Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have died while in the care of community mental health teams in the last 12 months; and if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of this data.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of people who died between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024, who had an active referral to community mental health teams at the time of death, as well as the numbers of those who had a care contact or an attended care contact at the time of death:
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams | 10,127 |
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams with a care contact recorded as part of the referral | 9,944 |
Number of deaths recorded in 2023/24 whilst having a referral to community mental health teams with an attended care contact recorded as part of the referral | 9,586 |
Source: data comes from the Office for National Statistics’ deaths data and the Mental Health Services Dataset.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder have died within four weeks of being discharged from a mental health hospital in each year since 2010.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This information is not held in the format requested, as the recording of diagnoses within the Mental Health Services Data Set is not mandatory.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder have died while an inpatient at a mental health hospital in each year since 2010.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This information is not held in the format requested, as the recording of diagnoses within the Mental Health Services Data Set is not mandatory.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 18 March 2024 from the hon. Members for Tooting, Putney, Wimbledon, Mitcham and Morden, Richmond Park and Twickenham on children's cancer services in the South East.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We have received the hon. Members’ correspondence of 18 March, and will respond in due course.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many adult mental health patients have been held in inappropriate out of area placements since March 2021.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
12,960 inappropriate out of area placements were started between April 2021 and 31 December 2023, although some patients may have had more than one placement within the reporting period.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many child mental health patients have been held in inappropriate out of area placements since March 2021.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
While NHS England does collect internal management data on this topic, the statistics are not considered robust enough to be published.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help increase the supply of free lateral flow tests to people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill if they contract covid-19.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This year, the National Health Service will offer free COVID-19 lateral flow tests and treatments to an additional 1.4 million people at the highest risk of severe illness, on top of the 3.9 million people already eligible for free COVID-19 lateral flow tests and treatments.
Those who are at highest risk of becoming seriously ill, who are eligible for COVID-19 treatments, can continue to access free COVID-19 lateral flow tests from their local pharmacy. This cohort of people are encouraged to test regularly, to gain timely access to treatments. A full list of those who are eligible, as well as information on how to access the tests, is available at the following link:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/treatments-for-covid-19/
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the cost of moving children's cancer services for South London and the South East of England to the Evelina.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England is leading the reconfiguration of children’s cancer services for South London and South East England. At a meeting on 14 March 2024, NHS England confirmed their decision that the Principal Treatment Centre should be located at Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
NHS England’s financial impact assessment for the reconfiguration confirmed that the future Principal Treatment Centre would use a £20 million national capital contribution from NHS England, plus a contribution from their local health commissioners of between approximately £11 million to £14 million. The Evelina London option would also use £10 million of grant funding from the trust charity.
NHS England has made clear that as the future provider develops its outline business case and full business case, it will need to continue to demonstrate affordability with mitigations in place for associated risks. These business cases will require NHS England and the Department’s Joint Investment sub-Committee’s approval, before contractor procurement and construction, ahead of the Principal Treatment Centre becoming operational in October 2026.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost was of the consultation on moving children's cancer services for South London and the South East of England.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department does not hold data on the cost of the consultation run by NHS England on the reconfiguration of children’s cancer services in South London and the South East.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of widening the availability of the shingles vaccination to those aged between 66 and 69 years old.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The potential merit of offering the Shingrix shingles vaccine to adults aged 65 years old from 1 September 2023 is to achieve population benefit from a vaccine which is predicted to provide longer lasting protection, meaning individuals can be vaccinated sooner and benefit for longer, compared to the previous shingles programme using the Zostavax vaccine.
This reduction in the age of eligibility is part of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice, that the roll-out of the 10-year expansion of the shingles programme should be done with a phased approach, to avoid undue additional pressure on National Health Service delivery services. The Shingrix two dose vaccine will be offered to those aged between 65 and 70 years old, until everyone aged 65 to 70 years old has been offered the vaccine, and then to those aged between 60 and 65 years old, until everyone aged 60 to 65 years old has been offered the vaccine. The vaccine would then be offered routinely from 60 years of age. Those over the age of 70 years old remain eligible until they turn 80 years old. Those aged 50 years old and over, who are at higher risk of serious complications as a result of having a severely weakened immune system, are also eligible.