The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) proportion and (b) number of mental health providers have been inspected by the Care Quality Commission under its new inspection regime.
Ben Gummer
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 16 October 2015 to Question 11780.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish guidance for Jobcentre Plus staff Managing Customers’ Self-Harm and Suicidal Declarations; and if he will place a copy in the Library.
Priti Patel
A copy of the current guidance was placed in the Library on 20th July 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 (a) doctors and (b) nurses were in place in each 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 2015-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the net change has been in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds since 2010.
Alistair Burt
Since 2010 there has been a net reduction in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds from 118 beds in 2010 to 115 beds in 2015.
Since 2010 there has been a net reduction of mother and baby units from 17 units to 15 units.
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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 admissions there were in each financial year since 2009-10.
Alistair Burt
The information requested is in the table. It shows the count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of a mental health issue associated with the puerperium in each year from 2009-10 to 2013-14.
Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector
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Year |
Count of FAEs |
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2009-10 |
278 |
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2010-11 |
307 |
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2011-12 |
267 |
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2012-13 |
325 |
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2013-14 |
325 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre
Note:
An FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.
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:
Source: National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report 2010
Mother and Baby units open in 2015
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 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hours of mental health training is required as part of the mandatory training course for (a) student doctors, (b) student nurses and (c) midwives.
Ben Gummer
As the professional regulators 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 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to prepare for the implementation of waiting time standards for eating disorder services in April 2016.
Alistair Burt
On 3 August 2015, NHS England and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health published a commissioning guide for clinical commissioning groups that will set out how to prepare for the access and waiting time standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder ready for implementation of the standard. The standard is that children and young people with eating disorders should be seen within four weeks or one week in urgent cases.
From January 2016, compliance with this standard will be monitored via the Health and Social Care Information Centre website based on the data collected through the Mental Health Services Data Set. This will provide a baseline for planning and implementation from 2017-2018, when the standard will come into force. From 2016, the data will be used to measure progress with a view to 95% of young people meeting the standard by 2020.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people referred for talking therapies received cognitive behaviour therapy in each of the last five years.
Alistair Burt
Information on the proportion of people referred for talking therapies who received cognitive behavioural therapy during 2013/14 is given on the attached table Proportion of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) referrals that finished a course of treatment between 1st April 2013 and 31st March 2014, for selected therapy types, England. Information for previous years is not available centrally. Information on 2014/15 will be published in November 2015.