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Written Question
Palantir: Databases
Thursday 11th January 2024

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

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

X

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

East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust

X

East Essex Healthcare NHS Trust

X

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

X

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

X

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust

X

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

X

X

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

X

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

X

North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

X

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

X

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

X

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

X

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

X

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

X

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

X

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

X

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

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

X

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

X

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

X


Written Question
Health Services
Thursday 7th December 2023

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

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

X

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

East Suffolk and North East Essex NHS Foundation Trust

X

East Essex Healthcare NHS Trust

X

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

X

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

X

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust

X

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

X

X

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

X

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

X

North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

X

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

X

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

X

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

X

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

X

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

X

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

X

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

X

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

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

X

X

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

X

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

X

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

X


Written Question
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Health Services
Tuesday 28th November 2023

Asked by: Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru - Ceredigion)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which trusts have been identified by Getting It Right First Time as part of its Further Faster pilot to deliver rapid clinical transformation for patients with (a) Crohn's disease and (b) ulcerative colitis.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Further, Faster pilots aim to accelerate service transformation across a range of specialities. Within gastroenterology, the pilots are driving forward interventions such as the introduction of Patient Initiated Follow Up, which can be beneficial for patients with chronic conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.

The following trusts are participating in the pilots as part of Cohort 1:

- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Barts Health NHS Trust;

- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust;

- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust;

- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust;

- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust;

- Medway NHS Foundation Trust;

- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust;

- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust;

- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust;

- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust;

- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust;

- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; and

- Wye Valley NHS Trust.

The following trusts are participating in the pilots as part of Cohort 2:

- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust;

- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust;

- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Isle of Wight NHS Trust;

- James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust;

- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust;

- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust;

- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust;

- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;

- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; and

- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Written Question
Dental Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
Tuesday 25th April 2023

Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of dental services in (a) Kingston Upon Hull North constituency and (b) the areas covered by (i) Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and (ii) Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System.

Answered by Neil O'Brien

From 1 April 2023, the responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. NHS England has published an Assurance Framework which sets out its approach to providing assurance that commissioning functions are carried out safely and effectively by ICBs.

In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care across England. These will increase access to National Health Service dentistry whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices. The changes we have implemented include a contractual requirement for NHS dentists to keep their NHS.UK profiles up to date to make it easier for patients to seek treatment; and enabling practices to over-deliver on their NHS contract to deliver more NHS care.

We are working on further reforms which will be announced later this year.


Written Question
Housing: Kingston upon Hull North
Wednesday 21st December 2022

Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of which wards in Kingston upon Hull North constituency have the highest number of homes with retrofitting measures installed.

Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

BEIS estimates that Orchard Park is the ward in Kingston upon Hull North constituency with the highest number of retrofitting measures installed through the following government schemes: Energy Company Obligation (ECO), Green Homes Grant (GHG) schemes, Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) and the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS). The order from highest to lowest ward is as follows:

  1. Orchard Park
  2. Avenue
  3. North Carr
  4. West Carr
  5. Beverley & Newland
  6. University
  7. Bricknell
  8. Central
  9. Kingswood
  10. Sutton

Written Question
Research: Kingston upon Hull North
Thursday 15th December 2022

Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding his Department has provided for research and development in Kingston upon Hull North constituency in the 2022-23 financial year.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The University of Hull, which has a campus in the constituency received £9,792,327 for the academic year in Quality-related research (QR) funding and Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) delivered through Research England. UK Research and Innovation do not yet have full data for competitive grants in the current financial year 2022/23.


Written Question
Hospitals: Kingston upon Hull
Thursday 22nd September 2022

Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase NHS staffing levels in hospitals in Hull.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

Local National Health Service trusts are responsible for managing staffing levels and recruiting the appropriate number of health professionals required to meet local service need. In the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff has decreased by 49 or 0.6% through the transfer of approximately 280 staff from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2021. The number of FTE staff has increased by 731 or 10.5% since May 2010, which includes an increase in the number of doctors by 314 or 38.2% since May 2010. The number of FTE nurses and health visitors has increased in the last year by 80 or 3.9%.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has offered 146 posts to adult nurse students and 20 posts to paediatric nurse students predominantly from the University of Hull to commence in September and October 2022. In addition, the Trust has employed 340 international nurses since 2018 and are recruiting a further 60 in 2022/23. A schools engagement programme is promoting National Health Service careers to students in Hull and East Yorkshire and a partnership is in place with a local sixth form college to provide a health and social care academy.


