Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that the pricing rules set out in the national tariff guidance take into account the different costs bases of mental and physical healthcare.

Alistair Burt

NHS Improvement sets out local pricing rules in the national tariff which are designed to encourage commissioners and providers to set appropriate prices that reflect local conditions and priorities for services that do not have a national price. This includes mental health and community services.

NHS Improvement is leading the cost transformation programme which aims to improve the quality and use of patient-level cost information for all National Health Service funded services. This information will have local and national benefits from helping inform commissioner and provider decision making to setting prices and rules in the national tariff.

NHS Improvement has started the process for developing new costing standards for mental health and ambulance services. The draft costing standards for these services is expected to be published in 2017 and the final standards will be published in 2020.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37371, how many people are in the team with specific responsibility for those areas of policy on children and young people’s mental health for which he is accountable.

Alistair Burt

The Department’s team with specific responsibility for those areas of policy on children and young people’s mental health for which the Secretary of State for Health is accountable consists of eleven people.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many businesses in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) Liverpool City Region do not have access to high speed broadband.

Karen Bradley

There is a substantial commitment by national government for superfast broadband rollout and £5.46 million of central government funding has been allocated to the Merseyside Connected project. This has led to 39,216 additional homes and businesses now being able to access superfast broadband as a result of the local project, with the aim to have 42,204 additional premises by the end of the project. This will bring superfast coverage in Merseyside to 99% of premises.

The Department does not hold data specifically for businesses. The table below shows estimates of the number of premises (both residential and business) without access to superfast broadband in all of the Merseyside and Liverpool City Region constituencies.

Constituency	Number of Premises	Premises Without Access To Superfast Broadband
Birkenhead	44,111	458
Bootle	47,396	304
Garston and Halewood	45,355	836
Halton	44,739	1,098
Knowsley	48,681	596
Liverpool, Riverside	54,717	9,022
Liverpool, Walton	43,483	157
Liverpool, Wavertree	41,345	215
Liverpool, West Derby	40,579	0
Sefton Central	37,979	792
Southport	43,576	1,209
St Helens North	45,188	1503
St Helens South and Whiston	49,194	2,410
Wallasey	42,239	562
Wirral South	33,425	760
Wirral West	32,212	816

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-09-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many deaths by suicide have been recorded in England among children aged under 18 within one month of being released from youth custody in each year since 2010.

Nicola Blackwood

This information is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-10-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pregnant women received treatment from alcohol services in each region of England in each year since 2010.

Nicola Blackwood

The data is not published in the requested format.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to reduce homophobic hate crimes since January 2016.

Sarah Newton

The Home Office was part of the steering group of an Equalities and Human Rights Commission project to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime, which ended earlier this year.

As a result, we have committed to work with organisations such as the anti-violence charity Galop to develop resources that specifically meet the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) communities. We are also sharing existing good practice, including across the LGBT Hate Crime Network which was established by the project and is made up of over 30 groups across the country.

The cross-Government Hate Crime Action Plan, developed following consultation with a number of LGBT groups, contains actions designed to tackle hate crime against LGB&T people. This includes an assessment of the levels of homophobic bullying in schools, renewed CPS legal guidance on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic crime and funding for community groups who are working to tackle hate crime, including homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient mother and baby units specialising in psychiatric care during the perinatal period there were in (a) 2010 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available; and which such units were open in (i) 2010 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.

Alistair Burt

The number and location of mother and baby units in 2010 and 2015, as supplied by NHS England, are detailed in the tables.

Mother and Baby Units open in 2010:

1. Newcastle Beadnell Ward, St George’s Park, Morpeth, Northumberland
2. Leeds Mother and Baby Unit, Leeds Partnership Foundation Trust
3. Manchester Anderson Ward, Wythenshawe Hospital
4. Nottingham Perinatal Psychiatric Services, Perinatal Inpatient Unit
5. Derby Mother and Baby Psychiatric Unit, Derby City General, Uttoxeter Rd, Derby
6. Leicester Mother and Baby Unit, Brandon Unit, Leicester General Hospital (closed 2014)
7. Stafford Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St George’s Hospital Foundation
8. Birmingham Mother and Baby Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
9. Welwyn Garden Thumbswood, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Howlands, Welwyn
10. Hackney Mother and Baby Unit, Mermaid Ward, City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health, Homerton Hospital, Homerton Row
11. North Middlesex Coombe Wood Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Coombe Wood Annexe, Park Royal Centre for Mental Health
12. Beckenham Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Rd, Beckenham, Kent
13. Bristol New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital
14. Basingstoke Fairways House, Parklands Hospital (Moved to Winchester in 2013)
15. The Eastbourne Clinic Mother and Baby Unit, Eastbourne, East Sussex (this unit was open in 2010 but not referenced in report closed 2014)
16. Mother and Baby Unit, Godden Green Clinic, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Kent (closed in 2010)
17. York Mother and Baby Unit, Bootham Park Hospital (closed temporarily in 2010 and remained closed)

Source: National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report 2010

Mother and Baby units open in 2015

1. Beadnell Mother and Baby Unit, Morpeth
2. Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
3. Manchester Mother and Baby Unit
4. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Perinatal Psychiatric Services
5. Derby Mother and Baby Unit, Derby City General
6. Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St. George’s Hospital, Stafford
7. Barberry Mother and Baby Unit, Birmingham
8. Thumbswood Mother and Baby Unit, Welwyn
9. Rainbow Mother and Baby Unit, Chelmsford (new unit opened 2013)
10. Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Homerton Hospital
11. Coombe Wood Mother and Baby Unit, Coombe Wood, London
12. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
13. The New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
14. Winchester Mother and Baby Unit, Royal Hampshire County Hospital
15. Florence House Mother and Baby unit, Bournemouth (new unit opened 2013)

Source: NHS England National ERG Report 2015

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many perinatal mental health specialist midwives were in place in each financial year since 2009-10.

Ben Gummer

The information is not collected.

Perinatal mental health specialist midwives, doctors and nurses are not identified separately in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s workforce statistics. Mental health specialists work predominantly in psychiatric services but also across a range of settings and the independent sector.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of the independent living fund in each of the last five years had a diagnosed mental health condition.

Justin Tomlinson

The Independent Living Fund closed on 30 June 2015. The information requested is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Such information as is available can be found on page 10 of the equality impact assessment published on 6 March 2014: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/287236/closure-of-ilf-equality-analysis.pdf.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service there were in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

There were 756 training places commissioned for improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programmes in 2014/15. In addition 509 trainees attended Child and Young People’s (CYP) IAPT courses in 2014/15.

The following table contains an aggregate of the number of training places that have been commissioned in each of the last four financial years for the IAPT programmes. Comparable information relating to the IAPT programmes is not held centrally for the 2011/12 financial year.

2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
IAPT training places commissioned	634	859	756	946

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns

The following table details the number of trainees attending CYP IAPT courses per year of the programme in the last five years.

	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
Trainee Therapist	97	142	252	372	537
Supervisor	30	45	88	86	113
Service Lead	35	48	73	51	114
TOTAL	162	235	413	509	764

Source: NHS England