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1650278

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2023 to Question 191251, if he will direct Public Health England to estimate the number of people projected to have diabetes in 2030 based on recent data.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	192478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>We intend to update the projected estimates of people with diabetes in due course, however we are still awaiting sufficient validated data for us to do this.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/07/2023 16:56:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1650307

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Tinnitus
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 his Department has to (a) improve and (b) invest in services supporting people with tinnitus.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Sir Chris Bryant
uin	192512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2023 answer text <p>Commissioning of hearing services, including support for people with tinnitus, takes place at a local level based on the needs of the local population. We expect commissioners to follow relevant National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, including the NICE guideline [NG155] Tinnitus: assessment and management.</p><p>In addition, the Action Plan on Hearing Loss (2015) sets out key objectives on hearing loss and related hearing conditions including tinnitus: prevention, early diagnosis, maximising independence, and enabling people to take part in everyday activities.</p><p>A large group of people with tinnitus will also benefit from reassurance and advice. Some people with distressing tinnitus may need to access a range of further specialist support through their local National Health Service hearing services that could include counselling, sound therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, which aims to retrain the way people respond to tinnitus.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/07/2023 08:56:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1650314

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	192464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Kent and Medway Integrated Care System spent a total of £92,251,788 on all diagnostic services collected on DM01. DM01 includes the 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures. Of this, £51,185,316 (55.5%) was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst integrated care systems (ICSs), including Kent and Medway ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>NHS Kent &amp; Medway ICS is actively working with providers across Kent &amp; Medway, including Ashford, to support waiting list reduction through waiting list validation, providing additional capacity and the redesign of patient pathways. This includes endoscopy procedures.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192465 192468 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:48:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1650315

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of diagnostic funding was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures in the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	192465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Kent and Medway Integrated Care System spent a total of £92,251,788 on all diagnostic services collected on DM01. DM01 includes the 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures. Of this, £51,185,316 (55.5%) was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst integrated care systems (ICSs), including Kent and Medway ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>NHS Kent &amp; Medway ICS is actively working with providers across Kent &amp; Medway, including Ashford, to support waiting list reduction through waiting list validation, providing additional capacity and the redesign of patient pathways. This includes endoscopy procedures.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192464 192468 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:48:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1650316

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Ashford
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 the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system plans to take to increase the delivery of endoscopy procedures in Ashford.
tabling member constituency	Ashford
tabling member printed	Damian Green
uin	192468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Kent and Medway Integrated Care System spent a total of £92,251,788 on all diagnostic services collected on DM01. DM01 includes the 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures. Of this, £51,185,316 (55.5%) was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst integrated care systems (ICSs), including Kent and Medway ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>NHS Kent &amp; Medway ICS is actively working with providers across Kent &amp; Medway, including Ashford, to support waiting list reduction through waiting list validation, providing additional capacity and the redesign of patient pathways. This includes endoscopy procedures.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the NHS Kent and Medway integrated care system. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192464 192465 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:48:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	76 label Biography information for Damian Green

1650325

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Travel: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what travel vaccinations GP surgeries are normally required to provide for free; and whether there are circumstances under which a surgery could charge for them.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	192469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2023 answer text <p>The following travel vaccines are available free on the National Health Service from general practice surgeries: polio (given as a combined diphtheria/tetanus/polio jab); typhoid; hepatitis A; and cholera.</p><p>These vaccines are free because they protect against diseases thought to represent the greatest risk to public health if they were brought into the country.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/07/2023 10:48:30 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1650328

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Incontinence: Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 1 June 2023 to Question 186357 on Incontinence: Products, how the most economically advantageous tender approach in relation to procurement of absorbent continence products takes into account (a) whole system costs, and (b) item pricing; and what steps he is taking to help ensure the approach (i) does not deter product innovation, (ii) does not adversely impact patient quality of life and health outcomes, (iii) decrease resilience in the supply chain and (iv) incur additional costs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	192523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Supply Chain have a disposable continence framework in place which runs until August 2025. All suppliers are awarded onto the framework, with evaluation based on the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT). Financial and non-financial evaluations are undertaken independently of each other. When a trust selects a supplier, the trust will evaluate potential suppliers on the framework, evaluating the subjective, qualitative features of ease of use, comfort, comparative reduction in leakages, quality of life and health outcomes.</p><p>NHS Supply Chain are currently in the process of working on two separate value-based procurement projects, both of which aim to concentrate on leaks, reduction in mobility, loss of dignity, reduction in quality of life, or risk of skin infections and pressure ulcers.</p><p>The Government's new Medical Technology Strategy, published in February 2023, set out how the health and social care system can reliably access safe, effective and innovative medical technologies that support the continued delivery of high-quality care, outstanding patient safety and excellent patient outcomes in a way that makes the best use of taxpayer money. To deliver value for money and affordability across the whole patient pathway, DHSC, NHS Supply Chain and NHS England are building on work to develop a consistent methodology for value-based procurement of innovative products.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/07/2023 09:22:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1650330

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has a timescale for approval and rollout of vaccines protecting against respiratory syncytial virus.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	192524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2023 answer text <p>Policy options based on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation’s advice on a potentially expanded respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme are being developed. This includes the Department working with the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England on implementation, with NHS England leading on delivery.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/07/2023 10:47:46 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1650331

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Strokes: 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 is taking to improve aftercare for stroke patients.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	192525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p>On 24 November 2022, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster published a Written Ministerial Statement noting that departments had been instructed to take a series of actions relating to surveillance equipment subject to the National Intelligence Law of the People’s Republic of China. This Department has been implementing this policy along with other protective security controls.</p><p>At Report Stage of the Procurement Bill, the Government committed that, within six months of Royal Assent, the Government will set out the timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment supplied by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of China from sensitive sites. This Department will be providing information to the Cabinet Office to support this commitment. It is a longstanding Government policy that specific security arrangements regarding Government estates are withheld on security grounds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 13/07/2023 09:23:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1650342

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	NHS England: Subsidiary Companies
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 implications for his policies of industrial action by NHS staff over the establishment of wholly owned subsidiary companies; and whether he plans to update guidance on the issue.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	192746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made and we have no plans to update the guidance.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/07/2023 13:11:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth