Karin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) CT and (b) MRI scanners have been in operation for longer than 10 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the contract awarded by her Department to PA Consulting Services Limited on 8 January 2024 under procurement reference CF-2104, what the estimated cost to the public purse will be...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IT failures there have been at NHS trusts that affected clinical service delivery in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many IT failures there have been at NHS trusts in each of the last five years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in how many NHS trusts temporary buildings are in use.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many infrastructure failures at NHS trusts have been recorded in each of the last five years; and how many such failures had an impact on clinical service delivery in each of those years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much each NHS Integrated Care Systems owed to NHS England for historic deficits at the end of the 2023-24 financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) integrated care systems and (b) trusts were in deficit at the end of the 2023-24 financial year; and if she will publish a breakdown of those figures by (i) acute, (ii) mental heal...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the overall year end deficit for integrated care systems was in the financial year 2023-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual running costs were for NHS (a) Arden and GEM, (b) Midlands and Lancashire, (c) North of England and (d) South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit in the 2022-23 financial y...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to improve staff retention on the New Hospitals Programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce vacancies on the New Hospitals Programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what engagement commissioning hub teams looking at specialised commissioning have with commissioning support units.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delegating specialised services to Integrated Care Systems on patient outcomes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential imapct of delegating specialised services to Integrated Care Systems on continuity of care for patients.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Annex A of the NHS publication entitled Specialised Commissioning – update on specialised services for delegation, published on 28 March 2024, whether she plans for the 32 special...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of joint commissioning on the 59 specialised services approved by the NHS England Board in February 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of progress in the development of a clinical analytical service for specialised commissioning.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that integrated care boards take into account a) clinical, b) patient and c) provider experience when commissioning specialised services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has she made of the adequacy of the progress towards full delegated commissioning for Integrated Care Boards by April 2025 in (a) the South West, (b) the South East, (c) London and ...