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1024687

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	Rare Diseases: 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 take steps to ensure that there is no disparity in access to treatments for rare diseases between the UK and economically similar countries in Europe.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	202087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the safe and effective regulation of medicines in the United Kingdom; ensuring patients and the public have fast access to new, innovative medicines, including medicines for rare diseases.</p><p> </p><p>The agreement of an implementation period will ensure that access to medicines continues, and patient safety is maintained, in both the UK and European Union markets. Beyond that, the Political Declaration sets out a plan for a free trade area for goods, underpinned by deep regulatory co-operation, as well as a joint commitment to explore close cooperation with the European Medicines Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also continues to prepare for the unlikely outcome that we leave the EU without any deal in March 2019. The Department has been engaging with all pharmaceutical companies that supply the United Kingdom with pharmacy or prescription-only medicines from, or via, the EU/European Economic Area, on their contingency plans in the event of a no deal EU exit.</p><p> </p><p>Whatever the exit scenario, we will continue to ensure that UK patients are able to access the best and most innovative medicines including medicines for rare diseases and that their safety is protected.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 17:36:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1024696

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	o ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what correspondence he has received from (a) local authorities in Staffordshire and (b) the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust on the future of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; and if he will place a copy of such correspondence in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	202089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has received one item of relevant correspondence from a local authority in Staffordshire, which is attached. There has been no correspondence from the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust on the future of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/12/2018 17:00:30 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond attachment 1 file name Staffs County Council.pdf title Letter Staffs County Council
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1024713

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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: 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 reduce the number of patients waiting at least three weeks to see a GP.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	202044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring everyone across the country has easier and more convenient access to general practice services, including appointments in the evenings and weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The latest National Health Service planning guidance, issued by NHS England in February 2018, brought forward the deadline for clinical commissioning groups to provide extended access to general practice services to 1 October 2018, to ensure additional capacity is in place ahead of winter 2018. This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year, this year HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice, we have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of June 2018, there were</p><p>over 3,300 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice since 2015; consisting of over 500 more nurses and 2,800 more other direct patient care.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:06:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1024731

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children
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 briefing published by the Children's Commissioner entitled Children’s Mental Healthcare in England published November 2018, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for children with mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	202100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>We have made an additional £1.4 billion available for children’s mental health service transformation and are on track to ensure that an additional 70,000 children and young people access community mental health services annually by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced two waiting time standards for children and young people and are on track to meet both of these standards. The first aims for 95% of children (up to 19 years old) with eating disorders to receive treatment within a week for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases. The second aims for 50% of patients of all ages experiencing a first episode of psychosis to receive treatment within two weeks of referral.</p><p> </p><p>Our Children and Young People’s Green Paper, jointly published with the Department for Education, sets out how we plan to go further. We are piloting a four-week waiting time to improve access to services and are introducing new mental health support teams. Trailblazer sites, where we plan to test our Green Paper proposals, will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 14:36:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1024789

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	Ovarian Cancer: Staffordshire
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) increase early diagnosis rates for ovarian cancer and (b) increase access to treatment for ovarian cancer in specialist centres in Staffordshire.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	202081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has run a number of ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaigns to help improve early detection of cancer including ovarian cancer. In 2014 PHE ran a pilot regional ovarian cancer campaign in the North West of England. In 2017, PHE ran a pilot campaign in the East and West Midlands which focussed on a range of abdominal symptoms, such as diarrhoea, bloating and discomfort that can be indicative of a number of cancers, including ovarian cancer. NHS England has invested over £200 million between 2017 and 2019, supporting Cancer Alliances to accelerate diagnosis and enhance quality of life.</p><p> </p><p>Staffordshire clinical commissioning groups commission diagnostic services for ovarian cancer fully in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines across the whole sustainability and transformation partnership.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:04:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1024791

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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	Eating Disorders
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 10 December 2018 to Question 197605, whether the long-term plan for the NHS will address regional variations in access to specialist support for adults with eating disorders.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	202083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>Mental health will be a core part of the National Health Service long-term plan, including building on the improvements in providing access to good mental health services. The NHS long-term plan is currently in development and will be published shortly by NHS England.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 14:37:26 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1024805

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
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: Death
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 has set a target for reducing the number of deaths due to smoking-related conditions in the lifetime of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	202051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not set a target for reducing the number of deaths due to smoking related conditions. Last year we published ‘Towards a smoke-free generation: a Tobacco Control Plan for England’, which committed the Government to achieve a smoke-free generation. Over the course of this Parliament the Government aims to reduce smoking prevalence from:</p><p>- 15.5% to 12% amongst adults;</p><p>- 10.7% to 6% amongst pregnant women; and</p><p>- 8% to 3% amongst 15-year olds who regularly smoke.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also aims to reduce the inequality gap in smoking prevalence between those in routine and manual occupations and the general population.</p><p> </p><p>Death rates due to smoking have been falling since 2006 and evidence suggests that quitting smoking will improve one’s life expectancy, even if quitting happens later in life.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:01:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1023902

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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: Children
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 13 September 2018 to Question 170818 on Health: Children, what the planned publication date is for the Social Care Policy Research Programme review of the effectiveness of interventions for children and young people aged 3-18 years who have experienced adverse childhood experiences.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	201687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the answer to Question 170818, the review is expected to deliver its report to the Department by the end of the year. It will be published in due course, following peer review.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/12/2018 14:47:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1023916

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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
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 support the operation of air ambulance services in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	201567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Autumn Budget announced £10 million of capital funding to support air ambulance services. In addition to this, air ambulance charities work closely with National Health Service ambulance services, and often receive direct support in the form of clinical staff and equipment.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/12/2018 12:26:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1023932

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Social Services
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 people requested social care services but died before receiving any such service in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	201597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital statistics record that, in 2017/18, there were 32,115 new requests for services from applicants who were deceased before they received the package. This data records requests for care, not individual deaths as requested, and represents approximately 1.7% of total new requests.</p><p> </p><p>This first mandatory collection of this date was in 2017/18, with complete data for years prior to 2017/18 not available. The data was first collected in 2016/17 via a voluntary collection from local authorities where less than a quarter of local authorities submitted a response. This means that the 2016/17 and 2017/18 figures are not directly comparable; in 2016/17 the voluntary returns from local authorities who recorded 6,580 new requests for services from applicants who were deceased before they received the package, based on returns from 36 out of 152 local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/12/2018 16:06:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley