Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of dentists that have left the NHS in the last twelve months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No estimate has been made of the number of dentists that have left the National Health Service in the last twelve months. Data on NHS dentists is not available by parliamentary constituency or on the specific date requested. However, the number of dentists providing NHS care from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 is expected to be published in the third quarter of 2022/23.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) private and (b) NHS dentists in Bath.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Data is not held on the number of private dentists by area. Information on the number of National Health Service dentists is held at clinical commissioning group (CCG) level. In the ending 31 March 2021, 405 dentists had delivered NHS activity in NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire CCG.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the mandatory covid-19 vaccination programme on staffing levels in the dental industry.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell MP) on 18 January 2022 to Question 100611.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he made of the number of housebound people in (a) Bath and (b) England who have yet to be offered their covid-19 booster vaccination.
Answered by Maggie Throup
Every eligible adult in England aged 18 years old and over has been offered a COVID-19 booster vaccination, including those who are housebound in Bath and England. Local arrangements are in place, with general practitioners, community pharmacies and volunteers visiting those who are housebound and eligible for a booster dose.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Mental health clinically-led review of standards, if he will introduce a new access standard that measures clinically meaningful contact for adults with eating disorders; and if he will publish data that provides transparency on waiting times from referral to the start of evidence-based treatment for adults with eating disorders.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
NHS England and NHS Improvement have consulted on the potential to introduce five new waiting time standards, as part of its clinically led review of National Health Service access standards. This includes a standard for adults presenting to community-based mental health services, including those with eating disorders, should start to receive help within four weeks from referral. This consultation closed on 1 September 2021 and NHS England and NHS Improvement expect to publish a response in due course. Data will be published on any new waiting time standards when fully implemented and embedded in services.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government has spent on alcohol awareness campaigns in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 as of 9 December.
Answered by Maggie Throup
This information is not held in the format requested. While messages around responsible alcohol consumption were communicated throughout this period, no individual awareness campaigns were undertaken.
The Better Health and One You adult health campaigns have provided information and advice to help adults consume less alcohol in each of these years. Better Health continues to offer tips and online tools to help people drink less including the Drinks Tracker app, ‘How Are You’ health quiz, Better Health website and email programme. We also provide the Drinkline service and a webchat service.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, how much and what proportion of the £44 billion increased spending on the health service in England will be allocated to eating disorder services.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
National Health Service funding allocations, including provision for different service areas and regions in England, will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for health-related research and development, as outlined in the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, will be used on improving understanding of the (a) causes, (b) prevention and (c) treatment of eating disorders.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Spending Review settlement provides £5 billion for health-related research and development. The National Institute for Health Research’s budget will be finalised as part of a detailed financial planning process. The distribution across health research areas will be confirmed before funding is made available in April 2022.
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people and adults were referred to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral of eating disorders in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22 to date; and what proportion of those referrals were made to an eating disorder service.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
Information is not held on the number of children and young people and adults referred to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral of eating disorders. However, the number of referrals of children and young people, and adults referred to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral for eating disorders is shown in the table below.
Not all referrals of children and young people, and adults to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral for eating disorders are recorded as being made to eating disorder services. Some of these referrals are recorded as being made to other service team types, such as community mental health teams, psychiatric liaison services and single point of access services.
| Number of referrals of children and young people, and adults to specialist secondary mental health services with a primary reason of referral for eating disorders1 | Referrals with a primary reason of referral for eating disorders referred to eating disorder services2,3 | Proportion of referrals with a primary reason of referral for eating disorders referred to eating disorder services (%) |
Children and young people (aged 0 to 18) |
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2019/20 | 14,455 | 9,514 | 66 |
2020/21 | 22,449 | 15,624 | 70 |
2021/22 (to July 2021) | 10,880 | 7,726 | 71 |
Adults (over 18) |
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2019/20 | 20,490 | 15,576 | 76 |
2020/21 | 24,934 | 19,488 | 78 |
2021/22 (to July 2021) | 11,621 | 9,225 | 79 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS), NHS Digital
1 Some people may have been referred more than once during a particular time period
2 Includes eating disorders/dietetics services, community eating disorder services for children and young people and community eating disorder services
3 Some referrals may have been referred to multiple service team types
Asked by: Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat - Bath)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason a collect code requirement has been implemented for collecting lateral flow tests from pharmacies.
Answered by Maggie Throup
This code enables the Department to track test kit distribution, send reminders to submit results, identify take up and assist the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in case of a batch recall. While a collect code is encouraged, people can still pick up test kits from pharmacies without one.