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746111

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has agreed to a request for funding for the financial year 2017-18 from Action on Smoking and Health; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	1592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department has received no request for funding for the financial year 2017-18 from the charity Action on Smoking and Health. Any grant funding awards agreed in this financial year will be made on a competitive basis in line with Government guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/07/2017 14:45:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

746147

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the digitalisation of health records; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	1753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Most general practitioner (GP) practices have been using digital records for about 10 years. All GP practices in England now use computerised records.</p><p> </p><p>All secondary care providers of acute, mental health, community and ambulance services are making progress in digitising their records. This has been achieved through a combination of local and national investment. The 2015/16 digital maturity assessment shows that most progress has been made in digitising patient records, transfers of information between care settings and the ordering/reporting of diagnostic tests.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing £4.2 billion to support wider adoption of digital technology over five years - including delivery of interoperable electronic patient records in the National Health Service - by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 16:18:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

746167

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS trusts where there are no NHS beds available for female patients in need of intensive psychiatric care.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	1775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 15:46:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

746168

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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 (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to reduce the practice of sending patients with severe mental problems to hospitals out of the patient's area.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	1776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Inappropriate out of area placements are unacceptable and the Government has committed 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 this issue.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups also have the opportunity to gain a financial Quality Premium if they successfully reduce their out of area bed days by 33% during 2017/18. This will also be available in 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 13:41:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

746172

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Staff
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 number and adequacy of staffing levels for child and adolescent mental health services in (a) the Wirral and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	1749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publish NHS Hospital and Community Health Services data which shows that as at 31 March 2017, latest available data, there are 161 (full time equivalent) staff providing child and adolescent mental health services in the Wirral and 8,398 (fte) in England.</p><p> </p><p>All staff working in child and adolescent mental health services include medical staff working in the specialty of child and adolescent psychiatry and non-medical staff with a secondary area of work of child and adolescent psychiatry.</p><p> </p><p>The Wirral includes Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of staffing levels in mental health, we are working with Health Education England to develop a plan for publication this year. The scope of this will include growing the workforce and expanding the skills of the existing workforce, both for adult mental health services, and to address the workforce recommendations for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services set out in Future in Mind available at the link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414024/Childrens_Mental_Health.pdf" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/414024/Childrens_Mental_Health.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/07/2017 16:42:58 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

746173

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Standards
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 effect of the waiting time to access child and adolescent mental health services on the wellbeing of (a) looked-after children and (b) children leaving care in (i) the Wirral and (ii) England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	1750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>There is an expert reference group jointly commissioned by Department for Education and the Department of Health, which regularly meets and oversees these topics. The Department has made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 13:35:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

746175

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Visitors
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 improve the rates of coverage and activity for health visitors in (a) the Wirral and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	1890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>From 1 October 2015, local authorities (LAs) took over responsibility for commissioning public health services for children aged 0-5 from NHS England. Whilst Public Health England (PHE) collects data on coverage, LAs are responsible for local delivery which includes coverage and activity.</p><p> </p><p>In 2010 the Government committed to growing the health visitor workforce and transforming health visiting services to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities. Since 2010, around 7,500 health visitor training places have been commissioned representing a fivefold increase in the number of health visitor trainees starting training and allowing greater access to services and support for families.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and PHE have produced guidance to support both commissioners and local providers including Guidance to support the commissioning of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19: Health Visiting and School Nursing services. The materials are based on evidence and good practice. PHE and the Department continue to work with the Local Government Association, professional bodies, and locally through PHE Centres to share evidence and guidance that allows LAs to make the best decisions to meet local needs.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 13:29:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

746242

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Shared Business Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 June 2017, Urgent Question, column 472, on NHS Shared Business Service, how much has been provided to GP surgeries to cover additional administrative costs; what the total amount to be made available to GP surgeries is; and what the number of GP surgeries that have received such funding is in (a) Batley and Spen constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	1882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the National Audit Office Report (Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services, 27th June 2017):</p><p> </p><p>“NHS England has made payments to 7,330 GP practices totalling £2.5 million to compensate them for the time spent assessing the potential for patient harm due to the delay in the correspondence, and for reporting the outcome of their assessments to NHS England.“</p><p> </p><p>Information by parliamentary constituency is not available.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 13:33:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

746308

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Shared Business Services: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients in Enfield North constituency have been affected by NHS Shared Business Services' (SBS) backlog of patient correspondence; of the 1,788 cases of potential harm identified by the National Audit Office (NAO) as being caused by the SBS backlog of correspondence, how many affected Enfield North constituency residents; and of the 2,508 items of correspondence identified by the NAO as high risk, how many affected patients in Enfield North constituency.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	1754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>All documentation has been sent on to the relevant general practitioner surgery. Information by parliamentary constituency is not available.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 1757 question first answered 03/07/2017 13:33:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

746311

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	North Middlesex University Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with (i) NHS England and (ii) NHS Improvement on potential NHS service consolidation at North Middlesex University Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	1755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>No specific meetings have been recorded. However, both Ministers and officials are in regular communication with colleagues at arms length bodies, including NHS England and NHS Improvement, on many issues affecting the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/07/2017 16:40:41 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan