Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to (a) the public purse and (b) social care providers of increasing pay for staff in the social care sector by 65p per hour.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has previously estimated that the cost to the public purse of raising minimum pay in adult social care to the National Living Wage plus 65p is approximately £600 million per year. This includes direct care staff only and excludes ancillary staff.
This estimate does not include the additional costs of higher pay which would be borne by the group of at least 221,000 ‘self-funders’ in care homes and using community care who pay for their own care.
Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses were working on NHS wards in (a) May 2010 and (b) September 2017.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) nurses and health visitors working on National Health Service wards in May 2010 and June 2017.
Data is not available for September 2017; however the latest available data has been provided which is June 2017. Nurses working on NHS wards are defined as acute, elderly and general nurses.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Nurses and health visitors on NHS wards as at 31 May 2010 and 30 June 2017.
FTE | May - 2010 | June - 2017 |
Nurses | 162,565 | 173,917 |
Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress is being made on turning round hospitals in special measures.
Answered by Jeremy Hunt - Chancellor of the Exchequer
In the last four years, 35 trusts have been put into Special Measures. Of those 20 have now come out – eight of which are now rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. I particularly congratulate the staff of Barking, Havering and Redbridge, East Kent, Medway and North Cumbria, which have all come out of Special Measures recently.
Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assistance his Department provides to support sufferers of fibrous dysplasia.
Answered by Steve Brine
Fibrous dysplasia is usually diagnosed in children or young adults, but mild cases may go undiagnosed until adulthood. In some cases, fibrous dysplasia may not require treatment; in other cases, certain medications and surgical procedures may be recommended.
The National Health Service treats patients with both moderate and severe forms of fibrous dysplasia. In patients who have the rare form with more than one bone affected (polyostotic), their care should involve a combination of care from both specialised endocrinology centres and orthopaedic services.
Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on implementing the GP Forward View strategy.
Answered by David Mowat
The General Practioner Forward View announced that investment in general practice will increase from £9.6 billion in 2015-16 to more than £12 billion by 2020-21.
Work is underway to increase the primary care workforce and reduce workload, to improve primary care estates and infrastructure, and to redesign care and spread innovation throughout the country.
Asked by: Matt Warman (Conservative - Boston and Skegness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many bursaries have been offered (a) in total and (b) in each of the seven most hard to recruit areas as part of NHS England's Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme has been set up by Health Education England (HEE) and NHS England as a one year pilot scheme to support recruitment of general practitioner trainees in the 109 training places in England that have been hard to recruit to for the past three years.
Recruitment is currently ongoing and 2016 fill rates will be published on the HEE website once recruitment has closed.