Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of suicide amongst junior doctors have been reported each year since 2010.
Answered by Will Quince
The table below shows the number of suicides registered for all medical practitioners, aged between 20 and 64 years old, in England in the years 2011 to 2021. A breakdown for junior doctors is not available.
Year | Number of suicides |
2021 | 10 |
2020 | 20 |
2019 | 19 |
2018 | 17 |
2017 | 18 |
2016 | 13 |
2015 | 14 |
2014 | 18 |
2013 | 20 |
2012 | 16 |
2011 | 13 |
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We are already investing an additional £57 million in suicide prevention by 2023/24 through the National Health Service Long Term Plan. Through this, all areas of the country are seeing investment to support local suicide prevention plans and the development of suicide bereavement services. Last year, we announced our intention to publish a new national suicide prevention strategy. Since then, we have been working to ensure this new strategy reflects the most up to date evidence and will address current challenges, risks, and opportunities to prevent suicide when it is published. We intend to publish the refreshed strategy this year.
We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce. The NHS is providing ongoing physical and mental health support for staff. This includes NHS Practitioner Health, which provides free access to targeted psychological support and treatment for healthcare professionals.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS trusts spent on paying fines in the last financial year.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not collected or held centrally by either the Department or NHS England.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question on NHS: Agency Workers, when he expects the information requested on expenditure on agency staff to be validated.
Answered by Will Quince
While the NHS Consolidated Accounts have been published, this does not include an explicit figure for agency spend as it is bundled together with other spend items. We expect the agency data for 2021/22 to be published this spring.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average stay in hospital was for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in (a) 2010 and (b) the year for which the latest data are available.
Answered by Will Quince
The following table shows the average stay in hospital for patients undergoing elective knee surgery in England in 2010 and 2022/23.
Year | Records | Records with a valid duration recorded | Mean duration (days) | Median duration (days) |
2010/11 | 207,463 | 103,613 | 4.8 | 4 |
2022/23 (April to December 22 Provisional Data) | 89,644 | 65,995 | 3.2 | 2 |
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of non-UK passport holders employed in social care in the UK in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Based on Skills for Care published estimates, the proportion of the adult social care workforce identifying as a non-British nationality is, 2019/20 (17%), 2020/21 (16%) and 2021/22 (17%). Data is not yet available for 2022/23.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs were registered and practising full time in Warwick and Leamington constituency in (a) May 2010 and (b) February 2023.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
Data is not held for May 2010 or February 2023. The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice in Warwick and Leamington constituency in December 2016 and December 2022.
Date | Doctors in general practice, FTE |
December 2016 | 67.8 |
December 2022 | 95.5 |
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Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs in Warwick and Leamington constituency retired from their practices in (a) 2012 and (b) 2022.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The data requested is not held centrally.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to children’s mental health services in Warwick and Leamington constituency.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We are expanding and transforming mental health services, including in the Warwick and Leamington constituency, through the NHS Long Term Plan. The plan commits to increasing investment into mental health services by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24, so that an additional two million people, including 345,000 children and young people, are able to access National Health Service funded mental health support.
We also provided an additional £79 million for 2021/22 to allow around 22,500 more children and young people to access community health services.
This includes rolling out mental health support teams to schools and colleges across England. There are currently 287 mental health support teams in place in around 4,700 schools and colleges across the country, offering support to children experiencing anxiety, depression, and other common mental health issue. Mental health support teams now cover 26% of pupils a year earlier than originally planned and this will increase to 399 teams, covering around 35% of pupils, by April 2023, with over 500 planned to be up and running by 2024.
Eight teams are in place or planned in the Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System area.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department are taking to help support women experiencing peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The menopause is a priority area within the Women’s Health Strategy, and the Government and National Health Service are implementing an ambitious programme of work to improve menopause care so all women can access the support they need.
The NHS Menopause Pathway Improvement Programme is working to improve clinical menopause care in England and reduce disparities in access to treatment. The NHS is also developing an education and training package on menopause for healthcare professionals.
The Government is implementing a bespoke hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pre-payment certificate to reduce the cost of HRT prescriptions for menopausal women from April 2023, subject to the necessary consultation with professional bodies which is ongoing.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the average length of time taken to process Continuing Healthcare appeals in England for every year for which data is available since 2017.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We do not collect data on the length of time taken to process NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) appeals, nor on the expenditure related to CHC appeals. Appeals for CHC follow a three-stage process which ensures that the correct eligibility decision on CHC has been reached. The first stage is for an individual to ask for a local review at integrated care board (ICB) level, followed by a second stage review by an NHS England Independent Review Panel if requested. The final stage is a complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. We have interpreted 'continuing healthcare appeals' as a request for a local review, or an Independent Review of a CHC eligibility decision. NHS England only collect and publish data on the annual number of ICB Local Resolution requests, and their outcomes, but not the length of time taken to process the appeals. NHS England collect Independent Review data for internal reporting and management purposes only. CHC spend data is also collected by NHS England, but not at the granular level requested.