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Written Question
Hospitals: Essex
Monday 1st July 2019

Asked by: Mark Francois (Conservative - Rayleigh and Wickford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the pay band is of the joint chief executive of the mid-Essex Broomfield, Basildon and Southend hospitals.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

Information on remuneration packages for National Health Service provider directors are reported in their annual accounts.

The total salary of the joint Chief Executive of Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust as reported in their 2018/19 annual accounts was £230,000 – 235,000.

The total salary as reported in their 2018/19 annual accounts for the Managing Directors of Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set out in the following table:

Mid-Essex

Managing Director 1 April 2018 – 1 July 2018

£40,000 – 45,000

Managing Director 16 July 2018 – 31 March 2019

£120,000 – 125,000

Basildon and Thurrock

Managing Director 1 April 2018 – 22 June 2018

£35,000 – 40,000

Managing Director 9 July 2018 – 31 March 2019

£120,000 – 125,000

Salary information for the Managing Director of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available as the annual report and accounts for this provider has not yet been laid before Parliament.


Written Question
Hospitals: Essex
Monday 1st July 2019

Asked by: Mark Francois (Conservative - Rayleigh and Wickford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the pay is of the managing directors of (a) mid-Essex Broomfield hospital, (b) Basildon hospital and (c) Southend hospital.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

Information on remuneration packages for National Health Service provider directors are reported in their annual accounts.

The total salary of the joint Chief Executive of Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust and Southend University Hospital Foundation Trust as reported in their 2018/19 annual accounts was £230,000 – 235,000.

The total salary as reported in their 2018/19 annual accounts for the Managing Directors of Mid-Essex Hospital Services Trust and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is set out in the following table:

Mid-Essex

Managing Director 1 April 2018 – 1 July 2018

£40,000 – 45,000

Managing Director 16 July 2018 – 31 March 2019

£120,000 – 125,000

Basildon and Thurrock

Managing Director 1 April 2018 – 22 June 2018

£35,000 – 40,000

Managing Director 9 July 2018 – 31 March 2019

£120,000 – 125,000

Salary information for the Managing Director of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available as the annual report and accounts for this provider has not yet been laid before Parliament.


Written Question
Hospitals: Domestic Visits
Monday 14th May 2018

Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospitals he has visited in an official capacity since 2016-17; and what the date of each such visit was.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

Since the response from the previous Minister of State (Mr Philip Dunne MP) of 21 December 2017 to Question 120123, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has visited the following hospitals.

Date

Hospitals

21 December 2017

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

4 January 2018

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, West London Mental Health NHS Trust

18 January 2018

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

19 January 2018

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Essex Partnership University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

1 February 2018

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

2 February 2018

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

15 February 2018

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Northampton NHS Trust

16 February 2018

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

1 March 2018

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

2 March 2018

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

8 March 2018

Barts Health NHS Trust

15 March 2018

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

16 March 2018

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

29 March 2018

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust

26 April 2018

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

27 April 2018

Wye Valley NHS Trust Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust


Written Question
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Ophthalmology
Wednesday 25th January 2017

Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham Yardley)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to respond to the finding in the Care Quality Commission's report on Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, published in August 2016, on patients' eyesight deteriorating owing to delay in ophthalmology treatments; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by David Mowat

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning hospital eye services and for holding providers to account in terms of contract performance.

The Department expects patients who require further planned stages of treatment in line with their agreed care plan to receive this treatment without undue delay when clinically appropriate.

NHS Improvement advises that Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a comprehensive quality improvement plan for its ophthalmology service. Southend CCG is also developing an Essex-wide Ophthalmology strategy to improve services and reduce waiting times.


Written Question
Audiology
Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS Trusts that provide both adult and paediatric audiology services have received accreditation for their adult service alone.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England does not hold information on which NHS trusts provide both adult and paediatric audiology services.

As of 1 November 2016, NHS trusts with Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation of adult audiology services are:

- Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

As of 1 November 2016, the following NHS trusts have gained accreditation for paediatric audiology services:

- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

- South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

- University Hospitals South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

- Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust

- Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

- Hearing Services - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

In addition Chime Social Enterprise Community Interest Company, as a significant NHS provider, has gained accreditation for paediatric audiology services.


Written Question
Paediatrics: Audiology
Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which NHS Trusts have gained accreditation for paediatric audiology services.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England does not hold information on which NHS trusts provide both adult and paediatric audiology services.

