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1659252

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2023
	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	Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce NHS treatment waiting times for children and young people.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
	uin	HL9987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for elective child health services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. To support elective recovery, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity. Steps taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternative capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>We met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. We also virtually eliminated waits of over 18 months by the end of June 2023, a reduction of over 94% from the peak of 125,000 in September 2021. Our next ambition is to eliminate waits of 65 and 52 weeks.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9988 question first answered 13/09/2023 16:09:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1659253

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2023
	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	Health Services: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce backlogs for elective procedures in child health services.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
	uin	HL9988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for elective child health services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. To support elective recovery, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity. Steps taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternative capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.</p><p>We met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022. We also virtually eliminated waits of over 18 months by the end of June 2023, a reduction of over 94% from the peak of 125,000 in September 2021. Our next ambition is to eliminate waits of 65 and 52 weeks.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL9987 question first answered 13/09/2023 16:09:06 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1676494

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to produce a strategy to recruit, retrain and develop a skilled project and change professional workforce, to ensure the successful delivery and sustainable long-term benefits of its healthcare policies and reforms.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years or in line with fiscal events to ensure that assessments of staff remain accurate against wider operational, financial, and educational planning needs.</p><p>At a local level, NHS organisations are best placed to determine their own recruitment needs, informed by their workforce, service and financial planning and ensuring there is sufficient skilled workforce around project and change management, digital product developers, data scientists and systems architects.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL978 question first answered 14/12/2023 16:32:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1676495

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the recruitment and training of essential non-clinical professionals including (1) digital product developers, (2) data scientists, (3) systems architects, and (4) project and change managers, to support the transformation of health and care services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years or in line with fiscal events to ensure that assessments of staff remain accurate against wider operational, financial, and educational planning needs.</p><p>At a local level, NHS organisations are best placed to determine their own recruitment needs, informed by their workforce, service and financial planning and ensuring there is sufficient skilled workforce around project and change management, digital product developers, data scientists and systems architects.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL977 question first answered 14/12/2023 16:32:51 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1668658

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	HIV Infection: Health Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are planning to implement comprehensive public education campaigns to raise awareness about HIV transmission and treatment advancements, and to tackle stigma; and, if so, what are their plans.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL95
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>HIV Prevention England (HPE) is the national HIV prevention programme for England and is funded at £3.5 million by the Department. The programme aims to support communities who are disproportionately affected by HIV, including gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men and Black African heterosexual men and women. The Department has appointed Terrence Higgins Trust, a national charity who provide services related to sexual heath and HIV, to deliver the programme from 2021 to 2024. HPE delivers a nationally co-ordinated programme of HIV prevention work, including public campaigns such as National HIV Testing Week, that is designed to complement locally commissioned prevention activities in areas of high HIV prevalence. HPE also aims to improve knowledge and understating of HIV transmission and reducing stigma within affected communities.</p><p>HPE works with a wide range of models and their network of influencers and develops its strategies based on comprehensive data, audience insight and knowledge from local partners within England which ensure a wide range of patient’s voices and experiences are represented.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL97 question first answered 20/11/2023 14:09:38 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1668660

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	HIV Infection: Health Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to collaborate with media organisations, social media influencers, and public figures including celebrities, to portray accurate and empathetic representations of people living with HIV in order to counteract harmful stereotypes; and, if so, what are their plans.
	tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
	uin	HL97
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>HIV Prevention England (HPE) is the national HIV prevention programme for England and is funded at £3.5 million by the Department. The programme aims to support communities who are disproportionately affected by HIV, including gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men and Black African heterosexual men and women. The Department has appointed Terrence Higgins Trust, a national charity who provide services related to sexual heath and HIV, to deliver the programme from 2021 to 2024. HPE delivers a nationally co-ordinated programme of HIV prevention work, including public campaigns such as National HIV Testing Week, that is designed to complement locally commissioned prevention activities in areas of high HIV prevalence. HPE also aims to improve knowledge and understating of HIV transmission and reducing stigma within affected communities.</p><p>HPE works with a wide range of models and their network of influencers and develops its strategies based on comprehensive data, audience insight and knowledge from local partners within England which ensure a wide range of patient’s voices and experiences are represented.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL95 question first answered 20/11/2023 14:09:38 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1668651

