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78512

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Osteoarthritis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have suffered complications following knee and hip operations related to osteoarthritis in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	206190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>This information is not available. Although some information on post-operative complications experienced by osteoporosis patients following surgery of the hip and knee is available via the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) data collection, this only covers hip and knee replacement, and not the full range of surgical interventions. In addition to this, as PROMs is a voluntary reporting system the data published does not reflect the total number of osteoporosis patients having complications for all hip and knee replacements. More information on PROMS data can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/proms" target="_blank">www.hscic.gov.uk/proms</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 22/07/2014 13:39:02 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

90496

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the next step is in the commissioning of a specialised service after a positive recommendation by the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group (PSSAG); whether services recommended for commissioning by PSSAG in September 2014 will be funded from April 2015; when the PSSAG recommendations on the application for a specialised service for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency will be published; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	208035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group (PSSAG) is a Department of Health expert committee which provides advice to Ministers on which services should be prescribed in regulations for national commissioning by the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS England).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PSSAG makes recommendations to Ministers, who are obliged under section 3B of the National Health Service Act 2006 to take appropriate advice and to consult with NHS England before making regulations to prescribe particular services as specialised services for NHS England commissioning. Decisions on the timing of any changes to commissioning responsibilities will take account of advice from PSSAG and any consultation response from NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where a service is prescribed for national commissioning, NHS England becomes responsible for making decisions on the commissioning of that service, including funding of specific interventions as part of that service. We understand from NHS England that where it becomes the responsible commissioner for a service, it considers the funding priority of the service through its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We understand the Alpha 1 Alliance has worked with NHS England and the Specialised Respiratory Clinical Reference Group to develop a proposal for the national commissioning of services for patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, which will be put to PSSAG for consideration at its next meeting on 30 September. A report containing PSSAG’s recommendations will be published once Ministers have made decisions on any associated changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/09/2014 12:18:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

48257

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the performance of cancer services against statements 11 and 12 in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Breast cancer quality standard.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	196367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act (2012) places a duty on NHS England to have regard to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards. Commissioners should have regard to them in the planning of services they commission according to their population needs.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst no assessment has been made of the performance of services against the Breast Cancer Quality Standard, compliance with Quality Standards generally could be monitored through a range of mechanisms depending on the specific Quality Standard. For example, the 30 national clinical audits funded by NHS England, the Best Practice Tariff, Commissioning for Quality Improvement Initiatives arrangements and the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcome Indicator Set. These levers are designed to drive quality improvement in the National Health Service using Quality Standards where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>At the request of NHS England, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership will shortly begin commissioning a new national breast cancer clinical audit. There is an expectation that national clinical audits, where appropriate, support the implementation of NICE clinical guidelines and Quality Standards. The new national clinical audit will be in place by the end of 2014-15.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 196363 196365 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

48258

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what methods of data collection his Department uses to measure the performance of services against each of the 13 statements in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Breast cancer quality standard.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	196365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act (2012) places a duty on NHS England to have regard to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards. Commissioners should have regard to them in the planning of services they commission according to their population needs.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst no assessment has been made of the performance of services against the Breast Cancer Quality Standard, compliance with Quality Standards generally could be monitored through a range of mechanisms depending on the specific Quality Standard. For example, the 30 national clinical audits funded by NHS England, the Best Practice Tariff, Commissioning for Quality Improvement Initiatives arrangements and the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcome Indicator Set. These levers are designed to drive quality improvement in the National Health Service using Quality Standards where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>At the request of NHS England, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership will shortly begin commissioning a new national breast cancer clinical audit. There is an expectation that national clinical audits, where appropriate, support the implementation of NICE clinical guidelines and Quality Standards. The new national clinical audit will be in place by the end of 2014-15.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 196363 196367 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

48259

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the overall performance of cancer services against the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Breast cancer quality standard.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	196363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act (2012) places a duty on NHS England to have regard to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards. Commissioners should have regard to them in the planning of services they commission according to their population needs.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst no assessment has been made of the performance of services against the Breast Cancer Quality Standard, compliance with Quality Standards generally could be monitored through a range of mechanisms depending on the specific Quality Standard. For example, the 30 national clinical audits funded by NHS England, the Best Practice Tariff, Commissioning for Quality Improvement Initiatives arrangements and the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcome Indicator Set. These levers are designed to drive quality improvement in the National Health Service using Quality Standards where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>At the request of NHS England, the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership will shortly begin commissioning a new national breast cancer clinical audit. There is an expectation that national clinical audits, where appropriate, support the implementation of NICE clinical guidelines and Quality Standards. The new national clinical audit will be in place by the end of 2014-15.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 196365 196367 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

48261

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	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 future iterations of the Cancer Patient Experience Survey enable the responses of patients with primary and secondary cancer to be analysed separately.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	196364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>No recent Ministerial discussions have taken place on the potential for Patient Reported Outcome Measures to be used to measure improvements in outcomes for breast cancer patients.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England took over responsibility for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) on 1 April 2013. The development of the CPES is overseen by the Cancer Patient Experience Advisory Group (CPEAG), which has a wide ranging membership including clinicians, cancer charities, experts in survey methodologies, research bodies, health service commissioners and NHS England staff.</p><p> </p><p>The survey questionnaire is reviewed by CPEAG each year to ensure that it captures the best information and as part of the process for the next survey, NHS England is engaging with a range of stakeholders to look at how it can improve and amend the survey appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, NHS England has added a new question to the 2014 survey questionnaire to identify patients who have been diagnosed with cancer more than once because the evidence suggests that there may be a difference in the experience of those patients.</p><p> </p><p>The results of the 2014 survey will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 196366 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

48262

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had on the potential for Patient Reported Outcome Measures to be used to measure improvements in outcomes for breast cancer patients.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	196366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>No recent Ministerial discussions have taken place on the potential for Patient Reported Outcome Measures to be used to measure improvements in outcomes for breast cancer patients.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England took over responsibility for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) on 1 April 2013. The development of the CPES is overseen by the Cancer Patient Experience Advisory Group (CPEAG), which has a wide ranging membership including clinicians, cancer charities, experts in survey methodologies, research bodies, health service commissioners and NHS England staff.</p><p> </p><p>The survey questionnaire is reviewed by CPEAG each year to ensure that it captures the best information and as part of the process for the next survey, NHS England is engaging with a range of stakeholders to look at how it can improve and amend the survey appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, NHS England has added a new question to the 2014 survey questionnaire to identify patients who have been diagnosed with cancer more than once because the evidence suggests that there may be a difference in the experience of those patients.</p><p> </p><p>The results of the 2014 survey will be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 196364 question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

62311

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Diseases
	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 raise awareness of kidney disease among the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	201145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department is not currently undertaking any work to raise awareness of kidney disease among black, asian and minority ethnic communities. However, local National Health Service organisations can undertake such campaigns should they wish to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Choices Website contains detailed information on both black and asian health issues which includes a page on the increased risk these ethnic groups have of developing kidney disease. The page can be viewed at the following link.</p><p> </p><p>www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Kidneyhealth/Pages/BlackandAsiankidneyhealth.aspx</p><p> </p><p>We are identifying kidney disease earlier through the NHS Health Check. This programme identifies those aged between 40 and 74 at risk of cardiovascular diseases and helps them to reduce that risk. We anticipate that up to 20,000 cases of kidney disease and diabetes (a contributing factor) could be prevented through the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/06/2014 14:26:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

62312

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Donors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will assess the achievements of Kidney Research UK's Peer Educator model to support sign-up to the NHS Organ Donor Register in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities; and if his Department will take steps to support rollout of Kidney Research UK's Peer Educator model across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	201146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department, as part of its support for the National Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Transplant Alliance, is funding Kidney Research UK to run a Peer Educator Project to raise awareness of the lack of donors and increase the numbers on the organ and bone marrow/stem cell registers within the Pakistani Muslim community in Birmingham. Subject to Parliamentary business, the project will be officially launched by the Public Health Minister on 26 June 2014 and will build upon the success of an earlier Department funded Peer Educator project. The project will be fully evaluated and further lessons learned will be used to inform the roll out of any future Peer Educator projects in other BAME locations across the country.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/06/2014 14:13:57 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

62921

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, (b) 0844 and (c) 0843 his Department (i) operates and (ii) sponsors; how many calls each such number has received in the last 12 months; and whether alternative numbers charged at BT local rates are available in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	201444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not operate any telephone lines with the prefix0843. The Department has one telephone line with prefix 0845 and no calls were made to this number in the last 12 months. There is no alternative number charged at BT local rates available. This number is only used by the internal Emergency Planning, Resilience and Response Team and is not available to members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has two telephone lines with prefix 0844. 08448920111 National Poisons Information Service and 08448920909 UK Teratology Information Service. Both numbers are not in use for the general public. The number of calls made to these numbers in the last 12 months are 25,584 and 3,541 respectively. There are no alternative BT lines for these numbers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/06/2014 16:16:51 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz