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819159

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Influenza: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the take-up of the new enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s by (i) GPs and (ii) pharmacies in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 influenza seasons.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	121836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine was not available for use in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and pharmacies are responsible for ordering and purchasing flu vaccines for the adult seasonal flu programme (eligible individuals aged 18 years and over) directly from manufacturers.</p><p> </p><p>Information on what vaccines are being ordered by these independent contractors is not routinely collected. Information on vaccines used by pharmacies and GPs will be available after the end of a flu season when practice/pharmacies claim reimbursement for the cost of the vaccines they have used.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:50:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

819160

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Influenza: Vaccination
	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 he has to encourage the take-up of the new enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s for the 2018-19 influenza season with GPs and pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	121837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has updated their advice in the Green Book chapter on influenza so that clinicians are aware of the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation in relation to the adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England wrote to general practitioners and clinical commissioning groups (via NHS England local teams) in December 2017 to provide an update on the use of the adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine for 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>This update will also be made available to community pharmacies as part of confirming that the Advanced Influenza Vaccination service has been recommissioned in early 2018. Community pharmacies are able to order relevant vaccines as detailed in the service specification, including the enhanced vaccine for patients within the relevant cohort.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:47:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

819161

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Influenza: Vaccination
	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 he has had with representatives from (a) GPs, (b) patient organisations and (c) manufacturers on the availability of the new enhanced influenza vaccine for the over-65s for the 2017-18 and the 2018-19 season.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	121838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Officials at the Department and Public Health England have regular discussions with manufacturers on a range of issues. This has included discussion with Seqirus, the company that has produced the new adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine (aTIV).</p><p> </p><p>Officials have had no discussions with general practitioner representatives or patient groups on the aTIV.</p><p> </p><p>Officials also attend meetings of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which includes a lay member.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 17:51:33 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

824572

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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	Pharmacy: Disclosure of Information
	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 Freedom to Speak up Guardians have been nominated in community pharmacies; and whether his Department holds information on names of those Guardians.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	123373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number or names of Freedom to Speak up Guardians in community pharmacies.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for issuing the guidance on Freedom to Speak Up in primary care and has provided the following response:</p><p> </p><p>The number and names of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in community pharmacies is not held centrally. Guidance for primary care providers was published in November 2016 on the NHS England website and a number of models for Freedom to Speak Up are detailed within that guidance, including having a named Guardian who is independent of the line management chain and not a direct employee. NHS England is working with the National Guardian's Office to assess the support that primary care providers, including community pharmacies, may need to comply with this guidance.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/01/2018 17:23:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

825425

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council's enforcement of standards for registered pharmacy premises; whether he has made an assessment of the effect of failure to apply such standards to pharmacy owners rather than only pharmacy professionals on the safety of patients; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	123566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123567 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

825426

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the failure to apply sanctions for standards for pharmacy premises has resulted in a disproportionate number of individual pharmacist registrants who have been held to account for professional standards which may have been impacted by the working environment created by pharmacy owners; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	123567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123566 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

818982

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Labelling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the likely effects of introducing warnings on alcoholic products at the point of sale on a link between alcohol and cancer and other health matters.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	121659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England’s evidence review on the public health burden of alcohol found that alcohol health warning labels on alcoholic products can raise awareness of the messages they contain. However, the evidence review did not identify any studies which considered the specific impact of warnings at the point of sale on the link between alcohol and cancer and other health harms. The review is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-public-health-burden-of-alcohol-evidence-review" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-public-health-burden-of-alcohol-evidence-review</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/01/2018 14:28:32 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

818990

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Clinical Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider the merits of introducing a national audit system for clinical trials; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	121667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p><strong></strong>All clinical trials of investigational medicinal products in the European Union are registered and information on the trial and a summary of results is made public in the EU clinical trials register, except for adult phase 1 trials which are considered commercially confidential.</p><p> </p><p>Good clinical practice (GCP) is a set of internationally-recognised ethical and scientific quality requirements that must be followed when designing, conducting, recording and reporting clinical trials that involve people. To ensure compliance with GCP, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency carries out inspections in the United Kingdom of organisations that are involved in clinical trials.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) which is the country’s largest public funder of health research and trials, has implemented a number of initiatives on publication of research results. The NIHR is the world’s first health research funder to publish comprehensive accounts of its commissioned research within its own publicly and permanently available journal series. The NIHR Journals Library comprises a suite of five open access peer-reviewed journals reporting results from a range of health research areas. The reports provide a full account of the research project, including methods and a full description of the results, and complement shorter articles submitted for publication in other peer-review journals, which the NIHR actively encourages researchers to do as part of their dissemination strategy. In addition – contracts for NIHR funding include requirements on publication of the results from NIHR funded and supported research.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/01/2018 14:41:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

818999

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	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 he has made of the cost of changing the name of his Department to the Department of Health and Social Care.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	121676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 121678 121742 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:12:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

819001

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	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 he has made of the cost to the public purse of renaming his Department including signage, stationery, website, business cards and any other associated costs.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	121678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 121676 121742 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:12:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan