Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Health Visitors (England)
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bone. I congratulate the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) on securing this vital debate. The role of the health visitor is important to our local communities. The health visiting service provides the vital support that young …..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Health Visitors (England)
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 23 Oct 2019
Health Visitors (England)
"The Royal College of Nursing’s briefing for the debate says that the number of health visitors with caseloads of more than 500 children rose from 12% to 21% between 2015 and 2017, so it will have risen even more in the two years that have elapsed since. The caseload is …..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 4th October 2019
Asked by:
Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
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 improve ophthalmology services.
Answered by Jo Churchill
Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning secondary care ophthalmology services to meet local need. We would expect services to be commissioned in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance where it is available or best available evidence and for patients to receive treatment, in line with their clinical priority, without any undue delay at any stage of their referral, diagnosis or treatment.
Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national clinical improvement programme, working with frontline clinicians to identify and reduce unwarranted variations in service delivery and clinical practice. NHS England advises the GIRFT report into ophthalmology, which will contain recommendations for service improvement, is due for publication shortly.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Social Care Funding
"I am an ex-nurse. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is right to offset the costs of social care against what we would save the NHS? I regularly had eight patients, and probably three of them would be medically fit for discharge and did not want to sit …..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 01 Oct 2019
Social Care Funding
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I will start by talking a little about my experience as a nurse on an in-patient cardiac ward and the number of times we saw delayed discharges. Delayed discharges happened when a patient was medically fit for discharge, had …..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 5th August 2019
Asked by:
Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cancer clinical nurse specialist vacancies in the NHS.
Answered by Jo Churchill
NHS Improvement collects vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.
NHS Digital published the latest NHS Improvement vacancy data which can be found at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/february-2015---march-2019-provisional-experimental-statistics
The large majority of vacancies are filled by a combination of bank and agency staff.
Written Question
Monday 5th August 2019
Asked by:
Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to tackle cancer workforce shortages in the NHS people plan.
Answered by Jo Churchill
The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the National Health Service and will ensure we have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. A final People Plan will be published soon after the conclusion of the 2019 Spending Review.
The Cancer Workforce Plan for England, published in December 2017 by Health Education England (HEE), set out plans to expand capacity and skills in the cancer workforce, including targeting additional training support for seven priority professions which are key to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, such as clinical radiology, histopathology, oncology and diagnostic and therapeutic radiography. HEE will now work with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications of further development of cancer services. This work will inform the final People Plan.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"10. What recent estimate he has made of the number of NHS workforce vacancies. ..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Words are all well and good, but it is actions that actually count, and the Government are not creating a health service that supports its workforce. The striking health visitors in Lincolnshire have each lost more than £2,000 a year since they were transferred from the NHS to the Conservative-controlled …..."Karen Lee - View Speech
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