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Written Question
Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
Wednesday 27th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for children in need of kidney transplants.

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

We are working with NHS Blood and Transplant to help reduce waiting times for children in need of kidney transplants. This includes implementing initiatives to improve the use of living donor kidney transplantation in paediatric centres, engaging with transplant centres to review patients who are too unwell to receive a transplant, and reducing long waiters, which are patients who wait more than 104 days for a transplant.

Nation-wide campaigns have been developed to increase paediatric registrations on the organ donor register, for example Ralph’s campaign, and the school’s education programme has been refreshed for younger children. A paediatric perfusion programme is also being developed to increase the use of kidneys from donors after circulatory death for paediatric patients.


Written Question
Childbirth
Tuesday 26th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many premature babies were born at between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation in the last five years.

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

The following table shows the number of all live births and those with gestational age of 22 weeks, 23 weeks and 24 weeks in England and Wales between 2017 and 2021, the most recent five-year period for which data is available:

Year

All live births

Live births with gestational age between 22 and 24 weeks, inclusive

2017

678,728

972

2018

656,723

894

2019

639, 987

890

2020

613,231

784

2021

624,162

796

Source: Office for National Statistics Birth Characteristics

Note: Still births are not included as they are only measured from gestational age of 24 weeks onwards.


Written Question
Gender Dysphoria: Children
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children in England have been issued puberty blockers since 2019.

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

We have always been clear that children’s safety and well-being is paramount, so we welcomed NHS England’s landmark decision to ban routine use puberty blockers to children experiencing gender dysphoria. This decision was based on the available evidence and expert clinical opinion.

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists or puberty blockers are used to treat several medical conditions in children and young people. These can include precocious puberty, some forms of cancer, endometriosis, and gender dysphoria.

Information on the clinical indication for which these medications have been prescribed is not held centrally. The following table shows the number of identifiable patients prescribed and dispensed gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists for all purposes, in primary and secondary care in England from 2019 to September 2022:

Financial year

Patients identified

2018/19

1,072

2019/20

1,048

2020/21

936

2021/22

864

April to September 2022

693

Source: NHS Business Services Authority

Note: Prescriptions have only been included where a National Health Service number has been identified during processing, and an age has been recorded. The same patients may appear in multiple years.


Written Question
Social Services: South Holland and the Deepings
Monday 25th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase adult social care capacity in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government has made up to £8.6 billion available in additional funding over this financial year and next, to support adult social care and discharge. This includes nearly £2 billion being made available to local authorities over two years through the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund, which is specifically designed to support increased adult social care capacity. Local authorities can choose to use the funding to increase fee rates paid to adult social care providers, increase adult social care workforce capacity and retention, and reduce adult social care waiting times. Lincolnshire County Council received a total of just over £13 million through this fund in 2023/24, and are set to receive nearly £15 million in 2024/25. This is in addition to the broader funding that is available to Lincolnshire to spend on adult social care.


Written Question
NHS: Overseas Workers
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS employees are based outside the United Kingdom.

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

The Department does not hold the information requested.


Written Question
General Practitioners: Lincolnshire
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP surgeries in (a) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (b) Lincolnshire have closed since 2015.

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

The data provided shows that within the South Holland and the Deepings constituency, there have been no general practice (GP) closures. This includes those which have become branch practices, and is out of a total of 10 GPs across 14 sites, that were open at some point between January 2015 and March 2024. In the county of Lincolnshire, 17 GPs have closed, five of which have become branch practices. This is out of a total of 97 GPs across 126 sites, that were open at some point between January 2015 and March 2024.


Written Question
Ambulance Services: East Midlands
Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response times in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands were in the latest period for which figures are available; and what steps she is taking to help reduce ambulance response times in those areas.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Lincolnshire and the East Midlands are served by the East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS). The following table shows the average EMAS response time, broken down by response time category, in January 2024:

Response time category

Response time

Category 1

00:09:08

Category 2

00:49:59

Category 3

02:48:54

Category 4

02:48:56

Source: Ambulance response times are published monthly by NHS England, and are available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/

Our Delivery Plan for Recovering Urgent and Emergency Care Services sets out a range of measures to support the reduction of Category 2 response times to 30 minutes on average. To increase capacity and improve ambulance response times, ambulance services are receiving £200 million of additional funding this year, alongside the delivery of new ambulances.


Written Question
Mermaids: Finance
Wednesday 13th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department provided funding to the charity Mermaids UK in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.

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

The Department provided no funding to the charity Mermaids in 2021, 2022 or 2023.


Written Question
Blood: Contamination
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who were (a) treated with contaminated blood products and (b) given contaminated blood transfusions by the NHS in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire.

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

The Department has not made an estimate of the number of people who were treated with contaminated blood products and given contaminated blood transfusions by the National Health Service, in South Holland and the Deepings constituency and Lincolnshire.


Written Question
Health Services: Foreign Nationals
Thursday 29th February 2024

Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on how many people not legally resident in the UK were charged for healthcare in (a) NHS hospitals and (b) doctors surgeries in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (iii) 2023.

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

The Department does not collect or hold the requested information.