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1520664

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	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	Dental Services: Stockton North
	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 help improve access to NHS dental services in Stockton North constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	61093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England asked dental practices to return to full delivery of contracted activity from July 2022, including in Stockton North. In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Stockton North.</p><p>The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/10/2022 16:18:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 23266 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1520670

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	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	Breast Cancer: Stockton North
	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 help increase the uptake of breast cancer screening in Stockton North constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	61095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department is working with NHS England to finalise the delivery of £10 million for breast screening units, including determining which areas will benefit from this investment.</p><p>National Health Service breast screening providers are also encouraged to work with Cancer Alliances, Primary Care Networks, NHS regional teams and the voluntary sector to promote the uptake of breast screening and ensure access to services.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/10/2022 16:23:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 23270 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1535432

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	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	Leukaemia: 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 steps she is taking to ensure that all patients who present to the GP with symptoms of leukaemia get a blood test within 48 hours, in accordance with the NICE NG12 guidelines.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	69625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>NHS England’s cancer programme is working with the Blood Cancer Alliance on the development of a potential national blood cancer symptom awareness campaign for 2023/24. The programme will also consider ways to improve GPs’ awareness of blood cancer symptoms, including the 48-hour blood test recommendation.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/11/2022 14:34:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 28762 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1535433

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	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	Leukaemia
	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 ensure that recent data on the rates of emergency diagnosis of leukaemia are published.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	69626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The National Disease Registration Service publishes the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.nhs.uk%2Fdata-and-information%2Fpublications%2Fstatistical%2Femergency-presentations-of-cancer-quarterly-data&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cndrsenquiries%40nhs.net%7Ce461bea741d842a7d42308dab6909459%7C37c354b285b047f5b22207b48d774ee3%7C0%7C0%7C638023029314678696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=uuEyXp7CXmV3mNa7qWJjwo%2FRtwrAHM7eGAa3URkpUos%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Emergency Presentations of Cancer</a>, which includes three sub-types of leukaemia. The latest data shows information to December 2021 and further publications will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/11/2022 13:11:28 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 28763 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1538137

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2022
	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	Community Diagnostic Centres: Staff
	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 ensure that new community diagnostic centres do not move diagnostic healthcare professionals from acute hospital sites.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	75915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2022 answer text <p>NHS England is ensuring that local systems develop workforce plans for community diagnostic centres (CDCs), which include reliable recruitment routes to deliver the required staffing. Investment in digital diagnostics is anticipated to deliver an approximate increase of 10% in workforce productivity and reduce demands on staff in diagnostic services.</p><p>Where a dedicated workforce for a CDC is not yet in place, local systems are asked to rotate staff between acute settings and CDCs, which minimises the risk to acute services and includes the use of digital staff passports.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/11/2022 12:21:36 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 31942 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546530

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the long-term workforce plan announced in the Autumn Statement 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	98751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has committed to publishing a workforce plan next year, which will include independently verified forecasts for the number of healthcare professionals required in future years.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/12/2022 10:09:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 39310 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1665475

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2023
	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	Smoking: 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 assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the swap to stop scheme to include smoking cessation products such as nicotine replacement therapies.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Swap to Stop programme has been developed to provide smokers with more choice by providing the option of accessing free vapes to support quit attempts. This offer includes expert support provided by local stop smoking services.</p><p>Medicinally licensed nicotine replacement therapies are already available to smokers via prescription or voucher. Stop smoking service data suggests that 69% of 176,566 stop smoking service users accessed licensed nicotine replacement therapy in 2022/23. Whilst there is not currently a medicinally licensed vape, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency stands ready to support a future medicinally licensed vaping product should industry come forward with a successful candidate.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 23/10/2023 13:41:00 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 99502 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1546759

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	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: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Novovax vaccine is yet available for use in the UK, and if not, when will it be
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	99829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>On 15 September 2022, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advised that in exceptional circumstances the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid, may be used when no clinically suitable United Kingdom-approved alternative is available. The deployment of Nuvaxovid commenced on 28 September 2022.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/12/2022 11:48:47 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 39740 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1535938

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2022
	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	Carers: Employment
	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 need for a National Carers Strategy, to support unpaid carers to stay in paid work and have access to adequate breaks and support services, whilst continuing with their caring role.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	71064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>We are supporting for the hon. Member for North East Fife’s (Wendy Chamberlain MP) Private Members’ Bill, which would introduce a new entitlement to one week of Carer’s Leave for all employees providing care for a dependant with a long-term care need. Funding for respite and short breaks for carers is also included in the National Health Service contribution to the Better Care Fund (BCF). In 2022/23, £291.7 million from the BCF will provide short breaks and respite services and advice and support for carers under the Care Act.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/11/2022 13:37:03 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 28756 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1587756

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2023
	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	Cancer: Mortality Rates
	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 make it his policy to to introduce a cancer-specific plan for increasing cancer survival in England as part of the Major Conditions Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	149468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The Major Conditions Strategy will look at cancer, covering treatment, prevention and follow-up care. The strategy will look at a wide range of interventions and enablers to improve outcomes and experience for cancer patients.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 149470 question first answered 24/02/2023 16:29:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 57491 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham