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.