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Domestic Students of Medicine — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: Does my right hon. Friend agree that Kent, with its excellent academic institutions and strong life sciences sector, would be an ideal location for a new medical school, and will he support emerging plans to establish one?
Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns (Conservative, Centre-right): Given the importance of training new doctors and nurses to the future of the health service, will my right hon. Friend welcome the building, which will commence later this summer at the Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, of a new medical school that is solely there to train doctors to meet the needs of people in Essex and beyond its borders?
Domestic Students of Medicine — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: Does my right hon. Friend agree that Kent, with its excellent academic institutions and strong life sciences sector, would be an ideal location for a new medical school, and will he support emerging plans to establish one?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I absolutely welcome that, and I know my right hon. Friend has personally championed it as a local MP. The historical mistake that those on both sides of the House have made is not to do long-term workforce planning for the NHS, and that is something we want to put right.
Domestic Students of Medicine — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: Does my right hon. Friend agree that Kent, with its excellent academic institutions and strong life sciences sector, would be an ideal location for a new medical school, and will he support emerging plans to establish one?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My response is the one I give many times in this House, which is to stress to all those doctors how valued they are as critical parts of the NHS. We do not see any evidence of the number of doctors joining from the EU going down. The NHS is one of the best health services in the world, and it is a great place for people from other countries to work and train.
Domestic Students of Medicine — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: Does my right hon. Friend agree that Kent, with its excellent academic institutions and strong life sciences sector, would be an ideal location for a new medical school, and will he support emerging plans to establish one?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady needs to be very careful in her use of statistics, because she will know that one reason for the drop in the number of nurses coming from the EU is that prior to the Brexit vote we introduced much stricter language tests, as that is better for the safety of patients and a very important thing that we need to get right. We are very confident that nurses will continue to want to work in the NHS, because it is a great place to work.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Between February 2016 and January 2017, there were just under 3,500 waits of longer than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission. That is completely unacceptable, which is why the Government took urgent steps to free up NHS bed capacity in this month’s Budget.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): Thank you, Mr Speaker. To continue, let me say that in this so-called "drastically underfunded NHS", the hon. Lady’s local hospital—St George’s in Tooting—now has 36 more doctors working in A&E than there were in 2010. However, we also think that as a lot of people go to A&E departments with minor injuries and things that can be dealt with by GPs, we need to have GPs on site, and this Parliament we are planning to have 5,000 more doctors working in general practice.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): On the contrary, we have not abandoned the 95% target—we have reiterated its importance. There is, however, one part of the United Kingdom that has said it wants to move away from the 95% target—Wales. The Welsh Health Minister said last week: "You can go to A&E and be there five hours but have…a good experience." That is not looking after patients; it is giving up on them.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jason McCartney (Conservative, Centre-right): On this important issue of A&Es, does the Secretary of State agree that it makes no sense at all for my local clinical commissioning group to be bringing forward a business case to spend an extra £300 million on bulldozing Huddersfield royal infirmary and downgrading our A&E?
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I recognise the very strong arguments my hon. Friend makes and the strong campaigning he does on behalf of his constituents. We are waiting for the final recommendations to come from his local CCG, but I agree that too often we have closed beds in the NHS when we do not have alternative capacity in the community, and we need to be very careful not to repeat that mistake.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Huw William Merriman (Conservative, Centre-right): The cost of presenting with a minor ailment at a pharmacy is only 10% of the cost of presenting at A&E. What more can be done to help persuade those who present themselves to A&E that the pharmacy sector could be a better use of their time?
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I entirely agree with my hon. Friend on that. Despite the current debates, the pharmacy sector has a very bright future, and we have set up a £40 million integration fund precisely to help pharmacists to play more of a role in the NHS and, in particular, to reduce pressure on A&Es.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I accept responsibility for everything that happens in the NHS, including the fact that, compared with 2010, we are seeing 2,500 more patients within four hours every single day. We are also seeing a big increase in demand, which is why there were particular measures in the Budget to make sure that we return to the 95% target, including £2 billion for social care, which is £2 billion more than the Labour party promised for social care at the election.
A&E Waiting Times — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What estimate he has made of the number of patients who waited more than 12 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.; What assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours to be admitted to A&E in the last 12 months.
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): The urgent care centre at Corby has done much to relieve the pressures on Kettering A&E, and it is a class leader. Given the announcement of £100 million for new triaging projects, would the Secretary of State like to visit the Corby urgent care centre to see this beacon of best practice at first hand?
Cough-assist Machines — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical commissioning groups follow best practice commissioning policy on access to cough-assist machines for people with muscle-wasting conditions.
David Mowat (Conservative, Centre-right): Cough-assist machines are one of a variety of respiratory treatments that may be appropriate for sufferers of conditions such as motor neurone disease or muscular dystrophy. In the end, it is a matter of clinical judgment.
Cough-assist Machines — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical commissioning groups follow best practice commissioning policy on access to cough-assist machines for people with muscle-wasting conditions.
David Mowat (Conservative, Centre-right): It is not for the Government to direct clinicians regarding the efficacy of particular treatments; it is for clinicians to decide, based on guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and others. In developing its recent motor neurone disease guidance, NICE found that the evidence base for the routine use of cough-assist machines was weak. However, the matter is kept under review, so that may change as and if new data emerge.
NHS: Export of Procedures — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Philip Martin Dunne (Conservative, Centre-right): Many NHS bodies work with their international peers, and each makes its own assessment about the effectiveness of intended collaboration, rather than any determination being made at a national level. Trusts should only pursue opportunities that deliver value for money and do not impair their ability to deliver NHS services.
NHS: Export of Procedures — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Charlotte Leslie (Conservative, Centre-right): A team of clinicians at Southmead hospital in my constituency, led by Professor Tim Draycott, have developed and are now exporting internationally a system of maternity healthcare that is transforming maternity safety and childbirth. What is the Department doing to provide further support and ensure that the evidence base the team have developed is embedded and incorporated in policy making in this place?
NHS: Export of Procedures — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Philip Martin Dunne (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman is an acknowledged expert on diabetes. I have visited facilities around the world, including in Abu Dhabi, where Imperial College London has a joint venture with the diabetes centre there. The UK is an acknowledged expert, and we are launching the national diabetes prevention programme, which will roll out across 10 pilot sites for type 2 diabetes prevention work. I shall encourage the Prime Minister to consider the right hon. Gentleman’s proposal that we expand that work on other trade visits, certainly those for health, around the world.
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): This Government were the first to set a national ambition to eliminate inappropriate out-of-area placements by 2020-21. By then, no adult, child or young person will be sent away from their local area to be treated for a general mental health condition.
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I agree with the hon. Lady and she makes her case very powerfully. We need to make progress and we need to make it fast, particularly for young people, as their recovery can be very closely linked with the potential of their parents to come to visit them. Nearby places such as the Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust, which do not serve her constituents, have eliminated out-of-area placements and saved £2 million in the process. It is about spreading that best practice.
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.; Schools are often the first point of contact for young people with mental health problems. Does the Secretary of State share my view that we must ensure that school-age children have access to mental health services wherever they are?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend speaks very wisely on this matter. In the end, schools are a vital place in which to spot mental health conditions early. We know that around half of mental health conditions become established before the age of 14, and this will be a big part of the Green Paper that we publish later this year.
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.; Schools are often the first point of contact for young people with mental health problems. Does the Secretary of State share my view that we must ensure that school-age children have access to mental health services wherever they are?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I can reassure the hon. Lady that I have had a number of discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Indeed, we are producing a joint Green Paper on health and work precisely to make sure that we address those issues.
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.; Schools are often the first point of contact for young people with mental health problems. Does the Secretary of State share my view that we must ensure that school-age children have access to mental health services wherever they are?
Philip Andrew Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): Some innovative and award-winning work is being done by Bradford District NHS Care Trust. It is working alongside excellent voluntary organisations and charitable organisations such as the Cellar Trust in Shipley, which is delivering much improved support for mental health patients. Will the Secretary of State congratulate the work that is being done in Bradford, and would he like to pay a visit so that he can share this best practice with other parts of the UK?
Mental Health Treatment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Questions: What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of mental health patients having to travel out of their local area for treatment.; Schools are often the first point of contact for young people with mental health problems. Does the Secretary of State share my view that we must ensure that school-age children have access to mental health services wherever they are?
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): With great respect to the hon. Lady, we are the first Government to count out-of-area placements, and to commit to eradicating them. What she does not tell the House is the context, which is the biggest expansion in mental health provision anywhere in Europe, with 1,400 more people being treated every single day, and an extra £342 million being spent this year on mental health compared with last year.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): As part of our plan to improve access to general practice, we are taking steps to ensure that there will be an extra 5,000 doctors by 2020. We are increasing the number of GP training places, recruiting up to 500 doctors from overseas and encouraging doctors who have retired to return to general practice.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
David James Mackintosh (Conservative, Centre-right): I am aware of a number of issues with the recruitment of GPs in my constituency, such as at St Luke’s surgery in Duston. Will my right hon. Friend meet me to discuss the issues with that surgery in particular?
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): I am very happy to meet my hon. Friend. He will know that the surgery got an £80,000 grant this year through NHS England’s general practice resilience scheme, but I am aware that there are lots of pressures on surgeries such as St Luke’s and I am happy to talk about it further.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady is absolutely right that areas such as Lincolnshire find it particularly difficult to attract GP recruits, which is why we have set up a fund that gives new GP trainees a financial incentive to move to some of the more remote parts of the country. This is beginning to have some effect, and I am happy to write to her with more details.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (Conservative, Centre-right): I warmly welcome the Secretary of State’s efforts to recruit more GPs, and I know that he wants all GPs and, indeed, doctors to have high levels of job satisfaction. Is he aware of the fact that reasonable numbers of doctors are leaving the UK to work overseas? Given the cost of medical training and the money that taxpayers put into that education, will he look at that issue, perhaps by requiring a certain commitment to the NHS?
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend raises an important point. There is currently no evidence of an increase in the number of doctors going to work abroad, but there is an issue of fairness because it costs around £230,000 to train a doctor over five years. In return for that, there should be some commitment to spend some time working in the NHS, and we are consulting on that at the moment.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): During my time as Health Secretary, the real-terms investment in general practice has gone up by £700 million or 8%, and we are planning to increase it by 14%—£2.4 billion—over this Parliament. A lot of extra money is going in, but I recognise that there are still a lot of pressures.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick (Conservative, Centre-right): The Secretary of State’s plans to recruit doctors will be widely welcomed in Leicestershire, but should he not be making greater use of already properly regulated practitioners—those who are regulated by the Professional Standards Authority—of whom there are 20,000, including hypnotherapists?
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend’s ingenuity in bringing these issues up in question after question never ceases to amaze me. As he knows, we recognise that the pressure in primary care cannot just be borne by general practice, but we must always follow the science as to where we get our help from.
GP Recruitment — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that we set up the CCGs. I remind him that CCGs came together without central prescription as to what their size should be, but we will always listen to the advice we get on the ground if people want to change their size.
Mental Health: Digital Platforms — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Nicola Blackwood (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister herself announced our commitment to developing and expanding digital mental health services, and we have backed that with an investment of more than £65 million. This work includes improving digital technology for the mental healthcare system, developing digital tools and therapies, and improving mental health information and services provided through nhs.uk and 111 platforms.
Mental Health: Digital Platforms — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Mary Josephine Robinson (Conservative, Centre-right): The Minister will know that for people with mental health problems, attending accident and emergency or going to see their GP is not always the best point of intervention, so I welcome measures to improve accessibility. Stockport Healthy Minds, which serves my constituency of Cheadle, provides a range of services such as online self-help courses, one-to-one therapy sessions, and group workshops. What is her Department doing to provide projects like Healthy Minds with the support and accessibility they need?
Mental Health: Digital Platforms — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Nicola Blackwood (Conservative, Centre-right): In addition to the funding that we are providing to improve the mental health pathways through nhs.uk and 111, we are providing £500,000 for the development of six digital tools, with a particular focus on children and young people’s mental health. I pay tribute to the work of Healthy Minds in my hon. Friend’s constituency and to her own championing of this issue.
Mental Health: Digital Platforms — House of Commons, 2017-03-21
Topic: Health
Nicola Blackwood (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman misrepresents the situation entirely. Not only are we investing an extra £1 billion year in mental health services and expanding mental health services at a faster rate than anywhere else in Europe, but we have invested £15 million extra in places of safety for those in crisis and are expanding triage services, precisely to address the problem that he raises of those in mental health crisis who come into contact with the criminal justice service.