Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the rates of (a) suicide and (b) self-harm rates in West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group for people aged (i) 11 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24 years old, and (iii) over 25 years old.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of rates of (a) suicide and (b) self-harm rates in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group for people aged (i) 11 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24, and (iii) over 25 years old.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the rates of (a) suicide and (b) self-harm for people aged 11 to 18 years old in (i) England and (ii) Kent in (A) 2005, (B) 2009, (C) 2010 and (D) 2015.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is not available in the format requested. Data is not collected on rates of self-harm either nationally or by local area.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the rates of (a) suicide and (b) self-harm for people aged 19 to 24 years old in (i) England and (ii) Kent in (A) 2005, (B) 2009, (C) 2010 and (D) 2015.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is not available in the format requested. Data is not collected on rates of self-harm either nationally or by local area.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the rates of (a) suicide and (b) self-harm for people over 25 years old in (i) England and (ii) Kent in (A) 2005, (B) 2009, (C) 2010 and (D) 2015.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is not available in the format requested. Data is not collected on rates of self-harm either nationally or by local area.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the success of mental health care outcomes in the West Kent and Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley areas since 2015.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS England inform us that the vision of the West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group and Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to provide high quality mental health care now, and for future generations. This means enabling everyone who requires interventions to have timely access to the best available treatment. The mental health care pathway spans commissioning organisations including the CCGs and Kent County Council, and includes provision for universal reach, resilience, early intervention, specialist and crisis support.
Currently the CCGs and their partners are on track to meet all ambitions set out in the National Health Service Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. This is monitored through NHS England assurance processes.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will review waiting times in paediatric services for autism diagnosis.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Diagnosing autism in children can involve a range of observations over time and a number of different professionals. The time taken to formulate a diagnosis will not be the same in all cases.
There are concerns in some local areas that the length of time some children have had to wait for an assessment for autism to begin is longer than the three months recommended by the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence (NICE) guidelines from a referral to a first appointment. Whilst local clinical commissioning groups have been working to bring down the waits in line with the NICE guidelines, to date there has been no national collection of waiting times data.
The Government is taking steps to rectify this and NHS Digital have confirmed they will be collecting and recording waiting times from referral for suspected autism to a first appointment within the Mental Health Services Data Set from April 2018. This will mean that each area can be held to account in real time and action can be taken to support them when waiting times are increasing.
An indicative timeline for the development of care pathways was set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The precise timetable for the establishment of a care pathway for autism will be confirmed by NHS England in due course.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the length of waiting times in paediatric services for diagnosis of suspected autism since 2015.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Diagnosing autism in children can involve a range of observations over time and a number of different professionals. The time taken to formulate a diagnosis will not be the same in all cases.
There are concerns in some local areas that the length of time some children have had to wait for an assessment for autism to begin is longer than the three months recommended by the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence (NICE) guidelines from a referral to a first appointment. Whilst local clinical commissioning groups have been working to bring down the waits in line with the NICE guidelines, to date there has been no national collection of waiting times data.
The Government is taking steps to rectify this and NHS Digital have confirmed they will be collecting and recording waiting times from referral for suspected autism to a first appointment within the Mental Health Services Data Set from April 2018. This will mean that each area can be held to account in real time and action can be taken to support them when waiting times are increasing.
An indicative timeline for the development of care pathways was set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. The precise timetable for the establishment of a care pathway for autism will be confirmed by NHS England in due course.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what change there has been in spending on mental health as a proportion to overall spending since 2016 by the (a) West Kent and (b) Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley clinical commissioning groups.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Changes to overall spending for the West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley CCG since 2016 are set out in the tables below:
West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
% Mental Health Spend | 9.32% | 9.75% |
Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley CCG | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
% Mental Health Spend | 6.16% | 6.49% |