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101885

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department will publish guidance on the timeline for a successor to the National Dementia Strategy for England and the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has established a new time-limited Stakeholder Advisory Group to help inform the next phase of work on dementia, post the current Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia, which superseded the National Dementia Strategy and which is due to end in March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Advisory Group is providing advice to help inform the Department’s work to shape the future direction of domestic dementia policy to 2020. The group met for the first time on 17 October to discuss their draft terms of reference for the proposed work programme and timeline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Once finalised the terms of reference for the group and other details including the envisaged timeline for the work will be published on the Department of Health’s Prime Ministers Challenge website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212685 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:31:29 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

101912

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department expects to announce the timetable for developing a successor strategy to the National Dementia Strategy for England and the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department has established a new time-limited Stakeholder Advisory Group to help inform the next phase of work on dementia, post the current Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia, which superseded the National Dementia Strategy and which is due to end in March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Advisory Group is providing advice to help inform the Department’s work to shape the future direction of domestic dementia policy to 2020. The group met for the first time on 17 October to discuss their draft terms of reference for the proposed work programme and timeline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Once finalised the terms of reference for the group and other details including the envisaged timeline for the work will be published on the Department of Health’s Prime Ministers Challenge website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212582 question first answered 06/11/2014 13:31:29 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

101915

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what detailed assessments he has made of the effectiveness of the National Dementia Strategy; and if he will publish the full results of that assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>While the Department has not undertaken a detailed assessment of the effectiveness of the National Dementia Strategy, it has commissioned an independent assessment of the improvements in dementia care and support since 2009, which incorporates the progress made under both the National Dementia Strategy (2009-14) and the current Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. The National Dementia Strategy was superseded by the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia launched in 2012, which builds on and takes forward at pace the work commenced as part of the National Dementia Strategy. The Prime Minister's Challenge concludes at the end of March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Dementia Strategy has been the subject of more detailed work by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia and other organisations this year, which is being used to inform the Department’s work on the future of dementia care and support. The APPG published a report in May 2014, ‘Building on the National Dementia Strategy: Change, progress and priorities’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212671 question first answered 06/11/2014 15:27:13 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

101923

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dementia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether an official review of the National Dementia Strategy has taken place.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	212671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>While the Department has not undertaken a detailed assessment of the effectiveness of the National Dementia Strategy, it has commissioned an independent assessment of the improvements in dementia care and support since 2009, which incorporates the progress made under both the National Dementia Strategy (2009-14) and the current Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. The National Dementia Strategy was superseded by the Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia launched in 2012, which builds on and takes forward at pace the work commenced as part of the National Dementia Strategy. The Prime Minister's Challenge concludes at the end of March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Dementia Strategy has been the subject of more detailed work by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia and other organisations this year, which is being used to inform the Department’s work on the future of dementia care and support. The APPG published a report in May 2014, ‘Building on the National Dementia Strategy: Change, progress and priorities’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 212686 question first answered 06/11/2014 15:27:13 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

169514

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to maximise the coverage of testing for (a) hepatitis C and (b) other blood-borne viruses in a range of healthcare settings.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	218029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has undertaken various activities to increase the number of people tested for blood-borne viruses (BBV) including contributing to and developing a range of guidance:</p><p> </p><p>- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance to promote and offer testing for hepatitis B and C [1]</p><p> </p><p>- Best practice guidance on hepatitis B antenatal screening and the newborn immunisation programme [2]</p><p> </p><p>- NICE guidance on increasing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) [3] and Black African [4] communities in a variety of community and medical settings.</p><p> </p><p>- An offer of antenatal HIV screening is recommended for all pregnant women [5].</p><p> </p><p>- Piloting models of service delivery and exploiting novel testing methods, including point of care testing and alternatives to venepuncture to test for HIV, hepatitis B and C in community settings.</p><p> </p><p>- Working collaboratively with the National Health Service and non-governmental organisations to advocate for increased uptake of screening for BBV and monitoring testing uptake of BBV in the United Kingdom [6],[7].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>[1] Hepatitis B and C: ways to promote and offer testing to people at increased risk of infection; Issued: December 2012 last modified: March 2013 NICE public health guidance 43 <a href="http://publications.nice.org.uk/hepatitis-b-and-c-ways-to-promote-and-offer-testing-to-people-at-increased-risk-of-infection-ph43/considerations" target="_blank">http://publications.nice.org.uk/hepatitis-b-and-c-ways-to-promote-and-offer-testing-to-people-at-increased-risk-of-infection-ph43/considerations</a></p><p> </p><p>[2] Department of Health. Hepatitis B antenatal screening and newborn immunisation programme: Best practice guidance 2011 www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/215622/dh_132637.pdf</p><p> </p><p>[3] Increasing the uptake of HIV testing among Men who have Sex with Men. NICE public health guidance 34 <a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph34/resources/guidance-increasing-the-uptake-of-hiv-testing-among-men-who-have-sex-with-men-pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph34/resources/guidance-increasing-the-uptake-of-hiv-testing-among-men-who-have-sex-with-men-pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>[4] Increasing the uptake of HIV testing among black Africans in England NICE public health guidance 33 <a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph33/resources/guidance-increasing-the-uptake-of-hiv-testing-among-black-africans-in-england-pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph33/resources/guidance-increasing-the-uptake-of-hiv-testing-among-black-africans-in-england-pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>[5] Yin Z et al. HIV in the United Kingdom 2014 Report: data to end 2013. November 2014. Public Health England, London. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377194/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_19_11_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377194/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_19_11_2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>[6] Public Health England. Hepatitis C in the UK: 2014 Report. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337115/HCV_in_the_UK_2014_24_July.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337115/HCV_in_the_UK_2014_24_July.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>[7] Public Health England. HIV in the UK: 2014 Report <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377194/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_19_11_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/377194/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_19_11_2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/12/2014 16:36:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

