Key Facts

• The risk of coronavirus to the UK population remains low.
• There are currently no confirmed cases in the UK as of 2 pm.
• Public Health England is tracing 1,460 people who have arrived in the UK from Wuhan.
• Anyone returning from Wuhan should self-isolate and contact NHS 111 or their GP if they develop symptoms.
• Four specialist hospital units are prepared to handle cases if necessary.
• The Foreign Office is working on bringing UK nationals back from Hubei province.
• The NHS Funding Bill guarantees £115 billion for last year, rising to £121 billion this year, then £127 billion, £133 billion, £140 billion and £148 billion by 2023-24.
• There are 106 PFI deals in hospitals that the government is reviewing to make them work better for patients.
• Watford General Hospital will receive a grant of £400 million from the Government, not a loan, to secure a new hospital.
• The Bill establishes a legal duty for minimum NHS revenue funding over four years.
• The funding supports 50 million more GP appointments annually.
• It aids in faster cancer diagnosis to save tens of thousands of lives.
• Funding increases primary care by shifting resources from prevention of ill health.
• Mental health spending will increase the fastest within the allocation.
• Over 10,000 people in Northern Ireland are waiting more than a year for a procedure.
• The total extra funding is £33.9 billion.
• There will be an increase of 50 million additional GP appointments.
• Technology improvements aim to reduce no-shows by one-third.
• The NHS will receive an additional funding of £33.9 billion in the Bill.
• There is a commitment to have 50,000 more nurses by the end of this Parliament with over 7,832 added last year alone.
• A training grant worth at least £5,000 will be provided for every student nurse starting from September this year.
• The plan includes building 40 new hospitals and upgrading 20 existing ones.
• £2.7 billion is allocated for the first six hospital builds alone.
• The NHS Funding Bill guarantees funding levels over four years.
• It represents certainty for NHS staff and supports the long-term plan principles.
• The Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Sandwell will benefit from increased resources.
• The NHS requires a 3.3% annual uplift for NHS England revenue as outlined by the previous Secretary of State.
• Health experts recommend at least a 3.4% increase to maintain current standards of care across all sectors including capital, education, and public health.
• Investing in modernising the health service as set out in the NHS long-term plan requires approximately a 4.1% uplift annually.
• GP numbers have decreased despite promises from the previous government to deliver extra GPs.
• The NHS has faced £571 million in deficits and billions in debt due to financial constraints imposed by the current administration.
• Since 2010, more than 17,000 beds have been cut and hospitals are dangerously overcrowded with patients left languishing for hours on trolleys.
• Trolley waits have risen to a record high of 847,000 in the past year.
• Research shows that almost 5,500 patients have died over the past three years due to long trolley waits.
• St George’s Hospital has experienced operational pressures leading to maintenance backlogs of around £99 million.
• There is a shortage of 44,000 nurses across the NHS.
• George Osborne cut nurse training places and the training bursary in 2011.
• Since 2014, there have been five consecutive switches from capital budgets to revenue budgets totaling about £4.29 billion.
• The current repair backlog for hospitals is over £6.6 billion.
• Mental illness represents around 23% of the total disease burden but only receives 11% of NHS England's budget.
• Over 130,000 referrals to specialist mental health services have been turned down in recent years.
• The previous year saw £870 million cuts to public health grants.
• The Government has no proposals for a social care plan despite years of talk.
• Public health budgets allocations are only provided for the next three months.
• There is a shortage of more than 100,000 staff across the NHS.
• Vacancies in nursing stand at about 44,000.
• One in ten posts are vacant in diagnostics.
• The NHS cancer workforce needs significant growth to meet early-stage diagnosis targets by 2028.
• The UK spends 9.7% of its GDP on healthcare, close to the EU average of 9.9%.
• NHS spending is set to rise by about double the growth in GDP over five years.
• Training a nurse takes three years, a doctor seven years, and a consultant 13 years.
• The maternity safety training fund makes a big difference.
• Only 8% of trusts supply all the care needs in the saving babies’ lives bundle.
• Hospitals rated good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission have better finances than those rated as requiring improvement or inadequate.
• The gap in social care funding is more than £6 billion.
• Scotland spends £130 a head more on social care to provide free personal care.
• There is a £2.5 billion backlog of maintenance and repairs in the NHS trusts.
• There was a 90% drop in European nurses and dentists coming to the UK due to Brexit.
• The Government committed to an extra 50,000 nurses over five years but has not delivered on the promised 5,000 extra GPs.
• The NHS Funding Bill proposes a minimum 3.4% increase in spending.
• Mental health spending is set to increase by £2.3 billion over five years.
• There are concerns about unmet healthcare needs due to insufficient understanding of demand.
• The extra funding set out in the Bill is £33.9 billion.
• A&E waiting time target has been missed for 53 consecutive months since July 2015.
• Over 4.42 million people are waiting for elective treatment.
