Asked by: Bob Ainsworth (Labour - Coventry North East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made by health agencies in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.
Answered by Norman Lamb
The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat was published in February 2014. Local health, social care and criminal justice partners throughout England are expected to sign local crisis declarations by the end of December 2014.
In Operational Resilience and Capacity Planning for 2014/15 published by NHS England, NHS Trust Development Authority, Monitor, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in June 2014 it is clear that operational resilience plans must include evidence of sign-up to local Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat arrangements.
Local declarations should be in place throughout England by the end of 2014. Progress towards this can be seen at the following webpage:
http://www.crisiscareconcordat.org.uk/explore-the-map/
There are plans for a single Crisis Care declaration, to cover the entire West Midlands Police Force area including Coventry, to be agreed in early December.
Asked by: Bob Ainsworth (Labour - Coventry North East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people received funding through the Cancer Drugs Fund in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Norman Lamb
Prior to April 2013, information on the Cancer Drugs Fund was administered through clinical panels based in each strategic health authority (SHA) and data on the number of patients who received funding in each constituency and city was not collected. Information on the number of patients funded in West Midlands SHA and England in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 is shown as follows:
Number of patients funded in 2010-11 | Number of patients funded in 2011-12 | Number of patients funded in 2012-13 | Total number of patients funded since Oct 20101 | |
West Midlands SHA | 292 | 1,658 | 1,534 | 3,484 |
England | 2,780 | 11,798 | 15,456 | 30,034 |
1 Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund
Source: Information provided to the Department by SHAs
NHS England has had oversight of the Fund since April 2013 and publishes information on patient numbers routinely on its website at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/
In 2013-14, 5,695 patients in the Midlands and East region and 19,282 patients in England received funding through the Fund. In addition, 28 individual cancer drugs fund request applications were approved by the Cancer Drugs Fund panel in the Midlands and East region with 278 applications approved nationally.