Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 11 November 2024 to Questions 12677, 12678 and 12679 on Dementia: Reading West and Mid Berkshire, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on dementia diagnosis and care centrally.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Local systems rarely hold data by Parliamentary constituency. However, NHS England collects data on the number of people referred for assessments for dementia. This includes data about people diagnosed with dementia, including those who receive medication and care plan reviews. This data is collected centrally and published monthly by NHS England at a national level, and is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/primary-care-dementia-data/
Data on the number of people aged 65 years old and over with a diagnosis of dementia, or who have a prescription for antipsychotic medication, is published monthly by NHS England at regional, integrated care board (ICB), and local authority level.
NHS England has developed an internal dashboard of memory service data for management information purposes. This supports ICBs to provide services appropriate for their local population, providing high quality care and support for each person with dementia.
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are waiting for an appointment with a Memory Assessment Service for a dementia assessment in Reading West and Mid Berkshire constituency as of 4 November 2024.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England does not hold this information centrally. Lord Darzi’s independent review showed that a timely diagnosis is vital to ensuring that a person with dementia can access the advice, information, care, and support that can help them to live well and remain independent for as long as possible.
The Government is committed to transforming diagnostic services, including the detection and diagnosis of dementia, and will support the National Health Service to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services.
NHS England is committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rates to the national ambition of 66.7%. This commitment is included in the current NHS priorities and operational planning guidance, reinforcing the importance of dementia as a key priority for the NHS, and providing a clear direction for integrated care boards.
To further reduce waiting times for diagnosis, NHS England has funded an evidence-based improvement project to fund two trusts in each region, 14 sites in total, to pilot the Diagnosing Advanced Dementia Mandate tool to improve the diagnosis of dementia and provision of support in care homes. All pilots completed at the end of May 2024, and it is anticipated that learning will be shared by end of the third quarter of 2024/25.
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for a dementia assessment is in Reading West and Mid Berkshire constituency.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England does not hold this information centrally. Lord Darzi’s independent review showed that a timely diagnosis is vital to ensuring that a person with dementia can access the advice, information, care, and support that can help them to live well and remain independent for as long as possible.
The Government is committed to transforming diagnostic services, including the detection and diagnosis of dementia, and will support the National Health Service to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services.
NHS England is committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rates to the national ambition of 66.7%. This commitment is included in the current NHS priorities and operational planning guidance, reinforcing the importance of dementia as a key priority for the NHS, and providing a clear direction for integrated care boards.
To further reduce waiting times for diagnosis, NHS England has funded an evidence-based improvement project to fund two trusts in each region, 14 sites in total, to pilot the Diagnosing Advanced Dementia Mandate tool to improve the diagnosis of dementia and provision of support in care homes. All pilots completed at the end of May 2024, and it is anticipated that learning will be shared by end of the third quarter of 2024/25.
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people living with dementia in Reading West and Mid Berkshire constituency received a (a) care plan review and (b) new care plan in financial year 2023/24.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England does not hold this information centrally. NHS England is committed to delivering high quality care and support for every person with dementia, and central to this is the provision of personalised care and support planning for post diagnostic support.
To support the quality of dementia care planning by primary care providers, the Dementia: Good Personalised Care and Support Planning guide sets out how to ensure personalised care and support planning is undertaken consistently and reliably, and offers a quality assurance framework to ensure care planning is responsive to needs and preferences. The guide was developed with input from a diverse range of people living with dementia, their carers, and health and social care professionals.
The Quality and Outcomes Framework incentivises the annual review of care plans for patients diagnosed with dementia in general practice.
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people requested (a) vasectomies and (b) tubal ligations in the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This data is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost was of (a) vasectomies and (b) tubal ligations for (i) day cases and (ii) elective inpatients in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold data in the requested format. Through the 2022 Health and Care Act, the 2023/25 NHS Payment Scheme has replaced the National Tariff Payment System. This is a set of rules, prices and guidance used by commissioners and providers of National Health Service care. The cost of procedures conducted in both day case and ordinary electives settings is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-25-nhs-payment-scheme/
Asked by: Olivia Bailey (Labour - Reading West and Mid Berkshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) vasectomy reversals and (b) female sterilisation reversals were (i) requested and (ii) performed in the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held for “requested” procedures. The following table shows the number of “performed” procedures in the last five years:
Year | Vasectomy Reversal | Female Sterilisation Reversal |
2019/20 | 42 | 176 |
2020/21 | 34 | 66 |
2021/22 | 37 | 117 |
2022/23 | 42 | 109 |
2023/24 | 32 | 96 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England