Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, in which locations mental health patients have been sent for out-of-area treatments since May 2010.
Answered by Norman Lamb
We do not centrally hold information on the locations where mental health patients have been sent for out-of-area treatments since May 2010.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many paramedics were working in each ambulance service in England in each month since May 2010.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The number of paramedics working in each ambulance service in England in each month since May 2010 is in the attached table.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and which private sector companies awarded NHS contracts have subcontracted work from NHS hospitals and surgeries to prisons in England; and which prisons are involved in such contracts.
Answered by Norman Lamb
This information is not collected centrally by NHS England.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on non-pharmaceutical dementia treatments in each year since 2004.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Department does not directly commission non-pharmaceutical treatments for people with dementia. Local National Health Service and social care commissioners should consider the needs of their local population when commissioning services for people with dementia.
The Department is working to reduce the inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medication to people with dementia. In November 2013, the Department published an interactive online map to show members of the public, data on the quality of dementia care and support in their local area, which can be used to hold local organisations to account. The data includes how often antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to people with dementia.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times ambulance response times in (a) the North West and (b) each ambulance service trust in England have exceeded (i) 15, (ii) 20, (iii) 30 and (iv) 60 minutes since May 2010.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested. The attached tables show that in April 2014, North West Ambulance Service responded to 95% of Category A immediately life threatening calls within 17 minutes and that 99% of calls were responded to within 31 minutes. The tables also provide response time information for each ambulance service trust in England since April 2011.
Asked by: Steve Rotheram (Labour - Liverpool, Walton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average ambulance response time was in (a) Liverpool, (b) Merseyside and (c) England in each month since May 2007.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.
Table: The median ambulance response times to treatment for category A1 calls in the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust2,3, April 20114 to March 2014
Month | Median time to treatment for Category A calls (in minutes) |
April 2011 | 4.2 |
May 2011 | 5.0 |
June 2011 | 5.2 |
July 2011 | 5.0 |
August 2011 | 4.7 |
September 2011 | 4.8 |
October 2011 | 4.9 |
November 2011 | 4.9 |
December 2011 | 5.0 |
January 2012 | 4.8 |
February 2012 | 5.1 |
March 2012 | 5.0 |
April 2012 | 5.6 |
May 2012 | 5.7 |
June 2012 | 5.1 |
July 2012 | 5.1 |
August 2012 | 5.2 |
September 2012 | 5.3 |
October 2012 | 5.4 |
November 2012 | 5.4 |
December 2012 | 5.7 |
January 2013 | 5.5 |
February 2013 | 5.6 |
March 2013 | 5.6 |
April 2013 | 5.8 |
May 2013 | 5.4 |
June 2013 | 5.5 |
July 2013 | 5.8 |
August 2013 | 5.7 |
September 2013 | 6.1 |
October 2013 | 6.0 |
November 2013 | 6.1 |
December 2013 | 6.1 |
January 2014 | 5.8 |
February 2014 | 6.1 |
March 2014 | 6.1 |
Source: Ambulance quality indicators, NHS England
Notes:
1Category A calls are defined as those that are the result of immediately life threatening incidents.
2North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides services to the Liverpool and Merseyside areas. Ambulance response times are not readily available for areas smaller than those covered by one Ambulance Trust.
3It is not possible to calculate the median time to treatment for England from the medians for individual ambulance trusts.
4Information is not available before April 2011.
Before April 2011, data was collected annually in the KA34 Ambulance Statistics. This shows the annual trend in national ambulance activity has been increasing since 2007/08: from 4.3 million emergency journeys in 2007/08 to 5 million in 2012/13 (latest available).
The performance of ambulance services is performance measured on a monthly basis against three response time standards. On the basis of these standards performance in the North West Ambulance Trust is broadly stable.