Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people visited the Made with Care campaign website and used it to search for jobs in their area in each of the two years that the campaign has run.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the financial years of 2021/22, £6.45 million and in 2022/23, £3.8 million was spent on the Made with Care recruitment campaign. Data shows that during the 2021/22 phase of the campaign 177.5k new users visited the campaign website and 61.9% (110.1k) of these went on to search for a job in adult social care in their local area. In 2022/23 phase, this increased significantly with 273.3k new users visiting the campaign website. 55.3% (151.5k) of these then went on to search for a job in their local area.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total amount spent has been on the Made with Care recruitment campaign in each of the two years that that campaign has run.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the financial years of 2021/22, £6.45 million and in 2022/23, £3.8 million was spent on the Made with Care recruitment campaign. Data shows that during the 2021/22 phase of the campaign 177.5k new users visited the campaign website and 61.9% (110.1k) of these went on to search for a job in adult social care in their local area. In 2022/23 phase, this increased significantly with 273.3k new users visiting the campaign website. 55.3% (151.5k) of these then went on to search for a job in their local area.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people visited the Made with Care campaign website in each of the two years that the campaign has run.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the financial years of 2021/22, £6.45 million and in 2022/23, £3.8 million was spent on the Made with Care recruitment campaign. Data shows that during the 2021/22 phase of the campaign 177.5k new users visited the campaign website and 61.9% (110.1k) of these went on to search for a job in adult social care in their local area. In 2022/23 phase, this increased significantly with 273.3k new users visiting the campaign website. 55.3% (151.5k) of these then went on to search for a job in their local area.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients moved into a step down bed purchased using the £750 million allocated by his Department for freeing up beds during winter 2022-23; what was the average duration of their package; and how many of these patients were discharged through each of the pathways specified in the Hospital discharge and community support guidance published on 1 July 2022.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
All areas have submitted a final report for the £500 million 2022/23 Adult Social Care Discharge Fund. The Department is reviewing the data and analysis of spending will be included in the evaluation. Local areas spending plans of the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund spending plans is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-discharge-fund-spending-plans
In January 2023 we announced up to £200 million to fund short-term National Health Service step-down care packages, as well as to help fund wrap-around primary and community health services to support patients’ recovery. Between 24 January and 31 March, sitrep data indicates integrated care boards (ICBs) purchased over 7,000 step-down beds (beds providing intermediate rehabilitation care before going home) for short-term step-down care. The Department does not hold the data on the average duration of short-term packages, and how many of these patients were discharged through each of the discharge pathways.
The further £50 million of capital funding made available in January 2023 was provided to expand hospital discharge lounges and ambulance hubs. No additional step-down beds were purchased through this funding.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients remained in hospital who no longer met the criteria to reside for each day between 1 May 2023 and 17 May 2023 for which data is available.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Data for May has not yet been published. It is expected to be published around the 8 June 2023.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report published in March 2023, whether the amount of money she plans to spend on supporting people to remain in their homes by adapting or maintaining them, including funding classified in that document as unallocated, will be (a) equal to (b) greater than or (c) less than the amount of funding announced for that purpose in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper in December 2021.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In People at the Heart of Care, we announced that £573m would be available for the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in each year from 2022-23 to 2024-25. This funding is designed to support people to remain in their own homes by adapting them so that they are safe and suitable. The allocation for the current financial year was made on Wednesday 10 May.
Next Steps to Put People at the Heart of Care reiterated the commitment to this level of funding and announced a further £102m (£50m in 2023-24 and £52m in 2024-25) for housing adaptation support. This is in addition to the amount of dedicated funding announced in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper. The increase will enable local areas to fund supplementary services that are agile and help people stay independent, support hospital discharge, and make minor adaptations.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many discharges from step down beds were there in (a) October 2022, (b) November 2022, (c) December 2022, (d) January 2023, (e) February 2023 and (f) March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold data on the number of discharges from step-down beds.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the remit will be of the Older People’s Taskforce.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The inaugural meeting of the Older People’s Housing Taskforce took place on Tuesday 16t May 2023 at Grace House in St. John’s Wood in London. The press release is available at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/news/taskforce-to-transform-older-peoples-housing-underway
The taskforce is bringing together experts from across the sector and people with lived experience to make recommendations on how we can provide greater choice, quality, and security of housing for older people.
The panel will meet regularly and focus on overarching themes, including, the needs, preferences and concerns of older people, their families, and their carers, maximising the potential of technology, building design, and regulation to ensure homes are suitable for the future and understanding what needs to happen at the local level to enable progress in increasing the volume and diversity of housing options for older people. The taskforce will run for up to 12 months, producing an independent report to Government when it concludes.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated to support the social care workforce in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper in December 2021 compared to the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report in March 2023.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the People at the Heart of Care white paper, the Government allocated at least £500 million to transform the way we support and develop the workforce. In Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care, we set out plans to invest £250 million in the workforce over the next two years.
The Government is also considering how best to use an additional £600 million of funding, including further investment in the workforce, and we will target this remaining funding on measures that will have the most impact.
Asked by: Liz Kendall (Labour - Leicester West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the unallocated funding in the Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care report will be used for; and when that funding will allocated.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Up to £600 million of funding announced in the People at the Heart of Care white paper has not yet been allocated. The Government is considering how best to use this funding, including further investment in workforce and will target this remaining funding on measures that will have the most impact.
The recently published ‘Next steps to put People at the Heart of Care’ set out more detail on the Government’s plans for reform over the next two years, building on the £100 million already invested in the past year.