Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Last week, The Guardian revealed that hospital admissions for eating disorders have surged in the last year. Meanwhile, the number of children and young people with urgent cases of eating disorders who are treated within a week has fallen, and the number of those waiting between one and four weeks …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Feb 2019
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [Lords]
"What assurances can the Minister give that the regulations will be genuinely co-created with practitioners and cared-for people? If they are not, how can we be sure that the amendments are not a way of clandestinely watering down the protections of the Bill?..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 31st January 2019
Asked by:
Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
In England, 12,7981 mental health staff left the National Health Service between 31 May 2018 and 31 October 2018, headcount.
The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce available from NHS Digital and includes:
- All staff in mental health, learning disability and care trusts;
- Psychiatry doctors;
- Nurses specialising in ‘community psychiatry’, ‘other psychiatry’, ‘community learning disabilities’, ‘other learning disabilities’
- Staff with a primary area of work of ‘psychiatry’, for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.
Data for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not included in the figure above.
Note:
1Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
Written Question
Thursday 31st January 2019
Asked by:
Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The most recent data reported in Q2 2018/19, as at the end of September 2018, shows that in mental health National Health Service trusts there are 190,185 whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce staff in post, with 19,889 vacancies. This is a vacancy rate of 9.5% out of a total workforce establishment (210,074 WTE).
There are 53 mental health NHS trusts, defined as those with over half of their outpatient activity in mental health specialties. Not all staff in these trusts provide mental health services and some mental health services are provided by other trusts.
NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates from individual NHS providers and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. NHS Improvement defines a vacancy as the current workforce gap between current substantive staff in post and the required staffing level for the respective period.
NHS Improvement count staff working substantively within a designated mental health NHS trust in England as one definition of the size of the mental health workforce. Currently, there is no single agreed way to count the entire mental health workforce. The Department, working together with NHS Digital, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and NHS England, are in a process of agreeing a new definition to count the mental health workforce in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Appropriate ME Treatment
"Will the hon. Lady give way, on that point?..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Appropriate ME Treatment
"I congratulate the hon. Lady on her sterling work on this issue. It is my privilege to represent Lucy, a lovely teenage girl in my constituency who has ME. Her parents have requested me to ask the House to ensure that biomedical research shapes all aspects of support—in which case …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Jan 2019
Appropriate ME Treatment
"My constituent has to travel 40-odd miles to Manchester for treatment. With a condition such as ME, that is particularly distressing. Does the right hon. Lady agree that we need many more specialists throughout the country?..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
"I beg to move amendment 32, in schedule 1, page 13, line 46, at end insert—
“(aa) a determination made on an assessment in respect of the cared-for person as to whether the person’s capacity is likely to fluctuate, and”.
This amendment requires that an assessment of whether a person’s …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
"It is a particular honour to speak for the very first time from the Front Bench in a Bill Committee under your chairmanship, Mr Austin. I will speak to the amendments and ask some questions of the Minister about the parts of schedule 1 to which they relate.
Amendment 32 …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 17 Jan 2019
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
"I will move on to amendment 31, which addresses who should be able to carry out medical assessments.
As hon. Members know, one of the three criteria for authorising the deprivation of liberty is that the cared-for person has a mental disorder. On the face of it, that is one …..."Paula Sherriff - View Speech
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