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Written Question
Dental Services: Enfield
Tuesday 9th July 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentists are accepting patients in Enfield.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

Data on the number of dentists accepting new patients is not held centrally and dental practice closures is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Dental Services: Greater London
Tuesday 9th July 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices have closed in (a) Enfield and (b) London since 2010.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

Data on the number of dentists accepting new patients is not held centrally and dental practice closures is not held in the format requested.


Written Question
Public Health: Enfield
Monday 8th April 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase to at least the London average the level of public health funding allocated to the London borough of Enfield.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

The allocations of grant funding for public health to the London Borough of Enfield for each year since 2015/16 are shown in the following table:

Year

Grant allocation (£000)

2015/16

£15,670*

2016/17

£17,708**

2017/18

£17,272

2018/19

£16,828

2019/20

£16,384

Notes:

*Allocation reflects the transfer to local authorities (LAs) in October 2015 of funding for services for children aged 0 – 5.

**Allocation reflects the full-year effect of the mid-2015/16 transfer.

The grant is ring-fenced for use exclusively on public health, but within that LAs must decide their own priorities for action. LAs’ public health funding for 2020 onwards will be considered under the next spending review.

We have made no specific assessment of any relationship between funding since 2015 and the effectiveness of services in Enfield. Public Health England (PHE) monitors and publishes data on trends in each LA in England for the wide range of indicators of public health set out in the Public Health Outcomes Framework. That framework can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-outcomes-framework

In addition, the PHE ‘dashboard’ shows data for a smaller set of key indicators for all LAs, including Enfield, in ways that allow comparisons to be made. It is available at the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/topic/public-health-dashboard#par/nn-1-E09000010/sim/nn-1-E09000010/are/E09000010/ati/102


Written Question
Public Health: Enfield
Monday 8th April 2019

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of (a) trends in the level of public health funding allocated to and (b) the correlation between those allocations and the effectiveness of the provision of public health services in the London borough of Enfield in each year since 2015.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

The allocations of grant funding for public health to the London Borough of Enfield for each year since 2015/16 are shown in the following table:

Year

Grant allocation (£000)

2015/16

£15,670*

2016/17

£17,708**

2017/18

£17,272

2018/19

£16,828

2019/20

£16,384

Notes:

*Allocation reflects the transfer to local authorities (LAs) in October 2015 of funding for services for children aged 0 – 5.

**Allocation reflects the full-year effect of the mid-2015/16 transfer.

The grant is ring-fenced for use exclusively on public health, but within that LAs must decide their own priorities for action. LAs’ public health funding for 2020 onwards will be considered under the next spending review.

We have made no specific assessment of any relationship between funding since 2015 and the effectiveness of services in Enfield. Public Health England (PHE) monitors and publishes data on trends in each LA in England for the wide range of indicators of public health set out in the Public Health Outcomes Framework. That framework can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-outcomes-framework

In addition, the PHE ‘dashboard’ shows data for a smaller set of key indicators for all LAs, including Enfield, in ways that allow comparisons to be made. It is available at the following link:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/topic/public-health-dashboard#par/nn-1-E09000010/sim/nn-1-E09000010/are/E09000010/ati/102


Written Question
Social Services: Minimum Wage
Monday 14th May 2018

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 128962 on social services: minimum wage, if his Department will publish the evidence base referred to in that Answer.

Answered by Caroline Dinenage

The Deloitte and Frontier Economics and LaingBuisson studies into sleep-in back pay liabilities form part of the evidence base that is being used to assess options and are subject to further analysis and refinement. Consequently, there is currently no timetable for sharing a summary of either report.


Written Question
General Practitioners: Enfield
Thursday 8th March 2018

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2017 to Question 9140, on General Practitioners: Enfield, what information NHS England holds on how many and which GP practices (a) closed and (b) opened in the London Borough of Enfield in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012 and (iv) 2013.

Answered by Steve Brine

NHS England does not hold details of practices changes between 2010 and 2013.

However, according to NHS Digital, the table below shows the general practitioner practices that were opened or closed between 2010 and 2013, for the London Borough of Enfield.

Calendar Year

Opened

Closed

2009/10

-

-

2010/11

-

-

2011/12

Evergreen Surgery Ltd

-

2012/13

-

-

2013/14

-

BHP Edmonton North Middlesex NHS Walk In Centre

Practices may close for a variety of reasons, including mergers with neighbouring practices or the retirement of general practitioners from single-handed practices.

A reduction in practice numbers does not necessarily correspond with a reduction in the quality of care. Much of the trend to work in larger groupings is provider driven, in line with the strategic intent to provide primary care at scale and to create back office efficiencies.


Written Question
NHS Trusts: Non-domestic Rates
Tuesday 20th February 2018

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing NHS Trusts with additional funding to offset business rates costs.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Health Service properties, like almost all other buildings occupied by public bodies, have been subject to non-domestic rates since they were introduced.

Operational costs related to property, which include business rates, are taken into account at spending reviews in determining the overall level of funding for the NHS. The Government committed to backing the NHS’s Five Year Forward View plan with a £10 billion a year real terms increase in funding by 2020/21.

There has been no such assessment.


Written Question
NHS Trusts: Non-domestic Rates
Tuesday 20th February 2018

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing NHS Trusts to claim relief on business rates.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Health Service properties, like almost all other buildings occupied by public bodies, have been subject to non-domestic rates since they were introduced.

Operational costs related to property, which include business rates, are taken into account at spending reviews in determining the overall level of funding for the NHS. The Government committed to backing the NHS’s Five Year Forward View plan with a £10 billion a year real terms increase in funding by 2020/21.

There has been no such assessment.


Written Question
NHS: Non-domestic Rates
Tuesday 20th February 2018

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government on relieving financial pressures on the NHS as a result of business rates.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regularly meets with colleagues across Government to discuss a range of subjects.


Written Question
Air Pollution: Housing
Friday 17th November 2017

Asked by: Joan Ryan (The Independent Group for Change - Enfield North)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding of the World Health Organisation's report, Preventing Noncomunicable Diseases by Reducing Environmental Risk Factors, published on 12 September 2017, (a) in general and (b) on the adverse health effects and premature mortality risks associated with indoor air pollution; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Steve Brine

The World Health Organization's report, ‘Preventing Non-communicable Diseases by Reducing Environmental Risk Factors’, published on 12 September 2017, will be taken into consideration along with the rest of the relevant evidence base when developing cross-government policy.

The Department of has recently asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to develop guidance on indoor air pollution at home. The focus will be on interventions related to the structure of, ventilation of, and materials used in, new / existing or retrofitted homes as well as on people’s knowledge, attitude and behaviour in relation to indoor air pollution. The guideline is going to be published in spring 2019.

Public Health England has developed a programme in support of national and local government to reduce mortality in England attributable to air pollution. This will be achieved by helping raise awareness of the health effects of air pollution and by further developing the evidence on the health effects of air pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter and ozone. The focus is on promoting actions that can bring multiple health co-benefits.