Written Question
Dialysis Machines: Finance
Thursday 22nd September 2022

Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Swansea East)

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 funding his Department provided for the provision of home dialysis to NHS trusts in England was passed on to patients in the last 12 months.

Answered by Will Quince

This information requested on funding in 2022 is not currently held centrally. However, in 2021/22, NHS England provided approximately £117 million to renal providers in England for the provision of home dialysis therapy. This is inclusive of haemodialysis and all modalities of peritoneal dialysis. The following table shows funding provided by NHS England to each specialist renal provider in England in 2021/22.

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £996,247

Barts Health NHS Trust £9,873,038

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £841,162

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,297,309

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation

Trust £510,650

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £933,545

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust £1,832,292

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust £2,210,524

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust £919,822

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,800,712

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £135,252

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust £3,191,945

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,344,022

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust £6,704,239

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £5,583,181

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,356,531

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,806,242

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,772,510

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust £4,634,713

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £2,668,753

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation

Trust £1,430,263

North Bristol NHS Trust £2,128,904

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust £731,871

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,111,524

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,169,549

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust £4,819,664

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust £1,483,022

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust £2,091,381

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust £5,252,797

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust £2,718,068

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £3,413,902

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust £2,027,726

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £857,527

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust £1,294,611

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,699,134

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust £976,574

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,843,691

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust £2,340,870

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust £5,578,386

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust £2,410,502

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation

Trust £3,127,492

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust £4,318,784

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust £3,006,318

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust £836,807

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust £2,199,773

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £1,056,816

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £267,484

Total £116,606,127

The information requested on funding passed to patients is not held centrally as renal providers have local arrangements in place with patients to facilitate reimbursement.


Written Question
Dialysis Machines: Finance
Thursday 22nd September 2022

Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Swansea East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for the provision of home dialysis to each NHS trust in England in the last 12 months.

Answered by Will Quince

This information requested on funding in 2022 is not currently held centrally. However, in 2021/22, NHS England provided approximately £117 million to renal providers in England for the provision of home dialysis therapy. This is inclusive of haemodialysis and all modalities of peritoneal dialysis. The following table shows funding provided by NHS England to each specialist renal provider in England in 2021/22.

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £996,247

Barts Health NHS Trust £9,873,038

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £841,162

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,297,309

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation

Trust £510,650

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £933,545

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust £1,832,292

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust £2,210,524

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust £919,822

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,800,712

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £135,252

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust £3,191,945

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,344,022

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust £6,704,239

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £5,583,181

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,356,531

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,806,242

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,772,510

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust £4,634,713

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £2,668,753

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation

Trust £1,430,263

North Bristol NHS Trust £2,128,904

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust £731,871

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,111,524

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,169,549

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust £4,819,664

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust £1,483,022

Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust £2,091,381

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust £5,252,797

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust £2,718,068

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £3,413,902

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust £2,027,726

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £857,527

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust £1,294,611

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,699,134

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust £976,574

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,843,691

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust £2,340,870

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust £5,578,386

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust £2,410,502

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation

Trust £3,127,492

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust £4,318,784

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust £3,006,318

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust £836,807

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust £2,199,773

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £1,056,816

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £267,484

Total £116,606,127

The information requested on funding passed to patients is not held centrally as renal providers have local arrangements in place with patients to facilitate reimbursement.


Written Question
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments
Thursday 22nd September 2022

Asked by: Diana Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

In order to mitigate the impact of the number of admitted patients who no longer have medical Criteria to Reside and cannot be swiftly discharged on accident and emergency services, Humber and North Integrated Care Board held a winter planning summit in August to identify actions and risks on patient flow and system pressures.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is examining measures to improve average length of stay within acute wards to improve flow from the emergency department; identify actions with ambulance service and system partners to improve ambulance handover times; change clinical pathways to turn around more patients on the same day; and improve morning discharges. The Trust has also opened approximately 100 additional beds to support the management of No Criteria to Reside patients.