Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of people with obesity in (a) England and (b) each Clinical Commissioning Group area by (i) age and (ii) gender for each of the last five calendar years.
Answered by Steve Brine
NHS Digital has advised that obesity data for children and adults in England by age and gender for each of the last five years is available in the Health Survey for England. This information is attached. Data is not available by clinical commissioning group.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for bariatric surgery in each NHS trust in each of the last five calendar years; and how much has each trust paid in penalties incurred as a result of those waiting lists in each of those years.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The requested data is not centrally collected.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department is having discussions with the Bahraini Government on seeking the release of Hassan Mushaima on a humanitarian basis; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and our Embassy in Bahrain have raised the case of Hassan Mushaima with the Bahraini authorities at senior levels. The Bahraini authorities have assured us that Mr Mushaima has access to his medication and medical facilities. We continue to encourage those with concerns to report them to the appropriate human rights oversight body. We also continue to encourage the oversight bodies to carry out swift and thorough investigations into any such claims.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if his department will make representations to the Bahraini Government (a) to enable Hassan Mushaima to receive his full list of medications and (b) on making adaptions to his detention condition.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and our Embassy in Bahrain have raised the case of Hassan Mushaima with the Bahraini authorities at senior levels. The Bahraini authorities have assured us that Mr Mushaima has access to his medication and medical facilities. We continue to encourage those with concerns to report them to the appropriate human rights oversight body. We also continue to encourage the oversight bodies to carry out swift and thorough investigations into any such claims.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will develop a national obesity strategy for adults and children.
Answered by Steve Brine
There are no current plans to develop a national obesity strategy for adults and children. Many of the key measures in both chapters of our childhood obesity plan will have an impact on tackling obesity across all age groups. These include the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and wider calorie reformulation programme, restricting promotions and calorie labelling in restaurants which will improve our eating habits and reduce the amount of sugar we consume.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to mandate that obesity and weight management training is included in the curriculum for the education of every healthcare professional.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
We want all health care professionals to feel confident utilising their skills and everyday opportunities to talk about weight and provide advice to support healthier weight. In Chapter 2 of the Childhood Obesity Plan, we outlined our commitment to provide health and care professionals with the latest training and tools to better support children, young people and families to reduce obesity.
It is the responsibility of Higher Education Institutes to set the curricula for the pre-registration training of healthcare professionals to standards set by the individual regulators of each profession.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inguinal hernia repair procedures have been undertaken in each NHS trust in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether increasing the number of BAME (a) blood, (b) stem cell and (c) organ donations to the NHS would result in savings to the public purse; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department has not assessed the cost effectiveness of increasing the number of donations from black, Asian and minority ethnic people of blood, stem cells and organs.
Information on the potential savings of reducing the number of people on dialysis is not available in the format requested.
An impact assessment prepared to support the consultation on proposed changes to consent for organ and tissue donation, which ran between December 2017 and March 2018, includes cost and benefit analysis information in respect of all organs, including kidney transplants. The impact assessment was limited to the cost/benefit analysis of changes to consent arrangements in England, and is available at the following link:
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential savings accrued to the public purse of reducing the number of people on dialysis by providing kidney transplants to those patients at the soonest available opportunity.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department has not assessed the cost effectiveness of increasing the number of donations from black, Asian and minority ethnic people of blood, stem cells and organs.
Information on the potential savings of reducing the number of people on dialysis is not available in the format requested.
An impact assessment prepared to support the consultation on proposed changes to consent for organ and tissue donation, which ran between December 2017 and March 2018, includes cost and benefit analysis information in respect of all organs, including kidney transplants. The impact assessment was limited to the cost/benefit analysis of changes to consent arrangements in England, and is available at the following link:
Asked by: Eleanor Smith (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average yearly cost per patient is of dialysis treatment and management.
Answered by Steve Brine
This data is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the total activity, total cost and national average unit cost for all types of renal dialysis.
The activity count for renal dialysis is the number of sessions, not the number of patients. All data shown is for financial year 2016-17, the most recent year for which reference costs have been collected. National Health Service references costs data can be found at the following link:
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/reference-costs/
Activity | National Average Cost for 2016/17 | Total Cost |
4,240,850 | £133.88 | £567,754,893 |
The individual Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) which make up these data can be found in the following table.
2016-17 HRGs for renal dialysis
HRG | HRG Description |
LD01A | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 19 years and over |
LD01B | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 18 years and under |
LD02A | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 19 years and over |
LD02B | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 18 years and under |
LD03A | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, with Blood-Borne Virus, 19 years and over |
LD03B | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, with Blood-Borne Virus, 18 years and under |
LD04A | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, with Blood-Borne Virus, 19 years and over |
LD04B | Hospital Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, with Blood-Borne Virus, 18 years and under |
LD05A | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 19 years and over |
LD05B | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 18 years and under |
LD06A | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 19 years and over |
LD06B | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 18 years and under |
LD07A | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, with Blood-Borne Virus, 19 years and over |
LD08A | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, with Blood-Borne Virus, 19 years and over |
LD08B | Satellite Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, with Blood-Borne Virus, 18 years and under |
LD09A | Home Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 19 years and over |
LD09B | Home Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Haemodialysis Catheter, 18 years and under |
LD10A | Home Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 19 years and over |
LD10B | Home Haemodialysis or Filtration, with Access via Arteriovenous Fistula or Graft, 18 years and under |
LD11A | Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, 19 years and over |
LD11B | Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, 18 years and under |
LD12A | Automated Peritoneal Dialysis, 19 years and over |
LD12B | Automated Peritoneal Dialysis, 18 years and under |
LD13A | Assisted Automated Peritoneal Dialysis, 19 years and over |
LD13B | Assisted Automated Peritoneal Dialysis, 18 years and under |
LE01A | Haemodialysis for Acute Kidney Injury, 19 years and over |
LE01B | Haemodialysis for Acute Kidney Injury, 18 years and under |
LE02A | Peritoneal Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury, 19 years and over |
LE02B | Peritoneal Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury, 18 years and under |