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222966

registered interest
date	23/02/2015
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects that the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Dataset will start publishing data; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	225018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">The Health and Social Care Information Centre advise that the collection of data for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services dataset will start at the beginning of February 2016. The first submission period will cover January to March 2016. Statistical reports based on the initial data collection will be published in mid-2016.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance <em>Multiple sclerosis: management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care</em>, updated in October 2014, sets out best practice on the diagnosis, treatment, care and support of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The guidance makes a range of recommendations on drug based treatments for MS, but also highlights the importance of involving professionals who can meet the needs of the patient in the best way, such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists. </del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">With regard to early diagnosis, MS is a difficult condition to diagnose as a number of the symptoms such as fatigue, depression or dizziness may be unrelated. The guidance sets out a number of initial presentations that clinicians should be aware of when looking for signs of MS. It also recommends a number of assessments a clinician should make, including testing of vision and blood tests before referral to a consultant neurologist, who can confirm or exclude a diagnosis of MS, subject to investigation.</del></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 26/02/2015 15:20:43 question first ministerially corrected 27/02/2015 13:56:12 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb previous answer version 46777 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

174220

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that hospitals in Greater Manchester meet the Government's A&E waiting time target.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	221094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State meets NHS England on a weekly basis and discusses a wide range of topics, including accident and emergency (A&amp;E) performance data. Monitor, the Care Quality Commission, and the NHS Trust Development Authority also have oversight of trust A&amp;E performance, and are involved in these meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On the back of a strong economy the Government has made £700 million – the highest ever figure – available to the NHS specifically to help with winter pressures. The first tranche of this money was made available earlier than ever.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local plans to spend this money provide for nearly 8,800 extra staff and almost 6,500 extra beds. Over £25 million is going towards increasing access to general practitioners (GPs), including later and weekend appointments. £50 million will help ambulance services meet rising demand for emergency cases and a separate fund of £250 million will support an extra 100,000 operations so people can be seen quicker and before they need to be admitted as an emergency case.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This money will also support a range of local initiatives to improve urgent and emergency care including seven day pharmacy services, improvements to NHS 111 and GP out of hours services, short stay units for elderly patients and improvements to hospital discharge processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Across Greater Manchester £30 million has been provided with local plans for this to fund over 70 doctors, 300 nurses and 200 extra beds. Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester, as system leaders, are working with NHS England and local partners including local authorities to implement local winter initiatives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/01/2015 13:51:02 question first ministerially corrected 23/01/2015 14:02:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 39987 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

174221

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities in Greater Manchester on increased attendances in A&E over the winter and delayed discharges.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	221095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State meets NHS England on a weekly basis and discusses a wide range of topics, including accident and emergency (A&amp;E) performance data. Monitor, the Care Quality Commission, and the NHS Trust Development Authority also have oversight of trust A&amp;E performance, and are involved in these meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On the back of a strong economy the Government has made £700 million – the highest ever figure – available to the NHS specifically to help with winter pressures. The first tranche of this money was made available earlier than ever.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local plans to spend this money provide for nearly 8,800 extra staff and almost 6,500 extra beds. Over £25 million is going towards increasing access to general practitioners (GPs), including later and weekend appointments. £50 million will help ambulance services meet rising demand for emergency cases and a separate fund of £250 million will support an extra 100,000 operations so people can be seen quicker and before they need to be admitted as an emergency case.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This money will also support a range of local initiatives to improve urgent and emergency care including seven day pharmacy services, improvements to NHS 111 and GP out of hours services, short stay units for elderly patients and improvements to hospital discharge processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Across Greater Manchester £30 million has been provided with local plans for this to fund over 70 doctors, 300 nurses and 200 extra beds. Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester, as system leaders, are working with NHS England and local partners including local authorities to implement local winter initiatives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/01/2015 13:51:02 question first ministerially corrected 23/01/2015 14:02:55 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 39989 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

174223

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
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: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Monitor, the Care Quality Commission and NHS England on hospitals in Greater Manchester which have not met the Government's A&E waiting time target.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	221081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State meets NHS England on a weekly basis and discusses a wide range of topics, including accident and emergency (A&amp;E) performance data. Monitor, the Care Quality Commission, and the NHS Trust Development Authority also have oversight of trust A&amp;E performance, and are involved in these meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On the back of a strong economy the Government has made £700 million – the highest ever figure – available to the NHS specifically to help with winter pressures. The first tranche of this money was made available earlier than ever.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local plans to spend this money provide for nearly 8,800 extra staff and almost 6,500 extra beds. Over £25 million is going towards increasing access to general practitioners (GPs), including later and weekend appointments. £50 million will help ambulance services meet rising demand for emergency cases and a separate fund of £250 million will support an extra 100,000 operations so people can be seen quicker and before they need to be admitted as an emergency case.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This money will also support a range of local initiatives to improve urgent and emergency care including seven day pharmacy services, improvements to NHS 111 and GP out of hours services, short stay units for elderly patients and improvements to hospital discharge processes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Across Greater Manchester £30 million has been provided with local plans for this to fund over 70 doctors, 300 nurses and 200 extra beds. Clinical commissioning groups in Greater Manchester, as system leaders, are working with NHS England and local partners including local authorities to implement local winter initiatives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/01/2015 13:51:02 question first ministerially corrected 23/01/2015 14:02:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison previous answer version 39988 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

171266

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) actual and (b) percentage change was in expenditure per head of population aged 65 and over on adult social care services in each English local authority in 2009-10 and 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	219191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Data on expenditure per head of population aged 65 and over on adult social care services is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The attached table provides the net current expenditure per head of population who receive adult social care aged 65 and over, broken down by local authority and year. The last column shows the percentage change between 2009-10 and 2013-14.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Local authorities in England spent £6.7 billion on social care for people aged over 65 and over in 2013-14, compared with £7.4 billion in 2009-10. In 2013-14 the National Health Service transferred £859 million to social care but we are unable to include this investment in the overall spending figure as we do not hold information on how much of it was spent on people aged 65 and over.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The attached table provides a breakdown of expenditure on social care per head of population aged 65 and over broken down by local authority in 2009-10 and 2013-14. The table also details the percentage change and actual change between those two financial years. The figures do not include NHS transfer funding.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 05/01/2015 16:21:02 question first ministerially corrected 13/01/2015 14:57:52 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name Revised table PQ 219191.docx title Social care spend per head of population 2009-14 previous answer version 36913 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name 2014-12-22 PQ219191 Karen Buck Table on over 65 LA Expenditure.docx title Over 65 LA expenditure
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

101899

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, whether the new waiting time standards for adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) apply to children and adolescents' IAPT.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	212715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The new waiting time standard for the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme does not apply to services working with the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme. The CYP IAPT programme is a service transformation programme working with existing child and adolescent mental health services. It does not create separate standalone services for depression and anxiety as is the case with adult IAPT. It works with existing child and adolescent mental health services across the National Health Service, local authority and voluntary sectors to support improved access to evidence based, outcome focussed client led services. The waiting time and access standard for child and adolescent mental health services will be developed in the future. It is not possible to put a waiting and access standard in place nationally at this stage due to the lack of centrally collected data.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020</em> contains the first waiting time standards for mental health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It announces the introduction of improved investment in specialist intensive psychiatric mental health facilities for children and young people to reduce waiting times for intensive psychiatric care and to end the practice of young people being admitted to mental health beds far away from where they live or from being inappropriately admitted to adult wards. It announces the introduction of standard waiting times for Early Intervention in Psychosis services which will be of benefit to young people, and for the adult IAPT programme. It makes it clear that the waiting time standards announced are a first step. There will also be £30 million increased investment in liaison psychiatry to help people including young people presenting in accident and emergency departments with mental health problems. The vision is for comprehensive standards to be developed over the coming years for all ages, including for children and young people. However, where adult IAPT services are commissioned to provide a service to 16 and 17 year olds, the waiting time standard will apply to all those attending the service, regardless of their age.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England will work together with mental health system partners to set out how and when access and further waiting time standards could be introduced, subject to resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review, including consideration of key priorities such as eating disorders and perinatal mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 06/11/2014 13:13:27 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb previous answer version 26209 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

63270

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	GP Surgeries: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many general practitioner practices were (a) refurbished and (b) replaced in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	201710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>Prior to April 2013, granting funding for the refurbishment and replacement of general practitioner premises was the responsibility of primary care trusts (PCTs). Information pertaining to this period is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for funding general practice premises development has now been transferred to NHS England.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 April 2013 and 1 April 2014, more than 100 business cases for premises development were approved by NHS England. NHS England <ins class="ministerial">will be publishing </ins><del class="ministerial">has now published</del> Principles of Good Practice <ins class="ministerial">later in the autumn. This </ins> <del class="ministerial">that</del> set<ins class="ministerial">s</ins> out how <del class="ministerial">area</del> teams should review and prioritise business case proposals, and since 1 April 2014 a further 46 business cases have been approved.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 26/06/2014 14:49:17 question first ministerially corrected 11/09/2014 13:48:27 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb previous answer version 6377 answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed