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 the cost to the public purse was for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in each financial year from 2010 to 2022.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the total amount spent by integrated care boards and NHS England on delivery of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), now known as NHS Talking Therapies, for each financial year from 2016/17 to 2021/22:
Financial year | Total cost of delivering IAPT services (£’000) |
2016/17 | 419,430 |
2017/18 | 441,342 |
2018/19 | 518,590 |
2019/20 | 593,148 |
2020/21 | 691,264 |
2021/22 | 776,159 |
Source: NHS England
Note: Data prior to 2016/17 is not available.
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 Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral contribution on 18 October 2023 on Gaza: Al-Ahli Arab Hospital Explosion, column 341, whether he has had recent discussions with his EU counterparts on video footage of Hamas digging up EU-funded water pipes to help produce rockets.
Answered by David Rutley - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds a record of the number of people in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools that have been trained to administer CPR.
Answered by Nick Gibb
All state funded schools in England are required to teach first aid as part of statutory health education which includes basic first aid. Pupils in secondary schools are taught further first aid, such as how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the purpose of defibrillators. Schools may also incorporate further CPR and defibrillator awareness and training materials as part of the wider curriculum.
As part of the Ofsted assessment of a school’s support for pupils’ personal development, inspectors make a professional judgement on whether the school is providing appropriate and effective teaching in the range of curriculum subjects, including Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE). Schools are accountable for what they teach and should ensure that all RSHE content is factual, age appropriate and suitable for their pupils. As part of their personal development judgement, inspectors would discuss with schools whether they teach RSHE content in line with the RSHE statutory guidance.
To complement teaching on CPR, in July 2022, the Government committed to ensuring that all state funded schools in England have access to a defibrillator. This programme is now completed. Through this programme the Department provided over 20,000 defibrillators to almost 18,000 schools across England.
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding first aid training in schools in on public safety.
Answered by Nick Gibb
All state funded schools in England are required to teach first aid as part of statutory health education, which is taught as part of relationships, sex and health education (RSHE). It includes basic first aid and dealing with common injuries. Pupils in secondary schools are taught further first aid, including how to administer CPR and the purpose of defibrillators.
The Department has brought forward the review of the RSHE statutory guidance. Stakeholders and interested parties will have the opportunity to contribute to the review through a public consultation. Following the consultation, the Department will make a decision regarding any new content to be included in the RSHE curriculum. The Department expects to publish the revised guidance in 2024.
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 for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the St John Ambulance paper entitled St John survey finds just 15% 'very confident' using a defib, published 10 June 2022.
Answered by Nick Gibb
On 17 July 2022, the Department announced that it would be providing defibrillators to all state funded schools in England that did not already have them.
The Department has worked with St John Ambulance and other leading charities to revise the defibrillator guidance. This updated guidance gives schools the tools and knowledge they need to manage and maximise access to defibrillators.
As part of the roll out, awareness videos have been provided, showing how simple defibrillators are to use. The Department is asking schools to share these videos in staff meetings and assemblies.
Providing defibrillators and raising awareness will help to produce a generation of young people who feel able and confident to use defibrillators.
This updated guidance on defibrillators in schools can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/automated-external-defibrillators-aeds-in-schools.
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.