Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of adults in (a) Medway and (b) England have been diagnosed with dementia in each of the last five years.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Information is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number of patients recorded as having a diagnosis of dementia on the practice dementia register, the total number of registered patients and the estimated dementia prevalence rate for England and NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for the last five years and is shown in the following tables.
Number of patients on the dementia register, the number of registered patients and prevalence, England. 2012/13 to 2016/17 | |||||
| 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 |
Registered patients | 58,029,147 | 56,458,662 | 56,817,654 | 56,324,887 | 56,012,096 |
Patients on the dementia register | 443,839 | 428,343 | 419,073 | 348,973 | 318,669 |
Prevalence | 0.76 | 0.76 | 0.74 | 0.62 | 0.57 |
Number of patients on the dementia register, the number of registered patients and prevalence, NHS Medway CCG. 2012/13 to 2016/17 | |||||
| 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 |
Registered patients | 294,834 | 292,050 | 291,501 | 290,818 | 284,552 |
Patients on the dementia register | 1,609 | 1,674 | 1,597 | 1,377 | 1,332 |
Prevalence | 0.55 | 0.57 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 0.47 |
Sources: NHS Digital. Quality and Outcomes Framework data collection.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to prostate cancer awareness campaigns since 2010.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Be Clear on Cancer spend on prostate cancer is available in the following table.
Public Health England (PHE) ran a Be Clear on Cancer prostate cancer local pilot campaign from October to November 2014, specifically targeting Black African-Caribbean men, because of their significantly increased risk of developing prostate cancer compared to the general male population. The campaign included posters, print, community radio messaging, street ambassadors and public relations. All campaign materials have been made available to Prostate Cancer UK so that they can be used in any future activity.
Marketing spend on prostate cancer 2010-2017
Financial Year(s) | Marketing Spend |
2010-13 | £0 |
2013-14 | £270,000 |
2014-15 | £0 |
2015-17 | £0 |
Total | £270,000 |
Notes:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/phe-spend-over-25000
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in waiting times for accessing mental health services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Government is committed to improving access to mental health services across England and ensuring that people get access to the right treatment, at the right time and in the right place.
Performance against Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) waiting time standards consistently exceeds the national targets. In March 2018, 98.7% of those people completing treatment waited less than 18 weeks for their treatment to start in England against a target of 95% and 89.2% of people completing treatment waited less than six weeks against a target of 75%. The recovery target, which states that at least 50% of people who complete treatment should move to recovery, was exceeded in March 2018 with a 52.5% recovery rate.
According to the latest data for April 2018, 74.4% of patients referred to Early Intervention in Psychosis services start treatment within two weeks (exceeding our current target of 50%).
For quarter four of 2017/18, children and young people’s eating disorder data showed that 78.9% of patients started urgent treatment within one week and 79.9% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks. This is positive progress towards meeting the 95% target for both routine and urgent cases to start treatment within four weeks and one week respectively, by 2020/21.
Further information on performance against national waiting times standards can be found in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
Through the joint health and education Green Paper on children and young people’s mental Health, we have also committed to piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children and young people’s mental health services.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in waiting times for accessing mental health services.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Government is committed to improving access to mental health services across England and ensuring that people get access to the right treatment, at the right time and in the right place.
Performance against Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) waiting time standards consistently exceeds the national targets. In March 2018, 98.7% of those people completing treatment waited less than 18 weeks for their treatment to start in England against a target of 95% and 89.2% of people completing treatment waited less than six weeks against a target of 75%. The recovery target, which states that at least 50% of people who complete treatment should move to recovery, was exceeded in March 2018 with a 52.5% recovery rate.
According to the latest data for April 2018, 74.4% of patients referred to Early Intervention in Psychosis services start treatment within two weeks (exceeding our current target of 50%).
For quarter four of 2017/18, children and young people’s eating disorder data showed that 78.9% of patients started urgent treatment within one week and 79.9% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks. This is positive progress towards meeting the 95% target for both routine and urgent cases to start treatment within four weeks and one week respectively, by 2020/21.
Further information on performance against national waiting times standards can be found in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
Through the joint health and education Green Paper on children and young people’s mental Health, we have also committed to piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children and young people’s mental health services.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the per capita spend on mental health services was by primary care trusts in (a) Medway and (b) Kent in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information requested is not available in the format requested because it is not possible to separate out mental health spend per capita, because primary care trusts were superseded by clinical commissioning groups in 2013, and because information is available for the previous two financial years only.
