Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS dental periodontal disease specialists in each Care Commissioning Group area.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
Data is not held centrally on the number of patients treated for periodontal disease and the number of National Health Service dental periodontal disease specialists in the format requested.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were treated for periodontal disease on the NHS in each Care Commissioning Group area in the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
Data is not held centrally on the number of patients treated for periodontal disease and the number of National Health Service dental periodontal disease specialists in the format requested.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report of 12 June 2019 entitled Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, what steps his Department is taking to (a) address the criticisms of leadership at that Trust and (b) ensure that mental health Trusts across the NHS are operating and delivering safe, high quality services for patients.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report recommended that NHS Improvement conduct a review of the cases detailed in the report once the Health and Safety Executive investigation and any related activity has been completed. NHS Improvement will make recommendations to the Department once its review has been completed. The review will also ensure that the learning from these tragic incidents is shared with mental health providers across the country.
NHS Improvement has reported that there is now a stable leadership team at the successor Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust under a new chief executive.
In October 2017, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission launched a national patient safety improvement programme for mental health trusts, which is committed to engaging with all mental health trusts by the end of March 2020.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report of 12 June 2019 entitled Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the findings of this report are shared across the NHS.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report recommended that NHS Improvement conduct a review of the cases detailed in the report once the Health and Safety Executive investigation and any related activity has been completed. NHS Improvement will make recommendations to the Department once its review has been completed. The review will also ensure that the learning from these tragic incidents is shared with mental health providers across the country.
NHS Improvement has reported that there is now a stable leadership team at the successor Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust under a new chief executive.
In October 2017, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission launched a national patient safety improvement programme for mental health trusts, which is committed to engaging with all mental health trusts by the end of March 2020.
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the costs recovered from foreign nationals who received treatment on the NHS in (a) Mid Essex, (b) North East Essex and (c) the UK in the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Department does not hold data on the costs recovered from foreign nationals who have received treatment on the National Health Service in Mid Essex and North East Essex. Data on the costs recovered from overseas visitors, including United Kingdom nationals resident overseas, is published in NHS trust and NHS foundation trust annual accounts.
The total income identified from chargeable overseas visitors receiving NHS treatment is set out in the following table.
Year | Total income* |
2017-18 | £391 million |
2016-17 | £352 million |
2015-16 | £290 million |
2014-15 | £97 million |
2013-14 | £100 million |
Note:
* includes direct charges, reimbursement from European Economic Area member states and immigration health surcharge
Asked by: Priti Patel (Conservative - Witham)
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 has been for a diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Steve Brine
Early diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD) is challenging as the disorder is rare, and symptoms are non-specific, mimicking those seen in more common neurodegenerative, neuroinflammatory, and infectious disorders. Rapidity of progression and lack of response to treatment often leads clinicians to suspect a CJD diagnosis.
The Department and the Scottish Government fund the National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit (NCJDRSU) to provide inter-disciplinary clinical and laboratory expertise (neurology, neuroradiology, neuropathology, biochemistry, and epidemiology) enabling early and accurate diagnosis of CJD. Clinicians from across the United Kingdom can discuss cases at any time. Highly trained specialists assess suspected cases locally within five days of referral and conduct structured assessments (clinical history, examination, and review of investigation results) before establishing diagnoses based on validated criteria. A consultant neuroradiologist at the NCJDRSU assesses neuroimaging for patients throughout the UK with a suspicion of CJD. The unit also provides a national diagnostic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) 14-3-3/RT-QuIC service and will arrange collection of CSF samples with prompt results. Information on how clinicians can refer cases to the NCJDRSU is available at the following link:
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/surveillance/referral-system
The Department and the Scottish Government have funded the development of diagnostic tests that combined with improved interpretation of neuroimaging has improved diagnostic accuracy.
The NCJDRSU collects data on the number of people diagnosed with sCJD in the UK; break downs by of data for smaller geographies are not published. The following table shows a breakdown of the number of individuals, by year of death between 2014 and 2017. Date of diagnosis are considered synonymous for the purpose of reporting.
Number of sCJD 2014-18 in the UK by year of death (as at January 2019).
Year of death | Number |
2014 | 99 |
2015 | 105 |
2016 | 119 |
2017 | 120 |
2018 | 125 |
Source: NCJDRSU: https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/figs.pdf
The NCJDRSU presents data regularly at clinical meetings and publishes in peer reviewed medical journals accessed by medical professionals, as well as producing a detailed annual report at the following link:
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/report26.pdf
The NCJDRSU website also provides information on the different types of CJD at the following link:
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/surveillance/diagnosis-and-testing
sCJD is a rapidly progressive neurological disorder with an average time from first symptom onset to death of four months. The majority (88%) of individuals with sCJD over the past five years were assessed by clinicians from the NCJDRSU in life. After formal referral to NCJDRSU the average time to confirmation of the diagnosis was three days.