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Written Question
Heart Diseases and Strokes: Females
Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) outcomes, (b) early identification and (c) treatment of heart attack and stroke for women.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

Improving the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and stroke are key aims in the NHS Long Term Plan, with an important milestone being for the National Health Service to help prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years. The NHS Long Term Plan highlights that outcomes from heart attack and stroke can be improved, and that there should be a focus on inequalities.

In addition, addressing variations in outcomes from cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart attacks and stroke, is one of Public Health England’s (PHE) top priorities, and in February 2019, PHE announced new 10-year CVD ambitions for England, which are intended to complement the NHS Long Term Plan and are the first ever national ambitions to improve the detection and treatment of the major causes of CVD.


Written Question
Heart Diseases and Strokes: Females
Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will respond to the recommendations in the report entitled Call for Action: Inquiry into heart attack and stroke, published by the all-party Parliamentary group on women’s health in July 2019; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

NHS England has acknowledged the recently published report and will be considering the content.

Improving the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and stroke are key aims in the NHS Long Term Plan, with an important milestone being for the National Health Service to help prevent up to 150,000 heart attacks, strokes and dementia cases over the next 10 years. The NHS Long Term Plan highlights that outcomes from heart attack and stroke can be improved, and that there should be a focus on inequalities.


Written Question
Food: Labelling
Monday 13th May 2019

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department is making on introducing comprehensive calorie labelling for food and drink served out of the home; and when his Department plans to publish the results of the consultation on that matter, which closed on 25 October 2018.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

The consultation on calorie labelling for food and drink served outside of the home took place between 14 September and 7 December 2018. We will publish the results and set out the timetable for further action later this year.


Written Question
Mental Health Services: Termination of Employment
Thursday 31st January 2019

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health staff have left the NHS since 31 May 2018.

Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

In England, 12,7981 mental health staff left the National Health Service between 31 May 2018 and 31 October 2018, headcount.

The figure above provides the widest possible view of the mental health workforce available from NHS Digital and includes:

- All staff in mental health, learning disability and care trusts;

- Psychiatry doctors;

- Nurses specialising in ‘community psychiatry’, ‘other psychiatry’, ‘community learning disabilities’, ‘other learning disabilities’

- Staff with a primary area of work of ‘psychiatry’, for example a paediatrician whose primary area of work is ‘psychiatry’.

Data for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is not available on the Electronic Staff Record and therefore, not included in the figure above.

Note:

1Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.


Written Question
Mental Health Services: Staff
Thursday 31st January 2019

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) posts and (b) vacancies were there in mental health NHS trusts in England in the most recent month for which data is available.

Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price

The most recent data reported in Q2 2018/19, as at the end of September 2018, shows that in mental health National Health Service trusts there are 190,185 whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce staff in post, with 19,889 vacancies. This is a vacancy rate of 9.5% out of a total workforce establishment (210,074 WTE).

There are 53 mental health NHS trusts, defined as those with over half of their outpatient activity in mental health specialties. Not all staff in these trusts provide mental health services and some mental health services are provided by other trusts.

NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates from individual NHS providers and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. NHS Improvement defines a vacancy as the current workforce gap between current substantive staff in post and the required staffing level for the respective period.

NHS Improvement count staff working substantively within a designated mental health NHS trust in England as one definition of the size of the mental health workforce. Currently, there is no single agreed way to count the entire mental health workforce. The Department, working together with NHS Digital, Health Education England, NHS Improvement and NHS England, are in a process of agreeing a new definition to count the mental health workforce in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups.


Written Question
Knee Replacements
Monday 12th November 2018

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of elective knee replacement surgery has been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The proportion of elective knee replacement operations which have been commissioned by the National Health Service from the private sector in the last three years is shown in the following table. Figures represent the number of operations – not the number of patients – as some patients may have more than one operation.

Financial year

Proportion Carried out by Private Providers

2015-16

38%

2016-17

42%

2017-18

44%


Written Question
National Emergency Pressures Panel
Thursday 1st November 2018

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the national emergency pressures panel has met during the 2018-19 financial year.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The National Escalation Pressures Panel (NEPP) has not yet formally met in the 2018-19 financial year.

NHS England publishes meeting notes online when NEPP meets. These can be located on their website at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/national-emergency-pressures-panel-nepp/


Written Question
Hip Replacements
Monday 29th October 2018

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of elective hip replacement surgery has been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years.

Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The proportion of elective hip replacement operations which have been outsourced to the private sector in the last three years is shown in the following table. Figures represent the number of operations – not the number of patients – as some patients may have more than one operation.

Financial year

All providers

Private providers

Proportion Carried out by Private Providers

2015-16

78,328

20,245

26%

2016-17

81,484

22,870

28%

2017-18

78,172

23,340

30%


Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital


Written Question
Mental Illness: Equality
Tuesday 23rd October 2018

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend Equality Act 2010 to include people with episodic and fluctuating mental health conditions.

Answered by Matt Hancock

The Government is aware of concerns that some people with mental health conditions have experienced problems in accessing the Equality Act 2010’s protections. The Government is therefore exploring a number of options including legislation to extend protections from discrimination in the workplace for people with mental health conditions, including through the Equality Act 2010. We will make an announcement on these issues in due course.


Written Question
Nurses: Students
Thursday 11th October 2018

Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students started mental health nursing degree courses in the 2018-19 academic year.

Answered by Matt Hancock

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) collect data on acceptances to mental health nursing degree courses.

Acceptances for 2018/19 entry can still be made until the end of clearing on 23 October 2018.

The final number of acceptances for mental health nursing degree courses for 2018/19 will be available following the publication of end of cycle data by UCAS in December 2018.