Asked by: Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS mental health services are required to record a patient's disability-related inability to attend appointments before discharging that patient for (a) non-attendance and (b) non-engagement.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The requested information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on outcomes for patients discharged from NHS mental health services for non (a) attendance and (b) engagement, including crisis presentations, detentions under the Mental Health Act and deaths in the last five years.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not available as it is held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of patients discharged from NHS mental health services for non (a) attendance and (b) engagement in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not available as it has not been centrally validated.
Asked by: Jonathan Brash (Labour - Hartlepool)
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 effectiveness of the NHS dental contracting framework.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Secretary of State for Wales
To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of National Health Service dentists.
There are no perfect payment systems and careful consideration needs to be given to any potential changes to the complex dental system and contracting framework, so that we deliver a system better for patients and the profession.