Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to increase attendance at diabetes education programmes.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England invested over £10 million of transformation funding in 2017/18 and a similar amount in 2018/19 to provide additional structured education places in 137 clinical commissioning groups.
Since 2009/10, there has been an almost 70% increase in people recorded as being referred to structured education when newly diagnosed with diabetes, designed to help them manage their condition in the long term.
The Department, NHS England and Diabetes UK are working on ways to further improve the take up of structured education by looking at greater diversity of provision through digital and web-based approaches.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people attended diabetes education programmes in each clinical commissioning group area in 2018.
Answered by Steve Brine
The information requested is not centrally held.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
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 ensure access to new digital services provided by the NHS by people that do not speak English as a first language.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
We are committed to ensuring that all those using the National Health Service have fair and equitable access to high quality, effective healthcare services that are responsive to all patients’ needs.
For people who use NHS.UK links are made available to a translation tool, for those who require help with translation as the vast majority of its content is in English. Health information in other languages is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/accessibility/health-information-in-other-languages/
When an appointment is booked through the NHS App, individuals can specify whether a translator is required.
As part of its on-going user research, NHS Digital frequently tests its English-language content and services with a wide range of users, including those who have English as a second language.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
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 tackle staff shortages as part of the NHS Long-Term Plan.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The National Health Service employs more staff now than at any other time in its 70-year history, with significant growth in newly qualified staff over the period from 2010.
The NHS Long Term Plan published on 7 January 2019 sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the NHS will have the staff it needs so that nurses and doctors have the time they need to care, working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing.
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding working closely with Sir David Behan to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce rapidly, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.
Asked by: Keith Vaz (Labour - Leicester East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died as a result of suicide while waiting for an appointment after referral by their GP to a relevant medical professional in each year since 2014.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information requested is not centrally held.
Suicide prevention is a priority for this Government. We are implementing the first access and waiting times for mental health. The National Health Service is meeting these first standards, and introducing more – with waiting times for children and young people’s eating disorder services being introduced from this year.