As of 1 November 2016, NHS trusts with Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation of adult audiology services are:

- Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

- North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

As of 1 November 2016, the following NHS trusts have gained accreditation for paediatric audiology services:

- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

- South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

- University Hospitals South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

- Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust

- Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

- Hearing Services - Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

In addition Chime Social Enterprise Community Interest Company, as a significant NHS provider, has gained accreditation for paediatric audiology services.


Written Question
Barts Health NHS Trust: Cancer
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many appointments for a first cancer referral were cancelled in the Barts Health NHS Trust in (a) the last six months and (b) 2013 to 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England collects information on the number of patients referred to a consultant with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those who subsequently started treated for cancer; and the number referred and starting treatment within the waiting times standards. However NHS England does not collect information relating to the number of cancelled appointments for cancer referrals.

The operational standard for patients with suspected cancer who are referred by their general practitioner (GP) to a consultant is that 93% of patients have a maximum two week wait.

The percentage of patients who had their first consultant appointment within two weeks of an urgent GP referral in August 2016 is shown in the table below.

Percentage of patients who had a first consultant appointment within two weeks of urgent GP referral, August 2016

Barts Health NHS Trust

97.7%

London trusts:

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

91.2%

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

97.0%

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.0%

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

90.1%

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

95.4%

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

95.2%

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

100.0%

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

97.9%

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Other England trusts:

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

98.8%

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

91.4%

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

94.4%

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

99.2%

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.1%

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.2%

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.1%

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

94.1%

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

98.2%

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.0%

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.4%

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.7%

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

90.7%

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

94.7%

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

96.6%

East Cheshire NHS Trust

97.9%

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

94.8%

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

97.3%

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

97.5%

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

95.6%

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

86.2%

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

83.9%

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.4%

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

98.3%

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

93.1%

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

95.1%

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

98.6%

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

92.2%

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

93.2%

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

80.2%

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

94.4%

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.6%

North Bristol NHS Trust

86.9%

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

98.8%

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

93.7%

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

96.6%

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

83.6%

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

93.5%

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.1%

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.9%

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

96.8%

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.0%

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

94.6%

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.6%

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

90.6%

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

92.9%

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

94.9%

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.6%

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

93.6%

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.3%

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

93.1%

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

92.9%

St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust

93.9%

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

97.3%

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.5%

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

96.9%

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

93.6%

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

81.1%

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

93.5%

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

92.0%

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

94.9%

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

93.8%

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

96.3%

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

89.4%

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

93.0%

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

94.9%

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.9%

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

65.9%

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

Wye Valley NHS Trust

89.7%

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.2%

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

England

94.0%

Source: Cancer Waiting Times, NHS England


Written Question
Cancer
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting times are for a cancer referral in (a) Barts Health NHS Trust, (b) each hospital trust in London and (c) each hospital trust in England.

Answered by David Mowat

The information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England collects information on the number of patients referred to a consultant with suspected cancer or breast symptoms and those who subsequently started treated for cancer; and the number referred and starting treatment within the waiting times standards. However NHS England does not collect information relating to the number of cancelled appointments for cancer referrals.

The operational standard for patients with suspected cancer who are referred by their general practitioner (GP) to a consultant is that 93% of patients have a maximum two week wait.

The percentage of patients who had their first consultant appointment within two weeks of an urgent GP referral in August 2016 is shown in the table below.

Percentage of patients who had a first consultant appointment within two weeks of urgent GP referral, August 2016

Barts Health NHS Trust

97.7%

London trusts:

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

91.2%

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

97.0%

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.0%

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

90.1%

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

95.4%

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

95.2%

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

100.0%

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

97.9%

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

90.5%

Other England trusts:

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

98.8%

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

91.4%

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

94.4%

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

99.2%

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.1%

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.2%

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.1%

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

94.1%

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

98.2%

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.0%

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.4%

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.7%

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

90.7%

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

94.7%

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.0%

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.1%

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

96.6%

East Cheshire NHS Trust

97.9%

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

94.8%

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

97.3%

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

97.5%

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

95.6%

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

86.2%

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

83.9%

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.4%

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

98.3%

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust

93.1%

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust

95.1%

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

98.6%

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

97.2%

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

98.4%

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

92.2%

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

93.2%

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

80.2%

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.5%

Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

94.4%

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

96.2%

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

95.7%

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.6%

North Bristol NHS Trust

86.9%

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

98.8%

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

93.7%

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

96.6%

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

83.6%

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

96.9%

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

96.1%

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.5%

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

93.5%

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

98.1%

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

93.9%

Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.9%

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

96.8%

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

97.0%

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

94.6%

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

94.2%

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

99.6%

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

90.6%

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

92.9%

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

94.3%

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

94.9%

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.6%

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

93.6%

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust

96.6%

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

96.3%

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

93.1%

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

92.9%

St Helens and Knowsley Hospital Services NHS Trust

93.9%

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

97.3%

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

93.0%

Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.5%

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

93.4%

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

96.5%

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

96.9%

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

94.7%

The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

93.6%

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

100.0%

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

81.1%

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

93.5%

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

94.4%

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

93.9%

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

92.0%

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

94.9%

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

95.3%

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

93.8%

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

96.3%

Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.0%

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust

89.4%

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

93.0%

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

94.2%

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

94.9%

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

94.9%

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

65.9%

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

98.9%

Wye Valley NHS Trust

89.7%

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.2%

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

88.7%

England

94.0%

Source: Cancer Waiting Times, NHS England


Written Question
Giant Cell Arteritis
Monday 5th September 2016

Asked by: David Amess (Conservative - Southend West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to ensure adoption of the National BSR and BHPR guidelines for the management of giant cell arteritis within the NHS; and whether his Department plans to assess whether the recommendations in those guidelines are being met.

Answered by David Mowat

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the provision of services for people with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Whilst it would not be appropriate for NHS England to direct CCGs to adopt a particular clinical pathway, it continues to ensure that the innovative approach developed at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (FT) is shared and made available to clinicians.

There are a number of clinical guidelines that are available to support the prompt diagnosis and referral of patients with suspected GCA, including one produced by the Royal College of Physicians, which Professor Bhaskar Dasgupta, who developed the GCA pathway at Southend University Hospital NHS FT, helped to produce. This guidance provides a framework for disease assessment, immediate treatment and referral to specialist care. Furthermore, both the British Society for Rheumatology and the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology published guidelines on the management of polymyalgia rheumatica, a related condition, for general practitioners and rheumatologists. These encourage the prompt diagnosis and urgent management of GCA, helping to minimise GCA related vision loss.

The Specialised Rheumatology Clinical Reference Group at NHS England has developed proposals to establish local rheumatology networks. These are being implemented over a three year period to support consistent access to clinically effective therapies and to share good and innovative practice across the country. In addition, NHS England’s innovation team has invited Professor Dasgupta to contribute to the NHS Innovation Exchange Portal to ensure that this knowledge is shared.

On 24 June 2016, NHS England recently facilitated a webinar presented by Professor Dasgupta, which aimed to show how the fast-track pathway has significantly reduced the number of patients suffering sight-loss as an avoidable complication of GCA and, in addition, presents a case that this model is cost-saving, results in an increased patient quality of life, and successfully reduces the time to diagnosis in line with established clinical guidelines. NHS England promoted the webinar across the musculoskeletal community as well as to CCGs and patient groups through a wide range of communications channels.


Written Question
Giant Cell Arteritis
Monday 5th September 2016

Asked by: David Amess (Conservative - Southend West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote the Fast Track Giant Cell Arteritis pathway piloted by Southend University Hospital.

Answered by David Mowat

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the provision of services for people with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Whilst it would not be appropriate for NHS England to direct CCGs to adopt a particular clinical pathway, it continues to ensure that the innovative approach developed at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (FT) is shared and made available to clinicians.

There are a number of clinical guidelines that are available to support the prompt diagnosis and referral of patients with suspected GCA, including one produced by the Royal College of Physicians, which Professor Bhaskar Dasgupta, who developed the GCA pathway at Southend University Hospital NHS FT, helped to produce. This guidance provides a framework for disease assessment, immediate treatment and referral to specialist care. Furthermore, both the British Society for Rheumatology and the British Health Professionals in Rheumatology published guidelines on the management of polymyalgia rheumatica, a related condition, for general practitioners and rheumatologists. These encourage the prompt diagnosis and urgent management of GCA, helping to minimise GCA related vision loss.

The Specialised Rheumatology Clinical Reference Group at NHS England has developed proposals to establish local rheumatology networks. These are being implemented over a three year period to support consistent access to clinically effective therapies and to share good and innovative practice across the country. In addition, NHS England’s innovation team has invited Professor Dasgupta to contribute to the NHS Innovation Exchange Portal to ensure that this knowledge is shared.

On 24 June 2016, NHS England recently facilitated a webinar presented by Professor Dasgupta, which aimed to show how the fast-track pathway has significantly reduced the number of patients suffering sight-loss as an avoidable complication of GCA and, in addition, presents a case that this model is cost-saving, results in an increased patient quality of life, and successfully reduces the time to diagnosis in line with established clinical guidelines. NHS England promoted the webinar across the musculoskeletal community as well as to CCGs and patient groups through a wide range of communications channels.