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1105058

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	910041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Protecting the mental health of our hard-working National Health Service staff is very important. That’s why the Workforce Implementation Plan, led by Baroness Harding, will outline proposals for making the NHS ‘the best place to work’. Through this, we will be supporting employers who are responsible for staff mental health by investing in an expanded programme to implement the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework launched last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/03/2019 16:31:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1132760

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	911417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 14:50:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1132765

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	IVF
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions his Department has had with clinical commissioning groups on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance on fertility treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	911423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population, including fertility services. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aauthority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fertility guidelines and utilise the benchmark price for In Vitro Fertilisation.</p><p>I have written to all CCGs to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and encourage them to fully implement NICE Fertility Guideline recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 15:21:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1122090

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Gender Dysphoria: North East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of state for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of waiting times to access NHS specialised gender services in the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
	uin	245989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has launched an ambitious programme to tackle waiting times, overseen by a Programme Board for Gender Identity Services. NHS England agreed new service specifications for gender dysphoria services in 2018 following a process of extensive stakeholder engagement and public consultation.</p><p>In April 2019 NHS England began a process of national procurement that will determine which organisations are best able to deliver specialist gender services in the future against the new service specifications, and this process is open to new providers. NHS England has also announced plans to establish for evaluation new gender services in primary care settings and other community care settings which if positively evaluated could be rolled out nationally, thereby helping to increase clinical capacity.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/04/2019 16:49:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1132109

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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: Economic Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study entitled Recession, recovery and suicide in mental health patients in England: time trend analysis, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on 13 June 2019, what assessment he has made of the effect of economic pressures on male adults' mental health; and what steps he is taking to provide support and targeted interventions for patients experiencing financial difficulties.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	264352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the impact that debt and financial difficulty can have on men’s mental health and wellbeing and that men are at a higher risk of suicide.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy highlights groups that need tailored approaches to address their mental health needs to reduce their suicide risk, including men. Every local authority has a suicide prevention plan in place and we are investing £25 million over the next three years to support these local plans. We have worked with NHS England and Public Health England to ensure that this funding is used to test different approaches to reaching men in local communities.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the local government sector to assess the effectiveness of those plans, and a report will be published shortly that will highlight areas of best practice and areas for improvement. This report will include an analysis of the extent to which local authority plans are addressing high risk groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2019 16:40:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 123848 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1132149

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Pregabalin: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study by Oxford University on links between pregabalin and epilepsy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of the epilepsy drug pregabalin.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the Commission on Human Medicines and its advisory groups on important new safety issues.</p><p>The MHRA is aware of the study by Molero et al published in the BMJ on 12 June 2019 which suggests that gabapentinoid medicines, pregabalin and gabapentin, are associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdoses, head/body injuries and road traffic incidents and offences.</p><p>Pregabalin is authorised for the treatment of epilepsy, neuropathic pain and generalised anxiety disorder. Pregabalin is recognised to be associated with a range of possible side effects including dizziness, somnolence, loss of consciousness, confusion and mental impairment which could explain the increased risk of injuries and traffic accidents identified in this new study.</p><p>The product information for pregabalin currently contains relevant warnings regarding suicidal ideation and behaviour, possible side effects, as well as the possible effects on driving and operating machinery. The MHRA will carefully consider this new study and whether new advice needs to be issued to healthcare professionals and patients.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/06/2019 10:24:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1105464

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement in the NHS Long Term Plan that four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams including for eating disorders will be tested with selected local areas, what the timetable is for those targets to be introduced; and whether funding will be allocated to areas to support these tests.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	237693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to “test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas”.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Clinically-led Review of NHS Access Standards’ Interim Report, published in March 2019, states that NHS England will test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams with selected local areas. As part of this work, the report states that NHS England will “consider the interfaces with specialist community mental health services, particularly where there is an existing evidence base for rapid direct access, such as adult eating disorder services, or early intervention in psychosis services, for which there is already a national access and waiting time standard in place.”</p><p> </p><p>The interim report sets out the initial proposals for testing changes to access standards in mental health services, cancer care, elective care and urgent and emergency care. The proposals will be field tested at a selection of pilot sites across England, before wider implementation. The information gathered through field testing and engagement will inform final recommendations from this Review, and ahead of full implementation beginning spring 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/04/2019 14:48:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1131832

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the Children's Commissioner for England on early access to mental health support published in April 2019, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the real-term fall in spending on low-level mental health services across 60 percent of local authorities in England.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	263904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need to adequately fund mental health services for children and young people and, as indicated in the NHS Long Term Plan, for the first time, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall National Health Service funding and total mental health funding. Mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding growing by at least £2.3 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.</p><p>The Department has made no assessment of the causes for the variation seen in real-terms funding per child for low-level mental health services as this is a matter for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/06/2019 13:19:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1122033

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Improving Children and Young People's Mental Health Services, published in October 2018 by the NAO, if he will make it his policy to (a) implement the recommendations in that report and (b) establish quantifiable objectives to monitor progress their implementation.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	245659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>On the basis of the National Audit Office report in October 2018, on 17 December 2018 the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) took evidence and then published a report ‘Mental health services for children and young people’ with recommendations. The Government’s response to the PAC report was published in April 2019 and contains the response to each recommendation, including a commitment to provide annual updates to the Committee until April 2022 on a number of matters.</p><p>The PAC report and the Government’s response is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry12/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry12/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 30/04/2019 14:05:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1137022

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	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	Social Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Children's Commissioner entitled vulnerable children: time for action, published in July 2019, what steps his Department is taking to support children’s social care services to meet their statutory duties.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	273350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is determined to improve the way local agencies work together to identify and protect people at risk. We are implementing reforms following the Children and Social Work Act 2017, placing a responsibility on health and other partners to work together to develop effective, multi-agency arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/07/2019 13:22:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly