Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: ● Children in care, children in need and child protection ● Adoption and care leavers ● Early years
Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) the legal right to palliative care for all ages. - Speech Link
2: Damien Moore (Con - Southport) boards to commission palliative care services. - Speech Link
3: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) boards to commission palliative care services. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) A district nurse may not be able to push palliative care to the extent that a palliative care specialist - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) That means an ever-greater need for palliative care. - Speech Link
Asked by: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour - Streatham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that seriously ill children and their families can access information on how to access emotional and psychological support.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The clinical team responsible for a seriously ill child’s physical healthcare should discuss and review their emotional and psychological status regularly with them, or their family, and support them with access to information and services for their mental health if needed. Commissioners are encouraged to ensure local pathways include assessment and ongoing support of patients’ mental and psychological wellbeing and cognitive status.
The Health and Care Act 2022 placed a legal duty on integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission palliative and end of life care services, which meet the needs of their whole population. To support ICBs in this, NHS England has published statutory guidance, along with service specifications for children and young people, which make reference to including a holistic approach to care. This includes links to social prescribing, assessing, and addressing the needs of children, young people and families, and clear referral pathways to other services such as children and young people’s mental health services. The statutory guidance and the service specifications for children and young people are available respectively at the following links:
Patients’ family members who feel they need emotional and psychological support should speak to their general practice, or can self-refer to NHS Talking Therapies online. Details are available on the NHS website.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) Although palliative care is now in legislation as a core service, contracting is not the same as ensuring - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) I suggest that, as well as maternity care, we should have palliative care added to the 2024 pamphlet.Central - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Griffin, Mark (Lab - Central Scotland) grappling with injury and disease that have been brought on as a result of their job—nurses, social care - Speech Link
2: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) their own injury time and are putting huge pressure on the families they live with to pay for their care - Speech Link
3: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill is an example of that.Today’s bill might not technically be - Speech Link
4: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) Occupational injuries and illnesses that are associated with women-dominated work such as social care - Speech Link
5: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) Just recently, I launched a consultation on delivering a right to palliative care. - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: Guidance for doctors/ palliative care Secondly, we thought it would be helpf ul to highlight that,
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024: Equality Impact AssessmentFound: Terminal illness It is known that there is a low uptake o f palliative and end of life care services
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024: Equality Impact AssessmentFound: Nursing care is care that involves the knowledge or skills of a qualified nurse and includes activities
Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) errors in patient records; appointments lost; significant failures in the provision of medication; palliative - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) Last year, the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) delivering on the actions set out in the delivery plan for tackling the covid-19 backlog of elective care - Speech Link
Asked by: Briggs, Miles (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Lothian)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any additional costs that the hospice sector will face in future years.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
It is for Integration Authorities to plan and resource hospice care, using the integrated budget under their control; and to plan palliative care services and costs now and in the future.
We are working with Integration Authorities and independent hospices to develop a national guidance framework to support improved and more consistent planning and resourcing of independent hospice care, and we will continue to explore solutions and options for longer term sustainable planning and commissioning for the sector.
I have met with a number of hospices and hospice leaders over the last few months, including the round table I convened in December 2023, to understand the financial position and challenges that hospices currently face and how they can contribute to palliative care in the future.