Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of dental activity were delivered in each of the last five years.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
NHS Digital publishes annual dental statistics for England, which are available from the link below:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of delaying the implementation of the TV and online unhealthy food advertising restrictions to October 2025 on (a) rates of childhood obesity and (b) meeting the 2030 ambition to halve childhood obesity.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There are no plans to make a specific assessment. A full impact assessment was published in June 2021 providing detail on the expected impact of the restrictions.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for which the food industry requires more time to prepare for restrictions on television advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There are no plans to make a specific assessment. A full impact assessment was published in June 2021 providing detail on the expected impact of the restrictions.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of defibrillators purchased by retail organisations in the past five years.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally and no specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the adequacy of access to community defibrillators in (a) places where there are high concentrations of people and (b) general.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information requested is not held centrally and no specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps has he taken to improve access to community defibrillators in (a) south west London and (b) England.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England is working with partners to improve community first response and establish defibrillator networks in England, including in South West London, to improve outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The Government encourages communities and organisations in England to consider purchasing a defibrillator as part of first aid equipment, particularly in locations with high concentrations of people.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in the context of managing patient data, whether he has made an assessment of the suitability of Palantir Technologies on running the contract for the NHS Federated Data Platform; and if he will make statement.
Answered by Will Quince
NHS England is undertaking a fair and open process for the procurement of the Federated Data Platform. NHS England will issue a contract notice to inform the market and provide instructions for interested suppliers. For bidders to be invited to respond, NHS England’s selection questionnaire must be completed to allow identification of suitable suppliers.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of increase in funding would be required to increase NHS funding by 29 per cent from 2018 to 2023.
Answered by Will Quince
The National Health Service revenue budget in 2018/19 was £114.421 billion and will be £157.403 billion in 2023/24. This represents an increase of 37.6%.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS vacancies there are in London (a) in total and (b) by (i) NHS Trust and (ii) clinical commissioning group.
Answered by Will Quince
There are 30,506 full-time equivalent vacancies within National Health Service trusts in London. While data on vacancies by trust and clinical commissioning group is collected by NHS England, it is not centrally validated.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
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 was for an NHS appointment with an eating disorder specialist in each region in each of the last five years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is not held centrally as there is no single waiting time standard across all mental health services and age groups. Data for services against which a waiting time standard has been set is published on a quarterly basis. Waiting times for access to psychological therapies, early intervention in psychosis and children and young people eating disorder services is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-mental-health-dashboard/.
In February 2022, NHS England published the outcome of a consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services. We are now working with NHS England on the next steps.