Oldham in the latest period for which that data is available; and how many patients have been registered with surgeries in the borough of Oldham in each year from 2010.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

In January 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, the borough of Oldham had 134.6 full time equivalent doctors in general practice (GP). The following table shows the number of GP registered patients in the borough of Oldham at the start of each year from 2014 to 2024, as the data is only available from 2014:

Date

Patients registered with a GP

1 January 2014

231,784

1 January 2015

234,021

1 January 2016

237,404

1 January 2017

240,245

1 January 2018

242,836

1 January 2019

245,764

1 January 2020

248,153

1 January 2021

248,533

1 January 2022

250,048

1 January 2023

251,931

1 January 2024

255,526

Source: The data is taken from NHS Digital, and is available at the following link:


https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/patients-registered-at-a-gp-practice#about-this-publication

Note: Practices in Oldham were identified using the February 2024 release of the National Statistics Postcode Lookup and their postcode in the registered patient dataset from the time of publishing.


Written Question
Royal Oldham Hospital: Concrete
Tuesday 12th December 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of replacing the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in Royal Oldham Hospital.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Health Service has a comprehensive mitigation plan in place for hospital buildings with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), including significant funding worth £698 million from 2021 to 2025 for trusts to put in place necessary remediation and failsafe measures. NHS England is working closely with all affected trusts, including Royal Oldham, to develop and deliver plans to remove all identified RAAC. Royal Oldham Hospital has so far received £125,000 in funding to deal with RAAC mitigation. Funding allocations are made on an annual basis and funding for RAAC remediation works beyond 2025 will be considered in the next spending review.

The Government has committed to eradicating RAAC from the publicly owned NHS estate by 2035, including Royal Oldham Hospital.


Written Question
Royal Oldham Hospital: Concrete
Tuesday 12th December 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's timescale is for removing the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in Royal Oldham Hospital.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Health Service has a comprehensive mitigation plan in place for hospital buildings with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), including significant funding worth £698 million from 2021 to 2025 for trusts to put in place necessary remediation and failsafe measures. NHS England is working closely with all affected trusts, including Royal Oldham, to develop and deliver plans to remove all identified RAAC. Royal Oldham Hospital has so far received £125,000 in funding to deal with RAAC mitigation. Funding allocations are made on an annual basis and funding for RAAC remediation works beyond 2025 will be considered in the next spending review.

The Government has committed to eradicating RAAC from the publicly owned NHS estate by 2035, including Royal Oldham Hospital.


Written Question
Dental Services
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adult and (b) child NHS dental patients in (i) Oldham and (ii) England have seen a dentist in each year since 2010.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The following table shows the number of adults and children seen by a dentist in both Oldham Local Authority and England since 2010/11:

England

Oldham Local Authority

Financial Year

Adults seen

Children seen

Adults seen

Children seen

2010/11

21,401,000

7,771,000

Not Available

Not Available

2011/12

21,761,000

7,813,000

Not Available

Not Available

2012/13

21,927,000

7,837,000

Not Available

Not Available

2013/14

22,009,000

7,907,000

Not Available

Not Available

2014/15

22,032,000

7,992,000

Not Available

Not Available

2015/16

22,140,449

6,723,854

99,555

35,315

2016/17

22,159,223

6,799,092

100,068

35,881

2017/18

22,060,778

6,901,430

100,760

37,036

2018/19

21,959,979

7,000,685

101,958

38,026

2019/20

21,012,985

6,299,306

99,472

34,741

2020/21

18,190,987

3,946,048

88,516

20,017

2021 – 2022

16,409,636

5,589,201

82,382

30,475

2022 – 2023

18,111,609

6,372,892

90,816

35,216

Source: NHS Dental Statistics for England (NHS Digital)

Note: Data for Oldham Local Authority is not available for the years prior to 2015/16. This is due to changes in National Health Service geographies, which has meant that the data cannot be precisely mapped to the local authority in previous years.


Written Question
Dental Services
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of registered dentists in (a) Oldham and (b) England in each year since 2010.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) practising in the United Kingdom and enforces the standards they must adhere to. To practise in the UK, dentists and DCPs are required to hold registration with the GDC.

The Department does not hold data on how many dentists and DCPs have been registered with the GDC. The GDC holds its own data on dentists and DCPs who have been registered with them. The GDC regularly publishes registration reports on its website, and these are available at the following link:

https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports


Written Question
Dental Services: Waiting Lists
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

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 was for registering with an NHS dentist in (a) Oldham and (b) England in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Patients do not routinely join dental waiting lists in the National Health Service and are only registered with a dental practice for a course of treatment. We are working on our Dentistry Recovery Plan which will include how we continue to improve access, particularly for new patients.


Written Question
Avian Influenza: Disease Control
Monday 5th June 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

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 risks of (a) bird to human and (b) human to human transmission of avian influenza.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works closely with partners to monitor and investigate the risk to human health of avian influenza (influenza A H5N1). Our latest assessment of United Kingdom risk from avian influenza remains at limited mammalian transmission. Current evidence suggests the avian influenza viruses we are seeing circulating in birds around the world do not spread easily to people. However, the virus can spread to people following close contact with infected birds and UKHSA has introduced a screening programme to monitor those exposed to learn more about the risk.


Written Question
Avian Influenza
Monday 5th June 2023

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of levels of avian flu on human health.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works closely with partners to monitor and investigate the risk to human health of avian influenza (influenza A H5N1). Our latest assessment of United Kingdom risk from avian influenza remains at limited mammalian transmission. Current evidence suggests the avian influenza viruses we are seeing circulating in birds around the world do not spread easily to people. However, the virus can spread to people following close contact with infected birds and UKHSA has introduced a screening programme to monitor those exposed to learn more about the risk.


Written Question
Coronavirus: Herefordshire
Monday 24th January 2022

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

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 provide additional covid-19 vaccination sites in Herefordshire.

Answered by Maggie Throup

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.


Written Question
Travel: Quarantine
Thursday 29th April 2021

Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff are working in hotels used for hotel quarantine; and of those how many have been vaccinated against covid-19.

Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.