Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the current five year funding formula addresses actual as well as forecast growth in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG area.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
NHS England is responsible for decisions on the weighted capitation formula used to allocate resources between clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). This process is independent of Government. NHS England takes advice from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA), a group of academics and other experts.
NHS England published five-year CCG allocations 2019/20 to 2023/24 on 8 February 2019 at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/
In making these allocations, NHS England accepted all recommendations made by ACRA, including changes in the way population estimates and projections are used. NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s revenue allocation is based on the actual average registered population in the 12 months to October 2018, which was 967,902. Using population growth rates estimated by the Office for National Statistics, the allocations include an estimated population growth to 973,472 in 2019-20 (0.62% growth). We continue this approach throughout the allocations period so that by 2023-24 we assume a population of 992,432, equivalent to an average growth of 0.50% per annum over the period.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the NHS has for the future of Royston Hospital; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
NHS Property Services, who own the Royston Hospital site, are working with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and local Sustainability and Transformation Plan Estates Group colleagues with a review of options for Royston Hospital, including the potential to create a neighbourhood health and wellbeing centre. The review also includes the nearby Royston Health Centre. As part of this review, NHS Property Services and the CCG continue to work with local partners providing health services to determine the right level of services and the appropriate use of the existing estate options to support the needs of the people of Royston. No decisions have yet been made.
The work with partners includes Addenbrookes Hospital who are looking to provide additional services from Royston Hospital.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the decision by the Cambridge and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group on the options for an NHS and social care hub in Royston; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Steve Brine
There is no current timeline for a decision on the option for a National Health Service and social care hub in Royston. Cambridge and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) options appraisal has now been developed and it will be reviewed by the Cambridge and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership in due course.
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Plan, published in October 2016, identified the need to establish capacity within general practice to create integrated hubs across the local area. Cambridge and Peterborough CCG is considering Royston Health Centre and the Hospital sites with an aim to integrate and co-locate services. The CCG is committed to including local community groups in this process.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the trends in the number of doctors working in (a) psychiatry and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the east of England.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics including data on psychiatrists and mental health services in the east of England which is available at the link below.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage medical schools to support the Royal College of Psychiatry Choose Psychiatry campaign; and what assessment he has made of workforce capacity to meet increased demand.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many additional medical places will be at medical schools with mental health as a priority.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to encourage doctors to specialise in (a) psychiatry in general and (b) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 1,000 additional medical school places that will available from September 2019 will be allocated through a competitive bidding process that is being managed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England (HEE). The published criteria against which bids will be assessed include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry.
In ‘Stepping forward to 2020/21: A mental health workforce plan for England’, HEE sets out a plan to transform the mental health workforce, including a number of key actions to increase workforce supply. Current initiatives to improve recruitment into psychiatry training posts include increasing the number of training placements in psychiatry in the Foundation Programme and supporting the Royal College of Psychiatrists on its marketing campaign ‘Choose Psychiatry’.
From 2018 HEE will introduce an additional training pathway (run through Child and Adolescent Mental Health) to enable doctors to specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many unfilled psychiatry posts there are in the North East Hertfordshire constituency.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
Data on the number of unfilled psychiatry posts in the North East Hertfordshire constituency is not available centrally.
NHS Digital collects data on the number of published vacancy adverts obtained from NHS Jobs, the main recruitment website for the National Health Service by Health Education England region. The number of advertised vacancy full-time equivalents within the Psychiatry Area of Work in Health Education East of England region as at 1 January 2017 - 31 March 2017 was 738.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2015 to Question 16659, whether providers of locum social workers must be registered with the Care Quality Commission.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England.
The CQC is responsible for developing and consulting on its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the fundamental standards, this includes making the decision on which providers are carrying out a regulated activity and therefore need to be registered with the CQC.
Only providers of a regulated activity are required to register with the CQC. The provision of staff to social care providers is not a regulated activity, therefore the providers of locum social workers are not required to register with the CQC.
Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2015 to Question 16660, what checks are made on locum social workers.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The duty to ensure that specific checks have been undertaken for locum social workers lies with the employer.
To work as a social worker in England, an individual must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. Registration and its maintenance demonstrate that an individual is fit to practice.
Social workers working in roles that meet the definition of regulated activity are eligible for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check which would include a check of the adult’s barred list and may include a check of the children’s barred list if appropriate to the job role.
Providers of regulated health and adult social care services must be registered with the Care Quality Commission and comply with the fundamental standards, including those relating to the employment of fit and proper persons.