Asked by: Antony Higginbotham (Conservative - Burnley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential annual savings of fully integrating health and social care provision.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government continues to support the integrated provision of health and social care because of the improvements it brings to the quality of care people receive. Integrated provision has been found to improve health, quality of care and patient satisfaction.
Integration across health and social care commissioning also enables improved co-operation and joint decision-making between health and social care partners in delivering shared outcomes. A number of local areas have reported improved outcomes through the adoption of integrated approaches.
At the national level, evidence of savings due to integrated provision is limited, therefore, the Department does not have an estimate of the annual savings of integration.
Asked by: Antony Higginbotham (Conservative - Burnley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were treated in Burnley General Hospital’s Urgent Care Unit between January and December (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information is not available in the format requested.
Asked by: Antony Higginbotham (Conservative - Burnley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses there are in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust; and how many of those nurses were recruited in each year since 2010.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, general practitioner (GP) surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
As at November 2019, the latest available data, there are 2,323 nurses and health visitors at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, headcount.
The following table shows the number of nurses and health visitors joiners for the period specified to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, headcount.
| Nurses and Health Visitor Joiners |
November 2010 - 2011 | 513 |
November 2011 – 2012 | 189 |
November 2012 – 2013 | 295 |
November 2013 – 2014 | 291 |
November 2014 – 2015 | 287 |
November 2015 – 2016 | 296 |
November 2016 – 2017 | 324 |
November 2017 – 2018 | 246 |
November 2018 - 2019 | 349 |
Asked by: Antony Higginbotham (Conservative - Burnley)
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 increase the number of mental health practitioners working in the NHS.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We have a number of national programmes in place focused on improving mental health staff retention, return to practice, overseas and domestic recruitment and improving sickness absence. These include:
- providing funding for the fast track mental health social work programme that is delivering around 100 social workers into mental health services each year and supporting the development of social work as a profession in mental health services;
- increasing the nursing workforce by expanding the number of nurse training places and launching the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign to highlight nursing opportunities in mental health to increase interest in this profession; and
- increasing the number of psychiatry placements available for junior doctors undertaking foundation training.