Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for an NHS chiropody appointment in England.
Answered by Edward Argar
The information requested is not centrally collected.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified chiropodists there are in the NHS in England; and how many there were in 2010.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioners surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of chiropodists employed at National Health Service trusts and CCGs as at October 2019, the latest available data compared to October 2010, full time equivalent.
October 2010 | October 2019 | Change | % Change |
3,072 | 2,703 | -369 | 12% |
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the NHS budget is for chiropody training; and what that budget was 2015.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
There is no dedicated National Health Service budget for chiropody training, now formally called podiatry. Funding for elements of training, such as clinical placements, is included within the education and training tariff and paid to placement providers by Health Education England.
In December 2019 the Government announced additional maintenance grant funding, which will be available from September 2020 for new and continuing students of £5,000. In addition, students with child dependants will benefit from an extra £1,000 and new students studying a specialist subject including podiatry will be able to access a further £1,000. These grants are on top of student loan allowances and do not need to be re-paid.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many EU nationals work in each NHS Trust (a) as doctors, (b) as nurses and (c) in other positions.
Answered by Philip Dunne
On 20 December, NHS Digital published data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England, as at September 2016. An European Union national is a person who holds the nationality of an EU member country and as such includes those who declare themselves as United Kingdom nationals.
The number of EU doctors, nurses and other staff, in each NHS trust, who declared themselves as nationals from the EU is set out in the attached table. Those staff who are from the UK have been identified separately. As nationality is self-reported it may reflect cultural heritage rather than country of birth, nor do these figures necessarily equate to migrants from other countries.