Paulette Hamilton MP: written questions

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Written questions

Urgent Treatment Centres: BirminghamDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any consultation took place between the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System and (a) local stakeholders, (b) elected officials, (c) the police and (d) community organisations prio
Answer: The reconfiguration of services is a matter for the local National Health Service. All service changes should be based on clear evidence that they will deliver better outcomes for patients. The NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) condu...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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Urgent Treatment Centres: Birmingham ErdingtonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to to help establish alternative urgent care facilities in Birmingham Erdington constituency, in the context of the emergency relocation of the North Birmingham Urgent
Answer: The reconfiguration of services is a matter for the local National Health Service. All service changes should be based on clear evidence that they will deliver better outcomes for patients. The NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) condu...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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Urgent Treatment Centres: BirminghamDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to help mitigate the impact of increased travel requirements for patients following the relocation of the North Birmingham Urgent Treatment Centre to Good
Answer: The reconfiguration of services is a matter for the local National Health Service. All service changes should be based on clear evidence that they will deliver better outcomes for patients. The NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) condu...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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Urgent Treatment Centres: Birmingham ErdingtonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the emergency relocation of the North Birmingham Urgent Treatment Centre to Good Hope Hospital on patient access to urgent treatment services
Answer: The reconfiguration of services is a matter for the local National Health Service. All service changes should be based on clear evidence that they will deliver better outcomes for patients. The NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) condu...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
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Respiratory Diseases: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) tackle workforce shortages in respiratory care and (b) ensure (i) GPs and (ii) their teams have access to (A) training and (B) accreditation for (1) spiro
Answer: We have launched a 10-Year Health Plan to reform the National Health Service and make it fit for the future. Ensuring we have the right people, in the right places, with the right skills, including for respiratory care, will be central to this vision.The ...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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Respiratory Diseases: BirminghamDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Birmingham Erdington constituency and (b) other areas covered by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board to address the barriers to resp
Answer: In addition to the development of community diagnostic provision, on Monday 4 November the Birmingham Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) launched a system-wide campaign to encourage people to ‘breathe easy’ by getting their vaccines. Focusing primarily ...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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Respiratory Diseases: BirminghamDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle rates of respiratory-related hospital admissions in Birmingham.
Answer: System partners are working collaboratively to improve pathways between health care professionals, and to remove barriers in referrals to community-based services and hospital acute setting clinics. This will support admission avoidance, and ensure that p...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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Community Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that Community Diagnostic Centres are accessible to everyone in (a) Birmingham Erdington constiituency and (b) England.
Answer: The Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) programme now delivers activity on 168 sites across the country, and data published in August 2024 showed CDCs have delivered over 10.4 million diagnostic tests since July 2021.The National Health Service has endeavou...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
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Respiratory Diseases: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of secondary care to support primary care with essential respiratory diagnostics.
Answer: Following a significant drop in the volume of spirometry during the pandemic, NHS England has already worked with a range of partners, including Asthma and Lung UK, the British Thoracic Society, the Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology, an...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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Respiratory Diseases: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure spirometry testing is (a) funded and (b) available in areas covered by the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board.
Answer: Spirometry testing is provided at the Washwood Heath Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC), along with other respiratory diagnostic tests such as fractional exhaled nitric oxide and lung function tests. The same tests will also be available at the North Solih...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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General Practitioners: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to (a) include spirometry and FeNO testing in the GP contract and (b) to provide dedicated funding through a Directed Enhanced Service.
Answer: Currently there are no plans to include spirometry and FeNO testing in the GP contract. In many areas, spirometry and FeNO testing services are delivered through Local Enhanced Services (LESs), which are funded separately to global sum payments.Integrated...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
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Small Businesses: MoroccoDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase trade and business support to Moroccan-British entrepreneurs in local communities; and whether he has plans to help promote UK-Morocco small business exchange p
Answer: Total trade in goods and services (exports plus imports) between the UK and Morocco was £4 billion in the 12 months to June 2024, an increase of 11% or £378 million in current prices, from the previous 12 months. UK businesses can access DBT’s business su...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
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Morocco: Cultural RelationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to help promote (a) cultural exchange and (b) community engagement initiatives between the UK and Moroccan diaspora communities.
Answer: The FCDO convenes events open to both British nationals residing in Morocco and Moroccan nationals. These include regular business networking events in Casablanca, events celebrating current, former, and future Chevening Scholars, and annual initiatives s...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
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