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449857

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Lung Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with lung disease in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>This data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/02/2016 15:57:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449860

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes: Pears
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 clinical bodies on the potential connection between the level of diabetes and eating pears to reduce sugar levels.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>There have been no such recent discussions.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25303 question first answered 09/02/2016 14:39:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449862

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes
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 when treatments for diabetes involving the use of skin cells will become available.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Whilst we welcome any new forms of treatment or technology that may improve patient care, it is however too early to say whether current research on the potential to modify human skin cells into working pancreas cells will result in possible treatments for people with diabetes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Skin cells have also been studied for the application of promoting healing in diabetic foot ulcers. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline NG19 <em>Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management, </em>published in August 2015 recommends that, on the advice of the multidisciplinary foot care service, dermal or skin substitutes can be used in addition to standard care when treating diabetic foot ulcers.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng19/chapter/1-Recommendations" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng19/chapter/1-Recommendations</a></p><p> </p><p>Health and care professionals are expected to take NICE guidance on the treatment of relevant conditions fully into account when deciding how to treat a patient.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/02/2016 13:41:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449863

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Cigarettes
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 the Royal Colleges on research showing that e-cigarettes can cause cardiac damage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>There have been no such discussions.</p><p> </p><p>The Department recognise that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, and in August 2015, Public Health England published a review of the evidence, which concluded that they are significantly less harmful to health than cigarettes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2016 12:59:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449864

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Donors
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 increase levels of blood donation.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) provide blood donation services to the National Health Service, supplying a reliable, efficient supply of blood in England and North Wales. To secure a consistent donor base, NHSBT runs donor recruitment campaigns throughout the year to attract new donors, for example last year’s Missing Types Programme which featured the removal of the letters of A O B from famous locations and high street brands. NHSBT also ran the #BleedForEngland campaign around the World Cup using rugby celebrities which led to 100,000 new donor registrations. The recently completed New Year 2016 recruitment campaign also saw more than 30,000 people register to give blood.</p><p> </p><p>On 1 February 2016 NHSBT confirmed that more than one million people are now registered to book blood donation appointments online.</p><p> </p><p>NHSBT is also taking specific action to increase the number of blood donors from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, particularly from Black African, Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian communities.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2016 16:52:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449865

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to make high-dose prostate therapy available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is commissioned by NHS England. NHS England’s commitment was to ensure that a minimum of 24% of patients requiring radical radiotherapy had access to inverse planned IMRT from April 2013, and this has been achieved nationally.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2016 13:26:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449866

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make the test for levels of fetal fibronectin to assist in detecting likely premature births available through the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>In November 2014, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommended that screening for pre-term birth should not be offered as the available screening test is not reliable. Further research is also needed to better understand the use of fetal fibronectin as a screen indicator in an antenatal screening programme.</p><p> </p><p>The UK NSC concluded that based on the published peer reviewed evidence preterm birth should not be offered for the following reasons:</p><p> </p><p>― The available tests for identifying which asymptomatic women were at risk of preterm labour, including the measurement of cervical length, are not reliable enough to meet the UK NSC’s criteria for use as a screening tool. Screening would identify many women as at risk when they are not, leading to unnecessary preventive treatment;</p><p>― The measurement of cervical length has no agreed measurement for establishing which pregnancies are at risk and which are not; and</p><p>― There is not enough evidence to suggest that the most effective treatment from preventing preterm labour, vaginal progesterone provides any overall benefit or reduced the likelihood of a baby dying.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/02/2016 15:32:29 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449867

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Diabetes
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 the Royal Colleges on the possible connection between potato consumption and diabetes in pregnancy.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>No such discussions have been held.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/02/2016 12:54:24 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449873

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health: Cancer
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 clinical bodies on potential links between the levels of dentistry and cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>There have been no formal discussions with clinical bodies on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/02/2016 14:40:15 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

449874

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes: Heart Diseases
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 clinical bodies on the link between diabetes and heart disease.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	25303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>There have been no such recent discussions.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25305 question first answered 09/02/2016 14:39:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon