Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was provided for Op Restore in 2023.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Planned spend on Op RESTORE for 2023/24 is £0.5 million. Additional costs associated with treatment costs form part of overall expenditure within integrated care boards and are not separately identified.
Op NOVA launched on 1 April 2023. Planned spend on Op NOVA for 2023/24 is £2.03 million.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to correspondence of 30 August 2023 from the hon. Members for Luton South and Luton North.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department is endeavouring to provide the fullest possible response to the hon. Members and will reply at the earliest opportunity.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 104 of the Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans annual report 2022, published on 19 December 2022, what the average waiting times were for (a) Transition, Intervention and Liaison Services and (b) Complex Treatment Services under Op Courage by Clinical Commissioning Group area.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department takes steps to monitor the service veteran-friendly General Practices provide to veterans.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
As of November 2022, the Royal College of General Practitioners had accredited 1,781 practices as veteran friendly and approximately 800 Primary Care Networks have at least one veteran aware general practitioner practice in the area. While the impact of the ‘veteran friendly’ programme is not routinely monitored, an evaluation by the University of Chester, published May 2022, found that 84% of accredited practices reported a better understanding of veterans’ needs.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many GP practices have been accredited as veteran friendly.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
As of November 2022, the Royal College of General Practitioners had accredited 1,781 practices as veteran friendly and approximately 800 Primary Care Networks have at least one veteran aware general practitioner practice in the area. While the impact of the ‘veteran friendly’ programme is not routinely monitored, an evaluation by the University of Chester, published May 2022, found that 84% of accredited practices reported a better understanding of veterans’ needs.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
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 record how many veterans are seen by NHS commissioned services for mental health support.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England records the numbers of veterans accessing the directly commissioned bespoke veterans' mental health service Op COURAGE, which is comprised of three services: the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS); Complex Treatment Service (CTS); and the High Intensity Service (HIS). As at 30 September 2022, 21,687 veterans have been referred to TILS, with 2,728 referrals to CTS and 1,576 referrals to HIS.
Veteran status is also collected by mental health providers for veterans accessing Improving Access to Psychological Therapy services. Between April and June 2022, there were 4,919 referrals relating to veterans.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy in Luton South constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Government is committed to supporting individuals to live healthier lives, and at the heart of this is improving access to and levelling-up health and care across the country, including in Luton South. The Department continues to review how health disparities can be addressed and further information will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities also works with services in Luton South to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle health inequality in Luton South.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Government is committed to supporting individuals to live healthier lives, and at the heart of this is improving access to and levelling-up health and care across the country, including in Luton South. The Department continues to review how health disparities can be addressed and further information will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities also works with services in Luton South to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with diabetes in Luton South constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in Luton South constituency in each year from 2016 to 2020, by diabetes type.
| Type 1 | Type 2 and other |
2016 | 25 | 420 |
2017 | 20 | 535 |
2018 | 20 | 500 |
2019 | 15 | 520 |
2020 | 25 | 485 |
Source: National Diabetes Audit (NDA)
Notes:
Asked by: Rachel Hopkins (Labour - Luton South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of GP appointments there were in Luton South constituency in (a) the last 12 months and (b) in 2013.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
This information is not held in the format requested.