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420123

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patricia Hart
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Professor Patricia Hart was paid in total as Chief Executive of South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; and how many days in total she worked in that post.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	11198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text These are matters for the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We have written to Deborah Jenkins, Chair of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, informing her of the hon. Member’s enquiry. She will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library. answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/10/2015 15:33:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475744

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has issued guidance to GP practices on waiting times for patients seeking telephone consultation appointments.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	31166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31179 31342 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475750

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on the length of time a patient should expect to wait between a telephone consultation taking place and being given an appointment to see their GP.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	31179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31342 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

479188

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department permits GP practices to require patients to have a telephone consultation prior to seeing a GP.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	31342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31179 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

479187

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Screening
	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 his policy to implement an adult hearing screening programme; and if he will recommend to the National Screening Committee that it undertakes a public health campaign on deafness and hearing loss.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	31400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee recommended in 2015 that screening for hearing loss in adults should not be offered because:</p><p> </p><p>- although hearing loss in older adults is a serious public health problem the evidence is too limited to establish the type of screening test to be used, the severity of hearing loss to target, the age of the population to be screened and the frequency of screening;</p><p>- uncertainty on the effectiveness of the long term use of hearing aids and on the effectiveness of additional interventions aimed at improving the duration of hearing aid use; and</p><p>- the absence of randomised controlled trials of screening in the general population. Screening has not been shown to provide any hearing related improvement in quality of life in comparison to hearing loss identified in other ways.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans by Public Health England to run an awareness campaign on adult hearing loss.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/03/2016 17:40:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

384396

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will update its impact assessment for funding reform to care and support services in England to take account of the Government's policy to increase inheritance tax thresholds by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	3345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Impact Assessment for funding reform to care and support sets out the costs and benefits of the reforms and was last updated in February 2013 to support the consultation on draft regulations and guidance. A final Impact Assessment will be published alongside the final regulations and guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 29/06/2015 15:17:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

459417

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Lipreading: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of lipreading and managing hearing loss classes available; and if he will ask Public Health England to investigate the availability of such classes.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	30610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills supports lipreading, British Sign Language (BSL) and managing hearing loss provision in England through the Adult Education Budget (AEB). Colleges and training providers have the freedom and flexibility to determine how they use their AEB, working with Local Enterprise Partnerships and local commissioners to determine the appropriate distribution of funding to best meet the needs of their local learners and businesses, this includes both lip reading and BSL qualifications where there is a local need for these.</p><p> </p><p>It is not Public Health England’s role to investigate the availability of lip reading and managing hearing loss classes. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a review of the market for BSL and communication support for people who are deaf, deafblind or have a hearing loss. DWP is currently analysing the feedback received from a consultation on <em>Communications for people who are deaf or have hearing loss: market review</em> which ran from 4 January to 4 March.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/03/2016 16:23:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

447923

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Logos
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines are issued by the NHS Identity Team on the use of the NHS logo (a) on stationery used by pharmacy services and (b) in direct marketing mail.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	24248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Pharmacy services are bound by the NHS Identity guidelines at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk/all-guidelines/guidelines/pharmacy/introduction" target="_blank">http://www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk/all-guidelines/guidelines/pharmacy/introduction</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 29/01/2016 14:36:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

420122

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the article entitled Greed of the NHS fat cats published in the Daily Mail on 20 April 2015, whether he has instituted an investigation of salaries paid to NHS senior executives.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	11197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to all Chairs of NHS organisations on 2 June 2015 setting out a range of measures to ensure executive pay is proportionate and justifiable. He asked the Chairs urgently to review their policies on executive pay; to seek the views of Ministers before making any executive appointment paid more than £142,500 per year; to advise him of all current executive pay more than £142,500 and to provide a justification; to ensure that the HM Treasury guidance on off-payroll executive appointments is followed rigorously. He also announced his intention of introducing a limit on the rates payable to off-payroll interim executives; of introducing a national framework for deciding executive pay throughout the NHS; of clamping down on executives who retire and then return to NHS employment so that they do not gain financially from this; and set out his expectation that new redundancy terms should apply to all executive staff. We are taking this work forward.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 11199 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:19:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

420124

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to encourage restraint in increases in senior NHS executive's pay.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	11199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to all Chairs of NHS organisations on 2 June 2015 setting out a range of measures to ensure executive pay is proportionate and justifiable. He asked the Chairs urgently to review their policies on executive pay; to seek the views of Ministers before making any executive appointment paid more than £142,500 per year; to advise him of all current executive pay more than £142,500 and to provide a justification; to ensure that the HM Treasury guidance on off-payroll executive appointments is followed rigorously. He also announced his intention of introducing a limit on the rates payable to off-payroll interim executives; of introducing a national framework for deciding executive pay throughout the NHS; of clamping down on executives who retire and then return to NHS employment so that they do not gain financially from this; and set out his expectation that new redundancy terms should apply to all executive staff. We are taking this work forward.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 11197 question first answered 14/10/2015 15:19:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper