Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of surgeries were cancelled by speciality in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Will Quince
This data is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to implement the framework on reducing waiting times for musculoskeletal treatments set out in the report by NHS England entitled An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience, published on 10 January 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Integrated care systems are responsible for commissioning musculoskeletal services for their local populations.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to include the charity sector in the process of designing musculoskeletal health and wellbeing hubs.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
In the Spring Budget, the Government set out a package of measures to tackle the leading health-related causes keeping people out of work, which includes scaling up musculoskeletal community hubs. As part of designing this pilot, we are working closely with NHS England, local authorities, the leisure sector and the charity sector.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to advanced therapies for people with rheumatoid arthritis.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
No specific steps are being taken. The National Health Service in England is legally required to make funding available for all treatments, including any advanced therapies, recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies guidance, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, The Khan review: making smoking obsolete published 9 June 2022, what steps his Department is taking to address the findings of that report.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The Government is considering the independent recommendations made in the Khan Review and how these could be implemented.
We are undertaking a range of work to offer vaping as a substitute for smkoing, as at Recommendation 8 of the Khan Review. In September 2022, we published ‘Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update’ sets out the latest evidence on the health effects of vaping and addresses misconceptions surrounding vapes, which is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nicotine-vaping-in-england-2022-evidence-update
We will provide an update on our plans to meet the Smokefree 2030 ambition in due course.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The NHS Long Term Plan stated the aim of increasing the mental health workforce in England by an additional 27,000 professionals by 2023/24. NHS England and Health Education England are working with local integrated care systems, including in South East London, to confirm plans for service models, supply, retention and recruitment until 2024.
NHS England continues to support local systems, including in South East London, to develop tailored health and wellbeing offers to meet the needs of the local mental health workforce. This includes mental health hubs in each integrated care system and occupational health services which are being supported through the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing national programme.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for elective surgeries in Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency.
Answered by Will Quince
The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in Bermondsey and Old Southwark. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity. This funding aims to deliver the equivalent of approximately nine million additional checks and procedures and 30% further elective activity by 2024/25 than pre-pandemic levels. A proportion of this funding will be invested in workforce capacity and training and we have committed to invest £5.9 billion for new beds, equipment and technology.
The target to eliminate waiting times of two years or more for elective procedures was met in July 2022 and we aim to eliminate waiting time of eighteen months or more by April 2023. This will be achieved through increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand choices made regarding their care.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of mental health specialists in Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The NHS Long Term Plan stated the aim of increasing the mental health workforce in England by an additional 27,000 professionals by 2023/24. NHS England and Health Education England are working with local integrated care systems, including South East London Integrated Care System, to confirm plans for service models, supply, retention and recruitment until 2024.
NHS England continues to support local systems, including South East London Integrated Care System, to develop tailored health and wellbeing offers to meet the needs of the local mental health workforce. This includes mental health hubs in each integrated care system and occupational health services which are being supported through the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing national programme.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects adequate stocks of the monkeypox vaccine to be available in Southwark.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
As of 19 October, 32,908 doses of monkeypox vaccine have been administered in the London area, of a total 48,801 administered in England. The UK Health Security Agency has procured over 150,000 doses of the vaccine used for monkeypox, with the final deliveries of vaccine expected by the end of October 2022. This has provided adequate stock of vaccine to cover the eligible vaccination cohort.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with HIV in Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency in each of the last 5 five years.
Answered by Caroline Johnson - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
This information is not collected in the format requested.