Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the Mental Health and Wellbeing Plan.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The Government announced on 24 January 2023 that it will publish a Major Conditions Strategy. Increasing multimorbidity and complexity of conditions means it is important to ensure strategies are joined up, with care and support centred around people. A joined up Major Conditions Strategy instead of a standalone mental health strategy will ensure that mental ill health is also considered alongside other physical health conditions, meaning the interactions between them are reflected in the resulting plans. We know that many of the risk factors that contribute to mental ill-health are cross-society in nature, and we will therefore be working closely with departments across Government.
We are grateful to everyone who responded to our mental health call for evidence. The responses we received have been processed and will feed into the development of mental health and suicide prevention policies we include in the Major Conditions Strategy and the Suicide Prevention Strategy.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
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 rate of suicides amongst junior doctors.
Answered by Will Quince
The table below shows the number of suicides registered for all medical practitioners, aged between 20 and 64 years old, in England in the years 2011 to 2021. A breakdown for junior doctors is not available.
Year | Number of suicides |
2021 | 10 |
2020 | 20 |
2019 | 19 |
2018 | 17 |
2017 | 18 |
2016 | 13 |
2015 | 14 |
2014 | 18 |
2013 | 20 |
2012 | 16 |
2011 | 13 |
More information is available at the following link:
We are already investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention by 2023/24 through the National Health Service Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services. Last year, we announced our intention to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy. Since then, we have been working to ensure this new strategy reflects the most up to date evidence and will address current challenges, risks, and opportunities to prevent suicide when it is published. We intend to publish the refreshed strategy this year.
We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce. The NHS is providing ongoing physical and mental health support for staff. This includes NHS Practitioner Health, which provides free access to targeted psychological support and treatment for healthcare professionals.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on annual dismissal rates of NHS workers.
Answered by Will Quince
There is a clear and urgent need for this legislation. Recent strikes have demonstrated the disproportionate impacts strikes can have on the public. This legislation is about protecting the lives and livelihoods of the public by maintaining minimum levels of service on strike days. It is not about dismissing people from their jobs and so it is likely to have a negligible impact on rates of dismissal.
The impact assessment for the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Bill has now been published. A final stage impact assessment on the secondary regulations will be published before any minimum service level regulations apply to National Health Service workers.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of suicide amongst junior doctors have been reported each year since 2010.
Answered by Will Quince
The table below shows the number of suicides registered for all medical practitioners, aged between 20 and 64 years old, in England in the years 2011 to 2021. A breakdown for junior doctors is not available.
Year | Number of suicides |
2021 | 10 |
2020 | 20 |
2019 | 19 |
2018 | 17 |
2017 | 18 |
2016 | 13 |
2015 | 14 |
2014 | 18 |
2013 | 20 |
2012 | 16 |
2011 | 13 |
More information is available at the following link:
We are already investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention by 2023/24 through the National Health Service Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services. Last year, we announced our intention to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy. Since then, we have been working to ensure this new strategy reflects the most up to date evidence and will address current challenges, risks, and opportunities to prevent suicide when it is published. We intend to publish the refreshed strategy this year.
We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce. The NHS is providing ongoing physical and mental health support for staff. This includes NHS Practitioner Health, which provides free access to targeted psychological support and treatment for healthcare professionals.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS trusts spent on paying fines in the last financial year.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not collected or held centrally by either the Department or NHS England.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question on NHS: Agency Workers, when he expects the information requested on expenditure on agency staff to be validated.
Answered by Will Quince
While the NHS Consolidated Accounts have been published, this does not include an explicit figure for agency spend as it is bundled together with other spend items. We expect the agency data for 2021/22 to be published this spring.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average stay in hospital was for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in (a) 2010 and (b) the year for which the latest data are available.
Answered by Will Quince
The following table shows the average stay in hospital for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in 2010 and 2022/23.
Year | Records | Records with a valid duration recorded | Mean duration (days) | Median duration (days) |
2010/11 | 207,463 | 103,613 | 4.8 | 4 |
2022/23 (April to December 22 Provisional Data) | 89,644 | 65,995 | 3.2 | 2 |
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of non-UK passport holders employed in social care in the UK in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Based on Skills for Care published estimates, the proportion of the adult social care workforce identifying as a non-British nationality is, 2019/20 (17%), 2020/21 (16%) and 2021/22 (17%). Data is not yet available for 2022/23.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs were registered and practising full time in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (a) May 2010 and (b) February 2023.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
Data is not held for May 2010 or February 2023. The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice in Warwick and Leamington constituency in December 2016 and December 2022.
Date | Doctors in general practice, FTE |
December 2016 | 67.8 |
December 2022 | 95.5 |
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Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs in Warwick and Leamington constituency retired from their practices in (a) 2012 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The data requested is not held centrally.