Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 23 November (HL Deb, col 1932), what is the breakdown of the 88 projects in receipt of a share of £15 million of investment to increase safe places, and what are the criteria used to allocate funding.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
A list of local areas which will receive funding under the improving health-based places of safety capital scheme is attached.
Applications for funding were assessed against criteria agreed jointly by the Department of Health, the Home Office and NHS England. To be considered for funding, bids had to demonstrate sustainability and how they would satisfy local need and demand, how they would reduce the use of police stations for adults detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and support the elimination of the use of police stations for children and young people under the age of 18, compliance with relevant legislation, and a commitment to shared learning. Applications also had to be developed and agreed by local Crisis Care Concordat Groups. Full details of the criteria for applications are attached.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) apprenticeship nurses, and (2) post-graduate qualified nurses, are expected to complete training before the end of this Parliament.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The employer-led Nursing Degree Apprentice Trailblazer Group estimate there will be 1,000 Nursing Degree Apprentices in training every year. Apprentices are employed and actual numbers will depend on how many employers want to train through the apprenticeship route. The Nursing Degree Apprenticeship will typically take four years to complete.
Information on the number of post-graduate qualified nurses expected to complete training before the end of this Parliament is not yet held.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 16 November (HL Deb, col 1417) concerning the NHS England integrated dashboard, what form it will take, what is its function, and whether the information collated will be publically available.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The NHS England Mental Health Five Year Forward View Dashboard was published in October 2016 as an online only resource.
A key purpose of the Dashboard is for NHS England and the Five Year Forward View Programme Board to be able to monitor progress on its commitments to transform mental health services and improve transparency. In addition, by making the data publically available, NHS England is ensuring that commissioners can use it as a tool to inform their work, and that services users, their families and carers can see how local services are performing and understand where to look to make informed choices about their care.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what criteria they use to measure the success of NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
In order to be successful in transforming their local health and care system, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will need to demonstrate strong leadership, local engagement, an ambitious vision and a plan for financial sustainability.
Over time STPs will be monitored on improvements in the quality of their local health services. Most importantly, through the work they are doing as a system, STPs will need to demonstrate a step change in patient outcomes in areas that have been identified a priority for the National Health Service such as mental health, cancer and primary care.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they have taken under the national Female Genital Mutilation Prevention Programme.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
The Department’s Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Prevention Programme was launched in 2014 to improve the way in which the National Health Service responds to the health needs of girls and women who have had FGM, and to actively support prevention. As part of the FGM Prevention Programme, working in partnership with NHS England, we have delivered a comprehensive change programme, with practical guidance and materials to support professionals and NHS organisations to understand how best they can tackle FGM. The programme outputs have:
- Introduced the first ever FGM data collection across the NHS, now published quarterly by NHS Digital as an official statistic;
- Published specialist FGM safeguarding guidance to help health professionals protect against FGM;
- Published specialist guidance to help health professionals commission appropriate FGM services;
- Commenced the early adopter phase for a new national safeguarding system linked to a child’s electronic health record;
- Awareness-raising roadshows and outreach work across the country have directly reached over 3500 professionals;
- Published educational films about FGM and updated content on the NHS Choices website.
- Delivered a patient and public facing FGM prevention advertising campaign using African satellite television, radio and Facebook. This has generated over 650,000 views on social media since its launch in July 2016;
- Launched comprehensive e-learning on FGM, free of charge to all NHS staff. This was developed by Health Education England, with more than 4000 staff having used this to date;
- Supported a number of projects with health partners including Royal Colleges, delivering a range of practical measures to improve clinical skills, awareness and preparedness to treat and safeguard women and girls with FGM;
- Sent all GPs, approximately 8,000 practices, FGM information packs containing resources to enable them to support patients living with FGM; and
- Worked with the York Health Economics Consortium to cost FGM treatment in the NHS and consider tariff implications. This work is nearing completion.
In this next phase of the Programme we have launched an ambition to make sure FGM survivors are aware of and have access to the right mental health support. We are also focusing on embedding recent developments across NHS systems.
Asked by: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice has been provided this Session for ministers or senior officials in the Department of Health on whether to use secondary legislation or primary legislation for significant legislation.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
There has been no change in approach to the use of primary and secondary legislation since the General Election. Each piece of legislation is approached within the context of the policy and the existing legislative framework. There is no evidence of an increase in the number of statutory instruments laid since 2010 or since the General Election. Briefing produced by the House of Commons Library (CBP 7438) shows that the number of statutory instruments laid before the House of Commons peaked at 1,885 in the 2005-06 session, compared to 1,378 last session and 540 so far this session.