169769

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many local authorities have an autism strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	218270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not recorded centrally. Local joint commissioning plans for services for adults with autism should be developed and updated based on effective joint strategic needs assessment. The second national Public Health England self-assessment exercise reported on progress being made by the end of September 2013 across all 152 local authority areas in England.</p><p> </p><p><br> Details can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ihal.org.uk/projects/autism2013" target="_blank">www.ihal.org.uk/projects/autism2013</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The exercise is a key means of identifying progress in implementing the strategy as a whole and for demonstrating local accountability. The most recent exercise started on 12 December 2014 for completion by 9 March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/12/2014 17:42:56 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

173807

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport constituency have been diagnosed with chest infections in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	220812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>There is no national system currently for collecting data relating to diagnoses of chest infections specifically. However, we are able to provide the latest data on patients admitted to hospital with two of the infections that are relevant, namely upper respiratory tract infections and lower respiratory tract infections. These are provided in the table below. The data do not include infections treated by general practitioner practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In terms of information on chest infections in Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, data collections systems do not exist to provide the requested data at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for England. Inpatient Statistics 2012/13 for England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Summary code</p></td><td><p>Primary diagnosis and description</p></td><td><p>Finished consultant episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>J00-J06</p></td><td><p>Acute upper respiratory infections</p></td><td><p>138,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>J20-J22</p></td><td><p>Other acute lower respiratory infections</p></td><td><p>192,271</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre. HES.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em></p><p> </p><p>A “finished consultant episode” is an inpatient or day case episode where the patient has completed a period of care under a consultant and is either transferred to another consultant or discharged.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 220813 question first answered 21/01/2015 15:58:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

173808

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been diagnosed with chest infections in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	220813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>There is no national system currently for collecting data relating to diagnoses of chest infections specifically. However, we are able to provide the latest data on patients admitted to hospital with two of the infections that are relevant, namely upper respiratory tract infections and lower respiratory tract infections. These are provided in the table below. The data do not include infections treated by general practitioner practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In terms of information on chest infections in Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, data collections systems do not exist to provide the requested data at constituency level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) for England. Inpatient Statistics 2012/13 for England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Summary code</p></td><td><p>Primary diagnosis and description</p></td><td><p>Finished consultant episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>J00-J06</p></td><td><p>Acute upper respiratory infections</p></td><td><p>138,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>J20-J22</p></td><td><p>Other acute lower respiratory infections</p></td><td><p>192,271</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre. HES.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em></p><p> </p><p>A “finished consultant episode” is an inpatient or day case episode where the patient has completed a period of care under a consultant and is either transferred to another consultant or discharged.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 220812 question first answered 21/01/2015 15:58:40 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

178557

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Plymouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many days of staff sickness absence there were in (a) Derriford Hospital and (b) Mount Gould Hospital in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	223907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics: Full Time Equivalent Days Lost to Sickness Absence in selected trusts, 12 month period from October 2013 to September 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>October 2013 to September 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth Community Healthcare CIC</p></td><td><p>30,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>77,215</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Source: </em>Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p>1. While lower sickness absence figures, in general, indicate lower levels of sickness absence it should be noted that lower figures can also indicate under reporting of sickness absence.</p><p>2. Data presented is Full Time Equivalent Days Lost to Sickness Absence (includes non-working days).</p><p>3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1.</p><p>4. The HSCIC seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/02/2015 13:58:59 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

179163

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Dental Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to review the regulatory framework for the dental profession.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	224168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Law Commissions’ completed a review of the regulation of all health and social care professionals including dentists and reported in April 2014. They made 125 recommendations to improve the legislative framework and we published the Government response on 29 January 2015, accepting the vast majority of these recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government remains committed to legislate on this important issue when parliamentary time allows and are working closely with the regulatory bodies and the Professional Standards Authority to build on the important work the Law Commissions have done.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime we are taking forward a section 60 Order to amend the Dentists Act 1984 to make changes to the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) investigation stage fitness to practise processes. A consultation has recently been undertaken on these measures which will be introduced subject to Parliamentary approval. It is expected the provisions should lead to the swifter resolution of complaints, as ultimately they will improve the efficiency of the GDC’s fitness to practise processes, whilst also enhancing patient protection and public confidence in dental regulation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 26/02/2015 15:34:56 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile