Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the monthly average for reported child hospital admissions for asthma in England.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which localities in England reported the highest pro rata child hospitalisations for asthma in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what were the annual child hospital admission rates for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which hospitals had the highest patient admissions for child asthma in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what was the monthly rate for child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the increase of cases of heart arrhythmia and death after the onset of heart arrhythmia in the last year, and (2) research linking the onset of heart arrhythmia to contracting COVID-19.
Answered by Lord Kamall
No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England and Improvement’s ‘Help us help you’ campaign encourages patients to seek urgent medical help when unwell, including that patients with symptoms of a heart attack should call 999. In February 2022, NHS England and NHS Improvement launched a new campaign to raise awareness of heart attack symptoms.
We are currently not aware of evidence suggesting that arrhythmia increases the risk of contracting COVID-19. While infection increases the risk of developing an arrhythmia, particularly for patients with an underlying heart condition, there is evidence that this risk does not continue once the patient has recovered. The National Institute for Health and Care Research has not funded any specific research on a possible link between COVID-19 onset and arrythmia. However, it has supported a study investigating arrythmia as a consequence of COVID-19 disease.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which documents set out the triage policy in relation to a pandemic for (1) hospitals, and (2) care homes, as of January 2020.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Re-configuring service delivery to ensure sufficient National Health Service capacity was central to our preparedness for a pandemic and the COVID-19 response. However, the Department does not have - and did not have in January 2020 - a pandemic triage policy for hospitals and care homes, as this is a clinical matter. In the event that patient triage becomes necessary, clinical guidance would be produced to support decision-making.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which 10 UK hospitals have the highest financial deficit, including debts carried over from previous years.
Answered by Lord Bethell
During the last year, the government agreed a number of measures to improve the finances in the NHS provider sector in England. These included writing off £13.4 billion of NHS debt, as part of a major financial reset for NHS providers; temporary arrangements that saw trusts receive block payments to fund their spending through the pandemic, supported by c£18bn of additional funding to support the NHS response to COVID. As a result, the amount and levels of deficits across in the NHS provider sector fell significantly.
Work is ongoing to support the minority of trusts who ended 2020/21 in a deficit position and to develop solutions to secure future financial sustainability.
Final deficit figures for 2020-21 will be published as part of the NHS’s final accounts in due course.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been tested for COVID-19 in Nottinghamshire since the announcement of mass testing in November 2020.
Answered by Lord Bethell
The total number of people tested for COVID-19 in Nottinghamshire between 29 October 2020 and 27 January 2021 is 329,057.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been employed to assist in the roll out of mass COVID-19 testing in Nottinghamshire since lateral flow tests became available in the UK.
Answered by Lord Bethell
We do not publish data in the format requested.