Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many approved mental health professionals there were in each local authority area of England and Wales in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
There are no official statistics for the number of approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) in each local authority area of England and Wales. We are working with Skills for Care which undertakes an annual National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) collection with local authorities in England, to provide returns on the number of Approved Mental Health Professionals in their area. As part of this, on 8 February NHS Digital’s Personal Social Services: Staff of Social Services Departments, England 2017 publication highlighted work by Skills for Care to improve the coverage and completeness of the voluntary AMHP qualification field within the NMDS.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients were conveyed to hospital by a police vehicle in England and Wales in each year since 2014.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The data requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Care Commissioning Groups have not notified the local social services authority of NHS Trusts (a) of the reception of patients in cases of special urgency and (b) of the provision of accommodation or facilities designed so as to be specially suitable for patients who have not attained the age of 18 years under section 140 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have held with Care Commissioning Groups on those groups' duties under section 140 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of mental health services to meet the needs of their areas. NHS England has held discussions with various clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) regarding their duties under section 140 of the Mental Health Act (MHA).
CCGs must comply with their legal duties, including those under the Mental Health Act 1983. The Act’s Code of Practice, last revised in 2015, clarifies the duties under section 140. It is for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), as part of its regulatory function, to monitor how the Act is used in practice. NHS England is currently engaged in discussions with the CQC about section 140 in the context of the CQC’s work to evaluate the MHA Code of Practice, as commissioned by the Department. This is likely to result in further discussions with CCGs.
The Act is currently subject to an Independent Review, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, that will report in the autumn.
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of health-based places of safety which accept people under the age of 16.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducts its own survey annually regarding locations of places of safety. 109 out of 163 health based places of safety accept people under the age of 16.
Source: Map of health based places of safety, CQC. http://www.cqc.org.uk/help-advice/mental-health-capacity/map-health-based-places-safety