Every parliamentary written question tabled by Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What the average waiting time is for an ADHD Assessment in (a) Slough constituency and (b) the South East.
The data requested is not held centrally; it may be held locally by individual National Health Service trusts or commissioners.We are supporting a taskforce that NHS England is establishing to look at attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) servic...
What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the level of funding available for research into (a) Alzheimer's disease and (b) other forms of dementia.
The Department funds research into dementia via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR continues to invest in dementia research across all areas, from causes, diagnosis and prevention to treatment, care and support, including...
What steps they are taking to use (a) artificial intelligence and (b) data to help increase their Department's productivity.
The Department is committed to improving its productivity, including through artificial intelligence (AI), and effective use of data. To make AI and data work, the Department has focused on establishing the enablers for adopting AI responsibly, ethically,...
What steps his Department is taking to improve maternity services in (a) Slough constituency and (b) Berkshire.
The Department is supporting the National Health Service to deliver the three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services across England, to make care safer, personalised, and more equitable for women and babies. Improvement in the Slough and E...
If he will take steps to increase public awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms.
NHS England is already taking steps to deliver a range of interventions to improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms. NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to enc...
What steps he is taking to reduce the impact on the NHS from individuals who repeatedly misuse emergency ambulance services.
Inappropriate calls to 999 for an ambulance can impact on the availability and timeliness of services in a real emergency. All ambulance trusts have policies to deal with inappropriate or vexatious calls, and to manage frequent callers.NHS England deliver...
What assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of maternal health inequalities affecting black women.
It is unacceptable that there are such stark inequalities in maternal outcomes. The Government is committed to closing the black and Asian maternal mortality gap. We are urgently considering the immediate action needed to tackle inequalities for women and...
What steps he is taking to reduce instances of post traumatic stress disorder within the ambulance service.
At a national level, NHS England has a wide-ranging package of support for National Health Service staff. This includes a health and wellbeing guardian role to ensure board level scrutiny of local support systems, a focus on healthy working environments, ...
What recent steps he has taken to meet the target for 85% of cancer patients to be treated within 62 days of referral.
We will get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer on time or earlier, treating it faster, and we will improve patients’ experience across the system.Improving 62-day performance and early diagnosis are already key priorities for NHS England. Lord ...
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the progress of research on treatments for (a) Alzheimer's and (b) dementia.
The Department funds research into dementia via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The Government is investing into research on treatments for dementia, such as the £49.9 million NIHR Dementia Trials Network (D-TN), which will del...
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the levels of non-fatal drug overdoses.
We know that most overdoses take place in the community. They are largely transitory and hidden events, making it difficult to accurately monitor trends in non-fatal overdoses. The Department monitors hospital admissions data for drug poisonings, which pr...
What steps he is taking to help prevent the use of nitazenes.
The Department is actively monitoring the threat posed by synthetic opioids such as nitazenes, and is working to increase awareness of their dangers and prevent people using them. Information on synthetic opioids and the dangers they pose is available fro...
What steps his Department is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for young people in Slough.
It is the responsibility of the NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board to make available appropriate provision to meet the mental health and other care needs of children and young people in Slough.Nationally, we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health work...
What assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mental health services available for young people in Slough.
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board is responsible for making adequate and appropriate provision available to meet the mental health and other care needs of children and young people in Slough.
What steps he plans to take to improve outcomes for people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
We will get the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster so more patients survive this horrible set of diseases, and we will improve patients’ experience across the system, including for pancreatic can...
What steps he is taking to support research into pancreatic cancer.
Research is crucial in tackling cancer. The Department spends £1.5 billion each year on research through its research delivery arm, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), with cancer being the largest area of spend at over £121.8 mill...
What recent steps he has taken to tackle health inequalities affecting women.
Our health mission in England will focus on addressing the social determinants of health, with the goal of halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions. The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health as we...
What recent steps he has taken to increase the uptake of cervical screening appointments.
A range of national improvements and innovations have been implemented to help increase uptake in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme. In some areas cervical screening appointments can now be made in any primary care setting rather than just at an indivi...
How many people have been diagnosed with ovarian cancer through the non-specific symptoms pathway.
The Department does not hold information on the number of people diagnosed with ovarian cancer through non-specific symptom cancer pathways in the last five years. Data on cancer incidence is published by NHS England and the National Disease Registration ...
What steps his Department is taking with (a) the NHS and (b) stakeholders to help increase awareness of ovarian cancer.
NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of ...