Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve mental health services for children and young people.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
We are investing an extra £1.4billion in children and young people’s mental health services. This money is already extending access for children and young people to vital services, and will reach an extra 70,000 children a year by 2020/21.
The Government has committed to publish a Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health by the end of the year to outline next steps.
Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to publish information on hospital hand hygiene compliance.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Department understands that NHS Improvement is looking into a means of capturing hand hygiene data and compliance within the National Health Service.
Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to support the 70th World Health Assembly's resolution on improving hand hygiene and the prevention, diagnosis and clinical management of sepsis.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The United Kingdom supported the “Improving the prevention, diagnosis and clinical management of sepsis” resolution adopted by the World Health Organization at the 70th World Health Assembly in May 2017.
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance was updated in 2015. The Department published a revised code of practice setting good practice on hand hygiene compliance. The code is used by the Care Quality Commission for inspections of health and social care services in England and underpins their regulatory activities.
The UK works with international partners to support initiatives in infection prevention and management.
Asked by: Nigel Mills (Conservative - Amber Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the administration by Primary Care Support England of GP salaries and pensions.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS England has been closely monitoring the administration and performance of Primary Care Support England (PCSE) and reports that it has made good overall progress in improving the quality of the services provided.
Improvements in administering general practitioner (GP) pensions are currently underway. NHS England is working with PCSE to address a range of historical and current issues, and implement new, consistent national processes. These replace a range of different local legacy processes. PCSE does not administer GP salaries.
There is no data available on the average length of time taken to process changes in a GP’s circumstances in 2016-17. The speed of processing changes in a GP’s circumstances depends on the availability of complete information from the applicant, and appropriate authorisations for the change from relevant parties. NHS England has reported that recently received changes are typically being processed in two to six weeks.
Information on the number of overpayments and underpayments of GP pension contributions at 31 March 2017 is not yet available. It will be possible to calculate pension contributions for the year to 31 March 2017 in February 2018, once GPs have submitted details of their earnings for the financial year 2016/17.