Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the NHS England Domestic Abuse Action Plan will advise clinicians that they can request that previous NHS waiting times are taken into consideration when making referrals for (1) physical, and (2) mental, healthcare for children fleeing domestic abuse.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Existing NHS policy is clear that access to NHS treatment is based on clinical need. Clinicians are expected to consider trauma, such as domestic abuse. The individual circumstances of children and young people seeking help will form part of local clinical judgement.
Alongside this the Government is focused on addressing the pressures caused by the pandemic as a priority and we are working with the National Health Service to tackle long waiting lists and bear down on waiting times. At the Spending Review (SR) we invested £1 billion to kickstart elective recovery throughout 2021-22, incentivising providers to address backlogs and tackle long waiting lists.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the additional £2.8 billion resource funding announced for the NHS in the Budget will go to mental health.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Government is already committed to backing the National Health Service with an additional £8 billion, in real terms, by 2020/21. As part of the Budget announcement on 22 November, we have now committed to backing the NHS in England further so that by 2019/20 it will have received an additional £2.8 billion of revenue funding for frontline services than previously planned over the period. This includes £335 million this winter to help trusts to increase capacity. We have also committed £3.5 billion of new capital investment by 2022/23 to transform its estate and drive further efficiency savings.
The use of this funding allocation is a matter for NHS England. Decisions on funding have yet to be made, but the Mental Health Investment Standard makes clear that mental health investment must increase as a proportion of each clinical commissioning group’s spend each year.
The Government is committed to parity of esteem between mental health and physical health and delivering the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. We have backed this with a significant increase in funding – spending on mental health has increased to a record £11.6 billion, with a further £1 billion on top of this by 2020/21. We are also investing an additional £1.4 billion in mental health services for children and young people.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they remain committed to meeting the targets set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
Delivering parity of esteem for mental health remains a priority for this Government and we are committed to achieving the vision set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health in 2016 in full. We published the Government’s response to the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health in January 2017 and alongside this the Prime Minister set out a wide range of mental health reforms. We are working across Government, its agencies and with stakeholders to implement this ambitious agenda to transform mental health services.
Since the publication of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, NHS England has been working across the National Health Service and its arm’s length bodies to implement the NHS recommendations. NHS England published Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health earlier this year to show progress one year on. NHS England monitors progress on implementing these recommendations through the national Mental Health and Dementia Programme Board, which regularly reports progress to Ministers. We hold NHS England to account for delivery through the NHS Mandate.
The Government’s Inter-Ministerial Group for Mental Health, led by the Department, oversees delivery of the Government’s ambitious agenda on mental health across Government Departments.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when the next Adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Workforce Census Report will be published.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
Health Education England is due to publish its 2016 Adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Workforce Census Report in spring 2018.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the links between nutrition and mental health.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition has made no assessment of the link between nutrition and mental health and currently has no plans to do so.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that appropriate pastoral support is available to non-religious patients in hospitals in England on an equal basis to religious chaplaincy, and whether that support is proportionate to the percentage of patients who describe themselves as non-religious.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
All those accessing NHS services should have the opportunity to receive pastoral, spiritual or religious care from a National Health Service chaplain. This includes non-religious pastoral and spiritual care to all patients, family and staff who need it.
NHS England have published the NHS Chaplaincy Guidelines 2015: Promoting Excellence in Pastoral, Spiritual & Religious Care for NHS commissioners, NHS trust boards, managers and health care chaplains which stated that adequate provision of pastoral, spiritual or religious care should be made for their service users, and that this provision should be available to both religious and non-religious patients. A copy of the guidelines is attached.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, with regard to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, what were the initial average anxiety and depression scores for (1) all referrals that ended which related to people who were assessed, (2) all referrals ended which related to people who entered treatment, and (3) all referred persons completing treatment, in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
This data is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the recorded reasons why referrals to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme ended in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The information is not available in the requested format.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons referred to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme moved to recovery after completing (1) only high intensity treatment, (2) only low intensity treatment, and (3) both, in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
Information is not available in the requested format.
Asked by: Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons referred to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme reliably improved after receiving (1) only high intensity treatment, (2) only low intensity treatment, and (3) both, in each clinical commissioning group area in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
Information is not available in the requested format.