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	HIV Infection: Women
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to address factors contributing to higher HIV transmission rates among marginalised women, such as sex workers, transgender women, and immigrants.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL87
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The HIV Action Plan is the cornerstone of our approach in England to drive forward progress and achieve our goal to end new HIV transmissions, AIDS and HIV-related deaths within England by 2030. A key principle of our approach is to ensure that all underserved populations benefit equally from improvements made in HIV outcomes, including marginalised women. This includes scaling up HIV testing in targeted, high-risk populations and increasing equitable access to and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).</p><p>Initial analysis recently published by the UK Health Security Agency show that HIV opt-out testing in emergency departments in local authority areas with extremely high HIV prevalence has been particularly successful at reaching women with HIV testing. The HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group is developing a roadmap to help guide our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of PrEP to meet the needs of key populations at significant risk of HIV, including heterosexual and transgender women, which is expected to be made available by the end of the year.</p><p>HIV Prevention England delivers a nationally co-ordinated programme of HIV prevention work designed to complement locally commissioned HIV prevention in areas with high HIV prevalence and for communities at risk of HIV transmission, with a particular focus on women, and includes the promotion of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions such as condom use.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL88 question first answered 20/11/2023 14:15:20 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1668652

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	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	HIV Infection: Women
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they will take to ensure that women have control over their sexual and reproductive health decisions through empowering them to (1) negotiate condom use, (2) access pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and (3) make informed choices to prevent HIV transmission.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Barker
	uin	HL88
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The HIV Action Plan is the cornerstone of our approach in England to drive forward progress and achieve our goal to end new HIV transmissions, AIDS and HIV-related deaths within England by 2030. A key principle of our approach is to ensure that all underserved populations benefit equally from improvements made in HIV outcomes, including marginalised women. This includes scaling up HIV testing in targeted, high-risk populations and increasing equitable access to and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).</p><p>Initial analysis recently published by the UK Health Security Agency show that HIV opt-out testing in emergency departments in local authority areas with extremely high HIV prevalence has been particularly successful at reaching women with HIV testing. The HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group is developing a roadmap to help guide our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of PrEP to meet the needs of key populations at significant risk of HIV, including heterosexual and transgender women, which is expected to be made available by the end of the year.</p><p>HIV Prevention England delivers a nationally co-ordinated programme of HIV prevention work designed to complement locally commissioned HIV prevention in areas with high HIV prevalence and for communities at risk of HIV transmission, with a particular focus on women, and includes the promotion of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions such as condom use.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL87 question first answered 20/11/2023 14:15:20 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2501 label Biography information for Baroness Barker

1674982

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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	Osteoporosis: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the potential cost savings to (1) the NHS, and (2) employers, in the next 20 years as a result of early detection and treatment of osteoporosis.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>We have made no estimate of the potential cost savings to the National Health Service, and to employers, in the next 20 years as a result of early detection and treatment of osteoporosis.</p><p>Information on the number of working days lost each year that result from bone fractures is not available. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Sickness absence in the United Kingdom labour market publication is produced from data collected from the Labour Force Survey; however, this survey does not specifically ask the question of sick days taken due to fractures.</p><p>A document is attached with tables showing, firstly, the number of deaths where bone fractures were the secondary cause of death, by broad age group and sex, registered between 2014 and 2023 in England and Wales; and secondly, the number of deaths involving bone fractures, by broad age group and sex, registered between 2014 and 2023 in England and Wales.</p><p>Government will continue to consider options for further work to support those with osteoporosis and at risk of fractures, including working together with NHS England to explore supporting the provision of fracture liaison service.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL792 question first answered 18/12/2023 17:39:04 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name FORMATTED TABLES FOR MINISTERIAL CLEARANCE HL792 (3).xlsx title Attachment
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1674983

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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	Fractures: Death and Sick Leave
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimates they have made of the number of (1) deaths and (2) working days lost, each year that result from bone fractures among (a) women, and (b) men.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
	uin	HL792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>We have made no estimate of the potential cost savings to the National Health Service, and to employers, in the next 20 years as a result of early detection and treatment of osteoporosis.</p><p>Information on the number of working days lost each year that result from bone fractures is not available. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Sickness absence in the United Kingdom labour market publication is produced from data collected from the Labour Force Survey; however, this survey does not specifically ask the question of sick days taken due to fractures.</p><p>A document is attached with tables showing, firstly, the number of deaths where bone fractures were the secondary cause of death, by broad age group and sex, registered between 2014 and 2023 in England and Wales; and secondly, the number of deaths involving bone fractures, by broad age group and sex, registered between 2014 and 2023 in England and Wales.</p><p>Government will continue to consider options for further work to support those with osteoporosis and at risk of fractures, including working together with NHS England to explore supporting the provision of fracture liaison service.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL791 question first answered 18/12/2023 17:39:04 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name FORMATTED TABLES FOR MINISTERIAL CLEARANCE HL792 (3).xlsx title Attachment
	tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann