Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of publicly-funded child and adolescent mental health in-patient services are provided by private providers; what the names of those providers are; how many and what types of services each such provider provides; and what proportion of all privately-provided services such services represent.

Alistair Burt

Approximately 47% of in-patient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are provided by independent providers.

The table below contains a list of the specialised commissioned CAMHS and the names of the independent providers who provided these services in 2014/15.

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient

Alpha Hospitals

Cambian Healthcare

Oak View

Riverdale Grange

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient

Priory

Acute – Adolescent Inpatient (High Dependency Unit)

Priory

Acute – Child Inpatient

Cygnet Healthcare

Plymouth Community Healthcare

Eating Disorder – Adolescent Inpatients

Newbridge

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient

CareUK

Ellern Mede Centre For Eating Disorders

Priory

The Huntercombe Group

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Inpatient High Dependency

CareUK

Eating Disorders – Adolescent Short term Intensive

CareUK

Low Secure – CAMHS

The Huntercombe Group

Low Secure Female and Male

Priory

Low Secure Learning Disabled

Oak View

Low Secure Male MI

Alpha Hospitals

Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

The Huntercombe Group

Alpha Hospitals

Priory

Secure and Specialised Mental Health Services (Child)

Low Secure Female Autistic Spectrum Disorder

St Andrews

Low Secure Female Learning Disabled

St Andrews

Low Secure Female Mental Illness

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Autistic Spectrum Disorder

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Learning Disabled

St Andrews

Low Secure Male Mental Illness

St Andrews

The proportion of CAMHS spend with these independent providers represents approximately 23% of the total mental health spend on independent providers (based on 2014/15 figures).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish details of his proposal to introduce Ofsted-style ratings for clinical commissioning groups’ mental health services.

Alistair Burt

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced that the new Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) assessment framework being developed by NHS England will contain six key clinical areas, including mental health. The framework will be published in March 2016 and will be operational from 1 April 2016.

An annual assessment of these clinical areas will be moderated by independent panels of experts. Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of MIND, has been appointed panel chair for mental health.

A first simple assessment of all CCGs in these six areas will be published in June 2016. The formal annual summative assessment of all CCGs for 2016/17 will happen at the end of that financial year and be published in summer 2017. The annual assessment will be based on a four point scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Equality Act 2010 on the care of older adult mental health patients.

Alistair Burt

The Department has made no assessment of the effect of the Equality Act 2010 on the care of older adult mental health patients.

In September 2012, following the introduction of the Equality Act 2010, the Department published guidance Implementing a ban on age discrimination in the NHS – making effective, appropriate decisions. This is available at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementing-a-ban-on-age-discrimination-in-the-nhs-making-effective-appropriate-decisions

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-12-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which years are included in his Department’s consultation on the annual registration fee that local health trusts pay to the Care Quality Commission.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is consulting on its fee levels from 2016-17 to move it to a full chargeable cost recovery position by either 2018 or 2020. The Department is consulting on a regulation that will bring the CQC’s new comprehensive inspections which look beyond compliance with registration and any associated rating within the scope of its fee raising power. Subject to Parliamentary approval, the regulation will come into force from 2016-17 onwards.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health trusts (a) Simon Stevens and (b) Sir Bruce Keogh have visited in each year since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively of NHS England; and on what dates they visited which health trusts in which locations.

George Freeman

This information is not held by the Department. NHS England has advised that this information is not routinely collected and it could only be collated and provided at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 1.86 of the Autumn Statement 2014, how much of the planned annual £30 million additional budget for services for young people with eating disorders has been spent; and for what purposes that budget has been spent.

Alistair Burt

The whole £30 million for 2015/16 has been allocated directly to clinical commissioning groups. It is being spent on setting up new specialist community-based eating disorder teams. NHS England, in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Services, developed the Children and Young People’s Eating Disorder Access and Waits Commissioning Guide, which was issued in August 2015 alongside the first tranche of money. The commissioning guide included detailed specifications on how to set up, train and support the teams.

The aims of these new services are to support quicker access to evidence based treatment in the community and a reduction in the rate of relapse. In time, this should decrease the need for hospital stays and reduce the need for transition to adult services, although where there is still a need, the transitioning arrangements should be improved.

This service will enable the introduction of an eating disorder standard for children and young people who are aged 18 and under, for treatment to be received within four weeks, from first contact with a designated health professional for routine cases and within one week for urgent cases.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2016 to Question 22946, what action he will take to deal with clinical commissioning groups found not to have arrangements in place to offer mental health patients a choice of provider.

Ben Gummer

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are required, as part of their statutory obligations, to ensure patients can exercise their legal rights to choice for a first elective referral, including for mental health services.

Choice is an important feature of the Sustainability and Transformation Plans that CCGs have been asked to put in place through the recently-issued NHS Planning Guidance.NHS England is providing guidance and support to help them meet these requirements and will monitor and assure their implementation including through a new Assessment Framework.

If providers or patients have concerns about CCGs ensuring that rights to choice are being appropriately upheld, Monitor as the sector regulator may investigate and specify improvement action by the CCGs, where necessary.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many men take their own lives in the first year after the birth of their child.

Alistair Burt

We do not collect this information centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2016 to Question 25729, when he plans to (a) complete the BAME benchmarking pilot and (b) publish the benchmarking tool.

Alistair Burt

NHS England will begin the collection and analysis of responses from services in March. Following final sign off, NHS England expect to publish the benchmarking tool no later than June 2016.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-02-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that mental health trusts pass information on outpatients in their care to local (a) housing trusts and (b) community police officers where appropriate.

Alistair Burt

It is already standard practice for health professionals to share information, in line with the Data Protection Act 1998, with other agencies to deliver preventative interventions, or where there is concern about the risk of serious harm to either the individual concerned or a third party.

One of the core objectives of the National Informatics Board is to support all National Health Service organisations move away from paper based information to sharing data electronically. NHS England’s work on developing a fully interoperable and paperless NHS includes a key focus on mental health and crisis care.