Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: land to the north of Cambridge North Station, Cambridge (ref: 3315611 - 23 April 2024)Found: East of England Ambulance Service98 11.49 The capital required to create additional ambulance services
Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: necessarily specifically hospice services but palliative services.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: Request the appropriate emergency services , the Police and / or Ambulance .
Asked by: White, Tess (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - North East Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of any impact of the expansion of Hospital at Home, announced on 24 October 2023, on reducing the pressures facing the Scottish Ambulance Service, and how much of the £12 million earmarked for the expansion has been allocated to each NHS board.
Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
From the £12 million earmarked to expand Hospital at Home and provide additional capacity over winter, we have confirmed funding of more than £3.5 million, of which the majority of health Boards will get a share, for delivery of additional capacity in 2023-24.
Work is ongoing with Boards to finalise the conclusions around impact of the enhanced services over winter but NHS Boards have reported patient feedback has been extremely positive for the new services.
Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) She will appreciate that the District Valuer Services is crucial in ensuring value for taxpayer’s money - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) How will the Minister support general practice to enable it to continue to provide the vital services - Speech Link
3: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Since this time last year, we have seen ambulance response times improve by over a quarter and waits - Speech Link
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with healthcare professionals on minimum service levels during strikes in the NHS.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
As part of the consultations on introducing minimum service levels in both ambulance and hospital services, the Department hosted workshops to which a wide range of representative groups were invited. This included employer and provider organisations, and unions representing healthcare professionals.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 on the ability of healthcare professionals to participate in industrial action.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 allows for regulations to be laid in Parliament in the health sector. The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: NHS Ambulance Services and the NHS Patient Transport Service) Regulations 2023 came into force on 8 December 2023.
As we set out in in our consultation response on minimum service levels in the ambulance sector, in our engagement with representatives from ambulance trusts, they indicated that establishing a minimum service level at the level specified in the regulations would require approximately 80% of an ambulance service’s resources on a typical shift. Therefore, if an employer chose to issue work notices during a strike, it is likely that a high proportion of all levels of paramedics, emergency care assistants, and other staff in the ambulance teams rostered to work on a strike would be named, and this would have a significant impact on the ability of employees to participate in strike action. The Department has consulted on whether to implement similar regulations for hospital services, and will set out its response in due course.
Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: However, on the way back, we got to the start of the M1 and I asked my husband to pull into the services—and
Correspondence Apr. 22 2024
Committee: Justice and Home Affairs CommitteeFound: During the incident, almost 10,000 unique callers were unable to access the emergency services via 99
Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024
Inquiry: Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998Found: police forces, and maybe it didn’t need seven, but we are not well served by having just one, or an ambulance