Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
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 13 February to Question 139217 on Mental Health: Preventive Medicine, what progress NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have made on the development of a policy framework to assess digital health technologies.
Answered by Will Quince
The policy framework clarifying the market pathway for Digital Health Technologies will be published in autumn 2023. Several evaluations, through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Early Value Assessment (EVA) have now been published, including technologies delivering digitally enabled therapy. A procurement platform has been established, via the London Procurement Partnership, for EVA recommended products.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to confirm whether he plans to ringfence funding for long covid clinics after April 2024.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
Long COVID-19 clinics are funded from NHS England’s Service Development Funding. Plans for 2024/2025 will be set out in NHS England’s Operational Planning Guidance for 2024/25 by the end of this calendar year.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on (a) shortages of progesterone and (b) safeguarding future progesterone supply.
Answered by Will Quince
We are aware of an issue with Utrogestan (progesterone) 100mg capsules, which will be unavailable for short periods of time intermittently until late 2023. The Department’s medicines supply team has been working very closely with the supplier to boost capacity and increase supplies to the United Kingdom. In the meantime, we have issued a Serious Shortage Protocol which allows pharmacists to limit dispensing of this product to a maximum of two months’ supply per prescription, to help support access to available stock, and we have provided management guidance to the NHS. Furthermore, we have added this product onto the list of products that cannot be hoarded or exported from the UK.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many constituents in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency have been deregistered by dental practices each year since 2021.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The information requested is not available. Unlike general practitioners' patients, dental patients are not registered to a particular practice. A dental practice can accept a patient for a course of treatment if they have capacity to deliver that treatment. There are no geographical restrictions on which dental practice a patient may attend, allowing patients the choice of where they receive treatment.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many constituents in Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency are registered with an NHS dentist.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The information requested is not available. Unlike general practitioners' patients, dental patients are not registered to a particular practice. A dental practice can accept a patient for a course of treatment if they have capacity to deliver that treatment. There are no geographical restrictions on which dental practice a patient may attend, allowing patients the choice of where they receive treatment.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support children's hospices after the 2023-24 financial year.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Palliative and end of life care is commissioned locally by integrated care boards in response to the needs of their local population. The Government and NHS England are committed to the long-term sustainability of high-quality palliative and end of life care for all children and young people. Discussions between the Department and NHS England regarding the future of the Children’s Hospice Grant beyond 2023/24 are ongoing, and NHS England is aiming to be able to communicate details in the coming weeks, as soon as is practically possible.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
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 an orthodontist referral in Cheshire and Wirral in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The current average waiting time for an orthodontist in Cheshire is two and a half years, and just over two years in Wirral. Not all referrals to an orthodontist will be eligible for National Health Service treatment. NHS orthodontic treatment is free for people under the age of 18 years old with a clear health need and assessed as meeting the criteria for NHS treatment.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in each year since 2019 in (a) Ellesmere Port and (b) NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The requested data is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were living with chronic kidney disease with classification of categories G3a to G5 in (a) Ellesmere Port and (b) the area served by the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside integrated care board in each year since 2019.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Data is not held for Ellesmere Port. Data is available for the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board from 2020/21 onwards. The following table shows the number of people with chronic kidney disease with classification of categories G3a to G5 in the area served by the NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board since 2020/21.
Year | NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board |
2020/21 | 99,751 |
2021/22 | 102,935 |
The information for 2019/20 is not available due to the integrated care board not existing at that time.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people with diabetes in (a) Ellesmere Port and (b) NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB have had a urine-to-albumin ratio test in the last year.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The following table shows the proportion of people with diabetes in Ellesmere Port and NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board who have received a urine-to-albumin ratio test between January 2021 and March 2022.
Location | Diabetes type | Type 1 | Type 2 and other |
Ellesmere Port | Total number of people with diabetes | 490 | 5,550 |
Urine-to-albumin ratio test | 175 | 3,050 | |
Percentage | 35.70% | 55.00% | |
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board | Total number of people with diabetes | 12,295 | 143,845 |
Urine-to-albumin ratio test | 5,120 | 3,289,925 | |
Percentage | 41.60% | 50.30% |
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