Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 13 March (HL5692), in the context of NHS hospital sleeping accommodation, what is their definition of the opposite sex of (1) men, and (2) women.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
As set out in the guidance Eliminating mixed sex accommodation in hospitals, it is for each trust to determine how best to accommodate patients, taking into account national guidance on action to eliminate mixed sex accommodation, the relevant quality and safety standards, and patients’ own preferences. A copy of the guidance is attached.
Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much they are currently spending on measures to prevent (1) dementia, and (2) HIV and AIDS.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
We will invest more than £300 million on dementia research over the course of this Parliament. This includes research into causes, diagnosis, cures, care and prevention of dementia.
A key aspiration in the Challenge on Dementia 2020, published in February 2015, is to improve public awareness and understanding of the factors which can increase the risk of developing dementia and how people can reduce their risk by living more healthily.
Public Health England (PHE) has responsibility for the risk reduction element of the 2020 Challenge and has allocated around £62,000 in 2016-17 to support this ambition.
PHE has also allocated £2.5 million in 2016-17 for its Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion programme. These monies are dispersed on HIV prevention programmes, the HIV Prevention Innovation Fund, support for the national HIV self-sampling service, as well as the Sexual and Reproductive Information Service, and on monitoring and evaluation of the programme.
On 4 December 2016, NHS England announced an investment of up to £10 million over 3 years as part of a major extension to the national HIV prevention programme led by PHE. The aim is to support those most at risk of acquiring HIV through providing access to pre-exposure prophylaxis within a clinical trial. NHS England also funds access to post-exposure prophylaxis.
Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will consider the restoration of an apprenticeship-based route to qualification as a state registered nurse.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
As part of the Government agenda to develop aspirational apprenticeships, the Department of Health and Health Education England have actively supported the development of an apprentice standard for a registered nurse. This has recently been approved by the Department for Education. The employer-led Trailblazer Group will need to complete the assessment plan and end point assessment before the standard is ready for delivery and can be used by employers.
We expect to see the first nursing degree apprenticeship programmes begin in September 2017.
Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of nurses who qualified in 2010 left the NHS within five years of qualification.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
NHS Digital provides data on the number of nurses working in the National Health Service in England, but information on the percentage of nurses who qualified in 2010 and left the NHS within five years of qualification, is not collected.
Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what part of the total expenditure on the National Health Service during 2014–15 was incurred (1) by general practice, (2) by individual hospitals, and (3) in respect of administration of the National Health Service (a) at Government level, and (b) by NHS management above the level of individual hospitals.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The 2014-15 data is not available as the accounts are still being audited.
Asked by: Lord Tebbit (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what they expect will be the total expenditure on the National Health Service for each of the years 2014–15 and 2015–16.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The Department expects to spend £113.3 billion in 2014-15 and £116.6 billion in 2015-16 on health and social care, of which £98.1 billion and £101.1 billion respectively was allocated to NHS England to commission health services.
These figures represent total Departmental Expenditure Limit spending and include National Health Service commissioners, NHS providers, the Department of Health itself and its arm’s length bodies, including Public Health England and Health Education England.