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1248999

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	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	Hospices: Coronavirus
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to increase the level of financial support available for hospices to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
	uin	HL9990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>We have provided over £150million in additional funding to the hospice sector to date during the pandemic and have made up to £200 million available to the sector for additional capacity between April and July, and we continue to work closely with hospices to support their essential work. alongside this, hospices have benefited from the financial support offered by HM Treasury to all charities, such as paying no business rates for their shops next year and applying for a Business Interruption Loan. Charities, alongside other sectors, can also access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the replacement Job Support Scheme and charity shops, which are already eligible for 80% charitable rate relief, will benefit from the new enhanced retail rate relief at 100%. We continue to keep the financial impact of COVID-19 on hospices under review.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:09:03 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1282276

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2021
	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	Gambling: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what research, if any, they have conducted into the pathways to gambling disorder by women.
	tabling member printed	Lord Foster of Bath
	uin	HL12796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>Public Health England is currently carrying out an evidence review on the prevalence, determinants and harms associated with gambling, and the social and economic burden of gambling-related harms. This includes reviewing the evidence on young people, men and women. The review is expected to be completed in March 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this, the National Institute of Health Research commissioned a research unit in Sheffield University to undertake a mapping review of the effectiveness of national and international policies and interventions to reduce gambling-related harms.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:05:43 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	214 label Biography information for Lord Foster of Bath

1281918

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to advise schools to provide space for pupils experiencing long-term effects of COVID-19 to take rest breaks during the school day.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL12736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>Children experiencing the long-term effects of COVID-19 should expect to have the same access to school as every other child with a long-term health condition.</p><p>The Department for Education’s guidance for schools, Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions: Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and proprietors of academies in England, which details statutory duties. This includes Individual Health Plans (IHPs) which schools must maintain to enable children with long term medical conditions to have full access to education. IHPs can include ensuring that children with a medical need to do so, are able to take rest breaks during the school day along with other reasonable adjustments. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 11:43:25 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions .pdf title Supporting pupils at school with medical condition
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1281373

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	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	Prisons: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of (1) doctors, and (2) other staff, being recruited into the prison medical service in meeting the needs of inmate health.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL12667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data requested.</p><p>There are currently 110 prisons in England for which NHS England commissions healthcare for. There is no mandated staffing level given to providers and contracts are awarded to those providers whose planned delivery model best fits with the need and outcomes required.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:09:22 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1281369

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2021
	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	Hospitals: Ministers of Religion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the work done by hospital chaplains in helping (1) the welfare, and (2) the recovery, of patients.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL12663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>No formal assessment has taken place.</p><p>Chaplaincy and faith services are funded locally. The commissioning of local services is conducted by clinical commission groups responding to the needs of their individual patient populations and workforce, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. NHS England and NHS Improvement recognise the significant role chaplains and leaders of all faiths play in spiritual, emotional and psychological care and in the delivery of high-quality palliative and end of life care. This is recognised in clinical guides and for compassionate visiting arrangements.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:06:23 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1280823

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2021
	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: Boys
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 22 January (HL12047), what steps they are taking to improve the collection of data in relation to the level of (1) extreme anxiety, (2) self-harm, and (3) suicide, amongst young and adolescent boys.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Fall
	uin	HL12585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>We are working with NHS Digital, mental health providers and partner organisations to improve the collection of data in the mental health services data set on people referred to secondary mental health services for anxiety and those who self-harm whilst an inpatient. We also fund the Multicentre for Self-Harm to provide representative and reliable data on self-harm in England.</p><p>Data on suicide registrations by coroners is collected by the Office for National Statistics and there is a time lag due to the length of time it can take to hold an inquest. Public Health England is piloting a national real-time surveillance system to monitor suspected suicide, by collecting early real time data which can be used to identify patterns of risk and causal factors, to inform national and local responses. HM Treasury has announced £1.2million funding to help support the development of the national system.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:07:34 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4561 label Biography information for Baroness Fall

1279867

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2021
	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: Negligence
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 6 August 2020 (HL7091), what assessment they have made regarding the payment of clinical negligence damages in 2019/20 with regard to (1) the value for money, and (2) the quality, of the legal representation used by the NHS.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL12504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>NHS Resolution has continued to increase the use of mediation and alternative dispute resolution to avoid the need for formal proceedings. NHS Resolution settles a majority of claims without court proceedings - in 2019/20, this was 75.1%. Less than 1% of all claims proceed to trial and NHS Resolution achieves a judgement in favour of the National Health Service in 75.3% of that subset of claims. NHS Resolution also negotiates large-scale contracts for its legal services, including fixed and capped fee arrangements, competitive hourly rates and performance management, ensuring value for money and a high quality service.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:04:43 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1274566

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the most common situations in which COVID-19 was transmitted in December 2020, and (2) why some areas of England experienced higher levels of transmission than others in that month.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL11858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The weekly national influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report summarises the information from the surveillance systems which are used to monitor COVID-19, influenza, and other seasonal respiratory viruses in England. The most common settings for which COVID-19 was transmitted in December 2020 were care homes, hospitals, educational settings, prisons, workplace settings, food outlet/restaurant and other settings.</p><p>The new variant of the COVID-19 virus along with the differing tier systems in operation at the time have been identified as contributors of higher levels of transmission in some areas.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 09/02/2021 15:06:54 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1256136

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2020
	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	Pectus Excavatum: Surgery
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what NHS guidance is available on the circumstances in which surgery for pectus deformity can be accessed if it is deemed clinically necessary.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL10765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>Decisions about surgical funding are made by clinical experts and therefore it would not be appropriate for Government to intervene.</p><p>Surgical treatment for individuals can be considered for pectus deformity if a clinician believes that a treatment or service, not routinely offered by the National Health Service, is the best treatment for their patient. In this case the clinician can, on behalf of their patient, make an individual funding request which takes into account individual clinical circumstances - for example, exceptional circumstances either in terms of clinical presentation or the ability of a patient to benefit.</p><p>NHS England has not issued any clinical guidance to doctors to assess the severity of pectus deformity or on the non-surgical options for pectus deformity treatment.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL10762 question first answered 09/02/2021 11:46:07 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1256133

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2020
	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	Pectus Excavatum: Surgery
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bethell on 23 November (HL10163 and HL10164), what recommendations they (1) have published, and (2) intend to publish, about treatments for pectus excavatum in instances where an operation has not been approved.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL10762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>Decisions about surgical funding are made by clinical experts and therefore it would not be appropriate for Government to intervene.</p><p>Surgical treatment for individuals can be considered for pectus deformity if a clinician believes that a treatment or service, not routinely offered by the National Health Service, is the best treatment for their patient. In this case the clinician can, on behalf of their patient, make an individual funding request which takes into account individual clinical circumstances - for example, exceptional circumstances either in terms of clinical presentation or the ability of a patient to benefit.</p><p>NHS England has not issued any clinical guidance to doctors to assess the severity of pectus deformity or on the non-surgical options for pectus deformity treatment.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell grouped question UIN HL10765 question first answered 09/02/2021 11:46:07 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath