Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing the number of community diagnostic centres.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Thanks to the hard work of NHS teams, the government is on track to not only meet our ambition of opening 160 community diagnostic centres more broadly across England by March 2025, but to exceed it.
This will represent a step change in how diagnostics is deployed in the UK and directly supports our agenda to make access to health services faster for patients.
136 centres are currently operational, and over 5 million additional tests have been delivered since July 2021. This includes the centre in my honourable friends’ constituency, Bishop’s Stortford CDC.
I am pleased to endorse the Hon. Members' welcome of the new CDC. Bishops Stortford CDC has been delivering tests and checks to patients since Sept this year.
Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices in Hertford and Stortford constituency have applied for part of the £50 million funding intended to support the creation of more dentistry appointments.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information is not held centrally.
Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the additional 50 million GP appointments outlined in the Queen's Speech will be in Hertford and Stortford constituency; and over what timescale.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Government has committed to providing an additional 50 million appointments a year in general practice within the next five years. Work is underway to deliver this commitment. However, data is not currently collected or held centrally on the number and location of additional appointments.
Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the 50,000 more nurses outlined in the Queen's Speech will be allocated to Hertford and Stortford constituency; and when will those nurses be available.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Government commitment is to ensure 50,000 more nurses in the National Health Service by 2025. No individual target has been set for specific areas of England.
It is the responsibility of individual NHS trusts to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the staff needed to support these levels and meet local needs.