May. 21 2024
Source Page: RG2 0RP, Thames Water Utilities Appeal (Reading) Conditions attached to a permit - EPR/MP3338LU/V004Found: No matter how much care is taken there is always a finite risk that, for example, a particular hazard
May. 20 2024
Source Page: PM statement on the Infected Blood Inquiry: 20 May 2024Found: And no-one is questioning that every day our NHS provides amazing and lifesaving care to the British
Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) long since evolved, and no one is questioning that every day our NHS provides amazing and lifesaving care - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We go to hospital for care. - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) Lady for her statement, and for her care and unwavering dedication to delivering justice. - Speech Link
Asked by: Bob Seely (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much hospice-provided palliative care was commissioned by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial years; and how that funding allocation was determined.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Integrated care boards receive a general allocation to deliver their responsibilities, including those related to palliative and end of life care. There is no separately identified allocation for hospice-provided palliative care.
Asked by: Kate Hollern (Labour - Blackburn)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prisoners serving an imprisonment for public protection and (b) other prisoners have been released on compassionate grounds in each year since 2005.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
We have taken significant action through the Victim’s and Prisoner Bill to curtail IPP licence periods to give offenders the opportunity to move on with their lives. In addition to these changes, the actions this Government is taking are working: the number of prisoners serving the IPP sentence who have never been released now stands at 1,180 as of 31 March, down from more than 6,000 in 2012.
The Secretary of State has a statutory power to grant the early release of prisoners serving a sentence or term of imprisonment in custody on compassionate grounds. The power is used in exceptional circumstances only and in accordance with the HMPPS the Early Release on Compassionate Grounds Policy Framework.
Early release on compassionate grounds may, for example, be considered for terminally ill prisoners with a diagnosis of limited time left to live, and where there is medical advice that their end-of-life palliative care needs would be better met in a hospice. Compassionate release of such individuals is only approved if a risk assessment confirms they are safe to release.
The table shows the number of prisoners released early on compassionate grounds from 2010 to 2023. Data prior to 2010 is not available in a useable format and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Calendar year | IPP | Other | Total |
2010 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
2011 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
2012 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
2013 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
2014 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
2015 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
2016 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
2017 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
2018 | 1 | 16 | 17 |
2019 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
2020 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
2021 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2023 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) dangerous work right around the world, not only in the traditional forms of education or helping with care - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Laurence Robertson (Con - Tewkesbury) Modern medicine, surgery, palliative care and the general care provided by our incredible NHS staff make - Speech Link
2: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Sunseeker London Charitable Trust, which provides financial support to organisations dedicated to the care - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) service provision to support earlier intervention, interdisciplinary programmes of care, and a focus - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) particularly touched by how he talked about the impact of limited access to mental health support and poor palliative - Speech Link
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what progress has been made towards the new national funding framework for hospice funding.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Work is ongoing to progress the national guidance framework on local planning and commissioning of independent hospice care, and to align the framework with our overarching palliative care strategy.
We will continue to work with Chief Officers and independent hospices to support longer term sustainable planning and commissioning for the hospice sector.