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442984

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 20082, what the (a) dates, (b) locations and (c) organisations of the 19 visits and meetings referred to in that Answer were.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	21403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>Details of the 19 visits to or meetings with mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively are given on the attached table <em>Details of meetings with and visits to mental health trusts undertaken by Simon Stevens and Sir Bruce Keogh since their appointments as Chief Executive and Medical Director respectively of NHS England. </em></p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:00:06 question first ministerially corrected 11/01/2016 20:10:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name PQ21403 Details of meetings and visits undertaken - schedule.docx title Mental health trust visits & meetings previous answer version 38200 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

439413

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 16 December 2015 to Question 19441 and 20 November 2015 to Question 16648, what the reason is for the apparent difference in the data collection policies on local clinical commissioning groups' spend with independent sector providers described in those Answers.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	20614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>This corrects the answer<del class="ministerial">s</del> to Question<del class="ministerial">s</del> 16648 <del class="ministerial">and 19441</del>. This was the result of a miscommunication between NHS England and the Department. The total NHS expenditure on non-NHS providers is collected centrally, and is published on page 47 of the Department’s annual report, available from:</p><br /><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/447002/DH_accounts_14-15_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/447002/DH_accounts_14-15_web.pdf</a></p><br /><p>This report divides providers by type (i.e. independent sector providers, voluntary organisations) – it does not specify the different types of services provided.</p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/01/2016 17:56:23 question first ministerially corrected 06/01/2016 10:54:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 37629 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

432082

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Screening
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to promote opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL3855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:42:42 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34227 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432083

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Diagnosis
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to improve the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL3856
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:14 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34228 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432084

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Strokes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many strokes related to atrial fibrillation could be prevented each year through the roll-out of GRASP-AF in primary care.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL3857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:28 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34229 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

432085

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Atrial Fibrillation: Strokes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to promote the implementation of NICE guidance on prescribing anticoagulants for the prevention of strokes related to atrial fibrillation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL3858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is encouraging clinical commissioning groups to work with local practices to target people at risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). Innovative approaches such as pulse testing at flu clinics and by some dentists are being used to identify AF in older people. The NHS Health Check programme’s best practice guidance also recommends a pulse check is carried out as part of the process of taking a blood pressure reading. People found to have an irregular pulse rhythm should be referred to the general practitioner for further investigation.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published an updated guideline on AF in June 2014. This offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of people with AF and includes recommendations on diagnosis. In July 2015 NICE also published a quality standard on AF.</p><br /><p>In addition to its clinical guideline on AF, NICE has published technology appraisal guidance on a number of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs), approving them for certain patients.</p><br /><p>There is a legal requirement on commissioners to provide funding for treatments and drugs recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of the guidance being published.This is enshrined in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE-approved drugs.</p><br /><p>A <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/resource/CG180/pdf/c/cg180-atrial-fibrillation-nic-consensus-statement-on-the-use-of-noacs?id=gvyb3hjdqrcjtn6ytpwx3ydb64" target="_blank">consensus statement</a> by the <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/News/Article/new-collaborative-aims-to-increase-nice-guidance-uptake" target="_blank">NICE Implementation Collaborative</a> was published alongside NICE’s updated guideline in June 2014. This addresses some of the barriers to implementing NICE’s recommendations on prescribing NOACs.</p><br /><p>The need to reduce variation and strengthen compliance of the uptake of NICE technology appraisals was identified in <em>Innovation Health and Wealth</em>, published in December 2011. In response, NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre now publishes on a quarterly basis an Innovation Scorecard to enable commissioners to benchmark their own position and increase transparency to patients and the public. This assists the NHS in the identification of variation and the adoption of treatments such as NOACs that are recommended in NICE technology appraisals. In addition, NHS England advises that it expects practitioners to consider anticoagulant treatments in line with NICE guidelines.</p><p>Some progress is being made. The uptake of NOACs across England has doubled in recent years from 45,708 per 100,000 of the resident population in 2013-14 to 126,845 in 2014-15.</p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</del></p><br /><p><del class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to have been placed in the Library.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No assessment has been made of the number of strokes related to AF could be prevented each year through the roll-out of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation (GRASP-AF) in primary care. However, in 2014, an economic analysis estimated that if all eligible patients at high risk were managed according to the NICE AF guidelines, an additional 11,600 AF related strokes per year could be avoided.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Copies of the guidance referred to, excluding GRASP-AF have been placed in the Library.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 08/12/2015 12:43:31 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2015 13:43:51 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton previous answer version 34230 answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

431742

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS England spent per head on mental health in each year since 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
	uin	17404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>NHS England was formed in April 2013.</p><br /><p>The table below shows actual expenditure by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on mental health in 2013/14 and 2014/15 and forecast spend in 2015/16. This does not include spending on mental health services directly commissioned by NHS England.</p><p>Total actual expenditure by on mental health by CCGs across all providers for 2013/14 and 2014/15 and the total forecast expenditure for 2015/16</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013/14 actual spend (£ <ins class="ministerial">billion </ins><del class="ministerial">million</del>)</p></td><td><p>2014/15 actual spend (£ <ins class="ministerial">billion</ins><del class="ministerial">million</del>)</p></td><td><p>2015/16 forecast spend (£ <ins class="ministerial">billion </ins><del class="ministerial">million</del>)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source:</em> NHS England</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 26/11/2015 16:25:03 question first ministerially corrected 02/12/2015 14:16:07 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman previous answer version 32352 answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

428810

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS of NHS mental health patients being treated in non-NHS institutions has been in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	16648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>NHS England’s specialised commissioning total spend on contracts with independent sector mental health providers is as follows:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>478</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>581</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Note: figures are based on contract values.</p><p>This expenditure relates to a number of different service types including: adult secure services; eating disorder services, gender identity services, child and adolescent mental health in patient services.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Details of local clinical commissioning group spend with independent sector providers is not collected centrally.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">The total NHS expenditure on non-NHS providers is collected centrally, and is published on page 47 of the Department’s annual report, available from:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/447002/DH_accounts_14-15_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/447002/DH_accounts_14-15_web.pdf</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This report divides providers by type (i.e. independent sector providers, voluntary organisations) – it does not specify the different types of services provided.</ins></p></ins></p> <br /><p><br /></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/11/2015 14:43:09 question first ministerially corrected 06/01/2016 10:24:57 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 31280 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

424296

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it her policy to include stillbirths in the remit of Child Death Overview Panels.
	tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
	tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
	uin	13567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p><br /></p><p>Child Death Overview Panels are the responsibility of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCBs). LSCBs in England have a responsibility under the Children Act 2004 to conduct child death reviews for all under 18s who die and who were normally resident in their area. They are required to collect and analyse information relating to the deaths in order to identify:</p><br /><p>- any cases which may also require a serious case review;</p><p>- any matters affecting the safety and welfare of children in that area; and</p><p>- any wider public health or safety concerns arising from a particular death or patterns of death.</p><br /><p>Stillbirths are not within their legal statutory remit set out in the Act and there are no plans to extend this remit.</p><br /><p>We are however committed to reducing the number of stillbirths and want England to achieve the lowest rate of stillbirth and neonatal death in the world. The Department is currently working in partnership with the stillbirth charity Sands, and a range of key organisations including NHS England to take forward a programme of work on stillbirth prevention. Reducing stillbirth and infant mortality and improving the safety of maternity services improvement areas for the NHS in the NHS Outcomes Framework. In addition, the Department provided start-up funding for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ ‘Each Baby Counts’ programme, which aims to reduce stillbirths, early neonatal deaths and brain injuries due to incidents in labour in the United Kingdom by 50% by 2020.</p><br /><p><ins class="ministerial">NHS England has asked Baroness Julia Cumberlege to lead a major review of maternity services to modernise care for women and babies across the country, as first set out in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View.</ins></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 04/11/2015 16:38:04 question first ministerially corrected 05/11/2015 14:11:41 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 27789 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

422660

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Pregnancy: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the net change has been in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	12670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Since 2010 there has been a net reduction in the number of inpatient perinatal mental health beds from 118 beds in 2010 to 115 beds in 2015.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">Since 2010 there has been a net reduction of mother and baby units from 17 units to 15 units.</del></p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/10/2015 13:48:26 question first ministerially corrected 29/10/2015 10:29:54 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 25494 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger