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61721

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date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of stress on heart failure.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Information onsurvival rates for patients who suffer an out of hospital heart attack or an out of hospital cardiac arrest are not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The British Heart Foundation suggests that between 2-12% of people treated by the emergency services after suffering an out of hospital cardiac arrest survive to be discharged from hospital.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has made no assessment of the effect of stress on heart failure, nor has it made any estimate of heart attacks among workers who work 40 or 60 hours per week.</p><p> </p><p>However, researchers analysing data from the Whitehall II study observed that people who believed stress was significantly affecting their health had double the risk of suffering from coronary heart disease, compared to people who did not believe stress was having an impact.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 200402 200405 question first answered 19/06/2014 15:44:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61722

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the incidence of heart attacks among workers who work (a) 40 and (b) 60 hours a week.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Information onsurvival rates for patients who suffer an out of hospital heart attack or an out of hospital cardiac arrest are not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The British Heart Foundation suggests that between 2-12% of people treated by the emergency services after suffering an out of hospital cardiac arrest survive to be discharged from hospital.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has made no assessment of the effect of stress on heart failure, nor has it made any estimate of heart attacks among workers who work 40 or 60 hours per week.</p><p> </p><p>However, researchers analysing data from the Whitehall II study observed that people who believed stress was significantly affecting their health had double the risk of suffering from coronary heart disease, compared to people who did not believe stress was having an impact.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 200402 200404 question first answered 19/06/2014 15:44:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61724

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of using mobile telephone apps to use GPS to locate trained resuscitators and atrial fibrilation equipment to bring a rapid response to those who have suffered a heart attack.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	200407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The development of mobile device based Apps are being considered by NHS England across health and care settings and are still in development and launched the Health Apps Library in March 2013.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is taking a leading role on apps in a number of areas:</p><p> </p><p>- Health Apps Library: In recognition of needing to support patients and the public in knowing which apps they can trust and that are safe. Only apps that have successfully completed a clinical safety review process are listed.</p><p> </p><p>- Overall United Kingdom Apps Review Framework: In recognising the need to help apps developers understand what review and regulation they need to go through, NHS England, the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency are jointly working together to create an overall review framework for health apps.</p><p> </p><p>- Integrated apps: The future direction of apps is to move from lots of individual apps for specific purposes that are not linked to “integrated apps” that brings different pieces of information together.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest remains a major public health concern in all countries and can affect all ages.</p><p> </p><p>Defibrillators that can save many lives within minutes of the event are widely available, but rapid location of these and also trained community responders is an urgent and unmet need. Apps have been developed and several are in use but they will not achieve their full potential until integrated into a national scheme which NHS England is considering.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/06/2014 15:47:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

61739

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Official Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what visits each of the Ministers in his Department have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Sheila Gilmore
uin	200487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Details of United Kingdom-based visits undertaken by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and his ministerial team since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was have been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of all these visits was to meet staff and patients and learn more about the service except where denoted with an asterisk.</p><p> </p><p>Details of Ministers' visits overseas are published quarterly and can be found at:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 19/06/2014 16:32:01 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name PQ2004871 Health Ministers Visits since January 2013.docx title Health Ministers Visits since January 2013
tabling member	3965 label Biography information for Sheila Gilmore

61752

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Influenza
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of reports that scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain; whether he has made an assessment of the potential threat to the UK population arising from that experiment; and whether the Government has made any representations to the US administration on this matter.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	200589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) was advised that the work undertaken at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been reviewed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, in keeping with the institute's implementation of the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, PHE understand that the research was carried out in secure facilities with high levels of containment. A key finding of the research was that people vaccinated with the current seasonal influenza vaccine (which protects against 2009 H1N1 influenza, a related virus) had some evidence of protection against the novel virus that had been created. In addition, the team showed that the novel transmissible virus is expected to be sensitive to the antiviral medication oseltamivir. Effective counter measures to this novel virus are therefore available.</p><p> </p><p>This research provides information on the mechanisms responsible for adaptation of avian influenza viruses to mammals. Knowing what genes are associated with a potentially severe pandemic strain can help predict the likelihood of a strain emerging and help devise appropriate counter measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 200875 question first answered 19/06/2014 15:44:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park