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759372

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Eyes: 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 eyesight problems or diseases in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide data on the number of people diagnosed with eyesight problems or disease diagnosis in each of the last five years given that there are many conditions and diseases of the eye, not all of which will be captured by national statistics.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 13:28:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

759368

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prostate Cancer: Screening
	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 ensure that men are able to access early prostate tests.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The National Health Service Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme (PCRMP) provides general practitioners and primary care professionals with information to counsel men who ask about prostate cancer and/or prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. Men over 50 who decide to have a PSA test based on this information can do so for free on the NHS.</p><p>The PCRMP information pack was revised and updated in March 2016 and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/guidance/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-overview" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/guidance/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-overview</a></p><p>The PCRMP has also produced information leaflets that healthcare professionals can use when discussing the test with eligible men, which are available at the following link.</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-supporting-documents" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-supporting-documents</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 13:33:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767581

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescription Drugs: Chronic Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that delivery of prescription drugs for patients with long-term conditions and illness will be maintained.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Delivery of prescription medicines can continue to be commissioned by NHS England from community pharmacies, depending on local needs as an enhanced service, in which case it is provided free of charge to patients. However, pharmacies can of course offer delivery services to their patients – even if they are not commissioned by NHS England. Where they do, it is a private arrangement between the pharmacy and the patient.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:30:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767583

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Plastic Surgery: Heart Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to investigate the connection between breast implants and heart problems.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is not currently conducting any regulatory activity concerning heart, or other cardiovascular disease, in respect of these medical devices. No reports of adverse events related to these devices and the diagnosis of cardiac or other cardiovascular disease have been received. The Agency is not aware of any concerns being voiced by the patients or healthcare professionals; or of action being undertaken by any other regulator either in the European Union or worldwide.</p><p> </p><p>The Agency is aware of recent media coverage of a very small study regarding the interpretation of electrocardiographs in women who have breast implants. We will continue to monitor the situation and will take action if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>We encourage anyone who suspects they have had a complication after having a medical device implanted to discuss this with their clinician and report to us via the Yellow Card scheme regardless of how long ago the implant was inserted.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:33:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767585

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Learning Disability: Eyesight
	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 improve the (a) examination of eyes and (b) dispensing of glasses to adults and children with learning disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning the National Health Service sight testing service. They have established a working group to examine the issues affecting the provision of sight tests and glasses for both children and adults with learning disabilities and to reach a view on what if any changes are required to current patient pathways in order to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities for this cohort of patients. The working group has wide representation which includes Primary Care Policy and Commissioning, Ophthalmology, The British and Irish Orthoptic Society, SeeAbility and other professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to estimate the number of people with learning disabilities who have received a sight test in a hospital eye clinic as this data is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 106784 question first answered 12/10/2017 13:11:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767584

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Learning Disability: Eyesight
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the use of hospital eye clinics by people with learning disabilities who cannot access a sight test in the community.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning the National Health Service sight testing service. They have established a working group to examine the issues affecting the provision of sight tests and glasses for both children and adults with learning disabilities and to reach a view on what if any changes are required to current patient pathways in order to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities for this cohort of patients. The working group has wide representation which includes Primary Care Policy and Commissioning, Ophthalmology, The British and Irish Orthoptic Society, SeeAbility and other professional bodies.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to estimate the number of people with learning disabilities who have received a sight test in a hospital eye clinic as this data is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 106782 question first answered 12/10/2017 13:11:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767572

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people there were with HIV in the UK in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>In each of the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 there were 77,333, 81,062, 85,162, 89,289 and 91,987 people living with diagnosed HIV in the United Kingdom, respectively.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:23:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767568

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Strokes: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Butterfly Health Device Mobius HD to prevent strokes will be available on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>According to the available information the product is currently undergoing clinical trials to determine safety and performance. We understand that so far there has just been one study in humans, a proof of concept study on 30 patients.</p><p>Once these trials have been completed and the manufacturer is able to meet all the other requirements of the medical device directives, they may use the “CE” mark on their product as a medical device. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is not in a position to advise how long this process will take, as this will be dependent on the manufacturers’ data and their ability to meet the requirements of the relevant regulations.</p><p>Before treatments can be made available for patients careful assessments of the evidence for clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness are needed in order to ensure that the treatment will give patients benefit in clinical practice, with acceptable risk and within established cost effectiveness thresholds. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will normally review such treatments and make a recommendation on whether they should be used in the National Health Service, by publishing a Technology Appraisal. Commissioners will not usually develop a commissioning policy on treatments in advance of NICE Technology Appraisal.</p><p>Although stroke is one of a number of potential complications associated with untreated hypertension, the manufacturer of this device states it is intended to be used to treat resistant hypertension (hypertension which does not respond to drug treatment) and not for stroke prevention.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:41:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767569

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hay Fever: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people (a) have been diagnosed and (b) are being treated for hay fever aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 16 to 30, (iii) 30 to 80 and (iv) over 60 years in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:25:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767571

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Acupuncture
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will outline the process within the NHS for patient referrals to an acupuncturist.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	106797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>National Health Service processes to refer patients to an acupuncturist will be determined locally.</p><p>It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to make decisions on the commissioning and funding of any health care treatments for NHS patients, such as acupuncture, taking account of issues to do with safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness and the availability of suitably qualified or regulated practitioners.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:38:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon