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.
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 information his Department gathers on the number of people who move to another GP practice.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has advised that data on the number of people changing general practitioner practice each year is not collected centrally.
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 many people are on GP practice lists in (a) England and (b) each county; and how many people have been removed involuntarily from such lists in (i) England and (ii) each county in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The following table shows the number of people on general practitioner (GP) practice lists and in each NHS England Area Team in England as at 30 September 2013. We do not hold this information by each county in England.
We do not hold the information centrally on how many people have been removed involuntarily from GP practice lists.
Under the terms of their contracts, GP practices must have reasonable grounds to remove a patient from their practice list which do not relate to the patient's race, gender, social class, age, religion, sexual orientation, appearance, disability or medical condition.
GP Registered Patients | ||
England | 56,007,348 | |
Q49 | Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear | 1,989,458 |
Q45 | Durham, Darlington and Tees | 1,224,872 |
Q50 | North Yorkshire and Humber | 1,689,042 |
Q47 | Lancashire | 1,521,721 |
Q52 | West Yorkshire | 2,435,786 |
Q48 | Merseyside | 1,257,011 |
Q46 | Greater Manchester | 2,880,262 |
Q44 | Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral | 1,279,416 |
Q51 | South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw | 1,506,383 |
Q55 | Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire | 2,049,773 |
Q59 | Leicestershire and Lincolnshire | 1,822,274 |
Q60 | Shropshire and Staffordshire | 1,591,314 |
Q54 | Birmingham and the Black Country | 2,615,060 |
Q53 | Arden, Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 1,693,801 |
Q58 | Hertfordshire and the South Midlands | 2,831,463 |
Q56 | East Anglia | 2,511,745 |
Q57 | Essex | 1,801,428 |
Q71 | London | 8,978,299 |
Q69 | Thames Valley | 2,160,146 |
Q64 | Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire | 1,520,942 |
Q65 | Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset & South Gloucs | 1,507,605 |
Q66 | Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 1,745,638 |
Q70 | Wessex | 2,789,815 |
Q68 | Surrey and Sussex | 2,813,739 |
Q67 | Kent and Medway | 1,790,355 |
Notes:
1. Data as at 30 September 2013
2. Figures show numbers of patient registrations at GP practices in England. Owing to multiple registrations and other issues the numbers of registered patients in England are higher each year than ONS Resident population estimates, and as such these figures may not represent the actual number of people registered to access GP services in a given area.
3. General and Personal Medical Services statistics are only available by NHS organisations and do not map precisely into English county regions.
4. GP Registered Patient figures by Area Team are based on the location of the GP practice to which the patients are registered.
5. Data on numbers of people who have been removed involuntarily from GP lists is not published within the Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
Data Quality:
The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
Source:
The Health and Social Care Information Centre General and Personal Medical Services Statistics
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, which GP surgeries on the Isle of Wight will open for extended hours as a result of the GP Access Fund.
Answered by Dan Poulter
NHS England received more than 250 expressions of interest for the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund. 20 successful general practitioner collaborations were awarded investment to run pilot schemes for a year. There were no successful expressions of interest from practices on the Isle of Wight.
The pilot schemes will be reviewed in the summer, with a view to full evaluation from April 2015. Following the evaluation, we intend to roll out learning and best practice from the pilots to the rest of the country.