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Written Question
NHS: Counter-terrorism
Thursday 14th March 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times did the NHS referred a member of the Armed Forces to Prevent in each year since 2018.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

As statutory partners to the Prevent duty, healthcare professionals have a responsibility to refer patients and colleagues when there is a concern that the individual may be becoming radicalised. The Department does not hold data regarding individual referrals, as this data is collated and acted on by Counter Terrorism Policing.


Written Question
Hospices: Children
Tuesday 30th January 2024

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her planned timetable is for informing children's hospices of the (a) timeframe and (b) process for distribution of the children's hospice grant for 2024-25.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Financial year 2023/24 marks the final year of NHS England’s current grant agreement for the centrally funded and administered Children and Young People’s Hospice Grant, provided to all children and young people’s hospices in England. NHS England’s proposed plan for 2024/25 is to maintain the same funding as 2023/24, namely £25 million, and to use the same prevalence-based allocation approach as in 2022/23 and 2023/24.

NHS England is in the process of reprioritising budgets for 2024/25, in light of the revised assessment of financial position and, whilst it is holding funding aside for the children and young people’s hospice sector, it cannot confirm further details, including the distribution mechanism, until 2024/25 financial planning is concluded.


Written Question
Brain Cancer: Research
Monday 11th December 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who is eligible to apply to the Government's £40 million fund for brain cancer research; and how they do so.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

All National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) programmes including those for brain cancer research are open to research applications from individual researchers, academic institutions, local authorities, industry, charities, and social care organisations. Details of how to apply are available and updated on the NIHR website. This includes details of all responsive calls where researchers are invited to propose topics for research, and of commissioned calls on specified topics. It also includes any specific eligibility criteria for research programmes and calls, and details of how to obtain help and support in applying for funding, and details to enable contact with individual funding programmes, in case of questions about eligibility or other issues in applying. Information about funding and how to apply is available at the following link:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/researchers/i-need-help-funding-my-research/

The NIHR welcome applications for research into any aspect of human health, including brain tumour research. All applications are assessed for funding by peer review committees. The level of research spend in a particular area is driven by factors including the quality of the proposals and their scientific potential. All applications for brain cancer research made through open competition have been funded.


Written Question
Mental Health Services: Standards
Monday 20th November 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

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 the adequacy of NHS digital mental health services.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Department has not undertaken such an assessment. Early Value Assessment is a new process designed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to assess the clinical effectiveness of health technologies that have an emerging evidence base, earlier and faster than a full NICE appraisal. The initial topics selected for consideration include technologies for use in mental health.

The Spring 2023 Budget contained a number of packages that support mental health, including around £200 million for digital mental health. This funding is to modernise and digitise mental health services in England, provide wellness and clinical grade apps free at the point of use, pilot cutting-edge digital therapies and digitise the NHS Talking Therapies programme.


Written Question
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
Thursday 16th November 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service have (a) a need for glasses and (b) another sight problem.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

From April 2021 to September 2023, there have been 15,858 sight tests completed under the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service. Of these, 10,785 have no history of hospital-based eye care attached to them, 1,672 are listed as being active in hospital-based eye care and 3,401 have been discharged from hospital.

From the 15,858 sight tests, 6,784 were issued with glasses. NHS England does not hold information on other sight problems in this cohort of patients.


Written Question
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
Thursday 16th November 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children in receipt of the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service have a history of hospital-based eye care.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

From April 2021 to September 2023, there have been 15,858 sight tests completed under the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service. Of these, 10,785 have no history of hospital-based eye care attached to them, 1,672 are listed as being active in hospital-based eye care and 3,401 have been discharged from hospital.

From the 15,858 sight tests, 6,784 were issued with glasses. NHS England does not hold information on other sight problems in this cohort of patients.


Written Question
Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
Thursday 16th November 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will visit an NHS special schools eye care service.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Ministers regularly consider visits to health and care settings across the country. Any plans to visit specific locations will be notified to hon. Members in advance.


Written Question
Medical Equipment and Protective Clothing: Waste Disposal
Tuesday 25th July 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the volume of (a) palettes and (b) tons of publicly procured unused personal protective equipment disposed of in England from storage facilities between 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023.

Answered by Will Quince

Approximately 130,000 pallets of excess stock have been exited from storage facilities in the United Kingdom from 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023, with the vast majority of this being through recovery activities (recycling and energy-from-waste processes). For stock subjected to recovery activities, details around tonnage are being compiled and are expected to be available in an upcoming publication for excess stock, currently scheduled for October 2023.

The contracted cost for exiting this stock was in the region of £11 million and the storage cost savings associated with their exit are approximately £16.6 million per year.

In the previous quarter, from 1 January to 30 March 2023, approximately 100,000 pallets of excess personal protective equipment stock held in the UK was exited. The contracted cost for exiting this stock through recovery and disposal activities was in the region of £10 million and the scaled storage cost savings associated with their exit are £12.8 million per year.


Written Question
Protective Clothing: Waste Disposal
Tuesday 25th July 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) contracted cost and (b) potential savings made in respect of the disposal of unused publicly procured PPE between (a) 1 January and 30 March 2023 and (b) 1 April 2023 and 30 June 2023.

Answered by Will Quince

Approximately 130,000 pallets of excess stock have been exited from storage facilities in the United Kingdom from 1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023, with the vast majority of this being through recovery activities (recycling and energy-from-waste processes). For stock subjected to recovery activities, details around tonnage are being compiled and are expected to be available in an upcoming publication for excess stock, currently scheduled for October 2023.

The contracted cost for exiting this stock was in the region of £11 million and the storage cost savings associated with their exit are approximately £16.6 million per year.

In the previous quarter, from 1 January to 30 March 2023, approximately 100,000 pallets of excess personal protective equipment stock held in the UK was exited. The contracted cost for exiting this stock through recovery and disposal activities was in the region of £10 million and the scaled storage cost savings associated with their exit are £12.8 million per year.


Written Question
Palliative Care: Children and Young People
Thursday 15th June 2023

Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which integrated care boards were granted match funding for children and young people’s palliative and end-of-life care from NHS England in the 2022-23 financial year; and how much did each integrated care board receive in that year.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Match funding was provided by NHS England to the following integrated care boards (ICBs) via the Core scheme and the Expression of Interest Scheme. The following table shows the ICBs that received match funding and the value of that funding.

ICB

Total (£)

NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB

66,000

NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB

60,000

NHS Birmingham and Solihull ICB

68,000

NHS Black Country ICB

100,000

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB

168,000

NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB

272,000

NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB

76,000

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

136,000

NHS Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly ICB

8,000

NHS Coventry and Warwickshire ICB

-

NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB

90,000

NHS Devon ICB

10,000

NHS Dorset ICB

8,000

NHS Frimley ICB

94,000

NHS Gloucestershire ICB

60,000

NHS Greater Manchester ICB

276,000

NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB

75,000

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire ICB

108,000

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB

80,000

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB

84,000

NHS Kent and Medway ICB

135,000

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB

264,000

NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB

9,000

NHS Lincolnshire ICB

35,000

NHS Mid and South Essex ICB

103,000

NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB

80,000

NHS North Central London ICB

68,000

NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB

322,000

NHS North East London ICB

339,000

NHS North West London ICB

40,000

NHS Northamptonshire ICB

18,000

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB

64,000

NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB

91,000

NHS Somerset ICB

78,000

NHS South East London ICB

26,000

NHS South West London ICB

115,000

NHS South Yorkshire ICB

166,000

NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent ICB

164,000

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB

192,000

NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB

143,000

NHS Sussex ICB

43,000

NHS West Yorkshire ICB

322,000