Asked by: Baroness Berger (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister of his Department is responsible for prison healthcare, and how many times that Minister has visited prisons in the last 12 months.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The mental health policy team in the Department works flexibly across a wide range of policy priorities, including healthcare for offenders in prison and in the community. Additionally, there are a range of other teams within the Department whose policy responsibilities have implications for prison healthcare. It is therefore not possible to say how many officials work exclusively on prison healthcare.
Information on how many Departmental officials have made visits to prisons in the last 12 months can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
I have Ministerial responsibility for offender healthcare, which includes healthcare in prisons and secure hospitals. I am planning to complete my round of visits to all high secure hospitals in England shortly with a visit to Rampton Secure Hospital, having already visited Broadmoor and Ashworth Secure Hospitals. Effective treatment in the community is an important means of reducing offending and reoffending behaviour, I therefore also have plans to visit a women’s centre and liaison and diversion services, as well as a prison, in the near future.
Asked by: Baroness Berger (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials from his Department have made visits to prisons in the last 12 months.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The mental health policy team in the Department works flexibly across a wide range of policy priorities, including healthcare for offenders in prison and in the community. Additionally, there are a range of other teams within the Department whose policy responsibilities have implications for prison healthcare. It is therefore not possible to say how many officials work exclusively on prison healthcare.
Information on how many Departmental officials have made visits to prisons in the last 12 months can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
I have Ministerial responsibility for offender healthcare, which includes healthcare in prisons and secure hospitals. I am planning to complete my round of visits to all high secure hospitals in England shortly with a visit to Rampton Secure Hospital, having already visited Broadmoor and Ashworth Secure Hospitals. Effective treatment in the community is an important means of reducing offending and reoffending behaviour, I therefore also have plans to visit a women’s centre and liaison and diversion services, as well as a prison, in the near future.
Asked by: Baroness Berger (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many officials from his Department work exclusively on prison healthcare.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The mental health policy team in the Department works flexibly across a wide range of policy priorities, including healthcare for offenders in prison and in the community. Additionally, there are a range of other teams within the Department whose policy responsibilities have implications for prison healthcare. It is therefore not possible to say how many officials work exclusively on prison healthcare.
Information on how many Departmental officials have made visits to prisons in the last 12 months can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
I have Ministerial responsibility for offender healthcare, which includes healthcare in prisons and secure hospitals. I am planning to complete my round of visits to all high secure hospitals in England shortly with a visit to Rampton Secure Hospital, having already visited Broadmoor and Ashworth Secure Hospitals. Effective treatment in the community is an important means of reducing offending and reoffending behaviour, I therefore also have plans to visit a women’s centre and liaison and diversion services, as well as a prison, in the near future.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the working group to examine the commissioning and provision of psychological therapies will examine neuro and neuropsychiatric services.
Answered by Norman Lamb
NHS England (NHSE) commissions community deaf services for adults and children and young people.
There are four Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) deaf community services as follows:
- North of England based in York, with outreach teams in Manchester and Newcastle;
- Midlands based in Dudley, with outreach services in Oxford and Nottingham;
- London and South East with outreach teams based in Cambridge and Maidstone;
- South West based in Taunton.
Adult community services are linked to the inpatient units and are based in:
- Newcastle (covering North East England and Cumbria);
- Manchester (covering North West England);
- Birmingham (covering the Midlands); and
- London (covering London and the South East).
There are three adult inpatient services covering NHS England:
- Manchester – John Denmark Unit;
- Birmingham – Jasmine Unit; and
- London – St Georges Hospital.
NHSE also commission:
- A low secure service in the North West of England;
- Medium secure in-patient services in North West and Northampton;
- A high secure service in Rampton Hospital.
Finally, Corner House, Springfield Hospital in London is a national CAMHs in-patient service.
Departmental officials are arranging a meeting to take place in the coming weeks with key stakeholders to discuss the progress and next steps in improving the provision of mental health services for deaf people.
NHSE is developing a new ‘accessible information standard’ which will provide clear guidance to health and social care organisations on the steps they need to take to ensure that disabled patients, carers and service users receive information in appropriate formats and communication support, if they need it. This will include the provision of interpreters or British Sign Language users for deaf people.
NHSE has also worked closely with SignHealth in the development of the standard and SignHealth have offered advice about particular aspects of the standard which relate to deaf people.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the working group to examine the commissioning and provision of psychological therapies will be established.
Answered by Norman Lamb
NHS England (NHSE) commissions community deaf services for adults and children and young people.
There are four Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) deaf community services as follows:
- North of England based in York, with outreach teams in Manchester and Newcastle;
- Midlands based in Dudley, with outreach services in Oxford and Nottingham;
- London and South East with outreach teams based in Cambridge and Maidstone;
- South West based in Taunton.
Adult community services are linked to the inpatient units and are based in:
- Newcastle (covering North East England and Cumbria);
- Manchester (covering North West England);
- Birmingham (covering the Midlands); and
- London (covering London and the South East).
There are three adult inpatient services covering NHS England:
- Manchester – John Denmark Unit;
- Birmingham – Jasmine Unit; and
- London – St Georges Hospital.
NHSE also commission:
- A low secure service in the North West of England;
- Medium secure in-patient services in North West and Northampton;
- A high secure service in Rampton Hospital.
Finally, Corner House, Springfield Hospital in London is a national CAMHs in-patient service.
Departmental officials are arranging a meeting to take place in the coming weeks with key stakeholders to discuss the progress and next steps in improving the provision of mental health services for deaf people.
NHSE is developing a new ‘accessible information standard’ which will provide clear guidance to health and social care organisations on the steps they need to take to ensure that disabled patients, carers and service users receive information in appropriate formats and communication support, if they need it. This will include the provision of interpreters or British Sign Language users for deaf people.
NHSE has also worked closely with SignHealth in the development of the standard and SignHealth have offered advice about particular aspects of the standard which relate to deaf people.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the working group on the commissioning and provision of psychological therapies will be established; and what its scope, terms of reference and membership will be.
Answered by Norman Lamb
NHS England (NHSE) commissions community deaf services for adults and children and young people.
There are four Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) deaf community services as follows:
- North of England based in York, with outreach teams in Manchester and Newcastle;
- Midlands based in Dudley, with outreach services in Oxford and Nottingham;
- London and South East with outreach teams based in Cambridge and Maidstone;
- South West based in Taunton.
Adult community services are linked to the inpatient units and are based in:
- Newcastle (covering North East England and Cumbria);
- Manchester (covering North West England);
- Birmingham (covering the Midlands); and
- London (covering London and the South East).
There are three adult inpatient services covering NHS England:
- Manchester – John Denmark Unit;
- Birmingham – Jasmine Unit; and
- London – St Georges Hospital.
NHSE also commission:
- A low secure service in the North West of England;
- Medium secure in-patient services in North West and Northampton;
- A high secure service in Rampton Hospital.
Finally, Corner House, Springfield Hospital in London is a national CAMHs in-patient service.
Departmental officials are arranging a meeting to take place in the coming weeks with key stakeholders to discuss the progress and next steps in improving the provision of mental health services for deaf people.
NHSE is developing a new ‘accessible information standard’ which will provide clear guidance to health and social care organisations on the steps they need to take to ensure that disabled patients, carers and service users receive information in appropriate formats and communication support, if they need it. This will include the provision of interpreters or British Sign Language users for deaf people.
NHSE has also worked closely with SignHealth in the development of the standard and SignHealth have offered advice about particular aspects of the standard which relate to deaf people.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Independent - Gorton and Denton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what secondary and tertiary mental health services for deaf patients are commissioned nationally by NHS England.
Answered by Norman Lamb
NHS England (NHSE) commissions community deaf services for adults and children and young people.
There are four Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) deaf community services as follows:
- North of England based in York, with outreach teams in Manchester and Newcastle;
- Midlands based in Dudley, with outreach services in Oxford and Nottingham;
- London and South East with outreach teams based in Cambridge and Maidstone;
- South West based in Taunton.
Adult community services are linked to the inpatient units and are based in:
- Newcastle (covering North East England and Cumbria);
- Manchester (covering North West England);
- Birmingham (covering the Midlands); and
- London (covering London and the South East).
There are three adult inpatient services covering NHS England:
- Manchester – John Denmark Unit;
- Birmingham – Jasmine Unit; and
- London – St Georges Hospital.
NHSE also commission:
- A low secure service in the North West of England;
- Medium secure in-patient services in North West and Northampton;
- A high secure service in Rampton Hospital.
Finally, Corner House, Springfield Hospital in London is a national CAMHs in-patient service.
Departmental officials are arranging a meeting to take place in the coming weeks with key stakeholders to discuss the progress and next steps in improving the provision of mental health services for deaf people.
NHSE is developing a new ‘accessible information standard’ which will provide clear guidance to health and social care organisations on the steps they need to take to ensure that disabled patients, carers and service users receive information in appropriate formats and communication support, if they need it. This will include the provision of interpreters or British Sign Language users for deaf people.
NHSE has also worked closely with SignHealth in the development of the standard and SignHealth have offered advice about particular aspects of the standard which relate to deaf people.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has for the Peaks Unit at Rampton Hospital.
Answered by Norman Lamb
NHS England is the commissioner of all high secure services in England, across the three high security hospitals, which includes Rampton Hospital. Future commissioning plans will be informed by a capacity assessment that was undertaken in 2014 in consultation with the three hospitals. NHS England fully expects to continue commissioning high secure services in the Peaks Unit.
The only likely change to future commissioning arrangements at the Peaks Unit will involve patients who are being treated in a pilot service for offenders who meet the criteria for Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD). In 2011 the Government consulted on proposals to re-shape services for offenders who met the criteria for DSPD. In 2014 NHS England formally notified Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust of its intention to decommission the DSPD service in Rampton Hospital’s Peaks Unit.
NHS England and the Trust are currently in discussions about the process and timescale for decommissioning. Current patients will move to the most appropriate alternative treatment setting, taking into account their own particular needs and advice received from the clinicians who are caring for them. Some patients will continue to require hospital treatment in a high security hospital.