Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
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 is for an NHS chiropody appointment in England.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The information requested is not centrally collected.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified chiropodists there are in the NHS in England; and how many there were in 2010.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioners surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of chiropodists employed at National Health Service trusts and CCGs as at October 2019, the latest available data compared to October 2010, full time equivalent.
October 2010 | October 2019 | Change | % Change |
3,072 | 2,703 | -369 | 12% |
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the NHS budget is for chiropody training; and what that budget was 2015.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
There is no dedicated National Health Service budget for chiropody training, now formally called podiatry. Funding for elements of training, such as clinical placements, is included within the education and training tariff and paid to placement providers by Health Education England.
In December 2019 the Government announced additional maintenance grant funding, which will be available from September 2020 for new and continuing students of £5,000. In addition, students with child dependants will benefit from an extra £1,000 and new students studying a specialist subject including podiatry will be able to access a further £1,000. These grants are on top of student loan allowances and do not need to be re-paid.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many EU nationals work in each NHS Trust (a) as doctors, (b) as nurses and (c) in other positions.
Answered by Philip Dunne
On 20 December, NHS Digital published data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England, as at September 2016. An European Union national is a person who holds the nationality of an EU member country and as such includes those who declare themselves as United Kingdom nationals.
The number of EU doctors, nurses and other staff, in each NHS trust, who declared themselves as nationals from the EU is set out in the attached table. Those staff who are from the UK have been identified separately. As nationality is self-reported it may reflect cultural heritage rather than country of birth, nor do these figures necessarily equate to migrants from other countries.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has published on sickle cell anaemia in the last four years.
Answered by George Freeman
The NIHR Journals Library comprises a suite of open access journals providing a permanent archive of research funded by the Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) through five NIHR programmes (Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation; Health Services and Delivery Research; Health Technology Assessment; Programme Grants for Applied Research; Public Health Research). The NIHR Journals Library is available at:
http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/
The following reports relating to sickle cell anaemia have been published in the NIHR Journals Library in the last four years:
- The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of primary stroke prevention in children with sickle cell disease: a systematic review and economic evaluation (2012)
- Antenatal screening for haemoglobinopathies in primary care: a cohort study and cluster randomised trial to inform a simulation model. The Screening for Haemoglobinopathies in First Trimester (SHIFT) trial (2010)
Across all NIHR funding streams, and across all topic areas including sickle cell anaemia, the Department and the NIHR require that NIHR funded researchers seek to publish their research outputs in a peer-reviewed journal that is compliant with the NIHR policy on open access.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he last met the Sickle Cell Society; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Genetic Alliance UK, of which the Sickle Cell Society is a member, are represented on the Department’s UK Rare Disease Forum, which meets regularly to discuss issues of United Kingdom rare diseases policy and to monitor the implementation of the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases.
There have been no recent direct discussions between my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and the Sickle Cell Society.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spends on sickle cell anaemia; and what proportion this is of the total NHS budget.
Answered by Jane Ellison
There are an estimated 250,000 people with the sickle cell trait in the United Kingdom. The Department has made no estimation of the annual cost of treating sickle cell anaemia in the National Health Service nor does it hold information on the total NHS spend on sickle cell anaemia.
The Department does hold estimated costs for admitted patient care episodes as reported by Healthcare Resource Groups. In 2013-14 the total estimated figure for sickle anaemia was £23.8 million; in 2012-13 it was £21.9 million. This figure does not include other costs such as primary and social care.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultant and nursing specialists in sickle cell anaemia are employed by the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Information about the number of consultant and nursing specialists in sickle cell anaemia is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the annual cost to the NHS of treating sickle cell anaemia.
Answered by Jane Ellison
There are an estimated 250,000 people with the sickle cell trait in the United Kingdom. The Department has made no estimation of the annual cost of treating sickle cell anaemia in the National Health Service nor does it hold information on the total NHS spend on sickle cell anaemia.
The Department does hold estimated costs for admitted patient care episodes as reported by Healthcare Resource Groups. In 2013-14 the total estimated figure for sickle anaemia was £23.8 million; in 2012-13 it was £21.9 million. This figure does not include other costs such as primary and social care.