Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-05-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps with the Department of Education to introduce a counselling strategy for schools.

Alistair Burt

This is a matter for the Department for Education (DfE).

Schools can play an important role in supporting pupils with mental health issues. We want them to decide how best to meet the needs of their pupils. DfE has taken a range of actions to help them build a whole-school approach to good mental wellbeing, including the recently revised and updated blueprint for effective school-based counselling. This provides practical, evidence-based advice, informed by experts on how to ensure school based counselling services achieve the best outcomes for all students, including vulnerable children and young people. The weblink to the guidance, Counselling in schools: a blueprint for the future – Departmental advice for school leaders and counsellors is:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-06-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made to date on Recommendation 2 of the NHS England Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.

Alistair Burt

The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic Implementation Plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region are living in (i) absolute and (ii) relative poverty.

Damian Hinds

This Government is committed to tackling disadvantage and extending opportunity so that everyone has the chance to realise their full potential. Our life chances approach will focus on tackling the root causes of poverty such as worklessness, educational attainment and family stability.

The Department for Work and Pensions published the 2014/15 Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics on 28^th June 2016. This provides information on individuals living in relative and absolute low income.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201415.

The number of households in relative and absolute low income is not available at constituency or city region level. This is because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-09-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults spent time in a police station as a place of safety due to their mental health condition in each year since 2010.

Mr Jeremy Hunt

The information available is shown in the tables. Data was not collected prior to 2011/12. Data for 2015/16 will be published by NHS Digital in October.

In 2014, the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat set an expectation that the number of uses of police cells as a place of safety for people detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 should reduce to below half that of 2011/12. That ambition was achieved on time in 2014/15, with a 54% reduction.

Places of safety orders made where a Mental Health Act 1983 Section 136 detention was in a police station, England

2011-12	8,667
2012-13	7,761
2013-14	6,028
2014-15	3,996

Places of safety orders made where a Mental Health Act 1983 Section 136 detention was in a police station, England and the person detained was aged under 18

2011-12	258
2012-13	263
2013-14	236
2014-15	145

Source:

1. Data for 2011/12-2014/15, Inpatients Formally Detained in Hospitals Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Patients Subject to Supervised Community Treatment, England, Health and Social Care Information Centre. Annual publication. 2015 edition: http://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB18803

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the Northern Powerhouse Rail rolling stock will be permitted to operate on HS2 infrastructure.

Andrew Jones

Transport for the North are leading the development of a number of potential options for Northern Powerhouse Rail, including options that make use of sections of the HS2 network.

Should Northern Powerhouse Rail be integrated directly with sections of the HS2 network, the rolling stock will be specified to operate on HS2 infrastructure.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-10-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to set a limit on the amount GPs can charge patients for signing a debt and mental health evidence form.

David Mowat

General practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors who hold contracts with NHS England to provide primary medical services for the National Health Service. Under the terms of their contract, GPs are required to provide certain medical reports or complete certain forms, such as those required to support a claim for incapacity benefit, free of charge to their registered patients.

Outside of contractual requirements, GPs also provide a variety of other services which successive governments have regarded as private matters between the patient and the GP providing these services. In such cases, decisions on whether to charge a fee and the level of the fee charged are at the GP’s discretion. Where GPs intend to charge for services to patients, the British Medical Association advises them to forewarn patients, at the earliest opportunity, of the likely level of fees.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the £15 million new funding allocated to perinatal mental health for 2015-16 has been spent to date; and what that funding has been spent on.

Alistair Burt

NHS England will spend £1 million on strengthening clinical networks across the country to drive forward change and they have also commissioned the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health to set up an Expert Reference Group to provide an extensive package of national analytical and expert clinical advice to support the delivery of the perinatal mental health programme at a cost of £300,000.

Work is underway on how they spend the rest of the money. This work has yet to be completed but decisions will be made by Christmas.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2015 to Question 11782, what discussions he has had with the professional regulators regarding the level of mental health training offered as part of the mandatory training course for (a) student doctors, (b) student nurses and (c) midwives.

Ben Gummer

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has had no discussions with professional regulators about mandatory mental health training. It is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricular to ensure newly qualified doctors and nurses are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care.This includes mental health training as required.

Health Education England will work with bodies that set curricula such as the GMC and the royal colleges to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the additional £600 million funding for mental health announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 is funding previously not included in figures for total spending of the Department involved.

Alistair Burt

The additional £600 million for mental health over the next five years announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement is additional to current spending. The levels of funding in individual years and the specific mental health service improvements it will fund will be determined in the new year, once the Mental Health Taskforce has reported.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many attendances at emergency departments for self-harm per 100,000 people there were in each year since that data has been collected; and how many people received a psychological assessment.

Alistair Burt

The table below shows the number of people who attended emergency departments for self-harm between 2007/08 and 2013/14. Data is not available for the number of people who received a psychosocial assessment after presenting at emergency departments for self-harm.

Rate of Accident and Emergency (A&E) attendances where patient group was recorded as ‘self-harm’ per 100,000 population, from 2007/08 to 2013/14

Year	Number of attendances	Rate per 100,000 population
2007/08	94,488	184
2008/09	101,670	196
2009/10	108,312	208
2010/11	112,669	214
2011/12	118,935	224
2012/13	111,544	209
2013/14	117,719	219

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre