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786863

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date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sepsis: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance is provided on written and verbal safety netting advice for mothers with risk factors for development of neonatal sepsis.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>In September, NHS England published the 2017 Cross-System Sepsis Action Plan. As part of this a number of activities are planned:</p><p> </p><p>- Action on safety netting will be embedded among all healthcare professionals assessing patients with infections;</p><p>- Promote the implementation of a range of educational resources on sepsis produced by Health Education England and the Royal Colleges;</p><p>- Ensure a specific focus on sepsis education for staff groups such as community pharmacists, community nurses, health visitors and healthcare assistants in care homes; and</p><p>- NHS England and Public Health England will work with maternity networks and health visitors to ensure resources such as leaflets and on-line educational material are used by midwives and health visitors to help parents recognise serious illness in children and know what to do if they think their child is seriously ill.</p><p> </p><p>To support these activities, two safety netting videos on ‘Spotting the signs of sepsis’ and ‘Caring for children with fever at home’ have been published with the Health Innovation Network.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18 Public Health England’s activity to raise awareness of sepsis includes building sepsis messaging into the national Start4life Information Service for Parents email programme which reaches 430,000 parents of 0-5 year olds; distribution of leaflets and posters; social media and activity with a leading digital platform for parents.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 112297 112304 question first answered 20/11/2017 11:58:24 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

786864

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sepsis: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of neonatal sepsis among mothers who have risk factors present.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>In September, NHS England published the 2017 Cross-System Sepsis Action Plan. As part of this a number of activities are planned:</p><p> </p><p>- Action on safety netting will be embedded among all healthcare professionals assessing patients with infections;</p><p>- Promote the implementation of a range of educational resources on sepsis produced by Health Education England and the Royal Colleges;</p><p>- Ensure a specific focus on sepsis education for staff groups such as community pharmacists, community nurses, health visitors and healthcare assistants in care homes; and</p><p>- NHS England and Public Health England will work with maternity networks and health visitors to ensure resources such as leaflets and on-line educational material are used by midwives and health visitors to help parents recognise serious illness in children and know what to do if they think their child is seriously ill.</p><p> </p><p>To support these activities, two safety netting videos on ‘Spotting the signs of sepsis’ and ‘Caring for children with fever at home’ have been published with the Health Innovation Network.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18 Public Health England’s activity to raise awareness of sepsis includes building sepsis messaging into the national Start4life Information Service for Parents email programme which reaches 430,000 parents of 0-5 year olds; distribution of leaflets and posters; social media and activity with a leading digital platform for parents.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 112304 112307 question first answered 20/11/2017 11:58:24 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

786866

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Streptococcus: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training and information is provided to healthcare professionals about when to screen mothers for the presence of pathogens associated with neonatal sepsis, such as Group B streptococcal infection.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England has produced and continues to develop sepsis educational resources for healthcare professionals. This includes a number of resources to support the learning on sepsis recognition and management across the system in both primary and secondary care.</p><p> </p><p>The principal pathogen of potential concern in neonatal sepsis is Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Following the UK National Screening Committee’s meeting in February 2017, the Government accepted the Committee’s recommendation that a population based screening programme for GBS carriage should not be offered. However, the Chief Scientific Advisor recommended that the National Institute for Health Research should commission a clinical trial to compare universal screening for Group B Streptococcus against usual-risk based care. This has been approved and the trial is expected to complete around the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published guidance for obstetricians, midwives and neonatologists on the prevention of early-onset (less than seven days of age) neonatal Group B streptococcal disease and for the information to be provided to women, their partners and families. It has also produced an information leaflet for parents-to-be about GBS. Information on GBS is also included in the NHS Pregnancy Book which is given free to all first time pregnant women.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 112305 112306 question first answered 20/11/2017 11:52:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

786869

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sepsis: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information on neonatal sepsis is given to mothers with risk factors present; and what protocols are in place to ensure that information is provided to those mothers.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England has produced and continues to develop sepsis educational resources for healthcare professionals. This includes a number of resources to support the learning on sepsis recognition and management across the system in both primary and secondary care.</p><p> </p><p>The principal pathogen of potential concern in neonatal sepsis is Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Following the UK National Screening Committee’s meeting in February 2017, the Government accepted the Committee’s recommendation that a population based screening programme for GBS carriage should not be offered. However, the Chief Scientific Advisor recommended that the National Institute for Health Research should commission a clinical trial to compare universal screening for Group B Streptococcus against usual-risk based care. This has been approved and the trial is expected to complete around the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published guidance for obstetricians, midwives and neonatologists on the prevention of early-onset (less than seven days of age) neonatal Group B streptococcal disease and for the information to be provided to women, their partners and families. It has also produced an information leaflet for parents-to-be about GBS. Information on GBS is also included in the NHS Pregnancy Book which is given free to all first time pregnant women.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 112300 112306 question first answered 20/11/2017 11:52:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

786872

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sepsis: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information healthcare professionals are advised to give mothers with risk factors of neonatal sepsis regarding the need for screening for the presence of pathogens associated with neonatal sepsis.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England has produced and continues to develop sepsis educational resources for healthcare professionals. This includes a number of resources to support the learning on sepsis recognition and management across the system in both primary and secondary care.</p><p> </p><p>The principal pathogen of potential concern in neonatal sepsis is Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Following the UK National Screening Committee’s meeting in February 2017, the Government accepted the Committee’s recommendation that a population based screening programme for GBS carriage should not be offered. However, the Chief Scientific Advisor recommended that the National Institute for Health Research should commission a clinical trial to compare universal screening for Group B Streptococcus against usual-risk based care. This has been approved and the trial is expected to complete around the end of 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published guidance for obstetricians, midwives and neonatologists on the prevention of early-onset (less than seven days of age) neonatal Group B streptococcal disease and for the information to be provided to women, their partners and families. It has also produced an information leaflet for parents-to-be about GBS. Information on GBS is also included in the NHS Pregnancy Book which is given free to all first time pregnant women.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 112300 112305 question first answered 20/11/2017 11:52:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

786873

registered interest
date	10/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government: Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on the financial stability of local councils of purchasing commercial properties with high loan-to-value loans.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	112298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities have the freedom to borrow and invest, without government consent, provided that their borrowing is affordable. It is for each local authority to assess the risk to its financial sustainability of any borrowing or investment activity.</p><p>My Department has recently published a consultation on proposals to update the Statutory Guidance on Local Authority Investments with the aim of improving local risk management and transparency of decision making.</p><p>The consultation proposes introducing a new requirement for every local authority to present quantitative indicators that will allow assessment of total exposure from borrowing and investment decisions.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 16/11/2017 17:35:36 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes