Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many children with mental illness presented to Accident and Emergency departments in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The data is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much capital money will be allocated for the (1) rebuilding, and (2) refurbishment, of North Manchester General Hospital in each of the next five years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
On Sunday 29 September, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced the next stage in our strategic investment in the National Health Service, with the Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP) to ensure that our health infrastructure is fit-for-purpose for decades to come. The Prime Minister set out on Wednesday 2 October his plan that “in the next ten years we will build 40 new hospitals in the biggest investment in hospital infrastructure for a generation.” As a step towards this, we have committed funding for six new hospitals as well as seed funding to support the initial stage of a further 34 building projects.
North Manchester General Hospital scheme is one of the projects that are green-lighted to proceed to the next level of their development plan. A total pot of £100 million of seed money is being made available to help kick start the next stage of developing these plans. All schemes however will need to present a clear investment case to move onto the next stage, and funding will be subject to future spending reviews. Other projects will be able to bid into this and other future waves too.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 7 August (HL17449), in what format the data are available for average annual waiting times for each accident and emergency department in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Data is not available in the format of average waiting times at individual accident and emergency (A&E) units. Data is available at a National Health Service trust provider level as some NHS trusts have more than one A&E unit. The data for providers in Greater Manchester, 2013-14 to 2018-19 (provisional) is attached, due to the size of the data. 2018-19 data is provisional and subject to change.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the average annual waiting times for each accident and emergency department in Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Data is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the total payment made by NHS England to private providers of mental health services.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
In the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 approximately £610 million was paid to independent sector providers of specialised mental health services commissioned by NHS England.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many single-handed GP practices there are in each Clinical Commissioning Group area in England.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The number of general practitioner (GP) practices which recorded a single headcount GP as of 31 March 2019 for each clinical commissioning group in England is attached.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which universities in England and Wales provide undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses; and how many undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses will be available in each of those universities in each of the next three academic years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Office for Students (OfS) published data on the names of the universities in England which offered pre-registration undergraduate learning disability nursing courses in 2018 /19. These universities are shown in the following table:
Coventry University | University of Greenwich | University of Chester |
Edge Hill University | University of Hertfordshire | The University of Cumbria |
Kingston University | University of Keele | De Montfort University |
Teesside University | University of Northampton | University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
The University of East Anglia | University of the West of England, Bristol | University of Salford |
The University of Huddersfield | University of Wolverhampton | Sheffield Hallam University |
The University of Hull | Birmingham City University | University of Sunderland |
Source: Published OfS Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 2018/19
Healthcare education, training and recruitment in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for the devolved governments in each nation, and the Department does not hold information on this.
The Department does not hold information on the numbers of training places for undergraduate learning disability nursing that are expected to be available at universities in future years.
Universities are autonomous private institutions and are responsible for setting the number of training places they offer. It is for universities to work as part of their local health economy to secure training places.
In August 2017, the Government changed the funding system for pre-registration undergraduate nurse training. The funding reforms unlocked the cap which constrained the number of pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession training places, meaning that we have moved away from centrally imposed number controls and financial limitations, creating a sustainable model for universities and the healthcare workforce supply.
In support of the reforms, we announced additional clinical placement funding to make available 5,000 more nurse training places each year.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what will be the increase to the current year's NHS budget in each of the next five financial years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The following table shows the respective cumulative increase in NHS England's revenue funding, excluding depreciation, for the next five financial years as compared to the 2018/19 financial year, final settlement, cash terms.
2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
£6.2 billion | £12.4 billion | £18.7 billion | £25.4 billion | £33.9 billion |
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Manzoor on 29 January (HL12882), in what format the information requested, or similar information, is available.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
National data on the number of mental health inpatient beds for children and young people is available from 2013/14 onwards is shown in the following table.
Year | Number of mental health inpatient beds for children and young people |
2013/14 | 1,343 |
2014/15 | 1,386 |
2015/16 | 1,442 |
2016/17 | 1,449 |
2017/18 | 1,465 |
As of 1 April 2018 | 1,503 |
Source: NHS England management information.
Data on mental health inpatient beds for children and young people is available by region from 2016/17 onwards, and is shown for the North West and East Midlands areas in the following table.
Year | Number of mental health inpatient beds for children and young people | |
| North West1 | East Midlands2 |
2016/17 | 210 | 131 |
2017/18 | 210 | 131 |
2018/19 (April) | 210 | 131 |
2018/19 (December) | 210 | 151 |
Source: NHS England management information
1 Includes Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
2 Includes Derbyshire.
Information for December 2018/19 has been included in order to reflect changes in the area covered by the East Midlands category.
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to complete the recruitment of the additional 20,000 health professionals to support general practitioners, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The new general practitioner (GP) contract framework, published on 31 January 2019, set out plans for an Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme in Primary Care Networks. This will provide guaranteed funding for up to an estimated 20,000 additional staff by 2023/24. The funding available will be phased and will meet a recurrent 70% of costs for additional clinical pharmacists, physician associates, first contact physiotherapists and first contact community paramedics; and 100% of the costs of additional social prescribing link workers.
The scheme will be extended gradually, reflecting available supply and funding. Funding from July 2019 will be available for clinical pharmacists and social prescribers only, in 2020 physician associates and first contact physiotherapists will be added and in 2021 first contact community paramedics will be further added to the scheme.
This builds on the extra 3,700 non-GP clinical staff already working in general practice, compared to 2015 and will mean bigger teams of staff, providing a wider range of care options for patients and freeing up more time for GPs to focus on those with more complex needs.