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Written Question
Minor Injuries Units: Cornwall
Thursday 25th January 2018

Asked by: Steve Double (Conservative - St Austell and Newquay)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to utilise the role of NHS minor injury units in (a) St. Austell and (b) Newquay to reduce pressures on A&E departments in Cornwall.

Answered by Steve Barclay

Community-based services, which include minor injuries units, urgent treatment centres and minor injury services provided by general practitioners and pharmacists, play an important role in making sure people can access the appropriate services when and where they need them.

Minor injury units (MIUs) across Cornwall have treated over 86,000 people during the past financial year and during the last three months, MIUs in the Cornwall area have treated nearly 25,000 patients. Of those, just over 3,000 were treated at St Austell and just over 1,500 at Newquay.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has a protocol in place which enables resources to be shared between St Austell and Newquay MIUs. In addition, partnership arrangements are in place between the National Health Service and the local council to use the Better Care Fund to provide a range of services including: generic support workers; improved community bed capacity, and more flexible and responsive domiciliary care to ensure that patient assessments and re-ablement are carried out in the most appropriate, out-of-hospital setting.

Locally, the NHS has extensively promoted the use of all community based services, including support from pharmacists, self-care and the importance of having the flu jab.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Jan 2018
Cancer Treatment: Patient Travel Times

"I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing a debate on this very important matter. The area of Cornwall that I represent has similar issues to those in Cumbria, and NHS England is consulting on closing our only treatment centre for radiography in Truro. That would mean people from the far …..."
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Written Question
Nurses: Pay
Tuesday 7th February 2017

Asked by: Steve Double (Conservative - St Austell and Newquay)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will award nurses a pay rise of greater than one per cent of salary in the next available pay round.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The Government makes its determinations on pay awards informed by recommendations from the independent NHS Pay Review Body. We look forward to receiving their report shortly.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Albans (Mrs Main) on securing this debate on what I believe is a very important issue.

There is no doubt that our health service is currently under great pressure, as …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Oliver Colvile) first...."
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Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I agree with him. Clearly, part of the answer is getting GPs and pharmacies working much more closely together, and co-locating can often be one way to help with that...."
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Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention; he clearly watches far more TV than I do, because I was not aware of that. However, he makes the point well that there has been a huge increase in the demand being placed on our GP services, and people are therefore …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, and in many ways I share her concerns. While I respect the desire of Department of Health’s to ensure that money is well spent and delivers value for money, there are cases of over-duplication, as we have already heard. Some changes need …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I thank my hon. Friend for making that point, which I completely agree with. There is much more we could do to increase the general public’s awareness of exactly how highly qualified our pharmacies’ staff are and of the excellent services that pharmacies can provide.

My hon. Friend the Member …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"Although I agree with some of what the hon. Gentleman says, I believe the funding model for pharmacies needs to be looked at because there is a great deal of duplication. The money spent could be better utilised, so the funding model needs to be reviewed. Some of the recent …..."
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