Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
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 adequacy of funding for children’s palliative care services in Bradford West; and what steps the Modern Service Framework for palliative and end of life care is taking to address funding challenges faced by the sector.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government recognises the vital role that children’s palliative care services play in supporting children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families, including in Bradford West.
Integrated care boards (ICBs), including the NHS West Yorkshire ICB, are responsible for assessing and commissioning palliative care and end of life care services that meet the needs of their local populations. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifications. The statutory guidance states that ICBs must work to ensure that there is sufficient provision of care services to meet the needs of their local populations, which can include hospice services available within the ICB catchment.
Although commissioning decisions are made locally, we continue to support the children’s hospice sector nationally. We are providing £26 million revenue funding to children and young people’s hospices in 2025/26, of which children and young people’s hospices in Bradford West are receiving £1,727,000.
We are also pleased to confirm the continuation of this funding, with approximately £80 million, adjusted for inflation, to be allocated over the next three financial years to children and young people’s hospices, giving them greater stability to plan ahead and focus on delivering high-quality, personalised care.
In addition, eligible hospices are benefitting from the Government’s £125 million capital investment to improve care environments for both adult and children’s hospices across England, of which children and young people’s hospices in Bradford West are receiving £1,278,935.
The Government is also developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England, planned for publication later this year. The MSF will support ICBs, including the NHS West Yorkshire ICB, to commission palliative care and end of life care more strategically by addressing the drivers of variation in access, quality and sustainability. It will help move the sector away from grant and block contract model towards clearer, more sustainable commissioning arrangements, enabling services, including those that support children, to plan with greater certainty.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how care home providers in Bradford West constituency the Government is supporting with the rising cost of living.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
We are making available up to £7.5 billion of additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge, with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and up to £4.7 billion in 2024/25. We expect councils to use the additional £2.8 billion funding available for social care, a more than real terms increase in funding dedicated for social care, to go beyond meeting inflationary pressures, including those experienced in 2022/23.
Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets. Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care needs of their populations, and to develop and build local market capacity.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has any further plans to make support available for care home providers with the rising cost of living.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
We are making available up to £7.5 billion of additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge, with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and up to £4.7 billion in 2024/25. We expect councils to use the additional £2.8 billion funding available for social care, a more than real terms increase in funding dedicated for social care, to go beyond meeting inflationary pressures, including those experienced in 2022/23.
Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets. Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care needs of their populations, and to develop and build local market capacity.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps when setting the criteria for selecting the final eight schemes for the New Hospitals to promote the Government's levelling up agenda.
Answered by Will Quince
We are currently assessing 128 expressions of interest received for the eight new hospitals and will consider a range of national and regional healthcare priorities and indicators.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the number of new hospitals built in Yorkshire under the New Hospitals Programme.
Answered by Will Quince
The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. In Yorkshire, we are working with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the development of its scheme. The new hospital for Leeds will enhance treatment and care and replace outdated infrastructure with innovative facilities and technology. We have received 128 expressions of interest for the next cohort of eight new hospitals which are currently being assessed.
Trusts in Yorkshire have benefitted from programmes such as the Targeted Investment Fund for estates and digital initiatives, the Critical Infrastructure Risk Fund to eradicate backlog maintenance, upgrades to accident and emergency departments and hospitals.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) build new and (b) improve existing hospitals in Yorkshire.
Answered by Will Quince
The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. In Yorkshire, we are working with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the development of its scheme. The new hospital for Leeds will enhance treatment and care and replace outdated infrastructure with innovative facilities and technology. We have received 128 expressions of interest for the next cohort of eight new hospitals which are currently being assessed.
Trusts in Yorkshire have benefitted from programmes such as the Targeted Investment Fund for estates and digital initiatives, the Critical Infrastructure Risk Fund to eradicate backlog maintenance, upgrades to accident and emergency departments and hospitals.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mental health hospitals.
Answered by Will Quince
The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. The announced schemes include new mental health hospitals.
There are currently two mental health hospitals in the New Hospital Programme. An updated secure facility at Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, has received £43.09 million and a specialist facility in the new hospital scheme at St Ann’s, Dorset has received £2.37 million to date. In addition, the Department is also investing in the eradication of mental health dormitories to replace with single en-suite rooms. We have also provided £150 million to the National Health Service to improve mental health facilities connected to accident and emergency and enhance patient safety in mental health units.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
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 merits of the proposal submitted by Lynfield Mount Hospital for the New Hospitals Programme.
Answered by Will Quince
In 2021, we received an expression of interest from the Lynfield Mount Hospital to be considered in the next cohort of new hospitals. This is being assessed amongst 128 expressions received from trusts.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
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 adequacy of the proportion of the budget for the New Hospitals Programme that has been spent on mental health hospitals.
Answered by Will Quince
The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. The announced schemes include new mental health hospitals.
There are currently two mental health hospitals in the New Hospital Programme. An updated secure facility at Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, has received £43.09 million and a specialist facility in the new hospital scheme at St Ann’s, Dorset has received £2.37 million to date. In addition, the Department is also investing in the eradication of mental health dormitories to replace with single en-suite rooms. We have also provided £150 million to the National Health Service to improve mental health facilities connected to accident and emergency and enhance patient safety in mental health units.
Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase the proportion of mental health schemes funded as part of the New Hospital Programme.
Answered by Will Quince
The Government has committed to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. The announced schemes include new mental health hospitals.
There are currently two mental health hospitals in the New Hospital Programme. An updated secure facility at Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, has received £43.09 million and a specialist facility in the new hospital scheme at St Ann’s, Dorset has received £2.37 million to date. In addition, the Department is also investing in the eradication of mental health dormitories to replace with single en-suite rooms. We have also provided £150 million to the National Health Service to improve mental health facilities connected to accident and emergency and enhance patient safety in mental health units.