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170416

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>We have made no estimate of savings specifically arising from the introduction of the Q&amp;A system, and have not improved or added to existing systems. The Q&amp;A system allows us to receive questions directly from the Table Office, and for hon. Members to receive answers more quickly by removing the need for the delivery of printed versions.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>One of the potential benefits of the new system is for the reporting of the timeliness of answers to Parliamentary Questions to be delivered with greater consistency and accuracy across all answering bodies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 06/01/2015 14:53:45 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179610

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on training in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p /> <p>The total spend on staff learning and development in the last three financial years, combining both central spend by the learning and development section of Human Resources (HR) and by local directorates, is presented in the table below. The figures in the table below include payments for Civil Service HR expert services which in turn includes Civil Service Learning fees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Annual Learning and Development Expenditure £</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>976,527</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>1,037,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>779,461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2014 – 31 January 2015</p></td><td><p>644,335</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information in the above tables does not include costs incurred for programme-funded training, or training for non-permanent workers within the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 27/02/2015 11:40:15 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179620

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in his Department was in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department is committed to developing its staff. Individuals and local teams arrange a variety of developmental activities, including formal training courses. The number of hours/days for each individual is not recorded centrally. To gather this information would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 26/02/2015 15:48:23 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179631

registered interest
date	12/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department provides to its managers on how many days training should be made available to staff.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	224428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department is committed to developing its staff and encourages staff to take five days learning a year. It does this in a variety of ways including staff communications; learning at work weeks and through line-managers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 26/02/2015 15:49:28 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170455

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the funding allocated to the Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund was disbursed in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; and how much funding has been so allocated for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The first tranche of the Integrated Digital Care Technology Fund was called the Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund and £49 million was issued in 2013-14. A further £150 million has been allocated in 2014-15, of which £69 million has been issued to date.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Decisions about the next phase of the roll-out are under consideration and will be made once lessons have been learnt from the initial investment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 18/12/2014 16:10:04 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

171293

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made towards a paperless NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p><a title="Patient Online" href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/patient-online/" target="_blank">NHS England’s Patient Online programme</a> team has been working closely with practices across England to ensure they have the support they need to confidently offer these online services.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2015 the General Medical Services/Personal Medical Services contracts require all practices to offer and promote online booking of appointments, ordering of repeat prescriptions access to summary information within patient records (allergies, medications, adverse reactions) to patients.</p><p> </p><p>Practices may also offer access to any other items of data agreed between the patient and the practice, such as test results, immunisations, consultations.</p><p> </p><p>Progress as of September 2014:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 99% of general practices have the capability to allow patients to book or cancel appointments online.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 91% of patients are registered with general practices that offer the ability to book or cancel appointments online. This is up from 64% at the same point in the previous year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 98% of general practices have the capability to allow patients to view or order repeat prescriptions online.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 88% of patients are registered with general practices that offer the ability to view or order repeat prescriptions online. This is up from 64% at the same point in the previous year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 84% of general practices have the capability to allow patients to view their medical record online.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 21% of patients are registered with general practices that offer the ability to view their medical records online. This is an increase against 2% at the same point in the previous year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 05/01/2015 15:47:08 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170734

registered interest
date	16/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral evidence given by Richard Douglas, Director General, Finance and NHS, to the Health Committee on 9 December 2014, Questions 513-4, what assessment he has made of the potential effect that reducing Health Education England's budget to support the £2 billion additional funding for the frontline NHS in 2015-16 would have on the healthcare workforce.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>All parts of the Department have been asked to make savings in their indicative budgets for 2015-16, including our arm’s length bodies. In the case of Health Education England we have been able to achieve this without affecting the numbers of National Health Service training places they will commission.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 05/01/2015 15:42:28 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

99883

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Children
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 promote early intervention in improving child health.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	905557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government promotes early intervention through the Healthy Child Programme, which is the key universal National Health Service programme for the health and wellbeing of children, and Family Nurse Partnerships, a licensed preventive programme which targets vulnerable first time young mothers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 21/10/2014 15:51:41 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

61314

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cystic Fibrosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review prescription charges for adults with cystic fibrosis.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	200281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>In 2010, responding to Professor Sir Ian Gilmore's review into extending entitlement to free prescriptions to all those with a long-term condition, the Government made clear that in light of the challenging financial context, no changes would be made to the current list of exemptions. Prescription charges in England raise valuable income, in the region of £450 million each year, which helps the National Health Service to maintain vital services for patients.</p><p> </p><p>The extensive system of exemption arrangements, including for those on low incomes who may struggle to pay for their prescriptions, which is in place means that around 90% of all prescription items are already dispensed free of charge. Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPCs) are also available for those who have to pay NHS prescription charges and need multiple prescriptions. This is the fifth year the cost of an annual certificate, and the third year the cost of a three month certificate, have been frozen. Both certificates will also remain at £104 and £29.10 respectively, next year. There is no limit to the number of items that can be obtained through a PPC. The annual certificate benefits anyone needing more than 12 items a year, and the three month certificate anyone needing more than three items in that three month period.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/06/2014 13:38:11 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah