David Mowat: The police investigation into this matter remains on-going. Derbyshire Police has advised that the scale and nature of this enquiry naturally means that this is a protracted and complex investigation. The timescales for any system-wide Serious Case Review or Learning Review will depend on the outcome of current police enquiries.
David Mowat: Following the Budget announcements, local authorities in England will receive an additional £2 billion for social care over the next three years. This funding will allow councils to support more people and sustain a diverse care market. It will also help to ease pressures on the National Health Service, by supporting more people to be discharged from hospital and into care as soon as they...
David Mowat: The Department has made no such estimate. Products allowable on a National Health Service prescription should be for the treatment of a medical condition, which can include diagnosis and prevention. This does not include items that could be considered more appropriate for the social care of an individual, for example, incontinence pads or sanitary products.
David Mowat: The latest general practice workforce statistics are from September 2016. The information requested is attached. GPs North West England September 2016 (Excel SpreadSheet, 24.35 KB)
David Mowat: In 2015/16, spend on General Practitioner Learning Disabilities Directed Enhanced Services (DES) was £12.376 million. Under the DES, patients aged 14 and over with learning disabilities are offered an annual health check, which includes producing a health action plan. The National Audit Office has recently estimated that the annual cost of supporting a person with challenging behaviour and...
David Mowat: Hubs are not about surgery closures — that has never been this Government's policy intention and we are supporting general practice with a 14% real terms increase in funding. Many general practices are already working together to support larger populations and in the future there will be even more opportunities for collaboration so that practices can work at scale when necessary, while...
David Mowat: The Department can confirm following a detailed search of its Business Management Services database, that “The Evening Standard” is not a registered supplier and consequently hold no records of any spend on advertising costs since 2010 with this newspaper.
David Mowat: Since July 2016, one individual from Ernst and Young has been seconded to the Department.
David Mowat: The Government believes that people have the right to a higher wage and not be punished by higher taxes. As part of this, from April 2016, we introduced a new mandatory National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and above, and this will rise to £7.50 an hour in 2017. We insist that employers pay at least the National Minimum Wage. The Department may hold information, however a full and...
David Mowat: The Department’s standard terms and conditions over £100,000 include clauses relating to Staff Transfer. To provide a specific number would involve manually checking each contract and therefore would attract a disproportionate cost. Responses from all of the Department’s Non-Departmental Public Bodies and its agencies, including special health authorities are as noted below. NHS...
David Mowat: The Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2017-18 was published and laid before Parliament on 20 March 2017, ahead of coming into force on 1 April 2017.
David Mowat: The Department does not hold figures on this. However, the British Heart Foundation was awarded £1 million by the Department in both 2015/16 and 2016/17 to invest in public access defibrillators. NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention is supporting the British Heart Foundation in its work to identify the location of public access defibrillators....
David Mowat: The pay grades of the 11.5 civil servants in the Department’s contract management team is as follows: Grade Number of Posts SCS 1 1 6 3 7 3 SEO 3 HEO 1 EO 0.5 National pay range: Grade Minimum Recruitment and Development Ceiling Upper Rate Maximum AO £17,988 £18,507 £20,567 £20,567 EO £22,088 £22,724 £25,436 £26,775/£28,112* HEO...
David Mowat: Local areas are responsible for engaging with the staff, patients and the public, as well as organisations which may include schools and colleges. This information is not held centrally.
David Mowat: There are no plans to develop a national strategy for eye health. NHS England and the Department contribute to and support the current voluntary sector led England Vision Strategy. Given the size of England, and the diversity of the health needs of different communities, we believe commissioning needs to be owned and managed locally. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for...
David Mowat: The information requested for England is shown in the table below. Data in respect of Wales would be a matter for its administration. Number of people registered as blind or partially sighted as at 31 March 2014 (Data for England only) Number of people registered as at 31 March1 Blind Partially Sighted Total 2014 143,385 147,715 291,100 Source: NHS Digital Notes: 1. Data are...
David Mowat: Eye (ophthalmic) treatment is largely delivered in secondary care with some services also offered in the community. Patient choice applies to ophthalmic treatment services as it does to any other NHS service commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Unless specified exclusions apply this means for secondary care that upon referral patients must be offered a choice of any...
David Mowat: We have received a number of representations on this subject including correspondence from United Response, Mencap and a range of stakeholders.
David Mowat: With regard to utilising the important role that community pharmacists fulfil, measures announced on 20 October 2016 mean that from 1 December 2016, we have helped to relieve pressure on other parts of the National Health Service, by embedding pharmacy into the urgent care pathway, including for those who need urgent repeat prescriptions and treatment for urgent minor ailments and common...
David Mowat: The Government has no current plans to require clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to include a representative of local pharmacists on their governing boards. However, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 allows CCGs to appoint pharmacists to governing boards as lay members, in accordance with their constitutions.