Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what percentage of dental practices were rated as good by the Care Quality Commission in Bradford South constituency as of September 2022.
Answered by Will Quince
In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Bradford South. The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.
The Care Quality Commission does not currently rate providers of primary dental care services.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment she has made of the variation in the dementia diagnosis rate between Integrated Care Systems in Enfland; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
NHS England has commissioned the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ Dementia Intelligence Network to investigate the underlying variation in dementia diagnosis rates in targeted areas in England. This includes the assessment of underlying population characteristics such as rurality, ethnicity and age to provide context for variation and enable targeted investigation and provision of support locally to enhance diagnosis rates.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Alzheimer's Society's Left to Cope Alone report published in June 2022, what steps she is taking to ensure the 30,000 additional people awaiting a dementia diagnosis since March 2020 are diagnosed as soon as possible.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
In 2021/22, we made £17 million available to clinical commissioning groups to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. NHS England is currently reviewing the final assurance reporting on the use of this funding, which was disbursed to systems in June 2021. This aims to identify areas of good practice in dementia diagnosis and provision of pre and post diagnostic support to share with dementia clinical networks and stakeholders in 2023.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has plans to hold discussions with representatives of (a) the Alzheimer's Society and (b) other dementia charities on the dementia diagnosis rate in England.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There are no current plans to do so. However, Ministers and officials aim to meet regularly with charities on a range of issues.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were recruited into phase (a) one and (b) two clinical trials supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research for (i) dementia, (ii) cancer, (iii) stroke and (iv) coronary heart disease in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by James Morris
A table showing the number of participants recruited into phase one and two clinical trials supported by the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research’s Clinical Research Network for dementia, cancer, stroke and coronary heart disease in each of the last 10 years is attached.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Dementia Programme Board has met since the announcement of the 10-year plan for dementia on 17 May 2022.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
The Dementia Programme Board last met formally in March 2022. We are reviewing plans for dementia in England and further information will be available in due course.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
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 the 10-year plan for dementia.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
We are reviewing plans for dementia in England and further information will be available in due course.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2022 to Question 283, on Dental Services: Finance, how many additional units of NHS dental activity have been provided by the additional £50 million of funding for NHS dentistry announced by the Government in January 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The data requested is not yet held centrally as dental contract holders submit claims for activity within 60 days. The data is then centrally validated to ensure accuracy. We anticipate the information will be available by the end of July.