Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made towards meeting the 2020 challenge on dementia in Worcestershire.
Answered by David Mowat
In March 2016, we published an Implementation Plan which sets out the actions partners across health and care will take to ensure commitments in the 2020 Challenge are delivered.
In August 2016, the Department published the Dementia Atlas; an interactive online resource which members of the public can use to review how their area is performing against a range of data across the Dementia Well Pathway. You can access the Atlas here:
https://shapeatlas.net/dementia/
NHS England advises that it will shortly be reviewing the actions to date and the future plans of health and care partners in Worcestershire.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of GP appointments that are currently used for diagnosing and treating mental health illness.
Answered by David Mowat
It is not possible to cross reference general practice (GP) appointments and GP clinical data to determine what clinical purpose any given appointment has; therefore, the Department cannot calculate how many GP appointments are used for diagnosing and treating mental health illness.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 1.233 of the Budget 2015, how much of the £1.25 billion allocated to children and adolescent mental health services (a) has been and (b) is due to be allocated to Redditch constituency.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
We are advised by NHS England that, from the total additional funding for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services made available over this Parliament, the amount allocated to Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group was £295,000 in 2015/16 and £422,000 in 2016/17. These figures include a portion of the £30 million per year over the course of this Parliament for treatment of eating disorders in children and young people, announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
Allocations for 2017/18 onwards have not yet been confirmed by NHS England.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many calls the NHS 111 helpline received from people experiencing mental illness in the last 12 months.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions the NHS 111 helpline has made recommendations for people experiencing mental illness in the last 12 months.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to increase public awareness of mental health in Worcestershire in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
This is a matter for the local National Health Service. NHS England advises that initiatives instigated by the local mental health service provider, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, include a campaign in February 2015, primarily aimed at young people, called ‘Self-help not self-harm’.
The Trust’s campaign ‘How do you keep a healthy mind?’ raised awareness of coping methods for low level mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and low mood. This campaign tied in with the launch of the Worcestershire Healthy Minds service, which aims to support people earlier and prevent issues escalating. Its website has had over 16,000 hits since April this year.
The Trust has produced a Healthy Minds application, providing links to help people live well with common mental health problems. Since its launch, the application has been downloaded by over 1,800 people.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to talking therapies in Worcestershire.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Talking therapy services are provided through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, led by NHS England. There are a number of routes into the programme including general practice referral and self-referral. The programme aims to ensure that services provide treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to the programme, and that 95% of people are treated within 18 weeks. These waiting time standards were introduced by the Government from 1 April 2015.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the average length of stay in hospital for people with (a) Alzheimer's disease and (b) dementia in each of the last three years.
Answered by David Mowat
NHS Digital has collected and reported data on the average length of inpatient stay, for all providers in England, for the years 2012-13 to 2014-15. The information requested is set out in the following tables A to C:
Table A: Average length of inpatient stay of patients with Alzheimer’s disease reported as primary condition in England for the years specified.
Alzheimer’s disease | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
Average Length of Stay (Days) | 60 | 54 | 49 |
Table B: Average length of inpatient stay of patients with dementia as primary condition in England for the years specified.
Dementia | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
Average Length of Stay (Days) | 42 | 35 | 32 |
Table C: Average length of inpatient stay of patients with dementia in Alzheimer’s in England for the years specified.
Dementia in Alzheimer’s | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
Average Length of Stay (Days) | 64 | 53 | 52 |
This third table, ‘Dementia in Alzheimer’s’ includes episodes of care already counted with a primary diagnosis of Alzheimer’s as well as those with Alzheimer’s as a secondary diagnosis to dementia.
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on acceptable waiting times for patients prescribed talking therapies by their GP.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Talking therapy services are provided through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, led by NHS England. There are a number of routes into the programme including general practice referral and self-referral. The programme aims to ensure that services provide treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to the programme, and that 95% of people are treated within 18 weeks. These waiting time standards were introduced by the government from 1 April 2015.
Asked by: Karen Lumley (Conservative - Redditch)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of patients who have used mental health services in (a) Worcestershire and (b) Redditch in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table. This information includes people in contact with secondary mental health services. People in contact only with primary care mental health services are not included.
Number of people covered by National Health Service commissioners in Worcestershire using NHS funded secondary mental health services from 2012/13 to 2014/15 | |||
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Worcestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) | 13,296 | - | - |
Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) | - | 3,875 | 4,475 |
South Worcestershire CCG | - | 7,435 | 8,585 |
Wyre Forest CCG | - | 2,580 | 3,075 |
Source: NHS Digital Mental Health Minimum Dataset/Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Dataset
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