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456566

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wheelchairs: West Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage NHS England and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide a response to the letter of 24 September 2015 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on wheelchair provision in West Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	29143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Letters to and from<del class="ministerial"> the National Health Service</del> <ins class="ministerial">NHS England </ins>to hon. Members are a matter for NHS England. The Department would expect NHS England<ins class="ministerial">, and indeed clinical commissioning groups,</ins> to respond promptly and courteously to all letters from hon. Members.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 11/03/2016 09:51:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 49268 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

522571

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Primary Health Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to introduce (a) video consultations and (b) other new technology into primary care service delivery.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	39251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>From April 2014 to April 2016, the Government has invested £175 million in developing innovative approaches to extend access to general practice through the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund which has included testing, adoption, and evaluation of:</p><p> </p><p>― new types of consultation such as phone, video and online consultations;</p><p>― online pre-referral diagnosis tools; and</p><p>― telehealth, telecare and healthy living apps.</p><p> </p><p>During 2017/18<ins class="ministerial"> and 2018/19</ins>, £171 million will be made available <del class="ministerial">to</del> <ins class="ministerial">from </ins>clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to enable practices to upscale and implement measures tested through the Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>A further £1 billion multiyear investment has been committed via the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund from April 2015 to April 2019, to help GP practices go further and faster to increase the use of technology and develop the primary care estate. Funding will be aligned with local digital roadmaps priorities and will support technology led improvement and innovation which improve patient and clinician experience of services, and access to primary care.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘General Practice Forward View’, released in April 2016, announced a commitment to greater use of technology. This includes an increase of over 18% in allocations to CCGs for provision of IT services and technology for general practice, alongside revised funding arrangements for GP IT in 2016-18. This will allow CCGs sufficient local flexibility to commission and procure GP IT services to meet local need. There will also be an additional £45 million multiyear national programme to stimulate uptake of online consultation technology for every practice.</p><p> </p><p>The National Information Board also has a programme of work known as Transforming General Practice which will use technology to free GPs from time consuming administrative tasks and provide patients with online services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:08:23 question first ministerially corrected 16/06/2016 10:28:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 2969 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

457766

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Out-patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) medical ophthalmology, (b) optometry and (c) orthotics appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15; and what the median waiting time for an (A) outpatient ophthalmology (B) medical ophthalmology (C) outpatient optometry, and (D) outpatient orthoptics appointment was in 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	29822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient ophthalmology,<ins class="ministerial"> medical ophthalmology,</ins> optometry, orthotics and orthoptics appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><del class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">All patients</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Ophthamology<sup>3</sup></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">98,774</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">93,099</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Optometry</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,884</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,028</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">33</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthotics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6,519</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5,162</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">40</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthoptics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70,327</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">54,062</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><ins class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">All patients</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">98,774</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">93,099</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Medical ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">565</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,448</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">28</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Optometry</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,884</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,028</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">33</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthotics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6,519</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,162</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">40</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthoptics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">70,327</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">54,062</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><ol><li>These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.</li><li>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</li><li><del class="ministerial">Within the Hospital Episode Statistics database it is not possible to distinguish between &quot;ophthamology&quot; and &quot;medical ophthamology&quot; treatment specialties.</del></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/03/2016 11:31:27 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2016 17:06:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 50914 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1683706

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2024
	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	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
	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 she has made of the adequacy of the list of medical conditions which meet the criteria for a medical exemption certificate.
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	10653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>Approximately 89% of prescriptions are dispensed free of charge. People on a low income who do not qualify for an exemption from prescription charges can seek help under the NHS Low Income Scheme, which provides help with health costs on an income-related basis. For those who do not qualify for an exemption, prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) allow people to obtain as many prescriptions as they need for a set cost. A three-monthly PPC or an annual PPC will save people money if they need four or more items in three months or <ins class="ministerial">12</ins> <del class="ministerial">13</del> or more items in 12 months.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/01/2024 09:57:19 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2024 15:51:08 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 13571 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1675274

	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	NHS Learning Support Fund: Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason students studying Masters of Pharmacy courses do not qualify for support from the NHS Learning Support Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
	uin	5132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The Learning Support Fund (LSF) is available <ins class="ministerial">broadly</ins><del class="ministerial">only</del> to those courses which were eligible for the NHS Bursary prior to the 2017 reforms, and therefore, subjects such as pharmacy are outside of the scope of the LSF arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/12/2023 15:46:56 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2023 14:14:55 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 5737 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson

1684276

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	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	Community Diagnostic Centres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing the number of tests carried out at community diagnostic centres.
	tabling member constituency	South Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Mrs Heather Wheeler
	uin	901122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <ul><li>I am pleased to inform my Hon. Friend that CDCs have now delivered over 6 million additional tests since July 2021 thanks to the hard work of NHS staff.</li></ul><ul><li>The number of tests provided by these centres has grown by an average of 13,000 (6%) each month over the last 12 months.</li></ul><ul><li><ins class="ministerial">150 centres are currently operational, and the programme is on track to meet its target of 160 CDCs by March 2025, with many due to open ahead of schedule. </ins></li></ul> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2024 15:43:32 question first ministerially corrected 23/01/2024 17:51:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 13107 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler

1686751

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2024
	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: Screening
	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 she has made of the adequacy of availability of follow up MRI scans for women who have undergone mastectomies to tackle lobular breast cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	12666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No specific assessment has been made of the adequacy of availability of follow up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for women who have undergone mastectomies, to tackle lobular breast cancer.</del></p><p>£2.3 billion was awarded at Spending Review 2021 to transform diagnostic services over the next three years. Most of this will help increase the number of community diagnostic centres up to 160 by March 2025, expanding and protecting elective planned diagnostic services. The remainder of the funding will increase capacity for imaging, including MRI scans, endoscopy as well as lung and mammography screening, and improve digital diagnostics.</p><p>Growth in the MRI asset base and increased use of MRI acceleration software is creating additional capacity for approximately 572,000 MRI examinations per annum within the NHS in England.</p><p>The Department and NHS England have taken steps to improve the treatment of invasive lobular breast cancer (ILBC) but are aware that more needs to be done. In September 2022, the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre announced funding from NHS England and the Welsh Government of £5.4 million to support delivery of six new national cancer audits. Two of these focus on breast cancer, one on primary and one on metastatic, and include ILBC.</p><p>Additionally, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) supports breast cancer research funded by research partners in the charity and public sectors. Over the last five years, the NIHR Clinical Research Network has supported 10 ILBC-related studies.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/02/2024 15:42:40 question first ministerially corrected 08/02/2024 16:01:34 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 16540 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1144153

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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	Palliative Care: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the additional £25 million announced for hospice and palliative services by the Prime Minister on 20 August will be (1) an annually recurring figure, and (2) in addition to current grants from, and contracts with, the NHS.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL17641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The £25 million announcement for hospices and National Health Service palliative care services relates to 2019/20 only and is in addition to current grants from, and contracts with, the NHS. NHS England’s expectation is that, as the NHS Long Term Plan progresses and more of the £33.9 billion additional investment becomes available to the front line, a separate funding stream of this nature should not be required. However, NHS England will keep this under review.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Levels of NHS-funded hospice care provision are determined locally by clinical commissioning groups and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population. Commissioners should identify any gaps in local provision and put in place service development plans and any additional funding to address this identified need.</ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 09/09/2019 16:59:00 question first ministerially corrected 30/09/2019 11:01:02 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford previous answer version 135714 answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1144154

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	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	Palliative Care: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they intend to have with NHS England to ensure that any contracts between the NHS and the providers of hospice and palliative care services will be for a minimum three year period to provide certainty of funding.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL17642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The £25 million announcement for hospices and National Health Service palliative care services relates to 2019/20 only and is in addition to current grants from, and contracts with, the NHS. NHS England’s expectation is that, as the NHS Long Term Plan progresses and more of the £33.9 billion additional investment becomes available to the front line, a separate funding stream of this nature should not be required. However, NHS England will keep this under review.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Levels of NHS-funded hospice care provision are determined locally by clinical commissioning groups and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population. Commissioners should identify any gaps in local provision and put in place service development plans and any additional funding to address this identified need.</ins></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 09/09/2019 16:59:04 question first ministerially corrected 30/09/2019 11:00:39 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford previous answer version 135717 answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1168585

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2019
	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: Amazon
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why several sections of the contract to share NHS data with Amazon were redacted when placed in the public domain.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL43
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The agreement between the Department and Amazon is about using content from the National Health Service website to provide reliable and informative answers to basic health questions asked to Amazon’s virtual assistant voice service, Alexa. This content is already freely available on the NHS website. Patients already use Alexa and other devices to search for information on a range of health issues. This agreement ensures that the information they receive from Alexa is medically verified by the NHS instead of from a range of other sources, such as <ins class="ministerial">non-United Kingdom</ins><del class="ministerial">American</del> websites.</p><p>This agreement is not exclusive. There are over 2,000 other organisations that are accessing and using information from the NHS website in a similar way.</p><p>A limited number of clauses have been redacted due to being exempt under Section 43(2) of the Freedom Of Information Agreement, which exempts information where the release would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any entity, including the public authority holding the information.</p><p>In this case, we consider that the release of the redacted clauses would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of Amazon on the basis that it would make public the non-standard terms that Amazon has been willing to enter into in respect of this agreement. Disclosure of the redacted clauses has potential to prejudice existing agreements between Amazon and other parties, which could result in other parties challenging Amazon over the terms and conditions of their agreements.</p><p>In addition, certain personal information has been redacted in the agreement. This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of Freedom Of Information Agreement as disclosure of this personal information would breach the data protection principles. In particular, we consider that the disclosure of this personal information would be unfair and breach the first data principle.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/01/2020 17:54:33 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2020 11:53:19 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford previous answer version 313 answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath