Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of music therapy as a treatment, and whether he plans to extend its availability on the NHS.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has considered the contribution that music therapy can make as a treatment, and has made recommendations relating to its use in a number of clinical guidelines, including those on psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people, and on supporting people with dementia.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the sanctions available to GP practices against patients who repeatedly do not attend appointments.
Answered by Steve Brine
The National Health Service Constitution states that patients are responsible for keeping appointments or cancelling them within a reasonable time. At present there are no sanctions available for general practitioner practices to manage repeated failure to attend appointments. There are no plans at present to review this.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of patients who do not attend hospital appointments in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Philip Dunne
This information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of allowing GP practices to fund tuition fees for medical students who would join that practice on qualification.
Answered by Steve Brine
General practitioner practices are independent businesses and as such it would be for them to determine for themselves whether or not they offer such incentives as part of their overall management of their business.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Minister for Social Care's oral contribution of 3 December 2015, Official Report, column 608, what progress his Department has made on putting in place a national ambition to reduce the number of adults sent out-of-area for acute inpatient mental health care.
Answered by Alistair Burt
In-line with the recommendations of the Independent Mental Health Taskforce published in February 2016, we have set a national ambition to eliminate inappropriate out of area treatments for adult acute inpatient care as a result of local acute bed pressures by 2020/21 at the latest. To achieve this ambition we expect areas to put in place local action plans and achieve year on year reductions from 2016/17.
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient mother and baby units specialising in caring for women during the perinatal period closed between 2010 and 2015; and how many such units are open.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Between 2010 and 2015, four mother and baby units closed and two opened. In addition the unit located at Basingstoke in 2010 moved to Winchester in 2013. The units now currently open are detailed below.
Mother and Baby units open in 2015
Source: NHS England National ERG Report 2015
Asked by: Iain Stewart (Conservative - Milton Keynes South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the names are of the in-patient mother and baby units specialising in caring for women during the perinatal period that were open in 2010.
Answered by Alistair Burt
Mother and Baby Units open in 2010:
Source: National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report 2010
This information updates previous information submitted in relation to the number of mother and baby units open in 2010. Previous answers were drawn from the Specialised Mental Health Services (all ages) Definition No 22 (2009), which states that “there are 10 MBUs in England” but does not include a list of the 10 units.
The updated answer is taken from the 2010 National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report. The Department recommends using the latter as the source of information on services in 2010 as this report provides more detail, specifying the name and location of the units.