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102047

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had on the future of the National Cancer Peer Review Programme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	212809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is currently reviewing the National Cancer Peer Review programme with a view to considering how its success might be extended into other new areas of specialised commissioning. Regardless of the outcome of this review, cancer peer review will continue to play a critical part of any broader peer review programme NHS England may look to introduce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of visits undertaken by the programme changes based on how many risk visits and how many comprehensive visits are carried out. The highest number of visits completed in any one year since the programme began was 535 in 2012-13, when comprehensive visits to acute oncology were carried out. Generally, between 400 and 450 visits are completed each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As the programme has moved to risk assessed visits only rather than comprehensive visits (as comprehensive visits to all tumour sites have been completed) the number of visits has reduced; in 2013-14 there were 424 cancer visits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This year, between April 2014 and October 2014, 100 cancer visits and 28 major trauma centre visits have been carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 212807 212810 question first answered 07/11/2014 13:30:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

102048

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Radiotherapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 22 October 2013, to Question 171517, for what reasons NHS England's review into stereotactic radiosurgery was not completed by the end of 2013; and when NHS England will complete this review.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	212823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England released ‘Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services – needs assessment and service review’ on 3 November. NHS England is now consulting on this document until 26 January 2015, after which it will publish a report outlining the key themes of the consultation findings on its website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England advises us that the review took more time than originally planned to ensure that the options being consulted on were as comprehensive as possible. This included further testing of a number of issues including the appropriate level of throughput activity in each centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 07/11/2014 13:36:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

102049

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Public Health England plans to report on the consultation on drug misuse and dependence.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	212841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has convened an expert group, chaired by Professor John Strang, to consider the responses to the consultation on a possible update to the United Kingdom guidelines on the clinical management of drug misuse and dependence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PHE will be providing an update on the plans of the expert group in winter 2014-15 following its initial meeting on 7 October 2014. The expert group plans to complete its advice to PHE and the devolved administrations by early 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 07/11/2014 13:25:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

102050

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
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 performance of the National Cancer Peer Review Programme.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	212807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is currently reviewing the National Cancer Peer Review programme with a view to considering how its success might be extended into other new areas of specialised commissioning. Regardless of the outcome of this review, cancer peer review will continue to play a critical part of any broader peer review programme NHS England may look to introduce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of visits undertaken by the programme changes based on how many risk visits and how many comprehensive visits are carried out. The highest number of visits completed in any one year since the programme began was 535 in 2012-13, when comprehensive visits to acute oncology were carried out. Generally, between 400 and 450 visits are completed each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As the programme has moved to risk assessed visits only rather than comprehensive visits (as comprehensive visits to all tumour sites have been completed) the number of visits has reduced; in 2013-14 there were 424 cancer visits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This year, between April 2014 and October 2014, 100 cancer visits and 28 major trauma centre visits have been carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 212809 212810 question first answered 07/11/2014 13:30:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

102051

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Benzodiazepines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that the Care Quality Commission publishes data on trends of GP practices prescribing benzodiazepine.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	212808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC has provided the following information:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>CQC are not currently conducting a review of the prescribing of benzodiazepine.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) collect data on the prescribing of benzodiazepine but this is not collated nationally. The CQC would be alerted to any prescribing trends and outliers during discussions with the CCGs when a GP practice is inspected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 07/11/2014 12:24:17 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

102052

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	University College Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether University College Hospital London included the provision of gamma knife services at its Queen Square site in its notification log to commissioners before 1 April 2013.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	212820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>The Consolidated Notification Log 2012/13 record dated 30 September 2011 makes reference to a gamma knife service that might be available sometime in the future at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, part of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). A gamma knife service is not currently provided by the Trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A gamma knife service is provided by an independent provider called Queen’s Square Radiotherapy Centre Limited based at Queen’s Square (a site owned by UCLH).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 07/11/2014 13:35:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

102053

registered interest
date	31/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancer-specific reviews were completed by the National Cancer Peer Review Programme team in each financial year since the programme began; and how many cancer-specific reviews are scheduled to be conducted by the National Cancer Peer Review Programme after the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Eric Ollerenshaw
uin	212810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England is currently reviewing the National Cancer Peer Review programme with a view to considering how its success might be extended into other new areas of specialised commissioning. Regardless of the outcome of this review, cancer peer review will continue to play a critical part of any broader peer review programme NHS England may look to introduce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of visits undertaken by the programme changes based on how many risk visits and how many comprehensive visits are carried out. The highest number of visits completed in any one year since the programme began was 535 in 2012-13, when comprehensive visits to acute oncology were carried out. Generally, between 400 and 450 visits are completed each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As the programme has moved to risk assessed visits only rather than comprehensive visits (as comprehensive visits to all tumour sites have been completed) the number of visits has reduced; in 2013-14 there were 424 cancer visits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This year, between April 2014 and October 2014, 100 cancer visits and 28 major trauma centre visits have been carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 212807 212809 question first answered 07/11/2014 13:30:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4141 label Biography information for Eric Ollerenshaw

101893

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services prevalence survey.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	212717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department is currently commissioning a survey into the prevalence of children and young people’s mental health problems. It will not be possible to predict when the results will be published until the scoping exercise is completed and the final specification is agreed and tendered. The main work on the survey, including the data collection, is currently expected to take place in the financial year 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 04/11/2014 16:15:21 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

101894

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what elements in NHS England's Five Year Plan other than Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service impatient beds specifically relate to children.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	212718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View is a publically available document. It lists a number of initiatives specifically targeted at children, such as a commitment to target obesity in children. The NHS leadership articulates an ambition to radically redesign and improve care through developing new care models in partnership with local communities. The vision is of approaches to organising care that are more integrated, more responsive and more tailored to the needs of local populations. Children represent one of the most significant groups of users of health services, and should therefore expect to be amongst the major beneficiaries of these improvements in the health system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 04/11/2014 16:28:41 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

101895

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Leadership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects that Sir Stuart Rose's report on NHS Leadership will be published.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	212719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Lord Rose’s report on NHS Leadership will be handed to the Secretary of State for Health before the end of this calendar year. It is expected to be published shortly thereafter.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 04/11/2014 16:24:01 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed