Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much he has spent on NHS negligence claims over the last 12 months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS Resolution (NHSR) manages clinical negligence and other claims against the NHS in England.
NHSR has provided the following information:
The total cost of clinical negligence claims in the financial year 2020/21 was £2,209.3 million. The table below shows the breakdown of these costs:
Cost | £ Million |
Damages Paid to Claimants | £1609.8m |
Claimant Legal Costs | £448.1m |
NHS Legal Costs | £151.4m |
TOTAL | £2209.3m |
Note: the latest figures available from NHS Resolution relate to the 2020/21 financial year.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the Government's planned rise in National Insurance he plans to spend on reducing NHS waiting lists.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022-23 to 2024-25 to tackle elective waiting lists. We are working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan for how that funding will be used and we will publish a delivery plan for elective recovery later this year.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of additional doctor posts required over the next two years.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022-23 to 2024-25 to tackle elective waiting lists. We are working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan for how that funding will be used, including workforce requirements and additional medical posts that may be needed.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish further details of the steps and budgets he is introducing to reduce waiting lists for treatment in the NHS.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We will publish the delivery plan for tackling the backlog in elective services later this year.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has conducted a value for money study of the NHS Test and Trace system; and what assessment he has made of the (a) efficiency and (b) quality of that system.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The UK Health Security Agency has commenced analysis examining the historical value for money of Test, Trace and Isolate from June 2020 to April 2021 with input from senior academic health economists and a cross- Departmental working group. We are expecting initial findings by late autumn.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide details of how the NHS plans to reduce waiting lists.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We intend to publish the elective recovery delivery plan in November 2021.
We have committed further £1 billion this year to the existing £1 billion Elective Recovery Fund, with more than £8 billion in 2022/23 to 2024/2025. This could deliver the equivalent of nine million more checks, scans and procedures and allow the National Health Service to deliver the equivalent of 30% more elective activity by 2024-25, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
We will also establish a new £700 million Targeted Investment Fund, which includes £250 million to enable cutting edge technologies and £250 million to increase operating theatre capacity and improve productivity in hospitals.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses and doctors he plans to recruit for his Department's waiting list initiatives.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan for how that funding will be used, including the recruitment and salaries of additional medical staff.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the £36 billion announced by the Government to tackle waiting lists as a result of the covid19 outbreak will be spent on the salaries of additional medical staff.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan for how that funding will be used, including the recruitment and salaries of additional medical staff.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the property costs are of the new NHS community diagnostic centres announced by the Government on 1 October 2021.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The property cost of the new National Health Service community diagnostic centres is approximately £55 million. This figure represents the capital costs for a number of property-related costs including refurbishments, enabling works and pads for mobile units.
Asked by: John Redwood (Conservative - Wokingham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England plans to spend on (a) private hospital capacity and (b) work by private hospitals in 2021-22.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently in discussion with NHS Providers and the independent sector regarding spending private hospital capacity work in 2021-22.