Rachael Maskell MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Postpartum HaemorrhageDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 14372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve understanding of the reasons for the rise in postpartum haemorrhage rates.
Answer: NHS England is working to improve the timely clinical response to obstetric haemorrhage through the Maternal Care Bundle, which aims to improve the management of haemorrhage through timely identification, escalation, and response to obstetric bleeding, al...
Answered 3 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to improve the response times of ICBs to MP’s enquiries.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for managing enquiries from Members of Parliament, including ensuring timely and appropriate responses. We expect ICBs to manage these relationships effectively as part of their wider accountability to local c...
Answered 22 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how will he ensure ICBs work closely with MPs.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for managing their own local relationships, including engagement with Members of Parliament, in their areas. We expect ICBs to work constructively with MPs to ensure that local health services are responsive t...
Answered 22 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of combined authority mayors on ICBs.
Answer: Subject to its passage through Parliament, the Health Bill will provide for at least one integrated care board (ICB) member to be nominated by the mayor of each mayoral strategic authority in the ICB’s footprint.As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, this...
Answered 22 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assess the performance of ICBs.
Answer: The NHS Oversight Framework provides a consistent and transparent approach to assessing National Health Service organisations. The framework for 2026/27 is designed to drive medium-term system transformation while maintaining operational performance track...
Answered 22 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made by the Casey Review into social care.
Answer: In March 2026, Baroness Casey highlighted several issues she had identified within the adult social care system and called for immediate action in three key areas, safeguarding, dementia, and motor neurone disease. The Government is now working at pace to...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services Safety Investigations BodyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration has he made of the potential merits of maintaining HSSIB.
Answer: The Health Bill includes clauses to strengthen patient safety by transferring the Health Services Safety Investigations Body’s investigation functions into the Care Quality Commission.This follows the review of patient safety across the health and care la...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealthwatchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of maintaining Healthwatch alongside increased levels of lived experience inclusion in commissioning processes.
Answer: The Government recognises the valuable role Healthwatch has played in supporting patient and public involvement. However, Dr Penny Dash’s independent review of the patient safety landscape found the current system is too fragmented and does not always tur...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was to access Community Dental Services for (a) children (b) adults under the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust area in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: Data on waiting times for National Health Service dental treatment is not held centrally so it is not possible to provide information for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area.Community Dental Services provide care to patients who may ...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there were for dental treatment for (a) children (b) adults at York Teaching Hospital in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The following table shows the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the main operative procedure was a dental procedure, by patient age group in each year from 2021/22 to 2025/26 in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation T...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve children's access to dental care in York Central constituency.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan for England confirms that child dental health is a priority. The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to i...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Yorkshire and the HumberDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for a dental appointment was in the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB area in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Data on waiting times for National Health Service dental treatment is not held centrally so it is not possible to provide information for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area.Patients in England are not registered with a NHS dental pr...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordObesity: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the workforce required to support the safe delivery of NHS weight loss medication services, including the management of nutritional complications.
Answer: NHS England undertook workforce modelling to support the implementation of tirzepatide, brand name Mounjaro, for obesity management as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Funding Variation planning process.The modelling conside...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordObesity: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS clinical pathways for patients prescribed weight loss medications require access to dietary and nutritional support, including referral to dietetic services.
Answer: Weight loss medicines were initially only available through National Health Service specialist weight management services. In specialist services, patients receive wraparound care from a multidisciplinary team providing nutritional, psychological, and med...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether current workforce planning assumptions for prevention and long term condition management services specify roles for (a) individual allied health professions and (b) dietitians; and whether
Answer: The forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out how the Government will ensure the National Health Service workforce is equipped to deliver the ambitions set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, including the shift towards prevention and from hospitals to ...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: WeatherDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the resilience of the NHS to (a) heatwaves, (b) flooding and (c) other climate-related risks.
Answer: Climate change poses a growing risk to population health and to the National Health Service’s ability to deliver services, including through heatwaves, flooding, and other adverse weather events. Following the publication of the 2025 Health and Climate Ad...
Answered 5 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to measure the productivity of integrated care boards.
Answer: Information on the approach taken to the assessment of integrated care boards is available at the following links:https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/annual-assessment-of-integrated-care-boards-2025-26-supporting-guidance/https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-o...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of elective surgery undertaken in the independent sector; and how this compares in numerical terms and as a percentage with each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The following table shows information relating to elective episodes with procedures, which includes elective surgery alongside other procedures which may be performed elsewhere:Operational YearEpisodes with a procedure in independent sector providersEpiso...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people on NHS waiting lists have been removed (a) in total, (b) because they were a duplicate appointment, (c) because the person had deceased or (d) for any other reason other than receiv
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly Referral to Treatment (RTT) data, including information on completed pathways and overall changes to the waiting list.In 2025/26, 21.8 million pathways were removed from the waiting list. Of these, 18.6 million were completed...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on the Casey Review of Social Care, and when does he expect the publication of the stage 1 report on this.
Answer: The Independent Commission into Adult Social Care (“the Commission”) is making good progress. In March, Baroness Casey highlighted several issues she had identified within the adult social care system and called for immediate action in three key areas: sa...
Answered 26 May 2026
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when will he publish the MSF on Palliative Care.
Answer: The Government is developing a Modern Service Framework (MSF) for Palliative Care and End of Life Care for England, with a planned publication of the full report in autumn 2026. This will be aligned with the ambitions set out in the last year’s published ...
Answered 21 May 2026
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the Palliative Care MSF; and what plans he has to consult on his proposals on this.
Answer: The Government is developing a Modern Service Framework (MSF) for Palliative Care and End of Life Care in England. The MSF is a clinically led, evidence-based framework to support sustained improvements in outcomes for patients and carers, including by re...
Answered 21 May 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if providers do not wish to engage with Palantir's FDP, what steps is he taking to ensure that they can procure alternative services.
Answer: The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information across the National Health Service from different systems, into a single secure environment. This integration improves care coordination, expands treatment options, and leads to enhance...
Answered 4 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: PalantirDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are required under the Palantir Federated Data Platform contract to end the contract.
Answer: The NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) safely connects information from different systems across the National Health Service into a single, secure environment. This allows staff to co-ordinate care to improve outcomes for patients.To date, 24 integrate...
Answered 4 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordMechanical Thrombectomy: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 11 December 2025 to Question 95988 on Mechanical Thrombectomy: Health Services, when North East and Yorkshire region will gain 24/7 access to thrombectomy.
Answer: Regional North East NHS commissioners are in active discussion with their services and a funded programme is in place to secure 24/7 access to thrombectomy this year. Services will open as soon as safe to do so.
Answered 21 May 2026
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