Anneliese Midgley MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Arthritis: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) diagnosis times and (b) access to care for people with inflammatory arthritis.
Answer: Services for those with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, including arthritis, are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs). The Department expects MSK services to be fully incorporated into integrated care system planning and decision-making...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRheumatology: NursesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61364More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase the number of specialist rheumatology nurses in the workforce.
Answer: The training of nurses is the responsibility of the health care independent statutory regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). It has the general function of promoting high standards of education and coordinating all stages of education t...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordRheumatoid Arthritis: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61363More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
Answer: Services for those with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, including arthritis, are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs). The Department expects MSK services to be fully incorporated into integrated care system planning and decision-making...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimodos: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will complete its consideration of the recommendations of the Commission on Human Medicines on the findings of the Danielsson et al on p
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), together with wider Government, has committed to reviewing any new scientific evidence which comes to light.The new publication by Danielsson et al has been reviewed by the MHRA, and advice h...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimodos: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31165More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to help support people affected by Primodos in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: While the Government is sympathetic to the families who believe that they have suffered because of using Hormone Pregnancy Tests, the currently available scientific evidence does not support a causal association between the use of Hormone Pregnancy Tests ...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29602More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department had allocated to the National Cancer Plan.
Answer: The Department has not made a specific funding allocation for preparing the National Cancer Plan. Further funding for cancer services will be considered as part of the upcoming spending review.The National Cancer Plan will have patients at its heart and w...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeech and Language Therapy: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for access to specialist speech and language therapy services in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving timely access to Knowsley Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy. There are currently 115 children and young people awaiting their first appointment in Knowsley. 94% of these are within the 18-wee...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordArthritis: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23009More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve care for people living with arthritis.
Answer: Services for those with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, including arthritis, are commissioned locally by integrated care boards (ICBs). The Department expects MSK services to be fully incorporated into integrated care system planning and decision-making...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeech and Language Therapy: MerseysideDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23008More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to specialist speech and language therapy services for children in (a) Merseyside and (b) Knowsley constituency.
Answer: The Department regularly monitors waiting lists for community services, including speech and language therapy, and is committed to reducing long waits and improving timely access to community health services, including for speech and language therapy serv...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce health inequalities in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: The United Kingdom faces significant health inequalities, with life expectancy varying widely across and within communities. The Government is committed to building a fairer Britain by tackling the structural inequalities that contribute to poor health, p...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the level of health inequalities in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: The United Kingdom faces significant health inequalities, with life expectancy varying widely across and within communities. The Government is committed to building a fairer Britain by tackling the structural inequalities that contribute to poor health, p...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of dental practices that accept new NHS patients in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: The Government will tackle the immediate crisis with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and to recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most. To rebuild dentistry in the long term, we will reform the dental contract, ...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlzheimer's Disease: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people living with Alzheimer's in Knowsley constituency; and what plans his Department has to improve dementia (a) diagnosis and (b) care for those people
Answer: According to data from the Alzheimer’s Society, Knowsley’s prevalence of people living with dementia currently stands at 2,200, with a diagnosis rate of approximately 64%. There are thought to be 982,000 living with dementia in the United Kingdom.Those su...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMusculoskeletal Disorders: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are living with (a) arthritis and (b) musculoskeletal conditions in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: In 2023/24, 1,261 people in Knowsley, or 0.9% of patients, aged 16 years old and over had rheumatoid arthritis recorded on the practice disease register. This data is from the Fingertips data collection and is based on Quality and Outcomes Framework, with...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) children and (b) adults are registered with an NHS dentist in Knowsley constituency.
Answer: Patients in England are not registered with a National Health Service dental practice, although many NHS dental practices do tend to see patients regularly. There is no geographical restriction on which practice a patient may attend. Some dental practices...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of dentistry provision in Knowsley constituency for (a) children and (b) adults.
Answer: The Dental Statistics - England 2023-24, published by the NHS Business Services Authority on 22 August 2024, is available at the following link: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/dental-england/dental-statistics-england-202324 The data for...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the NHS GP provision in the Knowsley constituency.
Answer: We know that patients are finding it harder than ever to see a general practitioner (GP) and we are committed to fixing the the crisis in GPs, to secure the long-term sustainability of the National Health Service.We will fix the front door to the NHS, ens...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: KnowsleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS sites have closed in Knowsley since May 2010; and what the (a) name and (b) postcode was of each site.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally. The Department is not one that is land-owning but works closely with NHS England to ensure that National Health Service estates should first and foremost support and enable the NHS’s operational requirement...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
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