Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent Care Quality Commission rating of the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) latest inspection rating report of the Trust, published on 7 February, assesses the Trust as ‘Good’ overall. This is an improvement to the previous CQC rating.
Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many foreign nationals from (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries are employed by Gloucestershire’s NHS Trusts.
Answered by Steve Barclay
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics and the following table shows all staff employed in Gloucestershire’s National Health Service trusts by nationality, as at 31 March 2018, headcount.
Headcount | |
All nationalities | 10,129 |
of which: | |
United Kingdom | 6,031 |
European Union (excluding UK) | 284 |
European Economic Area | 2 |
Rest of the World | 285 |
Unknown | 3,529 |
Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital
There are over 3,500 unknown NHS staff records in Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to. Nationality is self-reported and may be a reflection of cultural heritage rather than country of birth.
Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what target his Department has set for receiving a GP appointment; and what the average waiting time is for a GP appointment in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Steve Brine
The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2017 GP patient survey 70.8% of respondents (who could remember whether or not they were able to get an appointment, and when they wanted the appointment) stated they saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner. NHS England is working with NHS Digital to consider ways of improving the availability and quality of GP data, including waiting times data.
Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses were employed by NHS Trusts in Gloucestershire in the last financial year; and how many nurses (a) left and (b) retired in that time period.
Answered by Steve Barclay
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.
As at March 2018, there are 2,433 full time equivalent (FTE) nurses and health visitors employed in National Health Service trusts in Gloucestershire, 22 FTE more than in March 2017.
The following table shows how many nurses and health visitors were employed by NHS Trusts in Gloucestershire and how many left and specified retirement as their reason for leaving within the last financial year, headcount.
| 31 March 2017 – 31 March 2018 |
Joiners | 394 |
Leavers, of which | 375 |
Leavers due to retirement reasons | 69 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.
Gloucestershire NHS Trusts include Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Asked by: Richard Graham (Conservative - Gloucester)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many foreign nationals from (a) EU and (b) non-EU countries are employed by Gloucestershire’s NHS Trusts.
Answered by Steve Barclay
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics and the following table shows all staff employed in Gloucestershire’s National Health Service trusts by nationality, as at 31 March 2018, headcount.
Headcount | |
All nationalities | 10,129 |
of which: | |
United Kingdom | 6,031 |
European Union (excluding UK) | 284 |
European Economic Area | 2 |
Rest of the World | 285 |
Unknown | 3,529 |
Source: NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital
There are over 3,500 unknown NHS staff records in Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with people choosing not to specify their nationality or not asked to. Nationality is self-reported and may be a reflection of cultural heritage rather than country of birth.