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1016447

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
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 and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of community mental health services for people with severe mental illness.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	196877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is developing a new framework for community mental health services focussing on care for adults with severe mental illnesses.</p><p> </p><p>This work draws on a wide range of sources of data and intelligence, including the Care Quality Commission’s annual community mental health surveys and inspections of services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the National Health Service to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and we have been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan. It will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/12/2018 16:57:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1010400

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recent Rethink Mental Illness survey which found that patients with severe mental illness wait on average 14 weeks for an assessment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	192938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services. The recent survey and publication of ‘Right Treatment, Right Time’ by Rethink Mental Illness provides a valuable additional contribution to discussions about priorities for mental health going forward.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the National Health Service to develop a long-term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and we have been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:44:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1010401

registered interest
date	19/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
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 and Social Care, with reference to page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, whether each access to treatment pathway will (a) be published according to the timetable set out in that document and (b) include waiting time targets.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	192939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Of the clinical pathways referred to on page 36 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the following have already been published.</p><p> </p><p>- Early Intervention in Psychosis;</p><p>- Urgent and Emergency Liaison Mental Health Services;</p><p>- Services for Children and Young People with Eating Disorders;</p><p>- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) pathway for Long Term Conditions; and</p><p>- The Perinatal Pathway.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, guidance in relation to IAPT for people with long-term conditions has also been published (in March) along with guidance on commissioning physical healthcare for people with severe mental illness and for developing accident and emergency liaison psychiatry services.</p><p> </p><p>The acute pathway for adults and older adults are still in development alongside an updated Pathway for children and young people with eating disorders, so that more young people can be treated closer to home.</p><p> </p><p>Other pathways will now need to be considered within the context of the long-term plan. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:43:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999274

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Academic Health Science Networks: Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Understanding the performance and potential of specialist hospitals, published by the Innovation Agency and UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership in October 2018 , whether he has plans to encourage a closer working relationship between academic health science networks and specialist hospitals to improve performance in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>As part of their licence, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are required to flexibly address specific local needs and challenges. In practice, this means that AHSNs will continue to build and develop their local and regional networks, strengthening relationships with all National Health Service organisations including specialist hospitals.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/11/2018 16:41:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999275

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
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 and Social Care, how many people accessed eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy on the NHS in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186381 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999278

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department provides to NHS doctors on (a) eye movement desensitisation and (b) reprocessing treatment for cases of post traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186380 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

984582

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Asthma: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many asthma inhalers have been issued (a) in England and (b) in each region to (i) adults and (ii) children in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	177343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The number of prescriptions prescribed in England and dispensed in the community for drugs that are indicated for the treatment of asthma are shown in the attached table. Information is not available by age. These drugs may also be prescribed for conditions other than asthma.</p><p> </p><p>The sum of the data for all National Health Service England Regions does not equal the total England figure, because the total England figure includes unidentified doctors and it is not possible for NHS Business Services Authority Prescription Services to allocate to an NHS England region.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/10/2018 14:45:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ177343 table.docx title PQ177343 attached table
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

942663

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to intervene in negotiations between NHS England and pharmaceutical company Vertex on the provision of Orkambi to Cystic Fibrosis patients on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	164472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Patients should have access to the most effective and innovative medicines; it is also necessary that Vertex price Orkambi fairly and responsibly. That is why we must go through the right process with NHS England and Vertex, not the Government, working together to secure the best outcome for patients.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has been in intensive discussions with Vertex to encourage it to lower the cost of Orkambi to a level that would allow NHS England to fund its use without adversely impacting other patients. I and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) have been keeping an extremely close eye on these discussions and wrote to Vertex in April, urging it to commit to pricing that is responsible and proportionate. I also re-iterated this message in the adjournment debate on 17 July, <em>Official report</em>, coulmns 383-4.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2018 16:15:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

926797

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he has taken to reduce inappropriate out-of-area placements for mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	905936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Inappropriately placing people away from their home area is unacceptable and the Government is committed to eliminating these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21. NHS England and NHS Improvement now have a comprehensive national programme supporting reductions in inappropriate placements. Every part of the country now has a clear, realistic plan for ending out of area placements safely by 2021, with many areas having already ended this practice altogether.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2018 15:48:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith