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1105479

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Epilepsy: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contingency plans are in place to ensure adequate supplies of epilepsy medication in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	237701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the European Union with a deal remains the Government’s top priority. However, as a responsible Government we must plan for every possible outcome including ‘no deal’. The Department has published guidance to industry and the health and care system to allow them to make informed plans and preparations. This is available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been working closely with industry to ensure the supply of medicines, including epilepsy medication, can continue uninterrupted in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit.</p><p> </p><p>The Department wrote to all suppliers of medicines to the United Kingdom on 26 March to advise them of the changes to EU exit dates, and ask them to continue with preparations to protect patients in all possible outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>We are confident that, if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products will be uninterrupted.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/04/2019 15:17:16 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1105488

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Epilepsy: Drugs
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 sustainability of access to medication to control epilepsy, including access to tegretol.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	237706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is responsible for the security of supply of medicines and ensuring continued access to medicines for all patients is a key priority. There is a team within the Department, which deals specifically with medicine supply issues arising both in the community and hospitals. It works closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England and others operating in the supply chain to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when they do arise.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/04/2019 16:51:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1105549

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	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 steps his Department is taking to help prevent the misdiagnosis of sexual abuse survivors with complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	237592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England’s Strategic Direction for Sexual Assault and Abuse Services sets out a clear ambition and a programme of work to improve awareness and training across the workforce, so that victims and survivors will be better able to access specialised services, safeguarding will be enhanced, the quality of care received improved and ultimately patient experience and outcomes heightened.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 01/04/2019 15:43:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1105555

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Junior Doctors: Mental Health
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 offer junior doctors mental health support and pastoral care.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	237593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is helping National Health Service trusts in their responsibility for offering junior doctors mental health support and pastoral care through the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework and NHS Improvement’s NHS staff health and wellbeing collaborative. Both incorporate the mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’ produced by Mind.</p><p> </p><p>The Workforce Implementation Plan, announced in the NHS Long Term Plan, is prioritising recommendations from Health Education England’s ‘NHS Staff and Learners Mental Wellbeing Commission’ report which should give junior doctors access to board level Well Being Guardians, personal wellbeing supervisors and ‘safe spaces’ for reflection, learning and breaks complementing work with the Care Quality Commission and NHS Improvement to ensure junior doctors have high quality supportive supervision and are not asked to work excessive hours. Doctors in training now report any pressure to work excessive hours to the Guardian of Safe Working.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/04/2019 15:27:33 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1105723

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Life Expectancy
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 trends in life expectancy over the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	237777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Average life expectancy at birth in England has been increasing for men and women and is currently around its highest ever. However, improvements in life expectancy have slowed for both males and females since 2011, and average life expectancy in England is currently stable.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published a vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health in November 2018 which set out an ambition for everyone to enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035 and to reduce the gap between the richest and poorest. Later this year we plan to publish a prevention Green Paper which will set out cross-Government plans for prevention in greater detail.</p><p> </p><p>We are working across Government and with partners nationally and locally to deal with the conditions that make people ill in the first place. We already have world leading programmes for example on childhood obesity and tobacco control, prevention of diabetes and heart disease. We now need to go further to make sure we are targeting our efforts where the need is greatest.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out new funded action the National Health Service will take to strengthen its contribution to prevention and health inequalities. All major national programmes and every local area across England will be required to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and 10 years.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 237778 question first answered 01/04/2019 15:44:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105726

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Life Expectancy
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 close the life expectancy gap between socio-economic groups.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	237778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>Average life expectancy at birth in England has been increasing for men and women and is currently around its highest ever. However, improvements in life expectancy have slowed for both males and females since 2011, and average life expectancy in England is currently stable.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published a vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health in November 2018 which set out an ambition for everyone to enjoy at least five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035 and to reduce the gap between the richest and poorest. Later this year we plan to publish a prevention Green Paper which will set out cross-Government plans for prevention in greater detail.</p><p> </p><p>We are working across Government and with partners nationally and locally to deal with the conditions that make people ill in the first place. We already have world leading programmes for example on childhood obesity and tobacco control, prevention of diabetes and heart disease. We now need to go further to make sure we are targeting our efforts where the need is greatest.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out new funded action the National Health Service will take to strengthen its contribution to prevention and health inequalities. All major national programmes and every local area across England will be required to set out specific measurable goals and mechanisms by which they will contribute to narrowing health inequalities over the next five and 10 years.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 237777 question first answered 01/04/2019 15:44:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1105736

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Opioids: Prescriptions
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 list the name and manufacturer of the opioids approved by NICE; and the number of prescriptions for each of those drugs in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	237626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published technology appraisal guidance recommending the use of methadone and buprenorphine for the management of opioid dependence. As this was a multiple technology appraisal, multiple companies were involved - MSD Ltd, Martindale Pharmaceuticals, Mylan, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, and Thornton and Ross Ltd.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number of opioid prescriptions. However, NHS Digital holds data based on prescriptions written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England. This data is available as prescription item level data by presentation for opioid analgesics as listed in the British National Formulary (BNF), which is attached. We do not hold data which identifies the manufacturer of each item dispensed.</p><p> </p><p>There is no central National Health Service collection of information on medicines issued and used in NHS hospitals in England.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/04/2019 16:50:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage attachment 1 file name 237626 table formatted.xlsx title Prescriptions for opioid analgesics
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1105757

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
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	Brain Cancer
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 increase the funding allocated by his Department to specialist training in neuro-oncology.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	237796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the National Health Service will have the staff it needs so that the NHS workforce has the time it needs to care, working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding Chair of NHS Improvement, working closely with Sir David Behan, Chair of Health Education England, to oversee the delivery of a workforce implementation plan. This will include proposals to grow the workforce, consideration of additional staff and skills required, building a supportive working culture in the NHS and how to ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff. This will include consideration of the workforce aspects of clinical priorities, including cancer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/04/2019 16:43:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1105058

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	910041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Protecting the mental health of our hard-working National Health Service staff is very important. That’s why the Workforce Implementation Plan, led by Baroness Harding, will outline proposals for making the NHS ‘the best place to work’. Through this, we will be supporting employers who are responsible for staff mental health by investing in an expanded programme to implement the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework launched last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/03/2019 16:31:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1105059

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent progress has been made on the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
uin	910043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>In September 2017, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announced its plans for a full update to the existing clinical guideline on the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) to ensure that treatment reflects the latest available evidence. The revised guideline will be published in 2020.</p><p>Since 2011, we have also invested £6 million into research into CFS/ME via the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/03/2019 15:46:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey