Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many established posts are filled by (a) discipline and (b) job role in South Cumbria CAMHS.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is held by NHS England, but it is not centrally validated.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many established posts are vacant by (a) discipline and (b) job role in South Cumbria CAMHS.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The information requested is held by NHS England but is not centrally validated.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been accepted by South Cumbria CAMHS in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of referrals made received for patients aged between zero and 17 years old between December 2022 and November 2023, with data between April and November 2023 still being subject to revision:
Reporting period | Local authority | Number of referrals received in month for patients aged between zero and 17 years old at time of referral | Number of referrals received in month where patients aged between zero and 17 years old at time of referral and who have received at least one care contact any time after referral |
December 2022 | Cumberland | 415 | 195 |
January 2023 | Cumberland | 465 | 225 |
February 2023 | Cumberland | 560 | 235 |
March 2023 | Cumberland | 580 | 230 |
April 2023 | Cumberland | 410 | 155 |
May 2023 | Cumberland | 545 | 225 |
June 2023 | Cumberland | 475 | 175 |
July 2023 | Cumberland | 460 | 175 |
August 2023 | Cumberland | 255 | 110 |
September 2023 | Cumberland | 360 | 185 |
October 2023 | Cumberland | 500 | 210 |
November 2023 | Cumberland | 640 | 210 |
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December 2022 | Westmorland and Furness | 270 | 150 |
January 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 365 | 200 |
February 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 320 | 145 |
March 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 425 | 220 |
April 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 260 | 120 |
May 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 320 | 155 |
June 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 265 | 135 |
July 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 270 | 125 |
August 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 235 | 100 |
September 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 310 | 125 |
October 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 275 | 95 |
November 2023 | Westmorland and Furness | 390 | 110 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England
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Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been accepted by South Cumbria CAMHS in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
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Information relating to children and young people was not collected prior to 2016/17. The following table shows the number of referrals received in Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness local authorities between 2016/17 and 2022/23, the latest period for which data is available:
Financial year | Local authority | Number of referrals received in year for patients aged between zero and 17 years old at time of referral | Number of referrals received in year where patients aged between zero and 17 years old at time of referral and who have received at least one care contact any time after referral |
2016/17 | Cumberland | 250 | 110 |
2017/18 | Cumberland | 975 | 570 |
2018/19 | Cumberland | 4,030 | 2,520 |
2019/20 | Cumberland | 5,555 | 2,810 |
2020/21 | Cumberland | 5,025 | 2,670 |
2021/22 | Cumberland | 6,280 | 3,145 |
2022/23 | Cumberland | 6,140 | 2,795 |
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2016/17 | Westmorland and Furness | 325 | 165 |
2017/18 | Westmorland and Furness | 1,060 | 670 |
2018/19 | Westmorland and Furness | 3,590 | 2,265 |
2019/20 | Westmorland and Furness | 4,665 | 2,305 |
2020/21 | Westmorland and Furness | 3,840 | 1,955 |
2021/22 | Westmorland and Furness | 4,370 | 2,270 |
2022/23 | Westmorland and Furness | 3,645 | 1,870 |
Source: Mental Health Services Dataset, NHS England
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Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what crisis assessment and intervention services are available to young people under the age of 18 in South Cumbria.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) has commissioned crisis and intensive support services for children and young people; this is known as the Responsive And Intensive Support Team (RAIST).
The teams work seven days a week from 8am to 8pm. The team providing support in South Cumbria has registered nurses and social workers who provide a full assessment of need and work with children and young people to develop a safety plan, risk assessment and care plan. Once this has been completed, a two-week pathway of care will be identified. The children and young people will have contact daily with the community mental health practitioners to develop new skills to support the prevention of further crisis.
Since the RAIST has been established with the north of the trust, there has been a reduction in the need for attendance to the emergency departments and admission to the paediatric wards.
For those with severe needs or in crisis, urgent mental health helplines operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, are already available in all areas of the country. They are staffed by trained mental health professionals who can provide assessment and referrals to appropriate services. These crisis lines currently take around 200,000 calls a month and received five million calls between May 2020 and April 2022.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
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 young people who were referred to child and adolescent mental health services waited (a) two weeks, (b) one month, (c) three months, (d) six months and (e) longer than six months for an assessment in the last 12 months.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The following table shows the number of referrals of children and young people aged between zero and 17 years old in England in 2021/22, as well as the time waiting between referral and their second contact for the timescales available:
Number waiting between zero and four weeks | 137,943 |
Percentage waiting between zero and four weeks | 18.80% |
Number of waiting between four and 12 weeks | 62,037 |
Percentage waiting between four and 12 weeks | 8.50% |
Number waiting over 12 weeks | 38,855 |
Percentage waiting over 12 weeks | 5.30% |
Total number | 733,756 |
Source: NHS England
Note: These statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
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 promote the recruitment of dentists in communities with comparatively low levels of dental provision.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Health Education England (HEE) set out a range of recommendations in their Advancing Dental Care Review, which aim to tackle recruitment, retention and attracting dentists to the NHS. One of their proposals was the creation of Centres for Dental Development in localities where there is a shortage in provision, which would bring together education and service elements in smaller units. HEE have now moved into their implementation stage through their Dental Education Reform Programme.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to mandate Integrated Care Systems to implement the NHS England Eye Care Planning and Implementation Guidance 2021-22.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
While integrated care systems are expected to work autonomously, they should take into account NHS England and NHS Improvement’s priorities. The Eye Care Planning and Implementation Guidance 2021/22 explains how systems should plan local eye care recovery and transformation in line with the requirements of the NHS England 2021/22 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What steps his Department is taking to support the NHS in tackling future waves of coronavirus.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We have made over £59 billion available this year to support the response to COVID-19 and are committing a further £20.3 billion in 2021/22, of which £3 billion is to support National Health Service recovery from the impact of the pandemic.
The Government continues to ensure the NHS has the resourcing and support it needs to meet any pressures or costs arising from its continued response to COVID-19.
Asked by: Simon Fell (Conservative - Barrow and Furness)
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 reasons for the reportedly high number of cases of covid-19 in Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakes.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Variation in the number of COVID-19 cases is caused by a number of factors including demography, behaviour and rate of testing. The rate of testing in the area has been high due to an early and proactive approach to testing taken by the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Foundation Trust, which manages Furness General Hospital, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and the Westmorland General in Kendal in South Lakeland.
The Trust commenced swabbing of employees and household members who were symptomatic of coronavirus at the end of February 2020. Testing has included UHMB NHS Foundation Trust employees and household members, hospital inpatients, care home residents and staff, and key workers from other organisations and their households.