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1719437

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Liothyronine
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 her Department is taking to ensure that Liothyronine is acquired by the NHS at the best possible price.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	27175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Liothyronine is marketed as a generic medicine. For generic medicines, we rely on competition to keep prices down. This works well for the most part, as evidence shows we have amongst the lowest prices in Europe for generic medicines. The system also means we have a relatively resilient supply, as flexibility on pricing allows manufacturers to increase prices where supply on a particular drug is reduced or demand increases, supporting continuity of supply for patients in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Between 2009 and 2017, there was only one supplier of liothyronine, and they were charging a price considered to be excessive and unfair by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Following an investigation which concluded in July 2021, the CMA decided to issue fines totalling £101.4 million against the three undertakings which controlled the supply during this time.</p><p>That decision is currently under appeal before the Court of Appeal, having previously been upheld by the Competition Appeal Tribunal in August 2023. Since 2016, several marketing authorisations have been granted to other suppliers for liothyronine, and its price to the National Health Service has been decreasing as a result of direct competition in the market. The Department has no price comparison information on liothyronine.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 27176 question first answered 23/05/2024 16:45:16 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1719438

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Liothyronine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made a comparative estimate of the cost of Liothyronine in (a) the UK and (b) other countries.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	27176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Liothyronine is marketed as a generic medicine. For generic medicines, we rely on competition to keep prices down. This works well for the most part, as evidence shows we have amongst the lowest prices in Europe for generic medicines. The system also means we have a relatively resilient supply, as flexibility on pricing allows manufacturers to increase prices where supply on a particular drug is reduced or demand increases, supporting continuity of supply for patients in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Between 2009 and 2017, there was only one supplier of liothyronine, and they were charging a price considered to be excessive and unfair by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Following an investigation which concluded in July 2021, the CMA decided to issue fines totalling £101.4 million against the three undertakings which controlled the supply during this time.</p><p>That decision is currently under appeal before the Court of Appeal, having previously been upheld by the Competition Appeal Tribunal in August 2023. Since 2016, several marketing authorisations have been granted to other suppliers for liothyronine, and its price to the National Health Service has been decreasing as a result of direct competition in the market. The Department has no price comparison information on liothyronine.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 27175 question first answered 23/05/2024 16:45:16 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1713606

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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: 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 she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing general practice funding streams to account for potential additional resource requirements in socio-economically deprived communities.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	23562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring patients living in deprived areas have access to good health care. The Carr-Hill formula, which is used to calculate core funding for practices, reflects differences in the age and sex composition of the practice’s registered patient list, together with a range of factors that take into account the additional pressures generated by differential rates of patient turnover, morbidity, mortality, and the impact of geographical location. Under this formula, practices whose registered patients have greater healthcare needs are paid more per patient than practices whose registered patients have fewer healthcare needs.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/04/2024 15:41:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1713607

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
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	Integrated Care Systems: Labour Turnover
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 her Department is taking ensure Integrated Care Schemes are able to support staff retention schemes.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	23563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out how to improve culture and leadership, to ensure that up to 130,000 fewer staff leave the National Health Service over the next 15 years. Key to this is the National Retention Programme. The programme builds on the NHS People Promise, and supports integrated care systems (ICSs), regions, NHS trusts, and organisations to improve employee experience to retain their people, and therefore reduce NHS staff leaver rates.</p><p> </p><p>The National Retention Programme provides a suite of evidence-based, targeted, organisational-level interventions, to improve staff engagement and experience, in line with the NHS People Promise. The programme builds on the fundamentals that every organisation should be developing to support a good working environment, providing practical advice and support. It targets activities at the key career points at which staff are most likely to leave, to help improve retention.</p><p> </p><p>Support for organisations and ICSs can be accessed via the Retention Hub, which outlines initiatives mapped against the NHS People Promise, access to tools, guides, and case studies, to enable improvements and contact details for regional colleagues support the retention agenda in each of the seven regions. Further information on the Retention Hub is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/looking-after-our-people/the-programme-and-resources/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/looking-after-our-people/the-programme-and-resources/</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 01/05/2024 10:52:50 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1696236

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
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	Suicide: 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, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional funding to help reduce the number of suicides in high-frequency suicide locations (a) along the south coast and (b) in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Suicide Prevention Strategy 2023 for England is a five-year strategy which sets out the Government’s ambition for suicide prevention, together with over 100 actions that we think will deliver this. High frequency locations are a priority area, and we expect local commissioners to align with this.</p><p>The National Institute of Health Research is currently funding a £1.1 million research award to assess the effectiveness of surveillance technologies to prevent suicides at high-risk locations. The purpose of this study is to discern what technology is currently being used, how effective it is in preventing suicides, including understanding any unintended consequences of its use, and possible barriers to effectiveness.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 18787 question first answered 20/03/2024 15:38:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1696237

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
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	Suicide: 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, if she will take steps to commission research into the (a) adequacy of the support provided and (b) potential merits of providing alternative support to local authorities to help reduce the rate of suicide in high-frequency suicide locations.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Suicide Prevention Strategy 2023 for England is a five-year strategy which sets out the Government’s ambition for suicide prevention, together with over 100 actions that we think will deliver this. High frequency locations are a priority area, and we expect local commissioners to align with this.</p><p>The National Institute of Health Research is currently funding a £1.1 million research award to assess the effectiveness of surveillance technologies to prevent suicides at high-risk locations. The purpose of this study is to discern what technology is currently being used, how effective it is in preventing suicides, including understanding any unintended consequences of its use, and possible barriers to effectiveness.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 18786 question first answered 20/03/2024 15:38:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1695436

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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: Waiting Lists
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 she is taking to reduce waiting times for mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>More and more people are getting support with their mental health thanks to investments made through the NHS Long Term Plan. Unfortunately, demand has risen as the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in the cost of living on people’s mental health continues to be felt. This means that some people are facing waiting times that are much longer than we would like.</p><p>We are providing record levels of investment and increasing the mental health workforce to expand and transform National Health Service mental health services, to expand access and reduce waiting times. Between 2018/19 and 2023/24, NHS spending on mental health has increased by £4.6 billion in cash terms, as compared to the target of £3.4 billion in cash terms set out at the time of the Long Term Plan. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to grow the mental health workforce by an additional 27,000 staff between 2019/20 and 2023/24. We are making positive progress, delivering two-thirds of this, or 17,000 additional staff, by September 2023, with further significant growth expected by the end of this financial year.</p><p>The NHS is also working towards implementing five new waiting time measures for people requiring mental healthcare in both accident and emergency and in the community, for both adults, and children and young people. This includes working towards improving the quality of data that we have on waiting times for people requiring mental healthcare, in both accident and emergency and in the community. NHS England began publishing this new data in 2023 to improve transparency and drive local accountability.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/03/2024 10:53:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1695437

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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: Civil Society
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 she is taking to support charitable organisations providing mental health services to those in need.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department recognises the valued contribution that mental health and suicide prevention voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations make in supporting people with their mental health.</p><p> </p><p>During the pandemic, we provided £10.2 million of additional funding to support mental health charities, including Samaritans and the Campaign Against Living Miserably, and over £34 million to organisations supporting people who experience loneliness.</p><p> </p><p>More recently, we announced that 79 organisations across the country have been allocated funding through the £10 million suicide prevention grant fund. These organisations, from local, community-led organisations through to national, are delivering a broad and diverse range of activity that will prevent suicides and save lives.</p><p>We have also announced that £8 million is being made available for 24 early support hubs across the country, a number of which will be run by voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/03/2024 10:38:14 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1684844

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
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	Mobility Scooters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	11420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State does not currently have any plans to make an assessment of either the potential merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters or of the potential merits of allowing National Health Service patients who require mobility scooters or other aids to choose the provider and retailer of those aids.</p><p>Mobility scooters are not generally available on the NHS in England. The NHS provides other mobility aids including wheelchairs, walking sticks, and walking frames. Walking frames and some types of walking sticks can be borrowed from the NHS. Advice on how to access these aids is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/walking-aids-wheelchairs-and-mobility-scooters/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/walking-aids-wheelchairs-and-mobility-scooters/</a></p><p>The Government is supporting the roll-out of a nationwide certified powered wheelchair and mobility scooter assessment and training scheme. Through the Department for Transport Road Safety Research programme, funding has been provided to Driving Mobility, a registered charity with a network of driving assessment centres covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The training scheme that Driving Mobility is providing will train retail and hire businesses to assess the safe driving ability of individuals purchasing a mobility scooter, including NHS patients. The scheme will also provide retailers with information on best practice and recommendations on how to convey safe driving knowledge to individuals purchasing mobility scooters. Short tests will be included in order to judge competency so that extra support can be provided where needed. Driving Mobility launched the scheme in summer 2023.</p><p> </p><p>For NHS patients who require wheelchairs, integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is committed to supporting ICBs to implement personal wheelchair budgets. A personal wheelchair budget is a resource available to support people’s choice and provider of wheelchair, either within or outside NHS commissioned services. Since 2 December 2019, people who access wheelchair services, whose posture and mobility needs impact their wider health and social care needs, have a legal right to a personal wheelchair budget. The legal right was created by the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 11421 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:21:07 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1684846

registered interest
date	24/01/2024
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	Disability Aids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing NHS patients who require a mobility (a) scooter and (b) other aids to choose the (i) provider and (ii) retailers of those aids.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	11421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State does not currently have any plans to make an assessment of either the potential merits of ensuring that adequate training is provided to people with mobility scooters or of the potential merits of allowing National Health Service patients who require mobility scooters or other aids to choose the provider and retailer of those aids.</p><p>Mobility scooters are not generally available on the NHS in England. The NHS provides other mobility aids including wheelchairs, walking sticks, and walking frames. Walking frames and some types of walking sticks can be borrowed from the NHS. Advice on how to access these aids is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/walking-aids-wheelchairs-and-mobility-scooters/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-care-and-support-guide/care-services-equipment-and-care-homes/walking-aids-wheelchairs-and-mobility-scooters/</a></p><p>The Government is supporting the roll-out of a nationwide certified powered wheelchair and mobility scooter assessment and training scheme. Through the Department for Transport Road Safety Research programme, funding has been provided to Driving Mobility, a registered charity with a network of driving assessment centres covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The training scheme that Driving Mobility is providing will train retail and hire businesses to assess the safe driving ability of individuals purchasing a mobility scooter, including NHS patients. The scheme will also provide retailers with information on best practice and recommendations on how to convey safe driving knowledge to individuals purchasing mobility scooters. Short tests will be included in order to judge competency so that extra support can be provided where needed. Driving Mobility launched the scheme in summer 2023.</p><p> </p><p>For NHS patients who require wheelchairs, integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is committed to supporting ICBs to implement personal wheelchair budgets. A personal wheelchair budget is a resource available to support people’s choice and provider of wheelchair, either within or outside NHS commissioned services. Since 2 December 2019, people who access wheelchair services, whose posture and mobility needs impact their wider health and social care needs, have a legal right to a personal wheelchair budget. The legal right was created by the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2019.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 11420 question first answered 31/01/2024 16:21:07 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan