Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which sites have piloted Palantir software.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England’s pilot programmes of Palantir’s Foundry software include the Improving Elective Care Coordination for Patients Programme (IECCPP) and the Optimised Patient Tracking and Intelligent Choices Application (OPTICA) pilot.
The pilots have demonstrated the potential benefits of a Federated Data Platform, which will be a vital upgrade for the National Health Service, allowing it to make better use of its data to improve outcomes for patients, including reducing waits and discharging people quicker.
The following table shows the 42 trusts who are actively participating in one or both pilot programmes:
Trust | IECCP | OPTICA |
Barts Health NHS Trust | X |
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | X |
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East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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East Essex Healthcare NHS Trust | X |
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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| X |
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | X | X |
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | X |
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| X |
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | X | X |
Medway NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | X |
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust | X |
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | X |
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West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from Lord Markham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, to the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, dated 30 August 2023, which are the 36 NHS trusts said in that letter to be participating in NHS England’s pilot programmes on improving elective care coordination for patients and care coordination solution.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Thirty-nine trusts signed Memoranda of Understanding indicating their intention to participate in the Improving Elective Care Co-ordination for Patients (IECCP) programme. 35 trusts are currently actively participating, with four trusts having withdrawn.
NHS England’s programmes also include the Optimised Patient Tracking and Intelligent Choices Application (OPTICA) pilot. OPTICA drives an efficient, shared way of working for health and social care teams, providing intelligence to help care teams properly plan for timely discharges.
The following table shows the 42 trusts actively participating in one or both of NHS England’s Pilot Programmes:
Trust | IECCP | OPTICA |
Barts Health NHS Trust | X |
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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | X |
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East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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East Essex Healthcare NHS Trust | X |
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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| X |
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | X | X |
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | X |
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| X |
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | X | X |
Medway NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | X |
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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust |
| X |
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust | X |
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South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | X | X |
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | X |
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | X |
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West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | X |
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Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the number of people employed in the UK hospitality industry in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish a large range of labour market statistics, including releases that track the number of workers employed in the hospitality sector.
The ONS publish a detailed guide to using these statistics. As the guidance states, due to the survey design the preferred source for statistics at the industry level is the ONS JOBS02 workforce jobs by industry.
Data is also available from NOMIS, the official website for labour market statistics run by the University of Durham on behalf of the ONS.
Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the number of people employed in the UK retail industry in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish a large range of labour market statistics, including releases that track the number of workers employed in the retail sector. The ONS publish a detailed guide to using these statistics. As the guidance states, due to the survey design the preferred source for statistics at the industry level is the ONS JOBS02 workforce jobs by industry.
Data is also available from NOMIS, the official website for labour market statistics run by the University of Durham on behalf of the ONS.
Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many (a) schools and (b) students are participating in CyberFirst programmes in (i) Newcastle Central constituency and (ii) the North East.
Answered by Paul Scully
The National Cyber Security Centre delivers a range of initiatives through CyberFirst, including a schools and colleges recognition programme, the undergraduate bursary scheme, and the CyberFirst Girls Competition for 12-13 year olds. As part of this effort, DSIT also delivers the Cyber Explorers platform for 11-14 year olds.
In the North East, girls from 17 schools entered the CyberFirst Girls Competition and 15 institutions are recognised as CyberFirst Schools and Colleges. Also, 80 schools participate in the Cyber Explorers online platform, including 6 in Newcastle Central.
There are 89 undergraduate bursary students studying at universities in the North East. A further 2,283 learners are registered on Cyber Explorers, including 50 in Newcastle Central, as well as 122 students who have applied to attend a CyberFirst summer course at Durham University.
Asked by: Lord Hampton (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to bring back a student loan forgiveness scheme for teachers, similar to that trialled between 2002 and 2004, in which 10 per cent of a new teacher’s total student loan was paid off each year that they stayed in the profession.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The Department has piloted two schemes in recent years which were designed to attract and retain teachers by repaying their student loans. The Repayment of Teachers’ Loans (RTL) scheme was trialled in the mid-2000s and an evaluation was completed by University of Durham in 2004. This indicated that RTL influenced 11% of participating teachers’ decisions to stay in teaching.
In 2017, the Department introduced the Teacher Student Loan Reimbursement (TSLR) scheme for science and languages teachers in 26 Local Authorities, which allows these teachers to claim back the student loan repayments they have made. The evaluation by CFE Research was published in January 2023, and found that TSLR exerts some influence on both retaining teachers and the areas where they choose to teach.
Both the RTL and TSLR evaluations found that offering bursaries for trainee teachers exerts the strongest influence on teacher recruitment. This is why the Department is offering increased bursaries worth £27,000 tax-free and scholarships worth £29,000 tax-free, to encourage talented trainees to key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing.
Asked by: Virendra Sharma (Labour - Ealing, Southall)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Community Diagnostic Centres are (a) operational in England and (b) provide endoscopy treatments; and if he will list the Diagnostic Centres that (i) currently provide and (ii) plan to provide endoscopy treatments.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
92 Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) are operational in England. The following provided endoscopy treatments in 2022/23:
- Barking Community Hospital CDC
- Basildon Community Diagnostics CDC
- Bishop Auckland CDC
- Cannock Chase CDC
- CDC Poole at Dorset Health Village
- Clacton CDC
- Clatterbridge Diagnostics CDC
- Coventry City Community
- Darlington Memorial CDC
- East Norfolk CDC
- East Surrey CDC
- Humber Coast and Vale CDC
- Kidderminster Treatment Centre CDC
- Kings Mill CDC
- Lymington New Forest Hospital CDC
- Manchester and Trafford CDC
- Mile End Hospital CDC
- Norfolk and Waveney CDC
- Northern Care Alliance CDC – multi-site
- Northern Care Alliance – Salford
- Penrith CDC
- Portsmouth CDC
- Preston Fatima CDC
- Preston Healthport CDC
- Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton CDC
- Queen Mary’s Hospital Roehampton CDC (Kingston)
- Rossendale CDC (Burnley General Hospital)
- Slough CDC
- South Warwickshire CDC
- St Helen’s CDC
- St Mary’s Community Hospital CDC
- Stoke on Trent CDC
- University Hospital of North Durham CDC
- Warwickshire North CDC
- West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC
- West Norfolk CDC
The following approved CDCs including expansions to existing CDCs are planning to provide endoscopy treatments:
- Andover CDC
- Bradford District and Craven CDC
- Cannock Chase CDC
- CDC Poole @ Dorset Health Village Club
- Clacton CDC
- East Surrey CDC
- Hinckley CDC
- Island CDC
- Kidderminster CDC
- Lymington New Forest Hospital CDC
- Manchester and Trafford CDC
- Mansfield CDC
- Northern Care Alliance CDC – Oldham
- Queen Mary’s Roehampton CDC
- Rossendale CDC
- St Helens CDC
- Westmorland CDC
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made a recent assessment of the impact of trends in the number of University students on the (a) price and (b) availability of rental properties (i) in Durham and (ii) nationally.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The Department does not currently assess the impact of the trends of university students on rental price and availability.
Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of bed capacity at University Hospital North Durham in relation to the local population.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust assessed the demand on services and reviewed current bed capacity at University Hospital North Durham as part of its annual planning requirement. In response, an additional 24 beds will be made available during the second half of 2022/23.
Asked by: Dehenna Davison (Conservative - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of capacity challenges in County Durham's accident and emergency departments.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
No assessment has been made. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that additional staff are being recruited at the University Hospital of North Durham and Darlington Memorial Hospital. Darlington’s emergency department was extended in 2020 and there are further plans to redevelop and increase capacity at Durham’s emergency department. Same day emergency care units were also opened at each site in 2021.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has also enhanced paediatric services and facilities in the emergency departments and a new paediatric assessment unit has been installed at the Durham site. A new primary care hub has also been opened adjacent to the emergency department in Durham.