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800616

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report by Action for ME, Spotlight on specialist services: UK healthcare for people with ME, published in July 2017, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of collecting data on the prevalence of ME for each Clinical Commissioning Group area.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	117237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence reports that the annual estimated prevalence is at least 0.2–0.4% (around 190,000) in the United Kingdom. Population prevalence estimates, along with data on services usage and other local intelligence can support commissioners to deliver high quality services for the populations they serve.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2017 16:56:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

797437

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Transport
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 review transport services for older people to attend hospital appointments.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	116400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The provision of appropriate patient transport services is a matter for local National Health Service commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/12/2017 17:23:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

786747

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	Functional Neurological Disorder: Counselling and Physiotherapy
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 people with functional neurological disorder have adequate access to physiotherapy and counselling in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	112350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Decisions about treatment for patients with functional neurological disorder should be made on a case by case basis by clinicians in discussions with their patients; this would include referrals to physiotherapy or counselling services if appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/11/2017 11:45:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

781473

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Government has made on improving the transparency and affordability of publicly funded medical research.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded through the Department to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. The NIHR invests over £1 billion into health and public health research each year and is committed to “adding value in research” by maximizing the potential impact of research that it funds for patients and the public. This means ensuring that it answers the right questions (including effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions), delivers research efficiently and publishes results in full in an accessible and unbiased way.</p><p> </p><p>Full and open access to the knowledge generated by research is of the utmost importance to the NIHR. The NIHR commitment to transparency, the NIHR Journals Library, open access policy, and endorsement of the World Health Organization joint statement on the disclosure of results ensures that ideas and knowledge derived from publicly funded research are made available and accessible for public use.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental business planning, financial forecasting and in-year monitoring processes ensure the affordability of NIHR funded research.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/11/2017 15:29:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

780492

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 recognised local authority mental health services as a key service alongside the NHS and to ensure that the statutory functions of local authority mental health services are adequately funded.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities (LAs) have a statutory duty to take the steps that they decide are appropriate to improve the physical and mental health of the people in their areas. It is for individual LAs to identify and address the particular needs of their population. Many of the services they arrange have the potential to benefit mental health and wellbeing, including drug and alcohol misuse treatment. LAs will receive £16 billion over the current five-year spending review period to fund their health improvement activity.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities also have statutory responsibilities to do with the Mental Health Act. The Care Quality Commission monitors the operation of the Act, and reports to Parliament each year on its findings. The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act will also examine current practice and look at how the Act is working for patients, and how it can be improved.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/11/2017 16:25:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

780493

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 improve the sharing of medical records between medical institutions and trusts for mental health service users.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that appropriate and timely sharing of data is essential to improving care, treatment and support for service users. We are committed to ensuring the health and social care system in England realises the benefits of sharing data in a safe, secure and legal way.</p><p> </p><p>Government policy has outlined the importance of sharing data between organisations at a local level. The Department has worked with the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing to understand the factors which impact on information sharing in mental health crisis care.</p><p> </p><p>Challenges around transferring patient notes and records between different organisations and care settings are recognised and will be addressed, in part, by the move from paper records to electronic systems for recording and sharing patient information.</p><p> </p><p>‘Information: To Share or not to share? The Information Governance Review’ (2013) created a duty on National Health Service trusts to share information. NHS trusts have to demonstrate in their annual information governance return how they are fulfilling this duty.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/11/2017 17:11:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

780495

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds
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 (a) there are sufficient psychiatric beds to meet demand and (b) out-of-area placements are avoided.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is committed to ensuring that patients with mental health conditions can receive treatment as close as possible to where they live. Inappropriate out of area placements are unacceptable and the Government has set a target to eliminate these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>To support the delivery of this ambition, in October 2016 the Government put in place the first data collection to secure much-needed national transparency on the number of patients that are sent out of their local area for acute inpatient treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is using this new data to support local health systems to develop and deliver trajectories to eliminate inappropriate out of area placements.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million has been made available for investment in mental health crisis resolution home treatment teams over the next four years, enabling them to provide 24/7 crisis response and intensive home treatment as a genuine alternative to admission where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Shared learning and best-practice advice on reducing out of area placements through improved system capacity management will be included in acute care commissioning guidance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/11/2017 11:42:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

780545

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Private Sector
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 effect that private sector usage of NHS premises and facilities has had on NHS waiting times in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	110355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the effect that private sector usage of National Health Service premises and facilities has had on NHS waiting times in the last three years. However, we would expect that any private work carried out in an NHS facility is undertaken outside of normal clinic and working hours so that the day-to-day business of the NHS is not affected.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 06/11/2017 15:47:38 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

776015

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Transport
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 provide adequate transport services for the elderly.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	109080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>We have interpreted this query as being about transport services for elderly people who are attending routine hospital appointments.</p><p> </p><p>Non-emergency patient transport services (PTS) are available for patients that meet certain criteria, including but not limited to those who are elderly and satisfy one or more of the criteria outlined in the document Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services.</p><p> </p><p>A patient’s eligibility for PTS should be determined either by a healthcare professional or by non-clinically qualified staff who are both clinically supervised and/or working within locally agreed protocols or guidelines, and employed by the National Health Service or working under contract for the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 31/10/2017 13:48:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel