Written questions

1,124 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the review into the North East Ambulance Service.

12 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have waited for more than 62 days for an urgent referral for cancer to be diagnosed or ruled out in the last year.

12 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful bids for the New Hospitals Programme.

12 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were waiting over 18 months for NHS treatment in England as of 12 July 2023.

12 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish any data his Department holds on the impact of industrial action in the NHS on waiting lists.

12 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department are working on pay negotiations with unions that represent NHS staff.

6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people used the My Planned Care platform (a) in total, (b) to access personalised advice for managing their own health and (c) to choose a different healthcare provider in each of the last

6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people accessed their own patient records through the NHS app in each of the last 12 months.

6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP appointments were booked through the NHS app in each of the last 12 months.

6 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Out-patients: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many virtual outpatient appointments were held in each month since March 2022.

5 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is for ambulance staff working in the NHS broken down by (a) occupation group and (b) each year since 2010.

4 Jul 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors: Strikes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of covering junior doctors' shifts with consultants during the junior doctors’ strike between 13 and 18 July 2023.

20 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Nurses: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses in the NHS are (a) employed on a permanent contract only, (b) work on both permanent contracts and bank shifts and (c) work bank shifts only as of 20 June 2023.

14 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS trusts have electronic patient records in place.

14 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of computers in the NHS that use the (a) Windows XP and (b) Windows 7.

13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Printing Machinery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on (a) printers and (b) paper scanners in 2022.

13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Postage Stamps

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on postage in 2022.

13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Paper

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on paper in 2022.

13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Facsimile Transmission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on fax machines in 2022.

13 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical records

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on (a) implementing digital data standards and (b) ending the use of paper records in each year since 2014.

5 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the pause in procurement of district nursing training courses in September 2023 on (a) the number of district nursing training places and (b

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of when the national suspected suicide surveillance system will be rolled out.

15 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much from the public purse the NHS has paid to (a) Psychiatry-UK LLP and (b) ADHD 360 in each of the last three years.

15 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people the NHS has referred to (a) Psychiatry-UK LLP and (b) ADHD 360 for assessments in each of the last three years.

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the number of new care workers expected to be recruited due to the Made to Care recruitment campaign this year.

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) average and (b) longest response time for calls to 24/7 helplines run by the NHS for patients experiencing a mental health crisis in the past 12 months.

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of calls to 24/7 helplines run by the NHS for patients experiencing a mental health crisis that were (a) made and (b) answered in each of the past 12 month

3 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how may full-time equivalent call handlers his Department has employed to work on NHS-run dedicated 24/7 helplines for patients experiencing a mental health crisis in the last 12 months.

2 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to trusts to put electronic patient records in place.

2 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Public Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's budget for public relations was in each of the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.