Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the extent of shortages in (a) midwives and (b) obstetricians in the NHS in England.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The recent Birthrate Plus assessment identified a national differential in England of 844 full-time equivalent (FTE) or 3.5% of midwives between employed FTE staff in post and the total number of funded posts and 1,088 FTE or 4.4% of midwives between the total number of funded posts and the number of posts recommended using the Birthrate Plus midwifery workforce planning tool.
The Department has not made an assessment of the extent of shortages in obstetricians in the National Health Service in England.
Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives Birthrate Plus suggests the NHS in England currently needs.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The recent Birthrate Plus assessment identified a national differential in England of 844 full-time equivalent (FTE) or 3.5% of midwives between employed FTE staff in post and the total number of funded posts and 1,088 FTE or 4.4% of midwives between the total number of funded posts and the number of posts recommended using the Birthrate Plus midwifery workforce planning tool.
The Department has not made an assessment of the extent of shortages in obstetricians in the National Health Service in England.
Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)
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 ambulance handover delays by trust since 1 April 2021.
Answered by Edward Argar
Information on the longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service is not routinely collected centrally. Information on the number of ambulance handover delays by trust since 1 April 2021 is not available in the format requested, as the information is not routinely collected centrally outside of the winter period. The following table shows the mean average response times in hours, minutes and seconds for each ambulance category in each month from April to September 2021.
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
April | 07:00 | 20:16 | 59:21:00 | 01:45:36 |
May | 07:25 | 24:35:00 | 01:24:22 | 02:31:44 |
June | 07:54 | 30:42:00 | 01:54:40 | 02:30:34 |
July | 08:33 | 41:04:00 | 02:33:43 | 02:57:40 |
August | 08:28 | 38:39:00 | 02:14:24 | 02:39:44 |
September | 09:01 | 45:30:00 | 02:35:45 | 03:07:45 |
Source: Statistics » Ambulance Quality Indicators (england.nhs.uk)
Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)
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 average response times for each ambulance category by month from April to September 2021.
Answered by Edward Argar
Information on the longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service is not routinely collected centrally. Information on the number of ambulance handover delays by trust since 1 April 2021 is not available in the format requested, as the information is not routinely collected centrally outside of the winter period. The following table shows the mean average response times in hours, minutes and seconds for each ambulance category in each month from April to September 2021.
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
April | 07:00 | 20:16 | 59:21:00 | 01:45:36 |
May | 07:25 | 24:35:00 | 01:24:22 | 02:31:44 |
June | 07:54 | 30:42:00 | 01:54:40 | 02:30:34 |
July | 08:33 | 41:04:00 | 02:33:43 | 02:57:40 |
August | 08:28 | 38:39:00 | 02:14:24 | 02:39:44 |
September | 09:01 | 45:30:00 | 02:35:45 | 03:07:45 |
Source: Statistics » Ambulance Quality Indicators (england.nhs.uk)
Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)
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 longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service (a) from 1 to 15 October 2021 and (b) for the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Edward Argar
Information on the longest waiting time for a 999 call to be answered by each ambulance service is not routinely collected centrally. Information on the number of ambulance handover delays by trust since 1 April 2021 is not available in the format requested, as the information is not routinely collected centrally outside of the winter period. The following table shows the mean average response times in hours, minutes and seconds for each ambulance category in each month from April to September 2021.
Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | |
April | 07:00 | 20:16 | 59:21:00 | 01:45:36 |
May | 07:25 | 24:35:00 | 01:24:22 | 02:31:44 |
June | 07:54 | 30:42:00 | 01:54:40 | 02:30:34 |
July | 08:33 | 41:04:00 | 02:33:43 | 02:57:40 |
August | 08:28 | 38:39:00 | 02:14:24 | 02:39:44 |
September | 09:01 | 45:30:00 | 02:35:45 | 03:07:45 |
Source: Statistics » Ambulance Quality Indicators (england.nhs.uk)