Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) cost and (b) time taken for Isle of Wight residents travelling for treatment to mainland hospitals.
Answered by Philip Dunne
No such estimate has been made, however NHS England advise that work on travel times to and from the mainland, costs and the numbers of patients involved is part of the next stage of the work being undertaken to develop the new model of care for the Isle of Wight.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to achieve seven-day services in hospitals by 2020.
Answered by Ben Gummer
By 2020, all hospital patients who need urgent or emergency care will have access to the same levels of consultant assessment and review, diagnostic tests and consultant-led interventions, whatever day of the week it is.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken pursuant to the meeting between the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality on 18 March 2015.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The previous Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Daniel Poulter), wrote to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, further to his meeting of 18 March 2015 with the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), on 24 March 2015.
The Minister asked that NHS England officials continue to work with the CCG to try and resolve the issues they raised, as the allocation of funding to CCGs now rests with NHS England, rather than the Department.
NHS England has confirmed that their allocations working group is continuing to look at the CCG funding formula to ensure it accurately reflects the true cost of service provision for all areas of the country.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend on tackling Ebola in (i) Sierra Leone, (ii) the UK and (iii) elsewhere in this financial year.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information on the spend on Ebola by the National Health Service as a whole is not held centrally. However, NHS England is currently undertaking a full appraisal of the potential financial impact of Ebola on the NHS, and have a number of impact workshops planned.
The NHS has not incurred any cost in Sierra Leone or in enabling staff to work in Sierra Leone.