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 his Department holds on the number of defibrillators in each English region.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes and the Department has made no assessment.
We do not hold information on the number of defibrillators in each English region. NHS England along with partners have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network database. The Circuit provides a national database of where defibrillators can be found so that ambulance services can identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Circuit is live in in all ambulance services across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, longer emergency medical response times, vulnerable people or due to the nature of activity at the site.
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 steps his Department has taken to increase the (a) provision of defibrillators and (b) number of people trained in (i) first aid and (ii) CPR.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, NHS England have assessed the benefits of providing Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in public places and have included improving bystander use of AEDs as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out that a national network of community first responders and AEDs will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.
No specific assessment has been has made of the availability of defibrillators across regions of the United Kingdom. The treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease is a priority for the Government, access to defibrillators is an important part of that commitment and it recently agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of AEDs that expands publicly supported access to defibrillators. We will set out agreed criteria to ensure that the delivery of AEDs in the community is based on being accessible on a 24 hour seven days a week basis and are equitable both nationally and socially.
Working with St John Ambulance, 141 community advocates have been recruited to deliver sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use. As of December 2022, 163 sessions had been delivered and 3249 people had been reached by these advocates. The first responders programme also had a key involvement in restart a heart day.
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 comparative assessment his Department has made of the availability of defibrillators across regions of the UK.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, NHS England have assessed the benefits of providing Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in public places and have included improving bystander use of AEDs as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out that a national network of community first responders and AEDs will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.
No specific assessment has been has made of the availability of defibrillators across regions of the United Kingdom. The treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease is a priority for the Government, access to defibrillators is an important part of that commitment and it recently agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of AEDs that expands publicly supported access to defibrillators. We will set out agreed criteria to ensure that the delivery of AEDs in the community is based on being accessible on a 24 hour seven days a week basis and are equitable both nationally and socially.
Working with St John Ambulance, 141 community advocates have been recruited to deliver sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use. As of December 2022, 163 sessions had been delivered and 3249 people had been reached by these advocates. The first responders programme also had a key involvement in restart a heart day.
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 steps his Department has taken to improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, NHS England have assessed the benefits of providing Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in public places and have included improving bystander use of AEDs as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out that a national network of community first responders and AEDs will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.
No specific assessment has been has made of the availability of defibrillators across regions of the United Kingdom. The treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease is a priority for the Government, access to defibrillators is an important part of that commitment and it recently agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of AEDs that expands publicly supported access to defibrillators. We will set out agreed criteria to ensure that the delivery of AEDs in the community is based on being accessible on a 24 hour seven days a week basis and are equitable both nationally and socially.
Working with St John Ambulance, 141 community advocates have been recruited to deliver sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use. As of December 2022, 163 sessions had been delivered and 3249 people had been reached by these advocates. The first responders programme also had a key involvement in restart a heart day.
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 steps his Department is taking to increase NHS capacity in Stoke-on-Trent.
Answered by Edward Argar
The Department has provided the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust with £4.1 million from the Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22, for investment in the estate and digital initiatives to aid elective recovery through efficiency and reconfiguration. The Trust also received £7.5 million in 2020/21 for the Royal Stoke University Hospital to eradicate backlogs and £17.6 million to improve capacity and patient flow, including through the creation of a new 26 bed acute inpatient ward at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
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 steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screenings in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Kidsgrove.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that national funding has been secured for the Health Community Champions programme in Stoke-on-Trent to promote cervical screening. University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust and the local authority are planning a community event with the local Muslim population to increase uptake and the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent region is working with the learning disability regional team to source and distribute easy read resources to all general practitioner practices. In addition, the regional communications teams have supported the national ‘Help us help you’ cervical screening campaign to encourage uptake across the West Midlands region.