Expenditure on mental health by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) is published by NHS England in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard. The actual spend for the Kent CCGs, including Medway CCG, on mental health for the years available is shown in the following table.
Actual spend on mental health by CCGs in Kent. 2015/16 and 2016/17
CCG | Actual Spend 2015/16 (£ thousand) | Actual Spend 2016/17 (£ thousand) |
Ashford CCG | 14,374 | 15,672 |
Canterbury and Coastal CCG | 34,274 | 36,388 |
Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley CCG | 30,958 | 32,126 |
Medway CCG | 28,869 | 30,447 |
South Kent Coast CCG | 32,349 | 33,609 |
Swale CCG | 14,535 | 15,240 |
Thanet CCG | 24,575 | 26,836 |
West Kent CCG | 54,077 | 57,190 |
Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the Public Health England budget has been spent on bowel cancer screening awareness campaigns in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Brine
Public Health England (PHE) has not funded any bowel cancer screening awareness campaigns.
PHE’s Be Clear on Cancer campaigns aim to raise the public’s awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer, and are an important step in helping to diagnose cancers earlier. In 2017, PHE collaborated with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) to deliver a jointly-branded, Be Clear on Cancer/CRUK pilot screening campaign in the North West of England to promote the uptake of bowel screening. The campaign was funded by CRUK.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of familial hypercholesterolemia.
Answered by Steve Brine
Public Health England develops best practice guidance for the NHS Health Check programme. NHS Health Checks help identify people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) and also raise awareness of the condition by ensuring those with a cholesterol level of 7.5mmol/L or higher, or a family history of a cardiac event under the age of 60, are referred for FH assessment. In the first five years of the NHS Health Check programme, 6,864,964 of the eligible population have received a check.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the Public Health England budget has been spent on bowel cancer screening awareness campaigns in each year since 2010.
Answered by Steve Brine
Public Health England (PHE) has not funded any bowel cancer screening awareness campaigns.
PHE’s Be Clear on Cancer campaigns aim to raise the public’s awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer, and are an important step in helping to diagnose cancers earlier. In 2017, PHE collaborated with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) to deliver a jointly-branded, Be Clear on Cancer/CRUK pilot screening campaign in the North West of England to promote the uptake of bowel screening. The campaign was funded by CRUK.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase capacity in general practice in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Gillingham and Rainham constituency.
Answered by Steve Brine
In response to the Ten Point Plan ‘Building the Workforce ‒ the New Deal for General Practice’, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Kent and Medway are responding to current workforce challenges through a system of learning hubs, termed Community Education Provider Networks (CEPNs). These are the community equivalent of hospital postgraduate medical centres and are responsible for providing an overview of the primary care workforce and its development and education.
CEPNs have prioritised a number of key areas to improve the retention of general practitioners (GPs) while at the same time maximising recruitment of new GPs. These initiatives include Hub/Place Based Education Training and Support to develop the current and future workforce allowing senior GPs to refresh their working patterns and develop educational and mentorship skills, which may prolong careers by providing varied and stimulating career opportunities. GPs are also being encouraged to develop a specialism through the GP Specialisms with those taking part in East Kent reporting greater professional satisfaction through increased variety and stimulation in their role.
NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group is working with local GPs through the Medway Practices Alliance to ensure the nationally mandated core requirements are in place for 100% of the Medway population by October 2018.
In Medway, including Rainham and Gillingham, this will result in an additional 150 hours of consultation capacity per week. In line with the Medway Model – the Medway interpretation of the Kent and Medway Local Care agenda – improved access will be offered across the area, operating from healthy living centres.
Asked by: Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to coeliac research in 2016-17.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network provides the infrastructure that allows high-quality clinical research funded by charities, research funders and life-sciences industry to be delivered throughout the National Health Service. In 2016-17 Local Clinical Research Network expenditure related to coeliac disease was £315,503. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) supports research in response to high quality proposals from the research community but made no new awards directly relevant to coeliac disease in 2016/17.
It is not possible to provide a figure for planned funding. The NIHR and UKRI welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including coeliac disease; it is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.