• 78% of doctors say NHS resources are inadequate, significantly affecting quality and safety of patient services.
• Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust needs £1 billion in capital funding to provide new and refurbished facilities.
• NUH has the highest critical infrastructure risk outside of London, totaling £104 million.
• Peter Gibson represents Darlington in the UK Parliament.
• Darlington voted for Brexit in 2016.
• Locomotion 1, the first passenger railway engine, is located in Darlington.
• Amazon plans to create over 1,000 jobs in Darlington.
• Teesside International Airport recently announced seven new routes including a direct daily flight to London City.
• Peter Gibson intends to promote hospice services through an all-party parliamentary group.
• The NHS capital budget is lower in real terms than it was in 2010-11.
• Heston health centre has buildings dating from the 1970s that are in need of major repair and do not comply with disability legislation.
• There have been five consecutive switches from the capital budget to the revenue budget since 2014 totalling over £4 billion.
• Lee Anderson is the newly elected MP for Ashfield constituency.
• Anderson pays tribute to his predecessor Gloria De Piero, who was MP for nine years.
• The Robin Hood line in Ashfield and Nottinghamshire was reopened under a Conservative Government in 1993.
• Anderson mentions plans to extend the Robin Hood line and reopen the Maid Marion line in Nottinghamshire.
• King's Mill Hospital in Ashfield was built by the American army during World War II and given to the people of Ashfield after the war.
• Anderson's wife has cystic fibrosis and received a double lung transplant at age 38, which saved her life.
• Hanvey acknowledges the humour of Lee Anderson.
• Hanvey pays tribute to Peter Gibson's maiden speech.
• Hanvey mentions his background in Northern Ireland and Scotland, with a career based in London.
• Hanvey references Lesley Laird and Roger Mullin's focus on economic equity and social justice.
• Hanvey addresses the impact of Thatcherism on his constituency.
• Hanvey criticizes the Conservative Government for shaking the magic money tree to fund public services.
• Hanvey argues that Scotland voted against Brexit but is still bound by its consequences.
• Hanvey quotes Adam Smith in criticizing societal inequality.
• Tallulah-Rai Edwards died due to inadequate foetal monitoring at Buckland Hospital.
• A senior consultant confirmed that proper procedures were not followed when the mother was discharged.
• Another avoidable death of baby Harry Richford was highlighted in a coroner’s inquest proceedings last week.
• Radiotherapy accounts for just £383 million of the NHS resource budget.
• One in four people will need radiotherapy at some point in their lives.
• The UK has the lowest cancer survival rates among nine comparative countries.
• A typical course of radiotherapy costs between £3,000 and £6,000.
• 50% of men with locally advanced prostate cancer in the UK have been potentially undertreated due to lack of access to advanced radiotherapy.
• Currently, radiotherapy gets 5% of the cancer treatment budget; the European average is 11%.
• £140 million is needed to replace outdated linear accelerators by the end of 2019.
• Parents struggle to obtain timely diagnoses and support for children with autism.
• The waiting list for NHS dental appointments is about two years on average.
• About 50% of adults and 60% of children have not seen an NHS dentist in the last year.
• Dentists cite poor transport, high housing costs, and lack of opportunities as reasons for leaving rural areas.
• The NHS has been chronically underfunded for years, facing crises in waiting times, workforce, and infrastructure.
• Additional funding committed amounts to £34 billion, equating to about a 3.3% real-term increase each year.
• Mental illness represents up to 23% of the total burden of ill health but only receives 11% of NHS England’s budget.
• Only three in ten young people with mental health problems were able to access specialist services in 2017-18.
• There is significant variability in mental health spending across different parts of the country.
• There are more than 100,000 vacancies across NHS trusts in England.
• A recent survey by the British Medical Association revealed that four in ten mental health staff found their workload unmanageable or mostly unmanageable.
• The NHS’s annual capital budget is now less than its entire £6.49 billion maintenance backlog which is growing at 10% per annum.
• The Wessely review described the mental health estate as some of the worst the NHS has.
• The NHS budget for last year was £114 billion.
• By 2024, the NHS budget will be £148 billion, an increase of 30%.
• There are plans for 40 new hospitals, 50,000 new nurses, and 6,000 more doctors.
• The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in south Birmingham has improved significantly over the last couple of years.
• The UK has worse cancer survival rates than countries like Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway.
• Wales has only one PET scanner compared to an estimated seven or eight needed based on international standards.
• There are over 1,000 vacancies for consultant radiologists in England alone.
• Three fifths of consultant radiologist vacancies have been vacant for more than a year.
• One third of eating disorder posts and 25% of perinatal psychiatric posts in the west midlands are vacant.
• The UK is short of 1,500 A&E consultants across the whole country.
• Horton General Hospital has a new award-winning nurse-led clinic for deep vein thrombosis.
• The hospital's hip fracture clinic is one of the best in the country for seven consecutive years.
• A new chemotherapy service was launched last September for children aged up to 19.
• The MP mentions concerns about GP appointments and issues at the Horsefair surgery, which has changed ownership recently.
• There are real concerns about funding models for palliative care.
• The APPG on baby loss aims to reduce stillborn and neonatal deaths and promote Jack's law set to be enacted in April.
• £500 million investment into Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Over £100 million already invested, including doubling the size of A&E and building a new renal unit.
• Consultation for a third hospital site is open until April 1st.
• Scotland spends £136 more per head on health and £130 more on social care compared to other regions.
• NHS Grampian has a total shortfall of £239 million over the decade due to underfunding.
• In Scotland, about 34.6% of patients did not receive treatment within the mandated 18-week referral time in September 2019.
• The Royal College of General Practitioners expects a shortfall of 856 doctors across Scotland by 2021.
• The East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust received a 'requires improvement' rating from CQC.
• A new £35 million A&E department at Ipswich Hospital is expected to open in spring 2020, treating over 100,000 people annually.
• Investment confirmed for a new orthopaedic centre by 2024 within the trust area.
• The merger reduced staff vacancy rates from 12% before to 9% after.
• NHS staff in Ipswich have been identified as delivering outstanding practice in critical care and maternity services.
• Each month of delay for capital projects costs taxpayers around £167,000.
• The NHS spending will increase by at least £34 billion by 2023-24.
• Seedcorn funding is being provided for the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, serving multiple constituencies.
• Plans include developing a health and social care campus with various facilities and improving digital services.
• There were 4,121 NHS websites in England and Wales a decade ago.
• The cost of maintaining these sites was between £87 million and £121 million annually.
• Data analysis can help reduce cancer risks by spotting ailments earlier.
• There are two community hospitals in Simon Hoare's constituency: Westminster Memorial in Shaftesbury and Blandford Community Hospital.
• Community pharmacists need representation by mandate on CCG boards.
• NHS dentistry waiting lists have been as long as two years for some constituents.
• The health grant for thalidomide sufferers is set to renew in 2022-23.
• Bowel cancer screening age should be reduced from 60 to 50.
• Rural GP shortages are a pressing concern.
• Mum's phrase: “Much gets more” indicates that wealthier areas receive more resources.
• Life expectancy of poorer people in the UK has decreased since the 21st century, while richer individuals live longer with better health.
• The NHS trust is consulting on moving A&E, maternity unit, paediatric services from St Helier Hospital to Belmont.
• Of the 51 most deprived lower layer super output areas in the catchment area, only one is closer to the new site at Belmont compared to 42 nearer to St Helier Hospital.
• The additional cost of providing acute care on the Isle of Wight is estimated at £8.9 million a year.
• The additional cost for an ambulance service with a coastguard helicopter ambulance is about £1.5 million.
• Patient travel by ferry costs approximately £560,000 annually.
• £33.9 billion increase in NHS funding by the end of 2024.
• A 30% increase in funding between 2018 and 2024.
• Investment to build 40 new hospitals across the country.
• The Bill addresses an ageing population, advanced medical technology, and expensive pharmaceutical products.
• Concern about GP shortages with one GP per 2,500 people in South Thanet compared to a national average of one per 1,600.
• Procurement issues identified through freedom of information requests reveal significant variations in costs for basic items like photocopy paper.
• The NHS long-term plan aims for integrated care and prevention.
• Funding will target geographies with high health inequalities and increase investment in primary medical services.
• £33.9 billion has been committed to the NHS, the largest cash increase in its history.
• Northampton General Hospital requires £6.5 million funding for a new children’s A&E facility.
• Stoke-on-Trent has a PFI deal costing £15 million annually.
• The Royal Stoke University Hospital needs more funding to cover 200 short beds created during a new hospital build by the previous government.
• Stoke-on-Trent received £224 less per head than Sunderland in 2017-18, with some areas receiving £411 less per head.
• Staffordshire requires increased funding for GP recruitment and retention.
• The Haywood walk-in centre was recently upgraded to an integrated care hub with multi-million-pound investment.
• The NHS Funding Bill is criticized for not providing enough funding.
• It fails to address existing NHS debt of £14 billion.
• Mental health equates to 23% of demand but takes up only 11% of the budget.
• The NHS capital budget is lower today in real terms than it was a decade ago, with a maintenance backlog of over £6.5 billion.
• Public health funding has seen about £870 million in real-terms reductions over the past decade.
• The NHS will have an additional £33.9 billion to spend each year by 2023-24.
• The Bill states clearly: 'an amount that is at least the amount specified', providing a floor for funding not a cap.
• Labour's legacy, as encapsulated in a letter by Liam Byrne, was that 'there is no money'.
• The Bill provides a floor for NHS funding.
• Spending on mental health provision will increase fastest under the proposals.
• Capital investment was highlighted for hospitals in Nottingham.