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867296

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What the timetable is for the implementation of the faecal immunochemical test for bowel cancer screening.
	tabling member constituency	Eastbourne
	tabling member printed	Stephen Lloyd
	uin	904478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee has recommended that the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) be the primary screening test for bowel cancer and NHS England remains absolutely committed to implementing FIT in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with Public Health England to finalise a number of practical arrangements around sensitivity, production and distribution of FIT kits, and diagnostic and pathology workforce capacity to ensure that when FIT is implemented, it is sustainable.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/03/2018 17:31:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3968 label Biography information for Stephen Lloyd

867531

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Sexually Transmitted Infections: North West
	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 page nine of Tackling chlamydia: Local government’s new public health role, published by the Local Government Association in December 2014, what information his Department holds on steps taken by each (a) unitary and (b) upper tier local authority in North West England to reduce the incidence of chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases since the passing of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	133506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Information on activities undertaken by each local authority is not collated nationally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:34:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

867387

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential reduction in hospital admissions for people with cystic fibrosis were Orkambi to be made available on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	133362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment itself. However, in developing its technology appraisal guidance, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, takes into account all the costs and savings associated with the treatment compared with existing clinical practice.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:32:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

867445

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Breast Cancer: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the take-up rate was for breast cancer screening in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Coventry in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	133420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The most recent data available is for 2016/17 published by NHS Digital. Information for each area is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30195" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30195</a></p><p> </p><p>During 2016/17 the national average for breast screening uptake was 71.1%.</p><p> </p><p>The uptake for Coventry was 68.1% (Coventry’s uptake rate is included in the West Midlands figure) and for West Midlands was 71.2% (this is a consolidated percentage based on eight regions within the West Midlands).</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning breast screening services to meet programme standards including coverage. NHS England is committed to improving coverage and reducing variation between all age groups and catchment areas.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:35:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

867542

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Cancer: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to the parents of children who are receiving cancer treatment in hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	133517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>All cancer patients will benefit from a tailored Recovery Package that ensures personalised care and support from the moment they are diagnosed. Patients will work with their care teams, to develop a comprehensive plan that addresses both their physical and mental health requirements as well as identify any other support they may require, such as help at home or financial advice.</p><p> </p><p>The Recovery Package includes Health and Wellbeing Events or Clinics. These are education and information events to support and enable people living with cancer and their families to take control and participate in their recovery, giving them necessary information, and promoting positive lifestyle change such as nutritional advice and encouragement to increase physical exercise. Health and Wellbeing Events are designed to help people get support that improves the quality of their lives, making these as long, healthy and active as possible.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:35:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

867420

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Electronic Cigarettes
	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 his Department is taking to encourage smokers to give up by promoting the use of e-cigarettes.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	133395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has been clear that for smokers, quitting smoking completely is the best way to improve health. E-cigarettes are not risk free. However, the evidence is increasingly clear that e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful to health than cigarettes and can help smokers to quit, particularly when combined with support from stop smoking services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government committed Public Health England (PHE), through the Tobacco Control Plan, published in 2017, to include messages about the relative safety of e-cigarettes in their quit smoking campaigns. PHE’s 2017 Stoptober campaign included e-cigarettes among the array of tools that smokers can use to help them quit and, in their New Year smoking health harms campaign, PHE reprised these messages. It is through this consistent messaging that the Government hopes to reverse the harmful, mistaken – and increasingly widespread – belief that vaping is no safer than smoking.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/03/2018 14:42:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

867518

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Obesity
	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 tier 4 obesity services.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	133493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups have a statutory responsibility to commission services which meet the needs of their local population including access to tier 4 obesity services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the cost effectiveness of tier 4 obesity services. It is for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to provide national clinical guidance and advice, based on best evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness, for use of interventions, technology and devices.</p><p> </p><p>To help practitioners deliver the best possible care and give people the most effective treatments NICE has produced a suite of guidance on tackling obesity including “Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults”, which includes access to all tiers of obesity services. This guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of tier 3 obesity services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups or local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has explored the evidence base for tier 3 weight management interventions with adults and children, which concludes that tier 3 obesity services can provide positive outcomes and support to individuals in managing severe and often complex forms of obesity. Outputs from this work are published in: “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review” and “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2-18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review”. These documents are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 133496 133499 133501 133502 133606 question first answered 27/03/2018 14:46:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

867549

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	General Practitioners: Foreign Nationals
	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 the pledge by NHS England in July 2017 to hire 2000 extra GPs from abroad.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	133524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>A small number of pilot areas started recruitment in 2017. The next stage of the recruitment programme is on track to start at the end of 2017/18 as planned, with the aim of recruiting 600 doctors by the end of March 2019 and the remainder of the 2,000 by the end of March 2020. The plan is to recruit suitably qualified overseas doctors into English general practice. This will be carried out in a phased approach with recruitment initially focussing on the European Economic Area where doctors’ qualifications are automatically recognised by the General Medical Council.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/03/2018 15:37:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

867526

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Obesity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of local authorities which have commissioned tier 3 obesity services in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	133501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups have a statutory responsibility to commission services which meet the needs of their local population including access to tier 4 obesity services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the cost effectiveness of tier 4 obesity services. It is for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to provide national clinical guidance and advice, based on best evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness, for use of interventions, technology and devices.</p><p> </p><p>To help practitioners deliver the best possible care and give people the most effective treatments NICE has produced a suite of guidance on tackling obesity including “Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults”, which includes access to all tiers of obesity services. This guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of tier 3 obesity services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups or local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has explored the evidence base for tier 3 weight management interventions with adults and children, which concludes that tier 3 obesity services can provide positive outcomes and support to individuals in managing severe and often complex forms of obesity. Outputs from this work are published in: “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review” and “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2-18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review”. These documents are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 133493 133496 133499 133502 133606 question first answered 27/03/2018 14:46:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

867527

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Obesity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to GPs on referring patients to tier 3 obesity services.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	133502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups have a statutory responsibility to commission services which meet the needs of their local population including access to tier 4 obesity services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made an assessment of the cost effectiveness of tier 4 obesity services. It is for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to provide national clinical guidance and advice, based on best evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness, for use of interventions, technology and devices.</p><p> </p><p>To help practitioners deliver the best possible care and give people the most effective treatments NICE has produced a suite of guidance on tackling obesity including “Obesity: identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in children, young people and adults”, which includes access to all tiers of obesity services. This guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg189</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on the number of tier 3 obesity services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups or local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has explored the evidence base for tier 3 weight management interventions with adults and children, which concludes that tier 3 obesity services can provide positive outcomes and support to individuals in managing severe and often complex forms of obesity. Outputs from this work are published in: “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 weight management interventions for adults: a systematic review” and “Exploring the evidence base for Tier 3 specialist weight management interventions for children aged 2-18 years in the UK: a rapid systematic review”. These documents are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28695579</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29228233</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 133493 133496 133499 133501 133606 question first answered 27/03/2018 14:46:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous