Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received NHS talking therapies in each integrated care system area in the most recent period for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of those therapies were conducted (a) online, (b) face-to-face and (c) by phone.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is shown in the attached table.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a pilot programme for screening cardiac conditions associated with sudden cardiac death.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made as the UK National Screening Committee has not examined the evidence base for this.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent 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 14 March 2023 to Question 147423 on Heart Diseases: Screening, what the National Screening Committee's planned timeline is for the review of the screening programme for sudden cardiac death.
Answered by Will Quince
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has started work to look at screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden cardiac death in the young, with work currently in the preliminary stages. A timeline of the review cannot be shared at this stage as work to scope and understand the type of review required remains to be defined. However, the UK NSC aims to keep stakeholders and members of the public informed of its work via its regular blog articles. In the meantime, the UK NSC encourages researchers and stakeholders to have their work in sudden cardiac death peer reviewed and published for the UK NSC to consider its findings.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent 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 14 March 2023 to Question 147423 on Heart Diseases: Screening, whether the National Screening Committee’s next review of the screening programme for sudden cardiac arrest will assess developments in the availability of treatments for conditions which may lead to sudden cardiac death.
Answered by Will Quince
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has started work to look at screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden cardiac death in the young, with work currently in the preliminary stages to scope the review. As per the UK NSC’s process the review will look at addressing areas of uncertainty as identified in the 2019 review which includes the development of specific evidence-based guidelines to describe the treatment and lifestyle advice that should be offered to asymptomatic people and their families with a diagnosis of a condition that may cause sudden cardiac death. In the meantime, the UK NSC encourages researchers and stakeholders to have their work in sudden cardiac death peer reviewed and published for the UK NSC to consider its findings.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department have made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of CPR training.
Answered by Will Quince
NHS England has partnered with St John Ambulance to co-ordinate skills development to significantly increase the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) by individuals in community settings. This includes a national network of Community Advocates to champion the importance of first aid training 60,000 people that will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.
Those local organisations that are successful in bidding against the £1 million AED fund that has been announced will be encouraged to train or facilitate the training of the local community in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to support Linley & Kidsgrove RUFC to get a defibrillator.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department is currently in the pre-procurement stage in its process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund. The Department will publish in due course an invitation to bid for the fund through GOV.UK. The invitation will be open to all interested organisations including Linley & Kidsgrove RUFC.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make it his policy to create a publicly accessible national database of defibrillators: and whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of such a database.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes and the Department has made no assessment.
We do not hold information on the number of defibrillators in each English region. NHS England along with partners have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network database. The Circuit provides a national database of where defibrillators can be found so that ambulance services can identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Circuit is live in in all ambulance services across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, longer emergency medical response times, vulnerable people or due to the nature of activity at the site.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the availability of defibrillators by postcode and the sudden cardiac arrest incident rate in regions of the UK.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes and the Department has made no assessment.
We do not hold information on the number of defibrillators in each English region. NHS England along with partners have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network database. The Circuit provides a national database of where defibrillators can be found so that ambulance services can identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Circuit is live in in all ambulance services across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, longer emergency medical response times, vulnerable people or due to the nature of activity at the site.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the availability of defibrillators indifferent regions of the UK.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes and the Department has made no assessment.
We do not hold information on the number of defibrillators in each English region. NHS England along with partners have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network database. The Circuit provides a national database of where defibrillators can be found so that ambulance services can identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Circuit is live in in all ambulance services across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, longer emergency medical response times, vulnerable people or due to the nature of activity at the site.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government has no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to mandate the location of defibrillators in all businesses and newly built homes and the Department has made no assessment.
We do not hold information on the number of defibrillators in each English region. NHS England along with partners have developed The Circuit, a national defibrillator network database. The Circuit provides a national database of where defibrillators can be found so that ambulance services can identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Circuit is live in in all ambulance services across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Government has agreed to provide funding of £1 million to design a grant scheme for the expansion of automated external defibrillators that expands the number and accessibility of publicly supported access to defibrillators. Applicants will be asked to demonstrate that defibrillators will be placed in areas where they are most needed, such as places with high footfall, longer emergency medical response times, vulnerable people or due to the nature of activity at the site.