Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered full time equivalent GPs serve the borough of Oldham in the latest period for which that data is available; and how many patients have been registered with surgeries in the borough of Oldham in each year from 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
In January 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, the borough of Oldham had 134.6 full time equivalent doctors in general practice (GP). The following table shows the number of GP registered patients in the borough of Oldham at the start of each year from 2014 to 2024, as the data is only available from 2014:
Date | Patients registered with a GP |
1 January 2014 | 231,784 |
1 January 2015 | 234,021 |
1 January 2016 | 237,404 |
1 January 2017 | 240,245 |
1 January 2018 | 242,836 |
1 January 2019 | 245,764 |
1 January 2020 | 248,153 |
1 January 2021 | 248,533 |
1 January 2022 | 250,048 |
1 January 2023 | 251,931 |
1 January 2024 | 255,526 |
Source: The data is taken from NHS Digital, and is available at the following link:
Note: Practices in Oldham were identified using the February 2024 release of the National Statistics Postcode Lookup and their postcode in the registered patient dataset from the time of publishing.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of replacing the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in Royal Oldham Hospital.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
The National Health Service has a comprehensive mitigation plan in place for hospital buildings with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), including significant funding worth £698 million from 2021 to 2025 for trusts to put in place necessary remediation and failsafe measures. NHS England is working closely with all affected trusts, including Royal Oldham, to develop and deliver plans to remove all identified RAAC. Royal Oldham Hospital has so far received £125,000 in funding to deal with RAAC mitigation. Funding allocations are made on an annual basis and funding for RAAC remediation works beyond 2025 will be considered in the next spending review.
The Government has committed to eradicating RAAC from the publicly owned NHS estate by 2035, including Royal Oldham Hospital.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's timescale is for removing the reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in Royal Oldham Hospital.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
The National Health Service has a comprehensive mitigation plan in place for hospital buildings with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), including significant funding worth £698 million from 2021 to 2025 for trusts to put in place necessary remediation and failsafe measures. NHS England is working closely with all affected trusts, including Royal Oldham, to develop and deliver plans to remove all identified RAAC. Royal Oldham Hospital has so far received £125,000 in funding to deal with RAAC mitigation. Funding allocations are made on an annual basis and funding for RAAC remediation works beyond 2025 will be considered in the next spending review.
The Government has committed to eradicating RAAC from the publicly owned NHS estate by 2035, including Royal Oldham Hospital.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adult and (b) child NHS dental patients in (i) Oldham and (ii) England have seen a dentist in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
The following table shows the number of adults and children seen by a dentist in both Oldham Local Authority and England since 2010/11:
| England | Oldham Local Authority | ||
Financial Year | Adults seen | Children seen | Adults seen | Children seen |
2010/11 | 21,401,000 | 7,771,000 | Not Available | Not Available |
2011/12 | 21,761,000 | 7,813,000 | Not Available | Not Available |
2012/13 | 21,927,000 | 7,837,000 | Not Available | Not Available |
2013/14 | 22,009,000 | 7,907,000 | Not Available | Not Available |
2014/15 | 22,032,000 | 7,992,000 | Not Available | Not Available |
2015/16 | 22,140,449 | 6,723,854 | 99,555 | 35,315 |
2016/17 | 22,159,223 | 6,799,092 | 100,068 | 35,881 |
2017/18 | 22,060,778 | 6,901,430 | 100,760 | 37,036 |
2018/19 | 21,959,979 | 7,000,685 | 101,958 | 38,026 |
2019/20 | 21,012,985 | 6,299,306 | 99,472 | 34,741 |
2020/21 | 18,190,987 | 3,946,048 | 88,516 | 20,017 |
2021 – 2022 | 16,409,636 | 5,589,201 | 82,382 | 30,475 |
2022 – 2023 | 18,111,609 | 6,372,892 | 90,816 | 35,216 |
Source: NHS Dental Statistics for England (NHS Digital)
Note: Data for Oldham Local Authority is not available for the years prior to 2015/16. This is due to changes in National Health Service geographies, which has meant that the data cannot be precisely mapped to the local authority in previous years.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the number of registered dentists in (a) Oldham and (b) England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) practising in the United Kingdom and enforces the standards they must adhere to. To practise in the UK, dentists and DCPs are required to hold registration with the GDC.
The Department does not hold data on how many dentists and DCPs have been registered with the GDC. The GDC holds its own data on dentists and DCPs who have been registered with them. The GDC regularly publishes registration reports on its website, and these are available at the following link:
https://www.gdc-uk.org/about-us/what-we-do/the-registers/registration-reports
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
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 registering with an NHS dentist in (a) Oldham and (b) England in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom
Patients do not routinely join dental waiting lists in the National Health Service and are only registered with a dental practice for a course of treatment. We are working on our Dentistry Recovery Plan which will include how we continue to improve access, particularly for new patients.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the risks of (a) bird to human and (b) human to human transmission of avian influenza.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works closely with partners to monitor and investigate the risk to human health of avian influenza (influenza A H5N1). Our latest assessment of United Kingdom risk from avian influenza remains at limited mammalian transmission. Current evidence suggests the avian influenza viruses we are seeing circulating in birds around the world do not spread easily to people. However, the virus can spread to people following close contact with infected birds and UKHSA has introduced a screening programme to monitor those exposed to learn more about the risk.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of levels of avian flu on human health.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works closely with partners to monitor and investigate the risk to human health of avian influenza (influenza A H5N1). Our latest assessment of United Kingdom risk from avian influenza remains at limited mammalian transmission. Current evidence suggests the avian influenza viruses we are seeing circulating in birds around the world do not spread easily to people. However, the virus can spread to people following close contact with infected birds and UKHSA has introduced a screening programme to monitor those exposed to learn more about the risk.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide additional covid-19 vaccination sites in Herefordshire.
Answered by Maggie Throup
The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: Jim McMahon (Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff are working in hotels used for hotel quarantine; and of those how many have been vaccinated against covid-19.
Answered by Jo Churchill
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before prorogation.