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718220

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the allocation of £2 billion of new money for adult social care to be released by 2019–20, what steps they will take to ensure that (1) local government, and (2) representatives of local government, are fully engaged in the preparation of the Green Paper on the funding of adult social care, so that that those responsible for social care locally are able to contribute to the creation of long-term solutions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL6720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement of the General Election on 8 June, decisions on the future reform and funding of adult social care will be taken by the new Government.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL6721 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:47:47 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

718221

	registered interest
	date	06/04/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what will be the terms of reference for the Green Paper on the funding of adult social care; whether those terms of reference will include all adults who require social care; and when they expect to launch the consultation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL6721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Following the announcement of the General Election on 8 June, decisions on the future reform and funding of adult social care will be taken by the new Government.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL6720 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:47:47 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

717922

	registered interest
	date	05/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services and Social Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that there are no legislative barriers to the integration of health and social care services and budgets.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL6669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting further integration of health and social care. This includes giving due consideration to the need for changes to the legislative framework where this is identified as a barrier to effective integration, and when these changes are in the best interests of the wider health and care system.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 20/04/2017 14:37:21 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

715496

	registered interest
	date	30/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Reorganisation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend that rural proofing will be applied to the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL6457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is aware of <em>Rural proofing: practical guidance to assess impacts of policies on rural areas</em>, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>All Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) build on the Five Year Forward View to present an overall strategy for their geographic footprint and identify the three to five key priorities required to realise their vision. This should take account of specific challenges facing each area, which could include a dispersed, rural population.</p><p> </p><p>STPs have been in the public domain for several months. Partner organisations within each area are engaging both rural and urban communities on their plans and, where required by law, consulting on service change.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to provide ongoing support to each STP area. In September 2016, they published <em>Engaging Local People: A guide for local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans</em>, which set out how STP areas should reach out to stakeholders in their areas. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is exploring ways to better adapt health provision for rural areas. For example, the vanguard covering Morecambe Bay Health Community is improving healthcare in a geographically isolated area by using a high definition telemedicine link between a general practitioner (GP) surgery in Millom and the accident and emergency (A&amp;E) department in Barrow-in-Furness. This means when GPs can seek a second opinion as to whether a patient needs intensive treatment or can be treated in the community – they can call through and have an A&amp;E specialist examine the patient. This means that over the 1,000 square miles that Morecambe Bay covers, patients can have access to expert opinion without having to travel further than their nearest GP.</p><p> </p><p>On 31 March, <em>Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View</em> was published by NHS England. The document outlined a 10-point care and efficiency plan which will further contribute to improving the health outcomes of those living in rural areas. A copy of this document is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name engag-local-people-stps.pdf title Engaging Local People 2 file name NEXT-STEPS-ON-THE-NHS-FIVE-YEAR-FORWARD-VIEW.pdf title Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View question first answered 06/04/2017 11:02:39 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

711182

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Smoking
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government which countries the UK will be supporting as part of its international support for smoking control; and when that work will start in each country.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL6070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) Secretariat held an application process to select 15 low to middle income countries to receive support to develop their tobacco control plans.</p><p> </p><p>The FCTC Secretariat will inform successful applicants by the end of March 2017, and publish the results on their website. The project will commence work with those selected countries in year two of the project.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 23/03/2017 15:41:17 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

706313

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospital Wards: Gender
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they determine which hospital accommodation should be designated as same-sex accommodation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL5692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>All hospital accommodation should be designated same-sex. The National Health Service constitution states that patients admitted to hospital will not have to share sleeping accommodation with patients of the opposite sex, except where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Providers of NHS funded care are expected to eliminate mixed sex accommodation except where it is in the best overall interest of the patient involved, or reflects their personal choice.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 13/03/2017 12:18:43 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

683634

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospital Beds
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what analysis they have commissioned to assess the number of delayed transfers of care by council area in the context of population size; and how many successful discharges there have been in each of those areas from hospitals to further NHS or social care services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL5197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes annually the average daily rate of delayed transfers of care from National Health Service hospitals in England per 100,000 local authority population aged 18 years and over. Rates are shown separately for all delays, and for delays attributable to social care, the National Health Service, and jointly to social care and the NHS.</p><p>The most recently published data are for 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and are attached due to the size of the data.</p><p>Information is not collected centrally on the number of successful discharges by council area. In 2015-16, there were 16.5 million finished discharged episodes of NHS commissioned care from hospitals in England.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 16/02/2017 15:47:03 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name Delayed transfer of care 2015-16 data.xlsx title Delayed transfer of care 2015-16 data
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

678233

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2017
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen on 13 December 2016 (HL3690), whether NHS England’s Advisory and Oversight Group, with respect to its role in monitoring and supporting the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, would benefit from the inclusion of local government representatives such as the Local Government Association or the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Porter of Spalding
	uin	HL4962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>NHS England has confirmed that a representative from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services is now a member of NHS England’s Advisory and Oversight Group.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 01/02/2017 17:54:19 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	4555 label Biography information for Lord Porter of Spalding

670115

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Capita: Dental Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Capita's performance in administering the National Dental Performers List.
	tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
	uin	HL4452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>Capita has made NHS England aware of a number of issues involving the National Dental Performers List process. Immediate action has been taken to put in place plans to recover the services, and NHS England has provided a team of experts to support Capita’s work, both in managing existing functions more effectively and improving the service for the future.</p><p> </p><p>The actions Capita are taking to stabilise and recover the service include:</p><p> </p><p>- Recruiting additional staff and developing staff knowledge through further training and development supported by external experts;</p><p>- Standardising the processes used and work tracking tools;</p><p>- More proactive communication to applicants regarding the progress of their application; and</p><p>- Developing the internal integrated work management system to enable Performers List work to be tracked and work-flowed through the process.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is meeting with Capita on a weekly basis to oversee the delivery of these plans and to ensure the right improvements are in place.</p><p> </p><p>My hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Nicola Blackwood), will continue to work with Capita and NHS England to ensure that services are restored to an acceptable and sustainable standard.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4454 question first answered 19/01/2017 17:51:00 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn

670117

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Capita: Dental Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the current length of time dentists applying to join the National Dental Performers List have to wait to have their application processed by Capita.
	tabling member printed	Lord Colwyn
	uin	HL4453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for the National Dental Performers list and currently do not hold information centrally on how many applications have been received from individuals wishing to join the National Dental Performers list. Information on the length of time to process applications is therefore currently not available.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 19/01/2017 17:52:01 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	3394 label Biography information for Lord Colwyn