Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing financial incentives for businesses to manufacture medicines in the UK.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In 2021, the Government’s Life Sciences Vision set out our ambition to create a globally competitive environment for Life Sciences manufacturing investments. To help meet these ambitions, the Government has launched three capital grant schemes, with up to £118 million of grant funding allocated. To date, these schemes have delivered £416 million of public and private investment and helped create or secure over 1,400 jobs. We anticipate announcing the next round of grant recipients over spring 2024.
In 2023, the Government announced a further £520 million of funding for Life Sciences manufacturing. This funding, available from 2025 over five years, will help to ensure that the United Kingdom remains a world leading location for Life Sciences manufacturing investments.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of paying junior doctors' student loans if they (a) remain in the UK and (b) take up a registrar post.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Whilst the Government currently has no plans to introduce such arrangements, it is committed to financially supporting healthcare students in England throughout their studies and keeps funding arrangements under review. In doing this, we must strike a balance between ensuring students are financially supported during their studies and making best use of money for the taxpayer.
Data from the General Medical Council shows that approximately 7% of doctors do not hold a licence to practice five years after Foundation year 2 in England, which is equivalent to around 450 doctors.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
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 the number of GP surgeries that offer appointments with a mental health nurse.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested on the number of GP surgeries offering appointments with a mental health nurse is not held.
There are many roles within primary care multi-disciplinary teams that offer mental health support including community mental health nurses, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, applied psychologists and social prescribing link workers.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the average length of time for which adults had been waiting for (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment for eating disorders in (i) 2019, (ii) 2020, (iii) 2021, (iv) 2022 and (v) 2023.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The requested data is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of trainee GPs undertook a training placement in a mental health setting in the past ten years.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The data requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
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 patients to have (a) an assessment and (b) a first appointment with an NHS Talking Therapies therapist after being seen by a GP in each (i) clinical commissioning group between January 2021 and August 2023 and (ii) integrated care system area in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
A table is attached that shows latest available information.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
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 for (a) access to NHS Talking Therapies, (b) an assessment and (c) first appointment with a therapist after seeing a GP was in each Clinical commissioning group in the last 12 months; and what the average waiting time for each was in each Integrated care system area in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
A table is attached that shows latest available information.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been treated using NHS Talking Therapies online in each Integrated care system area in the most recent period for which data is available; and what proportion of such therapies are conducted (a) online, (b) face to face and (c) by phone.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 November 2023 to question PQ560
It is available at the following link:
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-07/560
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people accessed talking therapies each year from 2010 and 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of patient referrals who accessed talking therapies each year in England from 2012/13 to 2012/22:
Year | Accessed Services |
2012/13 | 434,247 |
2013/14 | 709,117 |
2014/15 | 815,665 |
2015/16 | 953,522 |
2016/17 | 965,379 |
2017/18 | 1,009,035 |
2018/19 | 1,092,296 |
2019/20 | 1,165,653 |
2020/21 | 1,024,014 |
2021/22 | 1,244,386 |
Source: IAPT dataset, NHS England
Notes:
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in each financial year from 2010 to 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the total amount spent by integrated care boards and NHS England on delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), now known as NHS Talking Therapies, for each financial year from 2016/17 to 2021/22:
Financial year | Total cost of delivering IAPT services (£’000) |
2016/17 | 419,430 |
2017/18 | 441,342 |
2018/19 | 518,590 |
2019/20 | 593,148 |
2020/21 | 691,264 |
2021/22 | 776,159 |
Source: NHS England
Note: Data prior to 2016/17 is not available.