Written questions

1,124 written questions tabled, most recent first.

26 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of patients (a) waiting for mental healthcare and (b) on NHS waiting lists for physical conditions who are also waiting for mental healthcare.

26 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the maximum capacity in medical schools for students for 2024/25.

26 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Agency Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on agency staff in each year since 2010.

26 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) her Department or (b) NHS England has issued instructions to Integrated Care Boards to freeze any uncommitted expenditure.

22 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Beds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of changes in assumed bed occupancy levels on the (a) number of hospital beds and (b) cost of the New Hospitals Programme.

22 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Knee Replacements: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2024 to Question 12699 on Knee Replacements: Out-patients, what the average number of days was that patients stayed in hospital following knee replacement oper

22 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her Department's policy that GP appointments should be available within two weeks; and what her planned timetable is for meeting that target.

22 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

British Medical Association

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what dates has (a) she, (b) her Ministers and (c) her officials had discussions with representatives of the BMA since 23 December 2023.

22 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2024 to Question 13332, if she will publish the correspondence sent from NHS England to systems and trusts on 25 January on improving A&E performance.

20 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients on an NHS elective waiting list are waiting for (a) a diagnostic test, (b) an outpatient appointment and (c) an elective procedure or surgery in England.

20 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the average cost of a PET scanner.

8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Guidance on Department for Health and Social Care funding for non-consolidated pay awards in non-annex one organisations published in November 2023, when her Department plans

8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Guidance on Department for Health and Social Care funding for non-consolidated pay awards in non-annex one organisations published in November 2023, which NHS organisations ha

6 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the correspondence to NHS trusts requiring emergency departments to prioritise patients not in need of admission to hospital.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fast Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times she has met with representatives of the fast food industry since she was appointed.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings she has held with representatives from obesity charities and organisations since being appointed.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP referrals of patients to eye specialists there were in the last 12 months.

5 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Family Practitioner Services: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS GP appointments for patients with eye conditions there were in the last 12 months.

2 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff have been provided with a NHS Digital Staff Passport as of 31 January 2024.

2 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patient Choice Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of how many patients are aware, before visiting their GP, that they may have a choice of hospital or clinic for their first outpatient appointment.

2 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patient Choice Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of how many patients are being offered a choice between hospital and clinic for their first outpatient appointment each month.

2 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patient Choice Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of patients that were able to discuss with their GP which (a) hospital and (b) clinic they would attend for their first outpatient

2 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patient Choice Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance entitled Elective recovery taskforce: implementation plan, published on 4 August 2023, what the baseline position is for how many patients are accessing choice.

1 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Knee Replacements: Out-patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of knee replacement operations do not require an overnight stay in hospital.

1 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiology: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of outsourcing radiology scans to external teleradiology companies in each of the last five years.

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospital Wards: Gender

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many single sex ward breaches there have been in the NHS in England in each of the last 10 years.

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the financial deficit of each NHS trust was in each of the last five financial years.

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Boards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what were the total financial deficits of each NHS Integrated Care Board in England for the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2021-22 financial year.

31 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent staff have worked on (a) developing and (b) maintaining the My Planned Care platform since 2022-23.

30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Integrated Care Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Integrated Care Boards delivered value-based activity of at least 104% of the 2019/20 baseline in 2022/23; and which Integrated Care Boards did not.

Source: official written-questions record.