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451412

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
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: Mental Illness
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 timely psychiatric assessment in A&E for people with mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	903548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>In January, the Prime Minister announced £247 million to be used to develop further the provision of liaison psychiatry services in Emergency Departments in England. These services will ensure that people attending Emergency Departments who have mental ill health are assessed quickly and receive the most appropriate treatment.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/02/2016 14:55:57 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

445971

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	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 public awareness of the risk factors for chest, heart and stroke illness.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	23138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>Responsibility for raising such public awareness in Scotland rests with the Scottish Government. In England, Public Health England (PHE) runs a range of national social marketing campaigns to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of certain life-threatening illnesses and to therefore improve rates of early diagnosis. These campaigns include the Be Clear on Cancer, Act FAST and a regional pilot on breathlessness as a symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure, raising awareness on lung cancer and heart and lung disease.</p><br /><p>PHE also runs a tobacco marketing programme with a range of activity that highlights the health harms of smoking, including demonstrating the link between smoking and cancer, and heart and lung disease. As well as encouraging smokers to make quit attempts the activity signposts to proven National Health Service tools/service to help them. These programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on reducing adult smoking prevalence.</p><br /><p>PHE works closely with the Department and NHS England to ensure that health care professionals are also targeted with campaign information to encourage earlier diagnoses and referrals.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 27/01/2016 15:14:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

445977

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pain
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 improve the care of, and better respond to, NHS patients with chronic pain.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	23064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England is responsible for providing national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service in England. The professional regulators, such as the General Medical Council, set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricula. Higher Education Institutions are responsible for ensuring the programmes they provide allow students to meet these standards and outcomes. Royal colleges, such as the Royal College of General Practitioners also have responsibility for developing curricula for doctors and nurses, in particular postgraduate curricula. This process ensures that healthcare professionals have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care, including in pain management, which is a required competency of all healthcare professionals.</p><br /><p>Many patients with chronic pain can be successfully supported and managed through routine primary and secondary care pain management services. It is important that patients with the most serious pain management issues are able to access specialist care. A patient whose pain is particularly difficult to manage may be referred to a specialised pain management service. Under the care of an expert multidisciplinary team, patients may be offered specialised pain management programmes specifically and more complex drug treatments.</p><br /><p>To support clinicians in the management of pain, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published several clinical guidelines on the treatment and management of different types of pain, such as migraine and back pain, as well as technical guidance on specific treatments, such as the use of opiates in palliative care and deep brain stimulation for chronic pain.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 23020 question first answered 27/01/2016 12:15:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

445984

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pain
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 to ensure that chronic pain management is adequately included in the education of healthcare professionals and medical students.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	23020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England is responsible for providing national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service in England. The professional regulators, such as the General Medical Council, set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricula. Higher Education Institutions are responsible for ensuring the programmes they provide allow students to meet these standards and outcomes. Royal colleges, such as the Royal College of General Practitioners also have responsibility for developing curricula for doctors and nurses, in particular postgraduate curricula. This process ensures that healthcare professionals have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care, including in pain management, which is a required competency of all healthcare professionals.</p><br /><p>Many patients with chronic pain can be successfully supported and managed through routine primary and secondary care pain management services. It is important that patients with the most serious pain management issues are able to access specialist care. A patient whose pain is particularly difficult to manage may be referred to a specialised pain management service. Under the care of an expert multidisciplinary team, patients may be offered specialised pain management programmes specifically and more complex drug treatments.</p><br /><p>To support clinicians in the management of pain, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published several clinical guidelines on the treatment and management of different types of pain, such as migraine and back pain, as well as technical guidance on specific treatments, such as the use of opiates in palliative care and deep brain stimulation for chronic pain.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 23064 question first answered 27/01/2016 12:15:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

444611

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of his Department's planned £8.4 million expenditure on armed forces veterans' mental health services will be spent in Scotland in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20; and in which areas of mental health services that funding will be spent in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	22371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The funding and provision of healthcare in Scotland is a matter for the Scottish Government. The additional £8.4 million announced in the 2015 Budget will be used by the National Health Service across England to enhance mental health and support services for vulnerable veterans.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/01/2016 11:03:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

426328

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Eating Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people diagnosed with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa requested and were granted access to local specialist mental health in-patient beds in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	14747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><br /><p>The Government is providing additional funding to reduce waiting times and enhance or develop evidence based community eating disorder services, so that fewer young people will need admission to hospital as they will receive treatment closer to home.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/11/2015 17:16:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

426330

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of women with perinatal mental health problems had access to specialist counselling in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	14686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not currently collected.</p><br /><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is working on the implementation of a new Mental Health Services Dataset which will seek to increase the amount of data available about mental health. The exact reporting which will result from this is still being determined, but perinatal mental health has been identified as a key policy area where more data is required in order to understand the current issues with the services being provided to women in the perinatal period.</p><br /><p>In terms of reporting that will come out of the dataset, this is likely to include reports on:</p><p>- how many referrals to mental health services identify perinatal mental health issues as the primary reason for referral;</p><p>- how many women are identified as being on a perinatal pathway when they come into contact with mental health services;</p><p>- whether women who are admitted with mental health problems are admitted to an appropriate unit; and</p><p>- the kind of care which is provided to women in the perinatal period by community mental health services.</p><br /> <br /><p>We expect that some initial data on perinatal mental health will be available between June and September next year. This will be basic information, such as the number of referrals to mental health services that identify perinatal mental health issues as the primary reason for referral, and we expect data volumes to be low in the first instance. We will use this initial information to refine how data on perinatal mental health is collected going forward.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/11/2015 10:10:28 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

426331

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has assigned to providing mental health services for patients with stroke diagnoses for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	14687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/11/2015 09:58:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

424317

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what budget in this financial year has been assigned to providing mental health services for patients coming to terms with cancer diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	13674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held, as there is no specific budget to provide mental health services to people with cancer that is reported nationally.</p><br /><p>The Independent Cancer Taskforce published its report, <em>Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A Strategy for England 2015-2020</em>, in July this year. The mental health issues often experienced by those with cancer were highlighted in it. The Department and NHS England are currently working with partners across the health system to determine how best to take forward the recommendations of the report.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2015 17:10:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

424319

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the ability of homeless people to access addiction services; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	13670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>The ministerial working group on homelessness report ‘Addressing complex needs – improving services for vulnerable people’ (2015) highlighted significant levels of substance misuse among the homeless population. Homeless people often have multiple health needs, and the report showed how vulnerable people can become trapped in a cycle of homelessness because of their overlapping and complex problems.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Improving access to specialist substance misuse services for homeless people can also help to facilitate access to the help they need to find accommodation. This includes both in-house services and onward referral routes to external organisations, such as local authority housing services or other housing support services.</p><br /><p>Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities to help them understand better the needs of homeless people with addictions, in addition to working with key stakeholders such as the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health and membership organisation Homeless Link. PHE commissioned Homeless Link to carry out a rapid evidence assessment of homelessness prevention. PHE has also supported Homeless Link to update the Homeless Health Needs Audit toolkit, an important tool that can help areas understand the scale and nature of homelessness, the health inequalities experienced by single homeless people, and to monitor any changes in the health of this population. It is designed to be used by anyone with responsibility for carrying out needs assessments, designing and commissioning services, or delivering services within a health or homelessness setting.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2015 17:31:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron