Tag: Justin Madders

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-06-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether members of the public will have a right to attend Sustainability and Transformation Plan board meetings.

George Freeman

We have made clear that the on-going engagement of patients and the public is part of good planning. However the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are not statutory boards. Rather they are meetings attended by representatives of the wider health system, and are not required to meet in public as are formal boards.

The local, statutory architecture for health and care remains. As such, the local governance for STPs will ultimately be through individual organisations. Public access to Board meetings of their local organisations will be unchanged.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-06-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons his Department discontinued the nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals policy unit; and if he will make a statement.

Ben Gummer

As part of the DH 2020 plan, the Department is making significant changes to the way it works. The Department’s approach is to flexibly access professional advice from a wide range of sources, including arm’s length bodies, regulators and professional bodies, rather than from a fixed standing team of internal advisers.

These changes do not affect the role of the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), who as CNO of the Department already advises, and will continue to advise all Ministers and the Department on the range of nursing issues.

All staff in the Department, including staff in the current nursing, midwifery and allied health professions policy unit are eligible to apply for new roles in the organisation or to apply for a voluntary early severance scheme.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals he has visited in each of the last 12 months.

David Mowat

The Secretary of State for Health has visited the following hospitals in the last 12 months.

The Secretary of State for Health Mr Jeremy Hunt

9 September 2015 St Thomas Hospital, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (FT)

12 November 2015 St Thomas Hospital, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS FT

07 December 2015 Wrightington Hospital- Wrightington, Wigan, and Leigh Hospital NHS FT

09 December 2015 University College London Hospital FT

26 December 2015 Milford Hospital, Surrey

29 January 2016 Kings College Hospital London NHS FT

26 May 2016 Kings College Hospital London NHS FT

10 June 2016 Medway Hospital NHS FT

16 June 2016 Royal Lancaster Infirmary-University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS FT

22 June 2016 Queen’s Medical Centre-Nottingham University Hospital FT

23 June 2016 Queen’s Hospital-Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust

23 June 2016 William Harvey Hospital-East Kent Hospitals University NHS FT

27 July 2016 Yeovil District Hospital-Yeovil District Hospital NHS FT

27 July 2016 Southmeade Hospital-North Bristol NHS Trust

27 July 2016 Royal Bristol Infirmary-University of Bristol Hospitals NHS FT

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to reduce the autism employment gap.

Penny Mordaunt

We will shortly publish a Green Paper on work and health and conduct a consultation aimed at disabled people, their representative organisations and a wide range of other stakeholders.

We have put in place the Autism Alliance UK contract to upskill autism leads across the JCP+/DWP Network – Delivering autism and associated hidden impairments training by specialists in this area. So far we have reached over 1,100 staff.

It is hoped the training will help increase the proportion of autistic adults in full-time employment, which currently stands at 15%, according to the National Autistic Society.

DWP has also developed an uncovering hidden impairments toolkit to help colleagues support those with hidden impairments, including autism.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of girls were (a) White British, (b) White British eligible for free school meals, (c) White Non-British, (d) White Non-British eligible for free school meals, (e) Black, (f) Black eligible for free school meals, (g) Indian, (h) Indian eligible for free school meals, (i) Chinese ethnicity, (j) Chinese ethnicity eligible for free school meals, (k) other Asian, (l) other Asian eligible for free school meals, (m) any other ethnicity and (n) any other ethnicity eligible for free school meals received a place in a grammar school in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

Proportion of Year 7 pupils in Selective schools by selected ethnic groups, gender & FSM eligibility

Girls	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
White British	3.80%	3.80%	4.10%	4.00%	3.90%
White British – Eligible for FSM	0.60%	0.60%	0.60%	0.70%	0.70%
White non-British	3.40%	3.30%	3.50%	3.40%	3.40%
White non-British – Eligible for FSM	0.20%	0.60%	0.60%	0.60%	1.30%
Black	2.70%	3.20%	3.60%	3.30%	3.90%
Black – Eligible for FSM	0.40%	0.50%	0.80%	0.50%	0.90%
Indian	12.20%	12.90%	13.90%	15.80%	15.80%
Indian – Eligible for FSM	2.00%	1.80%	1.90%	2.50%	2.40%
Chinese	20.00%	18.10%	19.70%	18.20%	18.00%
Chinese – Eligible for FSM	11.50%	5.40%	9.70%	12.50%	4.40%
Other Asian	5.10%	5.60%	5.40%	5.80%	5.60%
Other Asian – Eligible for FSM	1.40%	0.90%	1.30%	1.30%	1.30%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the outcome of the consultation on the community pharmacy contractual framework, if he will introduce a maximum (a) distance and (b) travel time to a community pharmacy.

David Mowat

The Government announced the package of reforms for community pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond on 20 October 2016. This included full details of how the Pharmacy Access Scheme will operate. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-pharmacy-reforms

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2015-11-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train services through Neston have been cancelled since August 2015; and what the reason was for the cancellation in each such case.

Claire Perry

This information is not held by the Department. Under the Welsh rail devolution arrangements, the Welsh Government is responsible for the day to day management of the Arriva Trains Wales franchise, including services to and from Neston.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Care Quality Commission has any plans to reduce the number of core services it inspects at NHS hospitals as a consequence of the changes to his Department’s budget announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.

Ben Gummer

In January 2016, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will consult on its proposed strategy for inspection and regulation from 2016 to 2021. Following the consultation, the CQC will formally publish its strategy which will set out how it proposes to inspect hospital services including its approach to the inspection of core services.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2016 to Question 22953, on which dates and for how long on each such date ACAS meetings took place between 23 December 2015 and 4 January 2016.

Ben Gummer

Following the agreement under the auspices of ACAS on 30 November, the Department and NHS Employers held negotiations with the British Medical Association (BMA) including meetings on 23 December 2015 and 4 January 2016.

On 23 December the meeting started at 10.30 am finishing at 4 pm. On 4 January the meeting started at 10.30 am but broke at 10.45 am when the BMA withdrew to consider the offer but then never returned. The meeting was intended to continue until 3pm.

On the same day the BMA announced that, contrary to the understanding of the management side negotiators, they did not feel that enough progress had been made and announced further dates for industrial action in January and February.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of whether common system failures contributed to the deaths of Sam Morrish in Devon in December 2010 and William Mead in Cornwall in December 2014; and what steps his Department is taking to address those failures.

Ben Gummer

The Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman’s report into the death of Sam Morrish, published in June 2014, made several recommendations for local National Health Service organisations involved in Sam Morrish’s care to implement. NHS England advises that these have now been implemented.

We are advised by NHS England that there has been ongoing dialogue with the Sam Morrish’s family, including their full involvement in development of an integrated care pathway for paediatric sepsis, which has been piloted in the South Devon and Torbay area and is currently being evaluated.

The (NHS England South) Regional Quality Surveillance Group is responsible for ensuring that all the national recommendations outlined in NHS England’s report on the death of William Mead, in December 2014, are implemented.

The Department will be keeping track of progress on this front.