Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1156063

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to ensure that GPs follow NICE guidance on blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	900212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) clinical guidelines help healthcare professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available evidence. The guidelines are not mandatory, although healthcare professionals are expected to take them fully into account</p><p><br>NICE’s updated referral guidelines for suspected cancer published in June 2015 could save about 5,000 lives a year, with general practitioners urged to think of cancer sooner and to lower the referral threshold for tests.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 07:32:29 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 2614 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1156080

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	General Practitioners: Wycombe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take to ensure waiting times for GP appointments are reduced in Wycombe.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	5011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, made a clear commitment to the future of general practice, with primary and community care set to receive at least £4.5 billion more a year by 2023/24, in real terms.</p><p>Evening and weekend general practice appointments are routinely available across the country to enable patients to find appointments at a time convenient to them, with millions of patients having already benefitted from this.</p><p>Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) advises that a key focus in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) integrated care system plan submission for delivering the objectives of the Long Term Plan is providing access to services closer to home for residents. Irrespective of where residents live in Buckinghamshire, every patient with an urgent care need will be able to access same-day primary care (in or out of hours). This will not necessarily be face-to-face and with a general practitioner (GP), but could be online with advice, telephone consultations and with other members of the primary care team. Work is already underway to deliver technological solutions, such as online consultations, in 2019/20. Improved access and seven-day working have been in place since October 2018 across BOB, offering routine appointments in the evening and at weekends.</p><p>In August 2019, 82.61% of general practice appointments in the Buckinghamshire CCG region took place within two weeks of booking.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/11/2019 12:23:11 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1156083

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Hospitals: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) build and (b) renovate hospitals over the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wycombe
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Baker
uin	5014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>Over 150 sustainability and transformation partnership schemes have been awarded around £2.4 billion of capital funding since July 2017 to modernise and transform the National Health Service’s buildings and services. On 5 August 2019, the Government announced a further £1.8 billion increase to NHS capital spending, of which £850 million is funding to allow 20 new hospital upgrades to start as soon as possible.</p><p>On 29 September the Government announced the next stage of its strategic investment in the NHS; the Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP). The plan strategy document was published on 30 September 2019 and will deliver a long-term, rolling five-year programme of investment in health infrastructure. This will ensure that health infrastructure is fit-for-purpose for decades to come. The package of funding for 40 new hospitals includes:</p><p> </p><p>- £2.7 billion for six new hospital projects to be delivered in our first phase of major hospital rebuilds (HIP1); and</p><p>- £100 million to give the go-ahead to 21 major projects, covering 34 hospitals to go to the next stage of developing their plans, to be delivered in the second phase of major hospital rebuilds, subject to business case approval.</p><p> </p><p>Future phases will be supported through the Chancellor’s commitment at Spending Round 2019 on 4 September to provide a multi-year capital budget for the Department at the next capital review.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/10/2019 17:08:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker

1156146

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made for the provision of medical cannabis on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	5043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>The law was changed on 1 November 2018 to allow clinicians on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate and in the best interest of patients. The Government has been clear that decisions on whether to prescribe these products must remain a clinical one.</p><p> </p><p>Following a meeting in Parliament with the families of patients seeking access to medicinal cannabis, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to undertake a rapid process review into any barriers to prescribing on the National Health Service, where clinically appropriate. The review report is now published and the Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement and other delivery partners to implement the report’s recommendations. This includes promoting more high-quality research through the publicly funded National Institute for Health Research to develop the evidence base and exploring alternative studies to help children and young adults with treatment resistance epilepsy who are currently receiving cannabis-based medicines. We have also contacted all producers of cannabis-based products, known to have an interest in supplying the United Kingdom market, to encourage and support research applications to develop the evidence base further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/11/2019 12:17:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1156196

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the Shaping the healthier future bid, Strategic Outline Case 1 from London North West University Healthcare Trust was rejected; and if will publish the papers presented as part of that bid.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	4915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>The Shaping a Healthier Future (SaHF) bid proposed the reconfiguration of acute hospitals across outer north west London, together with investment in out of hospital hubs and primary care. The programme would have included moving services between acute providers to downgrade Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals from major to local hospitals with a reduction in their accident and emergency (A&amp;E) facilities. This will not now take place.</p><p>The Department has made it clear to NHS England and NHS Improvement that service change must be strongly aligned with the content of the NHS Long Term Plan, and this was a central element of the decision to withdraw support from aspects of Shaping a Healthier Future.</p><p>Local commissioners agreed to draw the SaHF programme to a conclusion, and NHS England and NHS Improvement are continuing to work with the local National Health Service to develop service plans to improve health and care, in particular continuing to develop community services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>The basis of the decision to withdraw support was made clear in my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcement on 26 March.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 31/10/2019 11:49:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1156216

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Speech and Language Therapy: Finance
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 of the Children's Commissioner entitled We need to talk: Access to speech and language therapy, published in June 2019, what plans he has to ensure that spending on speech and language therapy services can be tracked at the (a) local and (b) national level.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	4912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2019 answer text <p>Departmental officials met with representatives of the Children’s Commissioner in October 2019 and will continue work with the Children’s Commissioner’s Office as part of engagement with other statutory bodies to address challenges involved in improving transparency of expenditure data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/10/2019 11:43:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1156280

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Diabetes: 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 steps his Department has taken to ensure local NHS Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) include emotional and psychological support as a core part of diabetes care.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	5075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>Integrated care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships bring together local National Health Service organisations and councils across a given area so they can better understand and respond to local health and care needs. Their work includes improving local diabetes services and NHS England and NHS Improvement would expect local leaders to consider a full package of support to people who use these services, taking into account their mental as well as physical health needs.</p><p>In recognition of the interdependencies between diabetes and mental health, a project working group has been established between NHS England and Diabetes UK to specifically consider the distinct mental health needs of patients with diabetes at all stages in their care pathway.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/11/2019 12:24:08 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1156310

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Cheltenham Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to retain a consultant-led Accident & Emergency service throughout the day at Cheltenham General Hospital; and if so, for how long.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/11/2019 17:19:55 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1156311

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Cheltenham Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to include the option of retaining a consultant-led Accident & Emergency department at Cheltenham General Hospital in their forthcoming consultation.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/11/2019 17:20:27 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1156312

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Cheltenham Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the option of removing Accident & Emergency consultants from Cheltenham General Hospital during the day will be included as part of their forthcoming consultation.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 05/11/2019 17:21:00 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham