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NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): Our NHS workers—from the doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to the healthcare assistants, porters and all those who work behind the scenes—are truly heroes. I wish to say a special thank you to students: thank you to the medical students and nursing students who courageously stepped up to work at the frontline in a global pandemic. I am determined to do all that we can for our NHS workers. We have set up a round-the-clock mental health support line, which includes a freephone helpline run by the Samaritans and an out-of-hours text support service provided by Shout.
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Cherilyn Mackrory (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank the Minister for her answer and wish her a very happy birthday Due to physical challenges with geography in rural communities, such as much of my Truro and Falmouth constituency, there can be higher incidences of mental health issues, loneliness and isolation, and that has been intensified by the covid-19 pandemic. Will my hon. Friend provide an update on departmental plans for support for mental health issues in rural communities?
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we anticipate an increase in demand for mental health support, including in rural communities, as a result of the pandemic. We are working with the NHS and a wide range of stakeholders to understand the need for mental health support all over the country and to make sure that that support is in place.
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Jane Fiona Catherine Stevenson (Conservative, Centre-right): In my regular meetings with the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, the issue of staff mental health has been repeatedly raised as a serious concern, especially among staff who are working with covid patients. Will the Minister join me in thanking those staff at New Cross Hospital and reassuring them that mental health support will be available for all staff who need it?
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): I would be delighted to join my hon. Friend in thanking the staff at New Cross Hospital for all that they have been doing in these incredibly difficult times. Mental health support absolutely should be, and is, there. There is the mental health support helpline and the text messaging service. It is also really important that NHS trusts take steps locally to ensure that their staff have the support that they need.
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): The clap for carers initiative was fantastic because it was a moment when we showed, as a nation, our support for our health and social care workers, but my right hon. and learned Friend is right that clapping is not enough. One thing that I want to do in the months ahead is bring forward the people plan—work that had to be paused because of covid—and to ensure that it includes all possible support for the NHS workforce, so that the NHS can be the best place to work in the world.
NHS Workers: Mental Health — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Member is absolutely right about how hard it has been for NHS staff stepping up, and we cannot say enough how grateful we are for what they have done. I also recognise the mental health burdens on the NHS workforce who have worked in these really stressful circumstances. It is important not only that the package of support is there now, but that it is there for some time to come, because we know that the trauma and effects of working in these environments may take a while to play through.
Cancer Targets — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): As my hon. Friend knows, one of our key commitments was to diagnose more cancers earlier. Through NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Government have committed over £1.3 billion to deliver this, including with an overhaul of screening programmes and new investment in state-of-the-art technology to transform the process of diagnosis and to boost research and innovation. I am sure that he will welcome the fact that 18 rapid diagnostic centres towards our target of 40 are already up and running, as well as the introduction of personalised care plans, which he and I both consider very important.
Cancer Targets — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Johanna Peta Churchill (Conservative, Centre-right): There are lessons to be learned; that is essence of my hon. Friend’s question. I have met both Cally Palmer and Professor Peter Johnson throughout the crisis, and our focus on cancer has remained. Ensuring that we deliver on the long-term plan is a key objective, and I am sure that my hon. Friend will work with me on that.
Health and Social Care Workers — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): Our health and social care workforce are at the frontline in fighting this cruel disease. I would particularly like to talk about social care workers, who in the past have not had the same recognition as NHS workers. Let this pandemic be the moment when that changed and when we, as a society, recognise the skills, compassion and commitment of our entire care workforce. We have sought to put in place the same support for social care workers as there is for NHS workers and funding to local authorities to pass on to care providers, so that they can pay social care staff full wages for isolating due to covid-19.
Covid-19: Continuing Healthcare — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): We know that people who have been very ill with covid will take some time to recover and may need ongoing help after they have left hospital. At the moment, as part of the covid emergency measures, continuing healthcare assessments are not required, which means that people can be properly discharged when they are well enough and have access to the ongoing healthcare they need.
Covid-19: Continuing Healthcare — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin (Conservative, Centre-right): Happy birthday to the Minister. Our wonderful NHS staff have helped so many people recover from this terrible disease and leave hospital, and many of them will have been ventilated for a long time. Is the Minister planning to set up a specialist service that helps with those very difficult cases where a lot of rehabilitation will be needed?
Covid-19: Continuing Healthcare — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend raises an important point. We are still learning about the impact of this horrible disease, but we know it may take people some time to recover and they may need extra help after they have been discharged from hospital. We are indeed doing work to ensure that the right support is there for them.
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Thanks to unprecedented action, we have protected the NHS. It was not overwhelmed during the peak of this crisis, and all covid-19 patients admitted to hospital were able to receive urgent treatment that they needed. We remain vigilant.
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We are putting in a huge amount of support for maternity services and other services across the NHS in England. Of course, when it comes to the hon. Gentleman’s constituents in Glasgow, he will have to ask the SNP Government.
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Simon James Jupp (Conservative, Centre-right): Local construction firms are working around the clock to build the NHS Nightingale hospital in Exeter, based in my constituency of East Devon. I am sure the Secretary of State will agree that we all hope it will never have to be used. Can he assure my constituents that the Nightingale will help the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, our community hospitals and our health and wellbeing hub to continue to focus efforts on delivering the superb services that they are well known for across East Devon?
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely. My hon. Friend is a great advocate for Devon, and for East Devon in particular. The Nightingale Hospital in Exeter will have more flexible uses than the previous Nightingales, so, for instance, it will be usable should there be extra winter pressures. This is all part of protecting our NHS. At the heart of our response to this dreadful disease, we protected the NHS, making sure it was always there for everyone. That has been down to, and is a testament to, the work of so many people, who delivered on that requirement.
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Gareth Mark Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): Yesterday, our local NHS trust, the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, temporarily downgraded and closed emergency admissions at Grantham and District Hospital, in response to covid-19. After many years of uncertainty, there is understandable scepticism about this latest move by the trust. Will the Secretary of State join me in calling on the trust to ensure that these changes are indeed temporary and that covid is not used as cover to make them permanent?
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Thanks to my hon. Friend’s assiduous work on behalf of his constituents in Grantham, and at his suggestion, I discussed this issue directly with NHS officials. Grantham’s unit will be open, 24/7, as an urgent treatment centre; this is part of plans to ensure that covid and non-covid services are kept as separate as possible. In addition, thanks to his intervention, we will ensure that that position will be reviewed quarterly.
Covid-19: Next Phase — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We have increased by about 10,000 the number of nurses in the NHS in the past year, and during the crisis that number increased further. We also set out at the start how we are paying student nurses, as they stepped up to the mark, as the hon. Gentleman rightly said. I am delighted that so many of them did, and we are sticking to the agreements that we set out with the student nurses at the start of the crisis.
Covid-19: Testing Kits for Care Homes — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): We are doing all we can to help care homes control and prevent covid outbreaks, and the majority of care homes have not had outbreaks. Testing is an important part of that. On 11 May, we launched a programme of testing all staff and residents in care homes, starting with older people and those with dementia, based on public health guidance. We met our target of offering tests to all these care homes by 6 June, which involved sending more than 1 million test kits to 9,000 care homes. We are now getting tests out to all the other Care Quality Commission-registered care homes for adults that ordered them on the testing portal.
Covid-19: Testing Kits for Care Homes — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
David Anthony Andrew Amess (Conservative, Centre-right): Further to what my hon. Friend has said, will she confirm that there is a rolling programme to test for covid-19 in our care homes? Recently, a care home in my constituency had a whole-home test and found that someone was positive. When it then asked for another test for everyone, it was told by NHS England that it was not eligible, and that cannot be right.
Covid-19: Testing Kits for Care Homes — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately (Conservative, Centre-right): I will say two things on that. First, when a care home has a new outbreak, either for the first time or after having recovered from a previous outbreak, it should contact its local health protection team to arrange for initial testing of symptomatic residents, in order to confirm the outbreak. The local health protection team or the director of public health can then refer the care home to the national testing team so that it can be prioritised for whole-home testing.
Mesh Treatment — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Nadine Vanessa Dorries (Conservative, Centre-right): Departmental officials have been working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to establish means of specialist support for those women requiring it. NHS England is in the process of commissioning a number of mesh removal centres, which it hopes to be operational later this year. We urge anyone who has concerns about their treatment to speak to a clinician.
Mesh Treatment — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Giles Francis Watling (Conservative, Centre-right): I thank my hon. Friend for her answer, but I understand from constituents that many women have to travel miles for their operations in great discomfort, and that when they get there, they are told they are not eligible. As the Minister said, the mesh recovery centres have not yet been opened. I have met women who are going through utter pain and torment as a result of surgical mesh surgery. There are concerns that English and Welsh patients do not get the same monetary help as their Scottish counterparts. What is the Minister doing to address these issues?
Mesh Treatment — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Nadine Vanessa Dorries (Conservative, Centre-right): On access to services, NHS England advises that it is aware of the negative impact that covid-19 is having on patients during what is a very challenging period. As a result of my hon. Friend’s question, I will ask officials to look into why women may or may not be eligible for services during this time. As healthcare is devolved, the Scottish element of his question is a matter for the Scottish Government. I would advise anyone who intends to make a claim for compensation or is having difficulty seeking services to seek independent advice or see a clinician. It is important to reiterate that NHS England is currently in the process of commissioning those specialist services for mesh removal, which it hopes will be operational later this year.
Covid-19: Vaccine — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Vaccine development is progressing well, with human clinical trials underway by both the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. We are also exploring how other vaccines, both from the UK and internationally, can be deployed here should they show promise.
Covid-19: Vaccine — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Alun Craig Williams (Conservative, Centre-right): Can my right hon. Friend reassure me, the House and my Welsh constituents in Montgomeryshire that if and when a vaccine for covid-19 is developed, it will be rolled out in a UK-wide partnership? Will he work with the devolved healthcare systems but ensure that the vaccine is UK-accessed?
Covid-19: Vaccine — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, of course. That is an incredibly important question for anybody living in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, like my hon. Friend’s constituents. The vaccine programme is being taken forward on a UK-wide basis. Of course people living in the devolved nations should have access to vaccines according to a prioritisation that is clinical and not based on where people live. We will absolutely work with the devolved authorities on the delivery and deployment of that vaccine. Of course, we want the whole country to get the vaccines, if they become available, according to clinical priority.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Yesterday, clinicians set out our advice for those who are shielding because they are clinically extremely vulnerable. The whole House will want to pay tribute to the enormous sacrifice of that group, who are among the most vulnerable to covid-19. Very shortly, the Prime Minister will set out to the House the next steps to get the country back on her feet.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Anthony Edward Timpson (Conservative, Centre-right): There is no doubt that lockdown has taken its toll on the mental health and wellbeing of many children of all ages, whether by way of social isolation, physical inactivity or a sense of loss. I know that my right hon. Friend is very exercised by that, so, as we understand more about the impact, will he look again at the long-term NHS plan to establish whether it is really able to meet what will be a more acute challenge in the future?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): That is a very important question on supporting children’s mental health. We absolutely reiterate the long-term plan ambitions for service transformation and expansion. Indeed, one of the things we have learned during coronavirus is that when it comes to paediatric mental health, telemedicine can actually have a better and more effective impact than face to face. That is a good thing to have learned and will help the roll-out further.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): On the contrary, ensuring that we use technology to its best possible effects is incredibly important. I would have thought that the shadow Secretary of State would want to side with and support the efforts of all those, including in the NHS, who are doing the work to ensure that we can get this up and running as quickly as possible.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): The shadow Secretary of State is far better when he supports the Government than when he pretends to oppose them. We have all seen him explaining why the steps that the Government are taking are the sensible ones, why it is important to move from a national lockdown as much as is safely possible to local outbreak control, and why test and trace is important. When he gets on to saying that the money we have spent to protect the NHS and put in place the actions needed to get us out of the lockdown is wasted, I think that that is opposition for opposition’s sake.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): I am absolutely delighted that my right hon. Friend will be able to follow guidance and take more steps out after 6 July. The decisions on shielding were all based on the best clinical advice. Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer, has led the medical advice on this programme with great élan and wisdom. The reason that we are able to make these changes and recommend these steps to my right hon. Friend and the 2.2 million others in his situation is that we have protected the NHS and got the virus right under control.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Of course it has been necessary to have tight controls over visitors in hospitals during this crisis, because people picking up nosocomial infections in hospital has been one part of the epidemic that we need to get under control. My heart goes out to those many people who have made sacrifices, including the hon. Member’s constituent, and of course we always keep this under review.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Laura Rose Farris (Conservative, Centre-right): As we return to normality, we inevitably run a risk of a second wave of the virus. What infection threshold would my right hon. Friend consider sufficient to warrant further lockdown, and what criteria would be applied to determine the geographical ambit of any future lockdown?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. She may have seen this morning that in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia has been put back into lockdown because of a local outbreak. So far, the local outbreaks we have seen have essentially been clusters in very small areas, and we have been able to bust those clusters and tackle them. We do, of course, hold the powers to have wider local lockdowns. Those will be based on judgments based on the epidemiological advice and advised by the joint biosecurity centre, working with all the relevant agencies.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): We will bring forward that White Paper. The work has been ongoing even while we have been dealing with coronavirus. As far as I am concerned, the Wessely review is one of the finest pieces of work on the treatment of mental ill health that has been done anywhere in the world.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Simon Robert Maurice Baynes (Conservative, Centre-right): We have just marked Loneliness Awareness Week. Does the Secretary of State agree that combating loneliness is vital in ensuring the health and wellbeing of elderly people? I have seen excellent work at the Rainbow Centre in Penley in my constituency and by the charity I helped to set up, the Concertina Charitable Trust, which provides live music in care homes and day centres.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Culture
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Absolutely. When we set up the loneliness strategy in 2018, when I was the Culture Secretary, I had no idea that covid-19 would make it so vital. I very much hope that, in England at least, the measures the Prime Minister is due to set out very shortly might help in that regard. Covid has underlined the importance of loneliness as an issue that we must directly and actively tackle.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Because this is a big team effort by a combination of public and private sector partners. I pay tribute to Deloitte, without which the testing programme would not be possible. I pay tribute to all the pharmaceutical companies and I pay tribute to Amazon, which has delivered the home testing with remarkable success. Instead of trying to divide, we should unite and bring people together.
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Gary William Sambrook (Conservative, Centre-right): Dr David Rosser and his team at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS foundation trust have done amazing work during the pandemic to make sure that people in Birmingham are safe and cared for. Will the Secretary of State give them all the flexibility and support they need to ensure that services at hospitals like Queen Elizabeth can go back to normal as quickly and as safely as possible?
Topical Questions — House of Commons, 2020-06-23
Topic: Health
Matthew John David Hancock (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes. David Rosser is a great leader of a very, very impressive trust. I was speaking to him only last week. There is an important lesson from covid, which is that many of the NHS central rules and much of the bureaucracy was lifted to allow local systems to respond as a health system. That has worked well. We need to learn from that. We need to not only make that permanent, but see where we can go further in that sort of system working.