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420057

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contingency plans he has prepared to ease pressures on A&E services during winter 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	11266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>This year winter planning has been integrated into the overall planning process for the National Health Service with winter monies put into clinical commissioning group baseline funding. As part of planning for the winter, each local system has been asked to implement eight high impact interventions to improve patient flow, the key driver of performance.</p><p>To support the systems under the most pressure, the Emergency Care Improvement Programme will provide intensive expert support over winter to drive improvements in performance.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/10/2015 14:34:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

420065

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to increase the awareness of autism among the public and encourage patients to request a referral for diagnosis from their GP.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	10737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department has discussed with NHS England the difficulties that people on the autistic spectrum can have in getting an appropriate diagnosis in a timely manner. With support from the Department, NHS England and the Association of Directors of Social Services will undertake a series of visits to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to gather information that can be shared between areas that have arrangements in place to meet National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standard 51 Autism: support for commissioning, and those that do not, with the aim of supporting more consistent provision. These NICE guidelines already recommend that there should be a maximum of three months between a referral and a first appointment for a diagnostic assessment for autism. We expect the National Health Service to be working towards meeting the recommendations.</p><p>NHS England has also been working with the Health and Social Care Information Centre to develop the Mental Health Minimum Data Set. This will include provision for the diagnosis of autism to be recorded. This mandatory data set will, for the first time, provide data about diagnosis rates. The data will be published and available for everyone to use to support and develop services. NHS England has a commitment, over the next five years, to improve waiting times and this data will be invaluable for this. Information on average waiting times for autistic diagnosis in each clinical commissioning group area is not collected centrally.</p><p>The Department issued new statutory guidance in March this year for local authorities and NHS organisations to support the continued implementation of the 2010 Autism Strategy, as refreshed by its 2014 Think Autism update. This guidance sets out what people seeking an autism diagnosis can expect from local authorities and NHS bodies including general practitioners.</p><p>We are due to consult on how we set the mandate to NHS England prior to publication of the mandate itself. The mandate will be published following the Government’s Spending Review which is due to complete on 25 November.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 10675 10818 10841 10843 10844 11039 11100 11101 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:01:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

420079

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism
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 ensure that NHS England collects data on waiting times between referral and first appointment for a diagnosis of autism in line with NICE Quality Standard QS51.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	10675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department has discussed with NHS England the difficulties that people on the autistic spectrum can have in getting an appropriate diagnosis in a timely manner. With support from the Department, NHS England and the Association of Directors of Social Services will undertake a series of visits to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to gather information that can be shared between areas that have arrangements in place to meet National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standard 51 Autism: support for commissioning, and those that do not, with the aim of supporting more consistent provision. These NICE guidelines already recommend that there should be a maximum of three months between a referral and a first appointment for a diagnostic assessment for autism. We expect the National Health Service to be working towards meeting the recommendations.</p><p>NHS England has also been working with the Health and Social Care Information Centre to develop the Mental Health Minimum Data Set. This will include provision for the diagnosis of autism to be recorded. This mandatory data set will, for the first time, provide data about diagnosis rates. The data will be published and available for everyone to use to support and develop services. NHS England has a commitment, over the next five years, to improve waiting times and this data will be invaluable for this. Information on average waiting times for autistic diagnosis in each clinical commissioning group area is not collected centrally.</p><p>The Department issued new statutory guidance in March this year for local authorities and NHS organisations to support the continued implementation of the 2010 Autism Strategy, as refreshed by its 2014 Think Autism update. This guidance sets out what people seeking an autism diagnosis can expect from local authorities and NHS bodies including general practitioners.</p><p>We are due to consult on how we set the mandate to NHS England prior to publication of the mandate itself. The mandate will be published following the Government’s Spending Review which is due to complete on 25 November.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 10737 10818 10841 10843 10844 11039 11100 11101 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:01:33 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

420087

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students studying in London medical schools are in their final year of study.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	11077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 11076 11078 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:23:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

420088

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students studying in London medical schools are in their first year of study.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	11078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 11076 11077 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:23:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

420089

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Junior Doctors: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many junior doctors worked in the NHS in London in each year since 2006.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	11075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The number of full time equivalent NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) doctors in training and equivalents<sup>1</sup> in London, as at 30 September each year between 2006 and 2014 and at 30 June 2015<sup>2</sup> is shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10,360</p></td><td><p>10,443</p></td><td><p>10,916</p></td><td><p>11,645</p></td><td><p>11,971</p></td><td><p>12,083</p></td><td><p>12,187</p></td><td><p>12,455</p></td><td><p>12,584</p></td><td><p>12,288</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> Health and Social Care Information Centre Medical and Dental Workforce Census.</p><p><em>Source</em>: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.</p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p><sup>1 </sup>Doctors in training and equivalents refers to the Registrar group, Senior House Officer, Foundation Year 2, House Officer &amp; Foundation Programme Year 1, other doctors in training and other staff at these grades that do not hold an educationally approved training post.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>June 2015 data is the latest data available. This is sourced from the NHS HCHS Monthly Workforce Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/10/2015 15:21:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

420090

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many medical students are currently studying in medical schools in London.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	11076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Medical and Dental Students Survey records the total intake for medical schools for the 2014/15 academic year for London as1,616.Data is not held centrally on numbers of medical students studying in London for their final year of study or current totals of medical students in medical schools in London.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 11077 11078 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:23:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

420093

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood Diseases: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to procure extended half-life blood clotting factor products for use in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	10868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department plans to tender for extended half-life Clotting Factor VIII and Factor IX for use in the National Health Service once the products are granted European Union licences and are commercially available.</p><p>NHS England has made no decision at this time to whether it will develop a clinical commissioning policy for extended half-life productsbut, through the Clinical Reference Group and discussion with the Department’s Commercial Medicines Unit, will continue to review commissioning of these extended half-life products in the future.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 10869 question first answered 14/10/2015 11:36:52 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

420094

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood Diseases: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will develop a clinical commissioning policy on the use of extended half-life blood clotting factor products in people with haemophilia.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	10869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The Department plans to tender for extended half-life Clotting Factor VIII and Factor IX for use in the National Health Service once the products are granted European Union licences and are commercially available.</p><p>NHS England has made no decision at this time to whether it will develop a clinical commissioning policy for extended half-life productsbut, through the Clinical Reference Group and discussion with the Department’s Commercial Medicines Unit, will continue to review commissioning of these extended half-life products in the future.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 10868 question first answered 14/10/2015 11:36:52 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

420095

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department gives to UK citizens who are invoiced incorrectly for medical treatment given in other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	10883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>United Kingdom residents, who appear to have been invoiced incorrectly or have not presented valid European Health Insurance Card while visiting other European Economic Area (EEA) countries or Switzerland, can get in touch with the Department of Health directly or follow advice available on NHS Choices Healthcare Abroad website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/healthcareabroad" target="_blank">www.nhs.uk/healthcareabroad</a></p><p>Patients contacting the Department of Health are provided with specific advice based on the details of the case.</p><p>Depending on the circumstances and healthcare route taken, either NHS England or Overseas Healthcare Team at the Department for Work and Pensions may reimburse patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/10/2015 15:07:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan