Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many mental health providers have been inspected by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last five years; and what the longest period of time is that a mental health provider has been without inspection since 2010.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. The CQC is responsible for assessing whether providers are meeting the fundamental standards. The CQC provided the following information:

Since the introduction of the CQC’s new inspection regime in September 2013 the CQC has conducted 34 ratings inspections across NHS mental health providers (these providers have 639 separate locations). This is around two thirds of all NHS providers with a primary inspection category of mental health registered with CQC. The CQC has also conducted 99 inspections across independent mental health locations, including substance misuse services.

The CQC is unable to provide a detailed breakdown of data prior to September 2013 when the new style of inspection was introduced due to the disproportionate cost of compiling this data.

There are a number of mental health locations that have not been inspected since 2010. When inspecting NHS mental health providers CQC does not necessarily inspect every single location.

The focus of all CQC inspections is on the quality and safety of services, based on the things that matter to people. We always ask the following five key questions of services: Are they safe? Are they effective? Are they caring? Are they responsive to people’s needs? Are they well-led?

The CQC expects to complete its inspections of mental health providers by the end of June 2016, with the exception of intendent standalone substance misuse services, which are on a longer timetable as we have just begun to roll out our new approach to these services.

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 1^st April 2013 and 31^st 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.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) submitted a local transformation plan for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing before the first-wave deadline of 18 September 2015; and how many CCGs have still to submit such a plan.

Alistair Burt

31 local transformation plans, representing 54 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were submitted by the first wave deadline of 18 September. A total of 102 plans are expected to be submitted by 16 October representing the remaining 155 CCGs.

CCGs were given two opportunities to submit plans – on the 18 September and 16 October 2015. The first submission date is in recognition that some CCGs were advanced in their plans for local improvement and already had a Children and Adult Mental Health strategy and plan in place. It is expected that the vast majority of submissions will have been received by 16 October 2015.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken since October 2010 to ensure that local authorities and other interested parties are applying and interpreting the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations in accordance with his Department’s Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made the Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007 available on the Department’s website and has regularly met with local authorities; the Advertising Standards Authority; the Food Standards Agency; the industry trade association and individual businesses to ensure that the Department’s advice is communicated to businesses and enforcers. Enforcement action, which could potentially result in court action, is carried out by local authorities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many quick service restaurants have endorsed all eight nutrition-based Responsibility Deal pledges to date.

Jane Ellison

Full details of the quick service restaurants and other out-of-home catering businesses who have signed up to the nutrition-based Responsibility Deal (RD) pledges are available on the RD website at:

https://responsibilitydeal.dh.gov.uk/pledges/

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations are enforced, (b) guidance is provided to interested parties and the Advertising Standards Authority in line with his Department’s Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007 and (c) necessary court action is taken to stop violations or settle questions of interpretation.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made the Guidance Notes on the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007 available on the Department’s website and has regularly met with local authorities; the Advertising Standards Authority; the Food Standards Agency; the industry trade association and individual businesses to ensure that the Department’s advice is communicated to businesses and enforcers. Enforcement action, which could potentially result in court action, is carried out by local authorities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the annual cost of Meningitis B to (a) the NHS and (b) social care.

Jane Ellison

The impact of meningococcal B disease to the National Health Service and social care were included as part of the estimated cost effectiveness analysis by Christensen et al. in their study published in the BMJ on 10 October 2014, ‘Re-evaluating cost effectiveness of universal meningitis vaccination (Bexsero) in England: modelling study’ (BMJ 2014; 349: g5725).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote best practice for sexual health amongst local authorities and (b) disseminate good practice shown by local authorities on sexual health.

Jane Ellison

The Government’s ambitions for sexual health are set out in A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England (March 2013); a copy of which has already been placed in the Library. The first annual review of progress towards the ambitions in the Framework is in development and will include case studies of good and promising local practice. The Department, in partnership with other organisations including Public Health England, Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Public Health, has also produced a number of documents to assist local authorities to fulfil their new role in relation to sexual health commissioning.