Asked by: Roger Mullin (Scottish National Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of NHS emergency medicine services.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS staff in England continue to provide quality services in the face of increasingly high-levels of demand throughout the emergency healthcare system. Front-line services are treating record numbers of patients with more than nine out of 10 patients seen within four hours in A&E departments. Ambulance services are delivering over 2800 more emergency journeys every day compared to 2010 and responding to the majority of life-threatening cases in under 8 minutes.
Asked by: Roger Mullin (Scottish National Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received from mental health charities on the potential effects of recent changes in welfare spending on mental health; and what assessment his Department has made of the content of those representations.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Department has received no representations from mental health charities on the potential effects of recent changes in welfare spending on mental health.