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1148844

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Psychiatric Hospitals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits each Minister in his Department made to inpatient adult mental health facilities in each year since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers have visited a wide range of health and care settings in this period, including inpatient adult mental health services. However, multi-site visits could include those with mental health settings, but they are not always recorded in Ministerial diaries as such.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:46:08 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1148875

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	General Practitioners: Mental 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 progress has been made on implementing recommendation 36 in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health on ensuring that all GPs receive core mental health training by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	23
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working to ensure that all general practitioners are suitably trained in mental health issues. Mental health care is an essential element of general practice. Mental health care is emphasised in the Royal College of General Practitioners (GP) curriculum. All GP specialty trainees receive mental health training in their 18 months in general practice and this is regarded as a core element of their training.</p><p>Health Education England is working with NHS England and Royal College of General Practitioners to further improve mental health training of GPs as part of building training capacity in primary care for multi-professional, multi-disciplinary training, clinical placements and continuing professional development.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:43:24 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1148871

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Psychiatric Hospitals: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to allocate new capital investment to modernise the mental health estate, as recommended by the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, published 6 December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	20
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Improving mental health is at the heart of this Government’s agenda and capital investment to modernise the mental health estate is a key part of the Government’s ambition to achieve greater parity between physical and mental health care.</p><p>The Government has announced investments of over £400 million in improving the mental health estate since July 2017. Most recently this included £72.3 million for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust to develop a new adult mental health inpatient unit and £33 million to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust for a 40-bed low secure unit for people with learning disabilities, both of which were included in the £850 million capital funding for 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister on 5 August. In addition, the Department spent almost £19 million capital last year on central programmes to support mental health services. This includes schemes to deliver Perinatal Mental Health Mother and Baby Units to deliver more personalised care to expectant and new mums with serious mental ill health.</p><p>As set out in the new Health Infrastructure Plan on 30 September, the Government is committed to making further strategic investments to modernise mental health facilities, which will be confirmed when the Department receives a multiyear capital settlement at the next capital review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:42:36 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1149004

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Diabetes: Mental 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 steps he is taking to improve access to mental health support for people with type 1 diabetes.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increasing the provision of mental health support for all patients who require it. The importance of addressing the mental health needs of people with diabetes is recognised and further work is underway to consider the most effective routes for supporting this as part of the future development of services.</p><p> </p><p>On 21 March 2018, NHS England and NHS Improvement, along with the National Collaboration Institute for Mental Health, published ‘The Improving Access to Psychotherapy Therapy (IAPT) Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms’. The guidance outlines the IAPT pathway, and accompanying benchmarks, to support the national expansion of IAPT services for adults with long term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:41:08 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1148748

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve cooperation between mental health services and the voluntary sector to support victims of domestic abuse with psychiatric health needs.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service Mental Health Implementation Plan highlights the essential role the voluntary sector will play in the design and delivery of services, including services which will benefit victims of domestic abuse with psychiatric health needs. It recommends commissioners and providers vary procurement routes to give more opportunity for the voluntary sector to provide services, and encourages commissioners to support and develop local voluntary sector capacity. NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned guidance and tools to support this.</p><p>The Department is overseeing £2 million of Government funding to expand a pathfinder programme developing a model health system response to domestic abuse including in mental health settings, to bridge the gap between the voluntary sector and NHS services, and to harness the strengths of each.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:40:29 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1149031

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Patients: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patient deaths reported to the National Reporting & Learning System by the Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust in 2018-19 included deaths of those using addiction services.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Trust reports deaths of patients who are accessing their services, or who have been discharged from these services within the last six months if there is evidence of a patient safety incident. This would include patients who are also known to partner services, such as addiction services.</p><p>The Trust adheres to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) guidance as outlined within the Degree of Harm document available on the NHS Improvement website which specifically highlights “deaths from drugs and alcohol”. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/1673/NRLS_Degree_of_harm_FAQs_-_final_v1.1.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/1673/NRLS_Degree_of_harm_FAQs_-_final_v1.1.pdf</a></p><p>The guidance directs organisations to consider whether there is immediate evidence of a patient safety incident. If not, then no report would be made. However if further evidence comes to light, or post Coroner’s inquest, the cause of death is identified as a patient safety incident, the organisation would at this point make a report to the NRLS.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:36:47 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1148873

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Government has made on responding to the recommendations of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act; and what plans he has to ensure that people with direct experience of the Mental Health Act 1983 continue to be involved in designing future reforms.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	21
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>We have already accepted a number of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983’s recommendations and we will publish a White Paper by the end of this year, setting out our response in full. This will pave the way for reform to the Act and tackle issues addressed by the Review.</p><p> </p><p>There will be a public consultation on the reforms. We also plan to run a number of public engagement events, in particular, with those who have had direct experience of the Act.</p><p> </p><p>We have also drawn on the expertise of service users, carers and professionals as we have considered the review’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:36:04 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

1147965

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	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	Cervical Incompetence: Childbirth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many premature births linked to incompetent cervix condition were recorded in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	293675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Information is not collected in a way that would enable an assessment of the number of women that underwent loop electrosurgical excision procedures. Information is not collected centrally on the number of premature births linked to incompetent cervix conditions. A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with primary diagnosis of incompetent cervix, for female patients from 2016-17 to 2018-19 can be found in the following table. <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Incompetent cervix</p></td><td><p>Incompetent cervix in pregnancy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>3,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>3,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>3,484</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 08/10/2019 16:16:37 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1147963

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	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	Cervical Incompetence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women with incompetent cervix condition.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	293674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Information is not collected in a way that would enable an assessment of the number of women that underwent loop electrosurgical excision procedures. Information is not collected centrally on the number of premature births linked to incompetent cervix conditions. A count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with primary diagnosis of incompetent cervix, for female patients from 2016-17 to 2018-19 can be found in the following table. <table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Incompetent cervix</p></td><td><p>Incompetent cervix in pregnancy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>3,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>3,387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>3,484</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 08/10/2019 16:15:31 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1147935

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2019
	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: Amazon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department is having with Amazon to ensure that the health information to be made available through Alexa, announced on 10 July 2019, will be accessible to people with speech, language and communication needs.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	293419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>In response to questions asked by users, the information that Amazon Alexa provides is taken directly from the National Health Service website. This NHS-accredited information is already available for free to anyone with access to the internet, including those who have speech, language and communication needs. Amazon Alexa provides an alternative way in which the public are able to access professional NHS-verified information. This technology enables patients, including the elderly, blind or those unable to access the internet via traditional means, to receive professional NHS-verified health information within seconds through simple voice commands.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 08/10/2019 15:08:29 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies