Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the pay ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
In 2020, the ratio between the highest paid member of staff and the lowest was 12.9. In 2021, the ratio was 12.3 and 10.7 in 2022.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
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 for the number of (a) doctors and (b) nurses working in Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Answered by Edward Argar
The latest available data in March 2022 shows there were 810 full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors and 1,700 FTE nurses working in the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
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 total number of patients who have received treatment funded by the National Health Service through private hospitals in (a) 2015 and (b) 2021.
Answered by Edward Argar
No specific estimate has been made as this data is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
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 total number of operations paid for by the National Health Service that were performed in private hospitals in (a) 2015 and (b) 2021.
Answered by Edward Argar
No specific estimate has been made as this data is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust to the hon. Member for Hemsworth stating that waiting times for gender services post-pandemic range from four to seven years, what steps he is taking to increase access to gender services in West Yorkshire.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The National Health Service has established pilot gender identity clinics which are trialling new service models in sexual health and primary care services to reduce waiting times and improving patient outcomes. These pilots have been established in London, Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside and the East of England, with a further clinic planned in Sussex later this year. The evaluation of the pilots will inform the future commissioning and provision of gender identity services.
The NHS is also working with existing providers of gender dysphoria services to increase clinical capacity where possible. In 2021/22, additional funding was provided for gender dysphoria services in West Yorkshire based at Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has participated in any events organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
Answered by Edward Argar
My Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not participated in any events organised by the World Economic Forum in the last year.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP surgeries there were in the Yorkshire and Humber region in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
There were 661 practices registered in the Yorkshire and Humber region in February 2021. In February 2022, 655 practices were registered in this region.
A reduction in practice numbers can be for a variety of reasons, including practice mergers or closures and does not mean a reduction in the quality of care. Practice mergers can offer benefits such as consolidation of back-office functions and sharing of staff expertise and skills between practices. Where a practice closes, patients are informed and advised to register at another local practice of their choice within their area. Practices and commissioners must put in place appropriate measures to ensure that the affected patients have access to general practitioner services.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the educational backgrounds of doctors.
Answered by Edward Argar
No specific assessment has been made.
The Medical Schools Council’s report ‘Selecting for Excellence’ sets out its work on selection and widening participation, including data on the backgrounds of medical students. The report is available at the following link:
https://www.medschools.ac.uk/our-work/selection/selecting-for-excellence
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
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 junior doctors who started their training in each of the last five years.
Answered by Edward Argar
The following table shows the number of applicants who accepted foundation year one medical training posts in the United Kingdom each academic year from 2017 to 2021. The foundation programme is a UK-wide.
2017 | 7,481 |
2018 | 7,470 |
2019 | 7,499 |
2020 | 7,577 |
2021 | 7,694 |
Note:
This data represents the numbers of accepted posts. The number of applicants which started these posts in trusts may vary with some withdrawals.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on delivering dementia moonshot.
Answered by Gillian Keegan
The Government has committed to invest at least £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years to fund projects into a range of diseases, including dementia. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) launched a highlight notice on dementia in March 2021 and in November 2021, issued a call inviting research proposals on digital approaches for the early detection and diagnosis of dementia. A new dementia strategy setting out plans for dementia in England will be published later this year. The strategy will include plans to increase dementia research and deliver a moonshot.