Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the additional funding required by his Department over the next two years to prepare effectively for the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Philip Dunne
As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, HM Treasury is making £3 billion of additional funding available over the next two years - £1.5 billion in both 2018/19 and 2019/20 – so that departments and the devolved administrations can continue to prepare effectively for Brexit. We are currently working with HM Treasury and Department for Exiting the European Union to establish what we need to prepare effectively, and what additional funding should be supplied – HM Treasury will aim to agree 2018/19 allocations in early 2018. Funding requirements for 2019/20 will be affected by progress in negotiations with the EU and will therefore be decided at a later date. Additional funding received from the Reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many brain injuries around birth there were in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (e) 2015.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The following International Classification of Diseases codes classify a birth related brain injury:
- P10 Intracranial laceration and haemorrhage due to birth injury
- P11.0 Cerebral oedema due to birth injury
- P11.1 Other specified brain damage due to birth injury
- P11.2 Unspecified brain damage due to birth injury.
The available information is in the table below.
Financial Year | Birth episodes |
2010-11 | 539 |
2011-12 | 605 |
2012-13 | 324 |
2013-14 | 155 |
2014-15 | 91 |
2015-16 | 77 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics
Note:
Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage, improvements in coverage of independent sector activity and changes in National Health Service practice.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many emergency admissions there were in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested is in the table below.
NHS England publishes the number of emergency admissions each month. The total number of emergency admissions in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are shown in the table below.
Number of emergency admissions in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust1, 2013-14 to 2015-16
Year | Total emergency admissions via accident and emergency (A&E) | Total emergency admissions (including those not via A&E) |
2013-141 | 33,981 | 36,318 |
2014-15 | 47,190 | 50,400 |
2015-16 | 49,107 | 58,543 |
Source: A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, NHS England
Note:
1 In October 2013 South London Healthcare NHS Trust was dissolved and one of the hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was merged with Lewisham Healthcare Trust to form Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Therefore data is only directly comparable for 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elective admissions there were in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The information requested is in the table below.
NHS England publishes the number of elective general and acute admissions each month. The total number of elective general and acute admissions in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are shown in the table below.
Number of elective general and acute admissions, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, 2013-14 to 2015-16
Year | Number of elective admissions |
2013-14 | 36,931 |
2014-15 | 47,844 |
2015-16 | 46,196 |
Source: Hospital Activity data, NHS England
Note:
In October 2013 South London Healthcare was dissolved and one of the hospitals, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, was merged with Lewisham Healthcare Trust and formed Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. Therefore data is only directly comparable for 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether a formal assessment of the effect of awarding the contract for provision of muscular skeletal services to Circle Health at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts was carried out by (a) Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) NHS England.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The procurement of local health services by means of competitive tendering is a matter for the local National Health Service.
NHS England is accountable for ensuring that the health services which both it and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) commission are of high quality and deliver value for money. The CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework has been designed to provide confidence to internal and external stakeholders and the wider public that CCGs are operating effectively to commission safe, high-quality and sustainable services within their resources.
We are informed by NHS England that Greenwich CCG follows standard NHS procurement procedures and that these procedures were followed for this procurement. We understand that the detailed clinical service specification will be used to hold the provider to account within the format of the NHS national standard contract.
We are further advised that this procurement has been subject to NHS England’s assurance process for this type of contract.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans for South East London.
Answered by David Mowat
Local areas will submit their plans to the national health and care bodies for review in October, with further public engagement and consultation taking place from this point.
We expect that most areas will take a version of their Sustainability and Transformation Plan to their organisation’s public board meeting for discussion between late October and the end of the year. We would also expect that most areas will publish their plans, for more formal engagement, during this period, building on the engagement they have already done to shape thinking. No changes to the services people currently receive will be made without local engagement and, where required, consultation.
NHS England, with other national health and care bodies, released guidance to the local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans entitled ‘Engaging local people’ in September 2016 which can be found on their website.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of treatment and support provision available through the NHS for patients of myelodysplastic syndromes blood cancers.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department has made no such assessment. The responsibility for commissioning services for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes blood cancers is split across NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). NHS England is responsible for commissioning the specialised aspects of the pathway, such as blood and bone marrow transplants. CCGs are responsible for commissioning more local services, such as blood transfusions and support services.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) paediatric ophthalmology, (b) ophthalmology, (c) medical ophthalmology, (d) optometry and (e) orthoptic follow-up appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The information is shown in the following table.
Information on first and follow-up outpatient paediatric ophthalmology, ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptic appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15
| First appointments | Follow-up appointments | ||
Treatment specialty | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend |
Paediatric ophthalmology | 18,322 | 18,573 | 50,184 | 46,044 |
Ophthalmology | 27,814 | 25,067 | 70,917 | 68,032 |
Medical ophthalmology | 164 | 1,525 | 401 | 3,923 |
Optometry | 987 | 544 | 897 | 484 |
Orthoptics | 13,322 | 12,652 | 57,002 | 41,410 |
Source:
Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre
Note:
These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) paediatric ophthalmology, (b) ophthalmology, (c) medical ophthalmology, (d) optometry and (e) orthoptic first appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The information is shown in the following table.
Information on first and follow-up outpatient paediatric ophthalmology, ophthalmology, medical ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptic appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15
| First appointments | Follow-up appointments | ||
Treatment specialty | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend | Cancelled (by hospital or by patient) | Patient did not attend |
Paediatric ophthalmology | 18,322 | 18,573 | 50,184 | 46,044 |
Ophthalmology | 27,814 | 25,067 | 70,917 | 68,032 |
Medical ophthalmology | 164 | 1,525 | 401 | 3,923 |
Optometry | 987 | 544 | 897 | 484 |
Orthoptics | 13,322 | 12,652 | 57,002 | 41,410 |
Source:
Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre
Note:
These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to make oral contraceptive pills available without a doctor's prescription.
Answered by George Freeman
The Government has no plans to make oral contraceptive pills available without a prescription.
Any applications to reclassify specific products from prescription only to non-prescription supply would be considered in accordance with its usual procedures by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.