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Asked by: Thérèse Coffey (Conservative - Suffolk Coastal)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times in (a) Suffolk and (b) Suffolk Coastal constituency.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Our Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services sets out the range of measures being taken to achieve our ambition of reducing average Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes across 2024/25, including in Suffolk. A summary of the progress made, and actions taken in 2024/25 is set out in Urgent and emergency care recovery plan year 2: building on learning from 2023/24, which is available at the following link:
Nationally, ambulance trusts received £200 million of additional funding in 2023/24 to increase deployed hours and reduce response times, and this service capacity is being maintained in 2024/25. This is alongside the delivery of new ambulances, and action to reduce handover delays. With more ambulances on the roads, patients will receive the treatment they need more swiftly.
Since we published our plan, there has been significant improvement in ambulance response times, including in Suffolk. In 2023/24, average Category 2 ambulance response time in the East of England was over 23 minutes faster compared to the previous year, a reduction of over 34%.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2024 to Question 21490 on Prosthetics, how many prosthetic limbs are produced by the 35 NHS commissioned prosthetic centres; whether the prostheses produced are of the highest market standard; who the NHS commissioned prosthetic centre providers are; and how many patients are waiting for prosthetic limbs from the NHS.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The prosthetic centres do not produce limbs. Limbs, and the components thereof, are supplied through the NHS Supply Chain, directly from the manufacturers. The NHS Supply Chain ensures that all regulatory quality assurance requirements are met.
National Health Service prosthetic providers do not hold a waiting list for the provision of limbs. Patients will be assessed and prescribed an appropriate limb, when clinically appropriate, following amputation. This will depend on the time required for the residual limb to heal to allow a prosthesis to be fitted, and will vary between patients. NHS England commissions 35 prosthetic centres, which are listed below:
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust;
- Sussex Community NHS Trust;
- North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust;
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust;
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust;
- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust;
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;
- Kent and Medway NHS Social Care Partnership Trust;
- North East London NHS Foundation Trust;
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust;
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust;
- Leicester Specialist Mobility Centre;
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust;
- Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust;
- St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust;
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust;
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust;
- Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust;
- Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust;
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust;
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Livewell Plymouth;
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust;
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust;
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; and
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
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