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1140407

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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: 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 steps his Department is taking to tackle the overcharging of medicines to the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	279026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The costs of branded medicines are controlled by the statutory and voluntary schemes for branded medicines. Under those schemes, any price increase needs to be agreed by the Department. For generic medicines, the Department encourages competition between suppliers to drive prices down. This generally works well but there are instances where there is no or not enough competition and prices appear unreasonably high. Section 262 of the National Health Service Act 2006 enables the Secretary of State to limit the price of any medicine not covered by the voluntary scheme for branded medicines. The Department is preparing a public consultation on the use of this power for generic medicines. The Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018 support the powers in the National Health Service Act 2006 by enabling the Secretary of State to require suppliers to provide information about their products including information about the cost of manufacturing those products.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 279028 question first answered 23/07/2019 16:46:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1140408

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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	Tetracosactide: Prices
	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 aware that synacthen has recently increased in cost from £2.70 per vial to £38 per vial; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	279027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department agreed the list price increase for Synacthen in March 2015.</p><p>The previous Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, the current 2019 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access and our statutory branded medicines pricing scheme all have detailed arrangements for how companies can request an increase to the National Health Service list price for a product.</p><p>Companies must comply with the rules of the relevant scheme when making a price increase request and all price increase requests must receive Departmental approval before they can take effect.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/07/2019 16:53:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1140411

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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: Drugs
	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 will use the Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018 to prevent price inflation of medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	279028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The costs of branded medicines are controlled by the statutory and voluntary schemes for branded medicines. Under those schemes, any price increase needs to be agreed by the Department. For generic medicines, the Department encourages competition between suppliers to drive prices down. This generally works well but there are instances where there is no or not enough competition and prices appear unreasonably high. Section 262 of the National Health Service Act 2006 enables the Secretary of State to limit the price of any medicine not covered by the voluntary scheme for branded medicines. The Department is preparing a public consultation on the use of this power for generic medicines. The Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018 support the powers in the National Health Service Act 2006 by enabling the Secretary of State to require suppliers to provide information about their products including information about the cost of manufacturing those products.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 279026 question first answered 23/07/2019 16:46:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1140412

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	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: 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 steps he is taking to tackle the promotion of red listed drugs to non-specialist healthcare professionals by pharmaceutical companies.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	279029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency investigates, or appropriately refers to another medicines self-regulatory body, complaints from any source about medicines advertising in relation to compliance with United Kingdom legislation.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/07/2019 16:39:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132034

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Primary Care Networks: Rural Areas
	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 has carried out a rural proofing review of the implementation of primary care networks.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	264405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p>Recognising the specific circumstances faced by some rural practices, there are additional flexibilities. NHS England has explicitly allowed rurality as an exception for meeting the definition of a Primary Care Networks. As set out in the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service (DES) (under paragraph 3.2) commissioners may waiver the 30,000 minimum population “where a PCN serves a natural community which has a low population density across a large rural and remote area”. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/06/2019 11:16:38 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132035

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Primary Care Networks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the requirements for primary care networks to engage with the local community will be.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	264406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are a new way for primary and community service organisations to work together. For PCNs to be successful they will need to work in partnership with local people and the communities they serve. Legal duties which currently apply to NHS service providers - including general practitioner practices - and commissioners around engagement and consultation will continue to be valid for PCNs.</ins></p></ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">NHS England and NHS Improvement, together with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, is developing a ’commercial framework’ setting out the parameters for the commercial approach for medicines in the health service in England.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The commercial framework will support a single, transparent, robust and integrated pricing and market access process, and is being tested with and informed through consultation with stakeholders including the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In preparation for public consultation in the coming months, NHS England is actively engaging with industry trade bodies and health system partners, in the first instance, to outline progress on the development of the commercial framework. The consultation on the draft framework is anticipated to be launched in Quarter 3 2019 with consultation events to be held in Manchester and London, and implementation of the commercial framework is expected to follow.</del></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:34:05 question first ministerially corrected 19/06/2019 08:36:30 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy previous answer version 123829 answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132036

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Primary Care Networks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess Primary Care Networks’ engagement with local communities.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	264407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>For Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to be successful they will need to work in partnership with local people and the communities they serve. NHS England does have a statutory duty to undertake an annual assessment of clinical commissioning groups’ (CCGs) performance, as part of the CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (IAF). One of the indicators assessed is patient and community engagement. All NHS service providers, including general practitioner practices, have legal duties to engage with local authority health scrutiny about changes which may be considered substantial. These duties which currently apply to NHS service providers and commissioners around engagement and consultation will continue to be valid.</p><p>Further information on the IAF is available on the NHS England website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/regulation/ccg-assess/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/regulation/ccg-assess/</a></p><p>Results from the assessments are published on ‘MyNHS’ at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/performance-indicators/organisations/ccg-year-end-2015-assurance-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/performance-indicators/organisations/ccg-year-end-2015-assurance-assessment</a></p><p>The assessments made are in line with the document ‘Patient and public participation in commissioning health and care: statutory guidance for CCGs and NHS England’, which is at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/patient-and-public-participation-in-commissioning-health-and-care-statutory-guidance-for-ccgs-and-nhs-england/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/patient-and-public-participation-in-commissioning-health-and-care-statutory-guidance-for-ccgs-and-nhs-england/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 20/06/2019 15:40:56 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132037

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Primary Care Networks: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what population exceptions are in place for Primary Care Networks covering large rural and remote areas.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	264408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has allowed rurality as an exception for meeting the definition of a Primary Care Network (PCN). As set out in the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service (under paragraph 3.2) commissioners may waiver the 30,000-minimum population “where a PCN serves a natural community which has a low population density across a large rural and remote area”.</p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:30:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132140

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS England has made on developing a commercial framework in relation to the Voluntary Pricing and Access Scheme for branded medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	264409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement, together with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, is developing a ’commercial framework’ setting out the parameters for the commercial approach for medicines in the health service in England.</p><p>The commercial framework will support a single, transparent, robust and integrated pricing and market access process, and is being tested with and informed through consultation with stakeholders including the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.</p><p>In preparation for public consultation in the coming months, NHS England is actively engaging with industry trade bodies and health system partners, in the first instance, to outline progress on the development of the commercial framework. The consultation on the draft framework is anticipated to be launched in Quarter 3 2019 with consultation events to be held in Manchester and London, and implementation of the commercial framework is expected to follow.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:39:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1125053

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Pregnancy: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timetable is for the national roll-out of non-invasive prenatal testing, as recommended by the UK National Screening Committee in November 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
	uin	251394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The procurement for providers to undertake the evaluative roll out of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in England is currently being undertaken on behalf of Public Health England by NHS England as part of the Genomic Testing Services procurement.</p><p>There has been a legal challenge which relates only to the NIPT element of the current procurement which means that there is currently an automatic suspension in place. The extent of the delay will depend on how the litigation proceeds.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 15/05/2019 16:37:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris