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1639616

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for the level of NHS complaints that are referred to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	186419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The referral of National Health Service complaints to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman occurs when a complainant in the NHS remains unhappy at the conclusion of the initial complaints process, for example, in an NHS trust or general practitioner practice. The level of referrals to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman will be impacted by a number of factors, including how the complaint is initially handled, or the extent to which NHS organisations highlight the complaints process and the consequent level of awareness amongst potential complainants.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 25/05/2023 13:21:58 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1639651

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish the Government’s Vaccine Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>Development of a vaccine strategy remains under review given the evolving understanding from the COVID-19 vaccination programme, the existing seasonal flu and the 12 national immunisation programmes.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 186075 question first answered 26/05/2023 12:09:13 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639187

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Sleeping Pills: Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of people that have been prescribed sleeping pills in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>No estimate has been made as the information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/05/2023 14:02:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639188

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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: Staff
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 steps his Department has taken to help tackle shortages of (a) consultants and (b) other NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>We continue to grow the National Health Service workforce. As of February 2023, there has been an increase of 1,689 full-time equivalent (FTE) consultants and over 12,300 more nurses than the same time last year. We are on track to deliver 50,000 more nurses across the NHS by 2024 and have almost 43,000 more nurses in February 2023 compared with September 2019.</p><p>The Government has funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places per year for domestic students in England, a 25% increase, taking the total number of medical school places in England to 7,500 each year.</p><p>Furthermore, a number of actions have been taken to retain NHS staff through the NHS People Plan and the People Promise pledge to build a more modern, compassionate and inclusive culture in the NHS to improve people’s experience of working in the NHS, and the retention of staff.</p><p>To support the workforce as a whole we have commissioned NHS England to develop a long term workforce plan for the NHS workforce for the next 15 years. This plan will help ensure that we have the right numbers of staff, with the right skills to transform and deliver high quality services fit for the future.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/05/2023 15:19:04 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639218

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish a vaccine strategy.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	186075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>Development of a vaccine strategy remains under review given the evolving understanding from the COVID-19 vaccination programme, the existing seasonal flu and the 12 national immunisation programmes.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 186366 question first answered 26/05/2023 12:09:13 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock

1639221

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Care Homes: Standards
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 ensure (a) consistency and (b) adequate monitoring of care standards in care homes.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
uin	186251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator for health and adult social care in England. The CQC monitor, inspect and regulate services, including care homes. To ensure consistency in their approach to regulating providers, the CQC assess all providers against the fundamental standards of quality and safety.</p><p>Where concerns on quality or safety are identified, the CQC have a wealth of enforcement powers available and will take swift action to ensure the safety of service users. This could include publishing actions a provider must take to make improvements, restricting a service’s operation or in cases of significant concern, taking action which would lead to the closure of a service. All of these are designed to ensure providers act quickly to improve the quality of care they are delivering.</p><p>CQC will continue to engage with providers to monitor services and will act on feedback received from people who use services, their families and other stakeholders when concerns are raised about the quality of care.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 26/05/2023 12:07:28 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1639246

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Global Tobacco Regulators Forum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the members of the delegation which attended the Global Tobacco Regulators Forum in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	186145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>One official from the Department’s tobacco control policy team attended to represent the United Kingdom as a lead and expert in tobacco control policy. It is not Department policy to publish the names below SCS1 that attend events.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/05/2023 12:56:16 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1639247

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Smoking: 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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of WHO's implementation of harm reduction strategies to help reduce smoking; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	Andrew Lewer
uin	186146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment on the effectiveness of World Health Organization’s implementation of harm reduction strategies to help reduce smoking. We have no future plans to perform an assessment or issue a statement.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/05/2023 12:57:45 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4659 label Biography information for Andrew Lewer

1639250

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Medical Equipment: Registration
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 (a) invitro diagnostic and (b) other medical devices that (i) are UK approved body certified and (b) self-declared under the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 are registered with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	186029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The information requested has been verified by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) but has not been previously published. The following table shows the number of medical devices registered with the MHRA including United Kingdom approved body certified and self-declared under Medical Devices Regulations (MDR) 2002.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>In Vitro-Diagnostic Medical Devices</p></td><td><p>General Medical Devices</p></td><td><p>Active Implantable Medical Devices</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK approved body certified</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Self-declared MDR 2002</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>356</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>359</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The in-vitro diagnostic medical devices referenced were declared under part IV of the UK Medical Devices Regulations (MDRs) 2002, the general medical devices referenced were declared under part II of the UK MDRs 2002 and the active implantable medical devices were declared under part III of the UK MDRs 2002.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/05/2023 12:33:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1639262

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Air Ambulance Services: Finance
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 take steps to provide funding for the London Air Ambulance to purchase two new helicopters.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	186031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>Air ambulances are not directly funded by the National Health Service. However, the Government has provided significant and sustained support to the sector. In 2019, the Department launched a three year capital grant programme which allocated £10 million to nine air ambulance charities across England, of which London’s Air Ambulance Charity and Barts Health NHS Trust received £1,393,552.</p><p>In addition, the Department provided £6 million of COVID-19 emergency funding to all 21 air ambulance charities across the United Kingdom, to ensure that each charity could continue to provide their life-saving services during the pandemic. London’s Air Ambulance Charity received £252,500 of this funding.</p><p>There are no current plans to provide further funding to the sector which operates through a longstanding and successful charitable model.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 185876 186101 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:09:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers