Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
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 people living with dementia are involved in the planning and provision of their care.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Guidance in ‘NHS England Dementia: Good Personalised Care and Support Planning Information for primary care providers and commissioners’ indicates that care planning and reviews should always be completed with the person living with dementia and their family/carers as appropriate, to reflect the persons wishes and needs. The guide was developed with a range of people living with dementia and their carers.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the need for clear standards for evidence-based training for the social care workforce.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the Action Plan on Hearing Loss on people with hearing loss.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made. Local National Health Service organisations are responsible for commissioning hearing services to meet the needs of the local population.
In 2016, we published ‘Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups’, which supports integrated care boards in England to provide high quality and integrated care. The framework also addresses inequalities in access and outcomes between hearing services.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for future delivery of the Action Plan on Hearing Loss.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made. Local National Health Service organisations are responsible for commissioning hearing services to meet the needs of the local population.
In 2016, we published ‘Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups’, which supports integrated care boards in England to provide high quality and integrated care. The framework also addresses inequalities in access and outcomes between hearing services.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Community Diagnostic Centres in England offer patients accesses to audiology tests.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No formal assessment has been made. As of November 2022, there are 10 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) in England currently offering audiology assessments.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of Community Diagnostic Centres on levels of early diagnosis of hearing loss.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No formal assessment has been made. As of November 2022, there are 10 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) in England currently offering audiology assessments.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy in Nottingham South constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of (a) four and (b) 11 were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction due to decay in Nottingham South constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle health inequality in Nottingham South constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
‘Our plan for patients’, published on 22 September, sets out the immediate priorities to support individuals to live healthier lives, including improving access to health and care services in all areas and preventing ill-health. Further information on measures to address health disparities will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities works with local system partners in Nottingham South to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.
Asked by: Lilian Greenwood (Labour - Nottingham South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of cancelled operations in Nottingham South constituency in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not collected in the format requested.