Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Scotland's Genomic Medicine Strategy 2024-2029Found: Service NSS NHS National Services Scotland PGD Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis PHM Public Health
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, Final January 2024, Provisional February 2024, experimental statisticsFound: Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, Final January 2024, Provisional February 2024, experimental statistics
Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) sector that does not have the strong voices, sharp elbows or the champions that other children’s and health - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) School age children in care are more likely to have special educational needs and mental health problems - Speech Link
3: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The other demanding category of cases concerns applications for care orders in respect of newborn babies - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) They are more likely to end up homeless, in prison, or have mental health issues. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We are designing two pathfinders this year with health and justice partners, which will be supported - Speech Link
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of maternity staff leaving NHS employment on services.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The Department works with NHS England on a regular basis to review the numbers of staff working in National Health Service maternity services, and to identify any issues which could potentially impact services.
Growing, retaining, and supporting the maternity workforce to ensure that there are staff with the capacity and the right skills to deliver safe, personalised, and equitable care for women and babies is a key theme of NHS England’s Three Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services. NHS England is also delivering a nursing and midwifery retention programme, supporting organisations in assessing themselves against a bundle of interventions aligned to the NHS People Promise, and to develop high-quality local retention improvement plans.
Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) It is another example of the Government continuing to let people down and stand by as our vital services - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) The last thing on her mind was dental health. - Speech Link
3: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) Given the much wider availability of NHS dentists in Scotland, people are able to access such services - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) The Department of Health and Social Care guidance for delivering better oral health states that cancer - Speech Link
5: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) in babies and toddlers, so that by the time they go to school they are used to brushing their teeth - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Apr. 16 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: So we know that sometimes siblings have been split up: babies have been adopted and older brothers
Oral Evidence Apr. 16 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: There is an interesting contrast between local government and health.
Mentions:
1: None The reason why I came to the panel is that I had to retire through ill health, and I felt that I needed - Speech Link
2: None happening now around the world, including how it affects animals, their food, where they live and their health - Speech Link
3: None bricks-and-mortar building, but there are lots of youth centres out there and lots of new mums with babies - Speech Link
4: None When I was younger, there used to be lots of bus services. - Speech Link
Apr. 15 2024
Source Page: Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaksFound: Principles which health protection, public health and infection prevention and control professionals
Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what advances in training on perinatal mental health have been made following the recommendations made in the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's 1st Report, 2022 (Session 6), Inquiry into perinatal mental health (SP Paper 104), which was published on 8 February 2022.
Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport
The Scottish Government has worked with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to develop ‘Perinatal mental health curricular framework : a framework for maternal and infant mental health’. This framework sets out the different levels of knowledge and skills required by members of the Scottish workforce who have contact with mothers and their babies, to enable them to support mothers, babies and their families to have positive well-being and good mental health during the perinatal period.
The Scottish Government has also worked with NES to advance training on Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. Training in evidence-based approaches and interventions is delivered to staff across sectors and across practice types including informed, skilled, enhanced and specialist, as appropriate to their role.
This includes education and training within Perinatal and Infant Mental Health through e-learning modules which are available on TURAS, covering seven topic areas of essential knowledge. We have also worked with NES to create a specialist Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Learning Programme which allows NES to track the progress of staff in Specialist Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services including Mother and Baby Units, Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams and Maternity and Neonatal Psychological Interventions.
During 2024-25, NES will continue to promote training at all levels across the sectors that support the development of positive relationships and attachment in the early years. This will be achieved through increasing workforce capacity to deliver evidence-based parent-child relationships focused interventions and approaches from the antenatal period, through infancy and across childhood.