18 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat percentage of the increase in NHS England funding will be dedicated to staffing budgets.
ReplyDecisions on the allocation of resources for 2025/26 have not yet been finalised. NHS England will continue to prioritise the allocation of funding to support frontline services.
18 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow much and what proportion of the funding for NHS England announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 will be spent on (a) National Insurance contribution increases and (b) existing overspends by (i) NHS
ReplyWe have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department, from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.The ...
17 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to help reduce the costs associated with children and young people travelling within the UK for cancer treatment.
ReplyNHS England and the integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning and ensuring the healthcare needs of local communities in England are met, including for children and young people with cancer. The National Health Service in England runs scheme...
16 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow the additional funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will be allocated.
ReplyThere was no additional funding announced for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
16 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to increase levels of awareness on the (a) signs and (b) symptoms of cancer among young people and their families.
ReplyWe are committed to getting the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes in relation to children and young people.NHS England...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhether the rebuild of the Royal Berkshire Hospital will include IT (a) infrastructure and (b) equipment necessary for greater research capacity.
ReplyPlans for the new Royal Berkshire Hospital as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) are at the early stages of development. The trust is currently developing their Strategic Outline Case for the scheme to establish their preferred way forward. This is ...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat data his Department holds on the average cost of (a) bowel and (b) all cancer care at stage (i) 1, (ii), 2, (iii) 3 and (iv) 4 for patients referred by the NHS in England.
ReplyThere is currently no available data on the average cost, broken down into cost per stage, of bowel cancer, or all cancer care. However, the following table shows the cost of cancer treatment in National Health Service trusts, reported over the last five ...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWith reference to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for Health in response to the question from the hon. Member of Wokingham of Wednesday 11 December, Official Report, column 290WH, ho
ReplyI refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave the Hon. Member for York Central on 11 November 2024 to Question 12437.
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to tackle the future demand for cancer services in (a) the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West integrated care board and (b) England.
ReplyThe Department is committed to tackling the future demand for cancer services, and this includes cancer patients in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West Integrated Care Board, and across England.Developing our workforce is key to responding to...
12 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps his Department is taking to improve research capacity for cancer in the (a) Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire integrated care board and b) NHS in England.
ReplyThrough the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Department invests in building research expertise and capacity, and specialist facilities and support services, to support research across all aspects of human health, including cancer...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat the potential cost to the public purse is of diagnostic colonoscopies per foundation trust in each year since since 2020.
ReplyThe attached table shows the potential cost to the public purse of diagnostic colonoscopies per foundation trust, each year since 2020, as well as the spend across all National Health Service foundation trusts for two groups of patient activity, specifica...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat estimate he has made of the proportion of patients that have received a colonoscopy and subsequently been referred to cancer treatment pathways in each of the last five years.
ReplyNo estimate has been made regarding the proportion of patients, in each of the last five years, who received a colonoscopy, and who were then referred to a cancer treatment pathway. The following table shows the proportion of patients who received a colon...
11 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to support the use of (a) medical devices and (b) diagnostic tools after piloting; and what funding his Department provides for such too
ReplyThe Department and NHS England provide support to innovators and systems across the innovation lifecycle, from ideation and design, through to adoption and scaling. A number of policies and programmes are targeted at the adoption of medical devices and di...
10 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedIf he will make it his policy to implement the recommendations of Bowel Cancer UK's report entitled Delivering the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan: A review of progress of bowel cancer in Engla
ReplyThe Health Mission sets the objective of building a National Health Service fit for the future. As part of that work, and in response to Lord Darzi’s report, we have launched an extensive programme of engagement to develop a 10-Year Health Plan to reform ...
10 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow many (a) newly-qualified GPs have been employed and (b) primary care networks have claimed reimbursement under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme GP Sum in each integrated care board sin
ReplyData on the number of general practitioners employed through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme is currently not available.
10 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow much and what proportion of the increase in funding for his Department announced at the Autumn Budget 2024 will be spent on (a) National Insurance contribution increases, (b) pay increases, and
ReplyWe have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department, from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.Nati...
9 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedPursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2024 to Question 13928 on Cancer: Health Services and with reference to the Plan for Change: Milestones for mission-led government, CP 1210, published on 5 Dec
ReplyThe Government recognises the importance of, and remains committed to meeting, all three National Health Service cancer waiting time standards across England. These are the 28-day faster diagnosis standard, the 31-day decision to treat to treatment standa...
5 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedPursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12587 on Breast Cancer: Nurses, whether his Department's plans to train clinical cancer staff will be included in the (a) forthcoming NHS ten-
ReplyThe Government has set out plans to publish a ten-year plan to reform the National Health Service. The plan will be informed by Lord Darzi’s report and will include further details on how we will improve cancer diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. Includin...
5 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps he is taking to ensure that young people with cancer have equity of access to age-appropriate, specialist psychological support in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West Integr
ReplyThe Department is dedicated to ensuring all children and young people with cancer have access to psychological support to help them through their diagnosis and treatment.NHS England has published service specifications that set out the service standards r...
5 Dec 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of cancer in teenagers and young adults in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Integrated Car
ReplyWe are committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so that more patients survive, including children, teenagers, and young adults.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has set out deta...