Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visa arrangements are being made for citizens of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea whose visas are expiring or expired and whose return flights have been cancelled by the relevant airlines.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that there should not be a general ban on international travel or trade to the countries affected by ebola. This is consistent with the position of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, whose advice for British nationals is that travel for essential reasons should continue. Nationals from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose flights have been cancelled but whose visas are expiring or expired are therefore expected to re-arrange their flights and leave the UK at the earliest opportunity.
However, the Government is monitoring the situation closely.
Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients treated at hospitals in South East London were known or suspected to have been subject to female genital mutilation in the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table:
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| Active caseload2 | Newly identified3 |
Hospital Trusts in South East London6 | 337 | 52 | |
Source: Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610)
Notes | |||
1. The data is from the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610), a monthly return of data from acute hospital providers in England. It is an aggregated return of the incidence of FGM including women who have been previously identified and are currently being treated (for FGM related or non FGM related conditions as at the end of the month) and newly identified women within the reporting period. It has been a mandated collection from 1 September 2014. The first statistics from the Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence Dataset (ISB 1610) were published on 16 October 2014. | |||
2. Patients identified as having a history of any FGM type prior to the reporting period and still being actively seen/treated for FGM-related conditions or any other non-related condition at the end of the month. Note: does not include those patients within NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH FGM NEWLY IDENTIFIED IN REPORTING PERIOD (i.e. identified within this reporting period). | |||
3. Patients first identified during the reporting period as having undergone FGM. This will include those diagnosed/identified within the provider within the month. | |||
4. Data was submitted by trusts between the first and the tenth of October inclusive. | |||
5. Only data that was submitted and signed off has been included. | |||
6. 'Hospital Trusts in South East London' has been defined as: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Only three of these trusts submitted data: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. |
Asked by: Joan Ruddock (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients who were referred by GPs for tests for suspected cancers at (a) Lewisham Hospital, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, (c) Guys and St Thomas' Hospital and (d) Kings College Hospital were not seen within six weeks of referral in the last six months.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not available centrally. Whilst information is collected and published every month on waiting times and activity for 15 key diagnostic tests, the data does not identify whether the tests were for suspected cancers or other conditions.