Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of staff employed by his Department are employed on a contract which is (a) full-time permanent, (b) part-time permanent, (c) for less than two years' duration, (d) on an agency basis and (e) zero-hours.
Answered by David Mowat
The number and proportion of staff employed by the Department separated by each contract is given below.
Staff Type | Headcount | % of Total |
Full Time Permanent | 1,119 | 78% |
Part Time Permanent | 201 | 14% |
Less than two years contract | 33 | 2% |
Agency | 90 | 6% |
Zero Hours | 0 | 0% |
Grand Total | 1,443 | 100% |
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to raise awareness among men about prostate cancer since the 2014 pilot programme run by Public Health England.
Answered by David Mowat
Public Health England’s (PHE’s) be Clear on Cancer ‘Prostate Cancer’ pilot has been passed to Prostate Cancer UK to take forward, with PHE supporting with any future activity.
In addition, the Be Clear on Cancer ‘Blood in Pee’ campaign aims to raise awareness of visible haematuria (blood in the urine) as a possible symptom of bladder and kidney cancer as well as prostate cancer. The campaign ran nationally from 15 February – 31 March 2016, following the successful local and regional pilots. The campaign targeted men and women above 50 years old using a wide range of media, including national television and radio advertising.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of making sanitary products available on prescription.
Answered by David Mowat
The Department has made no such estimate. Products allowable on a National Health Service prescription should be for the treatment of a medical condition, which can include diagnosis and prevention. This does not include items that could be considered more appropriate for the social care of an individual, for example, incontinence pads or sanitary products.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what organisation is responsible for NHS workforce planning.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Health Education England has a remit to lead workforce planning and education commissioning across the health system to secure the future supply of the workforce, underpinned by a comprehensive local workforce planning process led by providers of National Health Service commissioned services and taking into account national priorities.
Local NHS organisations also have a key role to play in terms of on-going Continued Professional Development of their existing workforce.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many robotic surgery machines there are.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is not held centrally. It may be available directly from individual National Health Service trusts.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what average number of hours per year is each surgical robot used for operations.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is not held centrally. It may be available directly from individual National Health Service trusts.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prostate cancer surgeons who are trained to carry out prostate cancer surgery using robots use those robots more than once each week.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is not held centrally. It may be available directly from individual National Health Service trusts.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of prostate cancer surgeons in England is trained to carry out prostate cancer surgery using robots.
Answered by David Mowat
The information requested is not held centrally. It may be available directly from individual National Health Service trusts.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of days is between the date when a patient is first diagnosed with prostate cancer for which surgery is advised and the date on which the first such surgery is available to such a patient in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014, (vi) 2015 and (vii) 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
The information is not held centrally for England. Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacancies there were for prostate cancer surgeons in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014, (vi) 2015 and (vii) 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
The information is not collected centrally. Individual trusts may hold this information.
The provision of health services in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is a devolved issue.