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1653453

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date	17/07/2023
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	Radiology: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of consultant radiographers employed by the NHS in (a) the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System and (b) England as of 17 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	194558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent consultant radiographers in hospital trusts with Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board (ICB) and in England as of March 2023, which is the latest period for which data is available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Care Setting</p></td><td><p>Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diagnostic Radiography</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Therapeutic Radiography</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 10:01:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1653454

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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	Health Professions: Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) NHS oncologists who are (i) employed and (ii) unemployed and (b) vacancies for that role in (A) Shropshire and (B) England as of 17 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	194559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>There are 17 full-time equivalent doctors working in the oncology specialisms at hospital trusts and core organisations in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board as of March 2023, which is the latest available data.</p><p>Information on unemployed oncologists and vacancies is not held centrally by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 12:14:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1653503

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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	Drugs: Manufacturing Industries
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 prosecutions of pharmaceutical companies withholding information from the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency have occurred in the last twenty years.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	194463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>While the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) records dating back to 2003 are incomplete, it is unable to identify any prosecutions that have occurred as a result of a pharmaceutical company withholding information.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 10:05:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1653512

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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: Pay
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 plans to take steps to extend NHS non-consolidated payments to NHS staff bank members.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	194581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>Many National Health Service bank staff who are directly employed on the Agenda for Change contract, for example, on permanent or fixed-term contracts, and who undertake additional shifts through an NHS bank, will already be eligible for the non-consolidated payments agreed with the NHS Staff Council. Some will be employed exclusively on locally managed contracts, for example Bank contracts, and thus it will be for individual employers to determine the pay and conditions for those members of staff.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 10:04:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1653081

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Dentistry: Training
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 increase the number of dentistry schools in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	194245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>We acknowledge that there are areas of the country that are experiencing recruitment and retention issues and we are taking steps to address the workforce challenges across the country, including in rural areas.</p><p>We are currently working with partners to assess the capacity within existing dental schools to accommodate the proposed expansion in training places set out in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. Work is also underway through the establishment of Centres for Dental Development to bring together dental education and training with service delivery models, particularly in areas where there is a shortage of workforce relative to population need.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 19/07/2023 09:34:39 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1653100

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Medical Equipment: Technology
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 ensure that medical technologies procured by the NHS help (a) enable the delivery of the Life Sciences Vision and (b) provide positive patient outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	194150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The recently announced £650 million life sciences package will support the delivery of plans for accelerating the development, adoption and spread of innovation to bring new products to patients faster, in line with the Life Sciences Vision (LSV). Through the LSV, we are also advancing plans for a new regulatory pathway, which will facilitate the development and uptake of beneficial innovative technologies, and are progressing work to improve the capability to generate Real World Evidence, which will support the National Health Service in selecting products that provide positive patient outcomes.</p><p>The Government's new Medical Technology Strategy, published in February 2023, builds on the LSV to 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.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Medical Technology Strategy, we are working closely with NHS Supply Chain and NHS England to implement a consistent methodology for value-based procurement to be adopted at a national and local level and ultimately to provide positive patient outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 09:46:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1653101

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Medical Equipment: Technology
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 is taking steps to develop value-based procurement for medical technologies within the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	194151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government's new Medical Technology Strategy, published in February 2023, commits to ensuring the right medtech products are available at the right price and in the right place. To ensure the best value for public money, the strategy recognises that the value of medtech products should not be considered in isolation, but across the whole patient pathway, and that the lowest price does not always mean the best value. The Department’s Medtech Directorate is working closely with NHS Supply Chain and NHS England to build on the work already undertaken on the application and adoption of Value Based Procurement (VBP) to develop a consistent methodology to be adopted at both a national and local level.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 09:43:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1653129

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: 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 help support people living with a musculoskeletal condition.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	194167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>NHS England’s Getting it Right First Time programme has a specific workstream on musculoskeletal health. It is designed to improve the treatment and care of patients with musculoskeletal conditions through in-depth review of services, benchmarking, and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change.</p><p>The primary care delivery plan is supporting people to self-refer for selected community musculoskeletal services, and we estimate that up to 50% more patients could be self-referring by March 2024, which will reduce waiting times for patients with arthritis.</p><p>The Government also plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to step up elective activity and transform elective services. This funding could deliver the equivalent of around nine million more checks, scans and procedures, and will mean the National Health Service in England can aim to deliver around 30% more elective activity by 2024/25 than it did before the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Major Conditions Strategy is an opportunity to tackle musculoskeletal conditions to improve outcomes for patients. The strategy will set out a clear vision for musculoskeletal conditions, covering treatment and prevention.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 12:20:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1653130

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Arthritis: Surgical Hubs
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 is taking steps to collect feedback from people with arthritis who use surgical hubs.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	194168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department values the importance of patient feedback on all National Health Service services, including from patients with arthritis who use NHS surgical hubs. It is up to individual integrated care systems and NHS trusts to decide how they collect patient feedback.</p><p>The NHS Friends and Family Test was created to help service providers and commissioners understand whether patients are happy with the service provided, or where improvements are needed. It is a quick and anonymous way for patients to give their views after receiving NHS care or treatment. Patients are also encouraged to give feedback by speaking to a member of staff or by leaving a review on the relevant services on nhs.uk.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 09:42:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1653131

registered interest
date	14/07/2023
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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding by his Department on research into musculoskeletal conditions are being (a) maintained or (b) increased in real terms; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	194169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). In 2022/23 the NIHR spent approximately £15.4 million on musculoskeletal conditions research, which represents a £1.1 million increase since 2021/22, and a £4.6 million increase since 2020/21.</p><p>More broadly, the NIHR has awarded over £100 million in combined research funding and infrastructure support for musculoskeletal conditions research over the last five years. However, it is not usual practice for the NIHR to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions, as such future spend on musculoskeletal research is not yet determined.</p><p>NIHR research applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including musculoskeletal conditions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/07/2023 09:39:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson