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Written Question
Intensive Care: Coronavirus
Tuesday 17th November 2020

Asked by: Marcus Fysh (Conservative - Yeovil)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients reported as being covid-19 patients in intensive care have (a) had a positive covid-19 test result, (b) respiratory symptoms and (c) both, by (i) hospital trust and (ii) English region.

Answered by Edward Argar

Based on data from 15 March 2020 to week ending 1 November 2020 submitted to Public Health England’s Severe Acute Respiratory Infection-Watch, 30% of new admissions for acute respiratory infection (ARI) to any ward, including intensive care units, (ICU) and high dependency units (HDU), in hospitals in England had a laboratory confirmed COVID-19 test.

Over the same time period, 42% of new admissions to ICU/HDU for ARI had a laboratory confirmed COVID-19 test.

Further information on ICU/HDU admission rates by region and by trust in the weekly surveillance reports is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Written Question
Coronavirus: Disease Control
Tuesday 17th November 2020

Asked by: Marcus Fysh (Conservative - Yeovil)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he made at the time of the March 2020 lockdown of the capacity of the NHS to cope with a second wave of covid-19.

Answered by Edward Argar

The focus in March 2020 was on the required National Health Service capacity to respond to the first wave of COVID-19 cases, rather than a potential second wave.

Guidance issued by the NHS in March had set out an operational aim to expand critical care capacity to the maximum and free up 30,000 or more general and acute beds.

Written Question
Higher Education: Coronavirus
Tuesday 17th November 2020

Asked by: Marcus Fysh (Conservative - Yeovil)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of positive covid-19 test results in the last six weeks are from students in higher education settings in England, by (a) region and (b) local authority area.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Public Health England (PHE) does not publish data on COVID-19 cases in higher education settings in the format requested.

PHE publishes incidence data for educational aged cohorts at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/930819/Weekly_COVID-19_and_Influenza_Surveillance_Graphs_W44.pdf

In week 43, there were 311 confirmed COVID-19 clusters or outbreaks in educational settings. Further information can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 May 2020
Public Health

"The precedent that health trumps liberty must not be the conclusion from this period. I am determined about that, because it is fundamental to our very souls as the British people. We are not a people who take well to surveillance, and it is a little ironic that the country …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. Will my hon. Friend take up as a matter of urgency the recommendations of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee report on eating disorders treatment, which we have released today to follow up on the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report from 2017, named “Ignoring the alarms”? Does …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Mar 2019
Eurotunnel: Payment

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s sensible contingency planning for any eventuality, but may I highlight that it is important to focus on all the routes across the channel and everything related to that? Although it is good that Eurotunnel is being focused on, it is worth looking at the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T5. Spina bifida is one of the most prevalent causes of infant mortality and disability, and a campaign has been running for quite a long time to try to fortify flour to prevent it. Successive Governments have ducked the issue, so will we now please seize it?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

"It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Laura Smith), who made some interesting points about adult social care. I have similar issues in my constituency, where one of the main care providers increasingly sees private clients effectively subsidising local authority provision. The gap between …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2018
Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

"The hon. Lady makes a good point. It is about trying to understand when the effects will show up. Often what we have to do in the meantime is to run two parallel systems, in order to get one up and running, and that can be challenging. I welcome the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"There are many very committed individuals working in health and social care services in Somerset, but one challenge is getting enough registered nurses into the system to allow them to integrate. What can the Minister do to help to get more registered nurses?..."
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