Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish details of the Section 31 notice issued to Mid and South Essex Hospitals relating to maternity services at Broomfield Hospital.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is working to publish its report following its inspection of maternity services in Mid and South Essex at the earliest opportunity. Publication of the report, following the Care Quality Commission’s inspection of maternity services in Mid and South Essex, has been delayed due to system and technology issues that have occurred during a large-scale transformation programme within the CQC. Details about any enforcement action, including the Section 31 against Broomfield Hospital, will be included in the full report.
The CQC is taking urgent steps to ensure that it is able to publish inspection reports in a more timely manner. While the publication of some reports has been delayed, any immediate action that is needed to take to protect people using these services will not have been affected, and is being acted on appropriately.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the report of the CQC inspection of maternity services in Mid and South Essex carried out in March 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is working to publish its report following its inspection of maternity services in Mid and South Essex at the earliest opportunity. Publication of the report, following the Care Quality Commission’s inspection of maternity services in Mid and South Essex, has been delayed due to system and technology issues that have occurred during a large-scale transformation programme within the CQC. Details about any enforcement action, including the Section 31 against Broomfield Hospital, will be included in the full report.
The CQC is taking urgent steps to ensure that it is able to publish inspection reports in a more timely manner. While the publication of some reports has been delayed, any immediate action that is needed to take to protect people using these services will not have been affected, and is being acted on appropriately.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the the average number of patients per GP is in (a) the Maldon District, (b) Mid and South Essex and (c) England.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In August 2024, the median number of patients per full-time equivalent (FTE) fully qualified general practitioner was:
In the same period, the median number of patients per FTE doctor in general practice was:
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received intermediate inpatient care in St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
NHS England does not collect the data requested.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many outpatient appointments took place at St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
The quality of the data is not sufficient to provide a breakdown of outpatient appointments at a hospital-level. However, trust-level data is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-outpatient-activity
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what work has been undertaken to (a) refurbish and (b) repair St Peter's Hospital in Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
This information is not held centrally, as the Department does not routinely track investments made to individual sites. It can however be confirmed that the trust that runs St Peter’s Hospital, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, has received significant amounts of capital funding from national programmes in recent years, including: £20.4 million in accident and emergency funding across 2020/21 and 2021/22; £17.9 million from our Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 and 2022/23; and £7.2 million in community diagnostic centre funding in 2021/22 and 2022/23, for schemes within the trust as a whole.
Furthermore, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s Integrated Care Board (ICB), Mid and South Essex ICB, received £61 million in operational capital in 2023/24, and £182 million across the 2021 Spending Review, which it can use for capital projects and works. This funding is prioritised by the ICB, in accordance with local needs.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will detail the capital expenditure on St Peter's Hospital in Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
This information is not held centrally, as the Department does not routinely track investments made to individual sites. It can however be confirmed that the trust that runs St Peter’s Hospital, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, has received significant amounts of capital funding from national programmes in recent years, including: £20.4 million in accident and emergency funding across 2020/21 and 2021/22; £17.9 million from our Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22 and 2022/23; and £7.2 million in community diagnostic centre funding in 2021/22 and 2022/23, for schemes within the trust as a whole.
Furthermore, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s Integrated Care Board (ICB), Mid and South Essex ICB, received £61 million in operational capital in 2023/24, and £182 million across the 2021 Spending Review, which it can use for capital projects and works. This funding is prioritised by the ICB, in accordance with local needs.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients received stroke rehabilitation inpatient care in St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson
Over the years, St Peter’s Hospital has provided valuable capacity for patients across Mid and South Essex to receive inpatient stroke rehabilitation in community beds. The volume of beds, and therefore patients treated on site, has changed over the years due to shifting demand and, in recent years, the impact of the pandemic.
In 2022/23, 118 patients received inpatient stroke rehabilitation care at St Peter’s Hospital. However, there are currently no inpatient stroke rehabilitation beds at St Peter’s hospital in Maldon, as the 16 stroke rehabilitation beds that were on site were moved to Brentwood Community Hospital in October 2023, to ensure the safe provision of care through this winter.
The current consultation being undertaken by Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board has set out options to increase community inpatient stroke rehabilitation capacity from 24 to 27, which would total 50 beds across the system. This increase is based on data that shows around 2,000 people in Mid and South Essex have a stroke each year, of which around 500 need a stay in a community hospital for specialist rehabilitation support.
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many births took place in the Maternity Unit at St Peter's Hospital Maldon in each year since 2000.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The following table shows the number of births each year since 2000 in the maternity units at St Peter’s Hospital Maldon:
Year | Number of births |
2000 | 193 |
2001 | 187 |
2002 | 161 |
2003 | 197 |
2004 | 264 |
2005 | 226 |
2006 | 233 |
2007 | 252 |
2008 | 272 |
2009 | 305 |
2010 | 383 |
2011 | 337 |
2012 | 326 |
2013 | 252 |
2014 | 241 |
2015 | 228 |
2016 | 196 |
2017 | 167 |
2018 | 147 |
2019 | 165 |
2020 | 151 |
2021 | 144 |
2022 | 127 |
2023 | 77 |
TOTAL | 5231 |
Asked by: John Whittingdale (Conservative - Maldon)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of hospital-acquired sepsis there were in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The Department and NHS England do not centrally hold information on hospital acquired sepsis, although incidents of this may be held by local providers. The Office for National Statistics publishes the number of death registrations where sepsis is mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, in England and Wales. The following table shows the number of deaths registered where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate in England and Wales, in each of the last ten years until 2022:
Year | Number of Deaths |
2013 | 22,967 |
2014 | 22,826 |
2015 | 24,784 |
2016 | 24,973 |
2017 | 23,709 |
2018 | 23,185 |
2019 | 21,458 |
2020 | 19,324 |
2021 | 21,947 |
2022 | 25,542 |
The figures for 2023 have not yet been published.