Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) acute and (b) non-acute beds there were in each London hospital in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Information on bed availability and occupancy is published every quarter.
The attached table shows the average daily number of available (a) general and acute and (b) maternity, mental health and learning disability beds that were open overnight and open day only and under the care of a consultant in London trusts in each quarter since 2010.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients spent more than four hours in A&E departments from decision to admit to admission in each A&E department in London in each month since May 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This information is not available in the format requested. The attached table includes data showing the percentage of patients who attended accident and emergency (A&E) and subsequently waited four hours or more to be admitted once a decision to admit them had been taken. These data are given for the following periods:
- quarter 1 and Quarter 2 2010/11;
- each week between 07 November 2010 and 05 July 2015; and
- each month between July 2015 and October 2015.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of elective operations were cancelled in (a) England and Wales, (b) London and (c) each health trust in England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Information on cancelled elective operations is published quarterly. The attached table shows how many elective operations were cancelled in England, London and each health trust in England in each quarter since 2010. Information on the number of cancelled elective operations as a percentage of elective admissions is only published for England.
The number and proportion of cancelled operations remains low in the context of the millions of operations performed in the National Health Service each year. Compared to 2009/10, in 2014/15 there were 1.6 million more operations. The proportion of cancelled elective operations in the first two quarters of 2015/16 was 0.8% which is the same as the first two quarters of 2009/10.
Health is a devolved matter in Wales.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of total health spending in (a) London and (b) each London borough was allocated to general practice in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The information requested is not available for the period prior to the establishment of NHS England.
We are advised that general practices in London held budgets as a percentage of total clinical commissioning group and direct commissioning budgets (excluding specialised commissioning held on a provider basis), according to the following proportions: 8.2% in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and 8.3% in 2015/16.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on (a) sexual health, (b) drug and alcohol and (c) smoking public health initiatives in (i) England and Wales, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Spending in Wales on these initiatives is a matter for the Welsh government.
Local authorities in England took over public health responsibility from April 2013 and are responsible for assessing local need and commissioning services and interventions to meet that need, using the Public Health Grant. They are free to determine their actual spend on services based on this assessment of need, but are required to report their spending on an annual basis. The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes statistics on local authority expenditure and total expenditure for sexual health services, drugs and alcohol services and smoking in England, London and London boroughs for the years 2013/14 and 2014/15. The links to the data are below:
It is important to note that the expenditure on drug and alcohol services may not reflect all the resources that a local authority may have used on drug and alcohol misuse. For example community care budgets can be used to help people as part of their recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependency.
Prior to April 2013 primary care trusts commissioned public health services and public health expenditure was not published separately. Alcohol misuse services and smoking cessation services were funded from general National Health Service allocations and figures on this spend prior to 2013/14 are not available centrally.
Drug misuse services were funded from the Pooled Treatment Budget and figures for 2010/11 to 2012/13 are available at the links below:
2010-11: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/adultptballocation2010-11final.pdf
2011-12: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/drugfunding11-12annexc[0].pdf
2012-13: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/drugfunding12-13v.xls
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on agency nurses by each NHS trust in London in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
This information is not collected centrally.
The Rt. Hon. Member may wish to contact each National Health Service trust directly for further information.
Following the Francis report many trusts increased their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels. The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency staffing spend (including use of locums) responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management and to minimise temporary staffing costs in future years.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the nurse vacancy rate was on 1 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015 in (i) London and (ii) each health trust in London.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The information requested is not centrally collected.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the projected end of financial year budget surplus or deficit is for each health trust in London in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The information is not available in the format requested.
Projected figures for 2016-17 are unavailable. The attached table shows the projected end of financial year budget surplus or deficit for each health trust in London in 2015-16 only.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on public health in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Public health grant allocations to local authorities for 2016/17 will be announced shortly.
Total reported local authority public health expenditure for England, London and London boroughs for years 2013/14 and 2014/15 is set out in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Prior to April 2013 primary care trusts commissioned local public health services, and information on their public health spending was not collected nationally.
Asked by: Sadiq Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget for public health in (a) England, (b) London and (c) each London borough is for 2016-17.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Public health grant allocations to local authorities for 2016/17 will be announced shortly.
Total reported local authority public health expenditure for England, London and London boroughs for years 2013/14 and 2014/15 is set out in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing
Prior to April 2013 primary care trusts commissioned local public health services, and information on their public health spending was not collected nationally.