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781999

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of mental health crisis care units on reducing pressure on accident and emergency departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL2780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted a specific assessment of the impact of mental health crisis care units on reducing pressure on accident and emergency departments.</p><p> </p><p>The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat made it clear that a wide range of agencies and services, including hospital emergency departments, should be involved in the development of local plans to ensure that people experiencing a mental health crisis have access to urgent and emergency care.</p><p> </p><p>We are making £247 million available to make sure that every emergency department has a liaison mental health team in place, and that by 2020 at least half of England’s acute hospitals will have these services available at a standard defined by the Royal College of Psychiatrists as ‘Core 24’, meaning that clinical support is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England published guidance last year on Achieving Better Access to 24/7 Urgent and Emergency Mental Health Care, which sets out that liaison mental health teams will play a vital role in ensuring that people experiencing a mental health crisis will have access to appropriate care to meet their needs.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 17:18:41 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

782008

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the assessment of the new dental contract prototypes.
tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
uin	HL2789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The evaluation report on the first full year of prototyping is due to be published by the end of this year. Evaluation of the dental contract prototype scheme is led by Eric Rooney, Deputy Chief Dental Officer for England, with an evidence and learning reference group, which includes external members.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 11:54:26 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

782009

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were (1) the total contracted Units of Dental Activity, and (2) the average value of a contracted Unit of Dental Activity per capita, in England in each year since the current dental contract was introduced in 2006.
tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
uin	HL2790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The total contracted units of dental activity for England and by region can be found in the table, which is attached owing to the size of the data. We do not hold the average value of contracted unit of dental activity per capita in England or by region.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL2791 question first answered 15/11/2017 12:46:50 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL2790 table.docx title Units of Dental Activity for England
tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

782010

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were (1) the total contracted Units of Dental Activity, and (2) the average value of a contracted Unit of Dental Activity per capita, in each region in England in each year since the current dental contract was introduced in 2006.
tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
uin	HL2791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The total contracted units of dental activity for England and by region can be found in the table, which is attached owing to the size of the data. We do not hold the average value of contracted unit of dental activity per capita in England or by region.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL2790 question first answered 15/11/2017 12:46:50 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL2790 table.docx title Units of Dental Activity for England
tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

782015

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 30 October (HL Deb, col 1152), whether they will publish the tariff of fees paid to pharmacists for providing vaccinations in retail and community settings.
tabling member printed	Lord Hughes of Woodside
uin	HL2796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2017 answer text <p>Community pharmacy contractors are paid £9.14 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. General practitioner contractors are paid £9.80 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. Both are reimbursed for the cost of the vaccine administered.</p><p> </p><p>The differential is because GPs are required to call and recall eligible patients from their practice list for the vaccination. Community pharmacy cannot do this as they do not have a practice list.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the payment arrangements for community pharmacy delivered flu vaccination for 2017/18 is contained in the <em>Service Specification, Community pharmacy seasonal influenza advanced service</em>. This was published by NHS England in August 2017. A copy is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 14/11/2017 17:14:12 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name 17-18-service-specification-seasonal-flu.pdf title Service specification
tabling member	1051 label Biography information for Lord Hughes of Woodside

782029

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hepatitis C patients were treated using the new anti-viral drugs by NHS England in the year 2016–17; and what proportion remain free of the virus post-treatment.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL2810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Based on data from National Health Service trusts, the NHS treated 9,440 of the planned 10,000 patients with new anti-viral drugs in 2016-17. Data on the proportion that remain virus free is still being analysed; this information should be available by the end of 2017 when the new hepatitis C registry being established by NHS England will be fully operational.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 13:08:16 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

782030

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost of treatment with anti-viral drugs for each hepatitis C patient treated by NHS England in 2016–17.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL2811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Hepatitis C medicines are subject to commercially confidential pricing agreements so it is not possible to disclose the cost for each patient treated. NHS England spent in excess of £200 million on direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C in 2016-17.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 13:08:45 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

782031

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many hepatitis C patients NHS England intend to treat using the new anti-viral drugs in 2017–18.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL2812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Treatment of 12,500 hepatitis C patients is planned in 2017/18.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 13:02:06 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

782032

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hepatitis: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many patients diagnosed with hepatitis C remain to be treated with new anti-viral drugs; and when NHS England expect them all to have received such treatment.
tabling member printed	Lord Mancroft
uin	HL2813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>An estimated 160,000 people in England are thought to be living with chronic hepatitis C infection. The current number of people diagnosed and yet to access treatment is difficult to state with certainty. National surveys of people who inject drugs suggest that only about half are aware of their hepatitis C infection; this figure has remained relatively stable over the past decade.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is planning a sustainable roll out of treatment which will complete the treatment of 71,000 individuals between 2015/16 and 2020/21.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 13:02:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1833 label Biography information for Lord Mancroft

782039

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Behaviour Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of their commitment made in July to provide £1.3 billion to expand mental health services, whether any of those funds will be used to support people with behavioural problems as well as those with psychiatric problems.
tabling member printed	Lord Risby
uin	HL2820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p><em>Stepping forward to 2020/21: The mental health workforce plan for England</em>, published in July, committed funds for the expansion of the mental health workforce across a range of clinical areas including Children and Young People’s services, Core Acute and Core Community services. These areas support service users with behavioural problems, as well as meeting needs for wider psychiatric support. A copy of the report is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 15/11/2017 12:47:32 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name FYFV Mental health workforce plan for England FINAL.pdf title Stepping Forward to 2020/21
tabling member	139 label Biography information for Lord Risby