Asked by: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative - Shrewsbury and Atcham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of telephone consultations for assessing patients with mental health problems compared to face to face consultation.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
No formal assessment has been made. While remote service delivery is effective at meeting the majority of mental health needs, it does not replace the need for face-to-face appointments for a proportion of people whose needs cannot be met by telephone. For all mental health provision, patients should have an informed choice in how their care is delivered.
Since April 2020, the provision of 24 hours a day, seven days a week urgent mental health helplines has enabled services to become ‘open access’ and allows patients to self-refer to trained mental health professionals in their local area.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Injustice? Towards a better understanding of health care access challenges for prisoners, published by Nuffield Trust on 21 October 2021, what steps he plans to take to improve planning of hospital services to meet the high and specialised needs of prisoners being admitted to hospitals in England.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
NHS England and NHS Improvement are ensuring prison screening programmes are re-established and effective access to external treatment pathways is made available through telemedicine or in person hospital attendance.
In order to improve the understanding of existing medical conditions and needs of those entering the secure estate, such as drug use, mental health and alcohol-related disorders, NHS England and NHS Improvement are reviewing and updating the reception screening tool across the adult secure estate.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Injustice? Towards a better understanding of health care access challenges for prisoners, published by Nuffield Trust on 21 October 2021, what steps he is taking to increase access to outpatient services via remote consultations in prisons in England; and what assessment he has made of the barriers to increased use of remote consultations in prisons in England.
Answered by Gillian Keegan - Secretary of State for Education
To increase access to outpatient services, all secure and detained sites in England have now received the equipment to facilitate Telemedicine appointments within their establishment. Regions are working to establish connections with their tertiary and secondary health care partners to reduce the need to move a patient to sites external to the prison for a healthcare appointment.
No formal assessment has been made of the barriers to increased use of remote consultations in prisons in England. However, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw region is running a pilot connecting five prisons to one hospital trust for telemedicine appointments and has successfully implemented a clinical assessment and treatment service clinic using the telemedicine solution. Learning from this pilot is being rolled out across the English regions and other regions are now setting up similar services.
NHS England and NHS Improvement continues to work with other providers of services such as mental health organisations, probation services, voluntary community and social enterprise organisations, and liaison and diversion services to promote the use of telemedicine across the estate.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report entitled Injustice? Towards a better understanding of health care access challenges for prisoners, published by Nuffield Trust on 21 October 2021, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on reducing reoffending in England of the findings of that report.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
We know that tackling the underlying causes of offending can be key in helping a person to turn their back on crime. This can mean accessing timely treatment or support for a substance misuse or mental health need.
To tackle reoffending on release, we fully recognise the need to support offenders to access the right treatment whilst they are in prison and to continue to do so once released.
As just one example, during COVID-19, telemedicine was successfully rolled out across the estate, illustrating how digital and technology can be used to facilitate healthcare assessments within prisons and enable timely access to the right services.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of digital exclusion on the delivery of remote NHS mental health services.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Wakefield (Imran Ahmad Khan MP) on 21 May 2021 to Question 540.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on patients of moving further NHS mental health services to the telephone and online.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Wakefield (Imran Ahmad Khan MP) on 18 May to Question 539.
Asked by: Lyn Brown (Labour - West Ham)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by Empowering People Inspiring Change, The impact of lockdown to physical health, published in March 2021, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of (a) communications with patients and (b) access to healthcare is maintained in prisons and youth custody facilities in England and Wales.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of communication programmes were initiated across the English secure and detained estate, including prisons and youth offender institutions, with the support of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service including using prison television broadcasts to address COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 care. Prison radio continues to feature programmes providing general medical information for patients in prisons delivered by clinical providers and a number of articles have been written for the prison magazine, Inside Times, as well as general notifications, such as leaflets translated into a number of languages posted across individual sites.
General practitioner and nurse-led services have continued to be present within all prisons in England. In response to COVID-19, telemedicine has been deployed at speed across the estate, enabling video calling for primary care, secondary care and mental health appointments within dedicated healthcare facilities. The provision of health services to those in public sector prisons in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Government.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that mental health providers are able to offer online consultations to patients who need them.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
Talking therapies delivered by Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services will continue to be made available remotely so people can access help safely from home with face-to-face support provided to people, where appropriate, from within COVID-19 secure settings. Children and young people’s community mental health services will also continue to offer digital and remote access to maintain support and accept new referrals over the winter.
Asked by: Andy Slaughter (Labour - Hammersmith)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what subscriptions to (a) magazines and (b) television channels his Department funds.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The Department does not currently subscribe to any television channels.
The Department subscribes to 174 titles of magazines and journals (in print or electronic format) in 2014. The specific titles are shown in the following list.
Title |
African Voice |
Age and Ageing - Print and Internet |
Ageing and Society - Print and Internet |
Alcohol and Alcoholism - Internet |
American Economic Association - All 7 Journals |
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Supplements |
American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiological Reviews - Print and Internet |
Asian Leader |
Best |
BJOG - an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Internet |
BMA News |
British Journal of Cancer and Supplements |
British Journal of General Practice - Journal of the Royal College of General Practioners |
British Journal of Healthcare Management - Print and Internet |
British Journal of Hospital Medicine - Internet |
British Journal of Mental Health Nursing - Internet |
British Journal of Nutrition - Internet |
British Journal of Occupational Therapy |
British Journal of Psychiatry - Internet |
British Journal of Psychology - Internet |
British Journal of Social Work - Internet |
British Journal of Surgery - Internet |
British Medical Bulletin - Internet |
Building |
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics - Internet |
Chemist and Druggist - Print and Internet |
Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Internet |
Clinical Medicine - Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London |
Clinical Risk - Internet |
Coaching at Work - Internet |
Community Care Market News |
Community Dental Health - Internet |
Community Practitioner |
Construction News - London |
Current Medical Research and Opinion - Internet |
Daily Jang - International Edition |
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin - Print and Internet |
EU Food Law - Internet and Print |
Eastern Eye |
Economics Package - Print and Internet |
Economist - UK Edition - Multiple User Access - Internet |
Estates Gazette and Directory |
European Journal of Cancer and Supplements |
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition |
European Journal of Health Economics Print and Internet |
European Journal of Public Health - Print and Internet |
European Voice - Internet |
Evaluation - Internet |
Expert Review of Vaccines - Internet |
FT.Com - Internet |
Family Practice - Internet |
Fiscal Studies - Print and Internet |
GM Journal |
Global Health Promotion - Internet |
Grocer - Print and Internet |
Health Care Analysis - Enhanced Access - Internet |
Health Care Management Science - Enhanced Access - Internet |
Health Care Parliamentary Monitor |
Health Economics - Print and Internet |
Health Economics Policy and Law - Internet |
Health Education Journal - Internet |
Health Education Research - Internet |
Health Informatics Journal - Internet |
Health Information and Libraries Journal - Print and Internet |
Health Policy - Internet |
Health Policy and Planning - Print and Internet |
Health Promotion International - Internet |
Health Service Journal - Print and Internet |
Health Services Management Research - Internet |
Health and Social Care in the Community - Print and Internet |
Healthcare Market News |
House Magazine and Westminster Weekly Business |
Human Resource Management Journal - Internet |
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology - Print and Internet |
Inside Housing |
International Dental Journal - Internet |
International Journal for Quality in Health Care - Internet |
International Journal of Care Coordination - Internet |
International Journal of Epidemiology - Internet |
International Journal of Health Services |
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion - Internet |
International Journal of Obesity |
International Social Science Journal - Internet |
JCH - Journal of Communication in Healthcare - Internet |
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety - Internet |
Journal of Advanced Nursing - Internet |
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - Internet |
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care - Internet |
Journal of Health Economics - Print and Internet |
Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law - Internet |
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy - Internet |
Journal of Health Visiting - Internet |
Journal of Hospital Infection |
Journal of Medical Genetics - Internet |
Journal of Medical Screening - Print and Internet |
Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice - Print and Internet |
Journal of Nutrition - Single Site - Internet |
Journal of Political Economy - Print and Internet |
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing - Internet |
Journal of Public Health - Internet |
Journal of Public Mental Health - Print and Internet |
Journal of Public Policy - Internet |
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare - Internet |
Journal of the American Dental Association - Print and Internet |
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - Print and Internet |
LGCplus.com - Local Government Chronicle - Internet |
Lancet Oncology |
MIMS - Monthly Index of Medical Specialities - UK - Print and Internet |
MJ - Municipal Journal |
Medical Journal of Australia - Internet |
Mental Health Review Journal - Print and Internet |
Mental Health Today - Print and Internet |
Mental Health and Substance Use - Dual Diagnosis - Internet |
Midwives and Evidence Based Midwifery |
Muslim News |
Muslim Weekly |
New England Journal of Medicine |
New Literature on Old Age |
New Statesman |
Nursing Standard - Print and Internet |
Nursing Times and NT Plus |
Nutrition and Health - Internet |
Obesity Reviews - Print & Internet |
Occupational Medicine - Internet |
Oxford Review of Economic Policy - Internet |
PRWeek - UK Edition - Print and Premium - Internet |
Parliament Magazine |
Pediatrics - Print and Internet |
Perspectives in Public Health - Print and Internet |
Pharmaceutical Journal - Print and Internet |
Pharmacoeconomics - Internet |
Pick Me Up |
Planning |
Policy and Politics - Internet |
Practising Midwife |
Prima Baby |
Privacy and Data Protection - Print and E-Mail |
Private Eye |
Project Manager Today |
Property Wee - Internet |
Prospect - Internet |
Psychological Medicine - Internet |
Psychologist |
Public Administration - Internet |
Public Finance |
Public Health Nutrition - Internet |
Public Money and Management - Internet |
Pulse |
Quality in Primary Care - Internet |
Radiation Research |
Records Management Journal - Internet |
Regenerative Medicine - Internet |
Research Fortnight |
Review of Economics and Statistics - Internet |
Risk Analysis - Internet |
Safety and Health Practitioner |
Saga Magazine |
Science in Parliament |
Scrip - Print and Internet |
Scrip Regulatory Affairs - Internet |
Social Science and Medicine - Internet |
Spectator |
Statistics in Medicine - Internet |
System Dynamics Review - Internet |
Third Sector - Charities - Voluntary Organisations - Social Enterprise |
Tips and Advice Internet |
Top Sante - Health and Beauty |
Training Journal |
Veterinary Record and In Practice - both Print and Internet |
Violence Against Women - Internet |
Voice B57 |
Woman's Weekly |
Woman's own |
Yours |