Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was allocated by the Government to pharmacies in each year from 1997-98 to 2016-17.
Answered by David Mowat
The current community pharmacy contractual framework and system of payments dates from 2005/06, with remuneration under those arrangements set out in the table below:
Financial year | Remuneration budget (£ billion) |
2005/06 | 1.8 |
2006/07 | 1.9 |
2007/08 | 1.9 |
2008/09 | 2.2 |
2009/10 | 2.5 |
2010/11 | 2.5 |
2011/12 | 2.5 |
2012/13 | 2.5 |
2013/14 | 2.8 |
2014/15 | 2.8 |
2015/16 | 2.8 |
2016/17 | 2.7 |
The budget figures in the table only cover essential and advanced services, as commissioned centrally under the community pharmacy contractual framework. Community pharmacies are also commissioned locally to provide services, originally by primary care trusts and more recently by NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities. Information on the level of funding received by community pharmacies for those locally commissioned services is not held centrally.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital bed days were lost in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) the UK as a result of delays in discharging patients each year from 2010 to 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
Data are collected on the total delayed days during each month for all patients delayed throughout the month. The total number of delayed days in each year between 2011/12 (the first full year for which data are available) and 2015/16, for Barnsley, South Yorkshire and England are shown in the table below. As health is a devolved issue, the number of delayed days in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not collected by NHS England.
Total number of delayed days in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and England
| 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Barnsley Local Authority | 1,053 | 992 | 1,104 | 1,060 | 1,568 |
South Yorkshire1 | 23,243 | 12,465 | 34,521 | 37,362 | 35,959 |
England | 1,373,392 | 1,380,475 | 1,413,591 | 1,624,977 | 1,809,883 |
Source: NHS England, Delayed Transfers of Care Data
Notes:
1South Yorkshire includes Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster Local Authorities.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria his Department is using to assess whether NHS sustainability and transformation plans have been the result of local community consultation.
Answered by David Mowat
As set out in the NHS Shared Planning Guidance, published in December 2015, the success of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will depend on having an open, engaging, and iterative process that involves patients, carers, citizens, clinicians, local community partners including the independent and voluntary sectors, and local government through health and wellbeing boards.
NHS England expects local engagement as part of the STP process, building where appropriate on existing engagement through health and wellbeing boards and other local arrangements. In September 2016 it issued guidance “engaging local people” to support STPs to do this, which can be found here:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf
Where plans propose service changes, formal consultation will commence shortly in line with good practice and legislative requirements.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has had with officials of his Department regarding the effect of sustainability and transformation plans in areas with a shortage of doctors in the last 12 months.
Answered by David Mowat
Sustainability and Transformation Plans are locally developed plans, and it is expected that individual areas will take account of local circumstances including any workforce shortages.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the development of sustainability and transformation plans.
Answered by David Mowat
All 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have now been published, and areas are working to engage local people as they turn their proposals into plans.
National Health Service organisations have also submitted their operational plans for 2017-19.
The additional £325 million announced in the budget will help STPs with the strongest projects make progress in improving care for local communities.