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753272

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord O’Shaughnessy on 23 January (HL4387) and on 3 February (HL4841), whether the new data collection on extended access to general practice includes data on the number of days that general practices were continuously closed over the Christmas and New Year holidays 2016-17; if so, why the Written Answer on 23 January stated that the Department of Health does not hold that information; and if not, whether they intend to extend that data collection to such information.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The extended access data collection does not collect this information. There are no plans to extend the data collection to cover specific arrangements such as holiday cover. The data collection was agreed following negotiations between the General Practitioner Committee and NHS England, and any change or amendment to it would require further negotiation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 20/07/2017 14:47:45 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

753280

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many times a hospital doctor has been required to be present during a patient transfer to another NHS Trust in the last 12 months; in each case, what was (1) the medical specialty of the doctor involved, and (2) the grade of the doctor involved; and in how many of those cases was a hospital department left without a consultant available within 30 minutes as a result of that transfer.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The data requested are not held centrally. Trusts are responsible for staffing arrangements including for ensuring appropriate arrangements and for procedures concerning the transfer of patients to other hospitals.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/07/2017 09:26:57 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

753281

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation to regulate (1) physician assistants in anaesthesia, (2) physicians' associates, (3) advance critical care practitioners, and (4) surgical care practitioners; and if so, when.
tabling member printed	Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
uin	HL969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the development of a modern health and care workforce as part of the continuing drive to provide safe, accessible and high quality care for patients and service users.</p><p> </p><p>The extension of statutory regulation to currently unregulated groups will only be considered where there is a solid body of evidence demonstrating a level of risk to the public which cannot be addressed through other means of assurance, including Accredited Voluntary Registers.</p><p><br> As the Secretary of State announced in his speech to NHS Providers in November 2016, the Department is developing proposals for a public consultation to consider whether physician associates should be regulated.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen question first answered 21/07/2017 09:27:44 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	3609 label Biography information for Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

753291

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure that Clinical Commissioning Groups are notified when a paediatric audiology service does not meet the standards for Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation following an assessment visit.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL889 HL890 HL891 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:44 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

753472

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much and what proportion of his Department's expenditure has been identified as relating to its work on the UK leaving the EU in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>All affected policy teams within the Department are involved in assessing the implications of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union on their area. They have a prominent role in the Department’s programme for exiting the EU, which is supported internally by teams with cross-cutting functions and a team coordinating the work.</p><p>It is difficult to provide a breakdown between specific exit related activity and normal activity of the teams concerned. However, the resources available are kept under constant review and the Department is equipping itself with the resources it needs to get the best deal for the UK.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 24/07/2017 10:35:30 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

753473

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Vulnerable Adults: Protection
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 lessons are learned from the findings of the serious case review by Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board into the death of Tom, published in June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	5670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting those at risk of abuse and neglect. We want to see a focused and effective safeguarding system, where harm or risk of harm is identified, acted upon effectively and ultimately prevented. This is a distressing case and we hope lessons will be learnt by all the agencies involved.</p><p> </p><p>As regards ensuring that lessons are learned, the Care Act 2014 requires Safeguarding Adults Boards (SAB) to publish an annual report on what it has done to act on the findings of the completed Safeguarding Adult Reviews or, where it has decided not to act on a finding, why not.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of publication timings, the Care Act does not compel SABs to publish the final reports or summaries. The Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board published the Serious Case Review relating to Tom on their website and their 2016/17 annual report will be available on their website in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, the processes to hold any individual or organisation to account include criminal proceedings, disciplinary procedures, employment law and systems of service and professional regulation. All documentation the SAB receives from registered providers which is relevant to the Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s regulatory functions will be given to the CQC.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 5854 5855 question first answered 21/07/2017 12:53:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

753474

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brain: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Third Report of the Health Select Committee, Session 2000-01, Head Injury: Rehabilitation.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	5671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England as the body responsible for commissioning providers of neuro rehabilitation across England.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s current specification for neuro rehabilitation takes account of research based evidence which shows that:</p><p> </p><p>- Rehabilitation in specialist settings for people with traumatic brain or spinal cord injury and stroke is effective and provides value for money in terms of reducing length of stay in hospital and reducing the costs of long-term care;</p><p>- Early transfer to specialist centres and more intense rehabilitation programmes are cost effective, the latter particularly in the small group of people who have high care costs due to very severe brain injury;</p><p>- Clinical and cost-benefits are similar for people with severe behavioural problems following brain injury; and</p><p>- Continued co-ordinated multidisciplinary rehabilitation in the community improves long-term outcomes and can help to reduce hospital re-admissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This specification is used within contracts held between NHS England and providers of neuro rehabilitation across England. Each region is responsible for monitoring the performance and quality outcomes of the service provided, as described within the specification.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/07/2017 12:39:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

753475

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
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: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many contracts are currently held by NHS Shared Business Services in NHS Trusts in (a) England and (b) the North West region of England.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	5688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The number of contracts currently held by NHS Shared Business Services in National Health Service trusts in England is 110, and in the North West region of England is 37.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 05/09/2017 15:08:09 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

753476

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Royal Brompton Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that patients of the specialised paediatric respiratory and paediatric cystic fibrosis services at the Royal Brompton Hospital will be fully consulted by the panel established to consider the potential effect of NHS England's congenital heart disease proposals on those services.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	5674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England. No decision has been made to close the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) service at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has advised that they have performed impact assessments for all centres which would be impacted by its CHD service change proposals if implemented. We have been informed by NHS England that these initial assessments acknowledged that there would be an impact on paediatric respiratory and cystic fibrosis services at the Royal Brompton, if NHS England’s proposals were implemented.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has advised that a panel including respiratory clinicians and representatives from respiratory and cystic fibrosis patient and public groups has been created to assess the potential impact of its CHD service change proposals on the Royal Brompton’s paediatric respiratory services. This panel has arranged to visit the Royal Brompton in August and has requested to meet patients as a part of this.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 24/07/2017 10:51:33 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

753478

registered interest
date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions: Vacancies
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 number of vacancies in (a) nursing and (b) midwifery in each English NHS trust; and if he will instruct NHS Digital to publish monthly vacancy data for each such trust.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	5696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) provides estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues as part of their Workforce Plan for England publication. The latest figures are available at the following link.</p><p><a href="https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf" target="_blank">https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Workforce%20Plan%20for%20England%202016-17.pdf </a></p><p>HEE plans to publish the Workforce Plan for England 2017/18 in due course.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital is engaged in a Vacancy Information Subgroup of the Workforce Information Review Group which is tasked with scoping the requirements of the National Health Service for healthcare recruitment information. This includes developing agreed definitions for key concepts, such as vacancies; understanding current data sources, gaps and issues; and producing proposals to overhaul the current data standards and guidance to improve this situation. The subgroup covers a wide range of stakeholders, including (but not limited to) the Department, NHS England, Heath Education England, NHS Employers and a range of NHS trusts.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 05/09/2017 13:27:48 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth