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449684

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Zika Virus: Pregnancy
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Department of Health has begun to carry out a survey of pregnant women where either partner has been to Brazil or other neighbouring countries where there has been a significant outbreak of the Zika virus.
	tabling member printed	Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
	uin	HL5766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is actively exploring the feasibility of working with other parts of the United Kingdom to undertake the systematic collection of data on pregnant women presenting to National Health Service maternity services where they have travelled to a country with active Zika virus transmission during pregnancy or within four weeks of conception. The aim of such work would be to measure the impact of Zika virus on obstetric services and on pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes for women.</p><p> </p><p>PHE has been working with appropriate Royal Colleges to provide updated guidance for healthcare professionals, including midwives, on the management of any symptomatic patients (particularly pregnant women) returning from affected countries. A copy of this guidance is attached.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/02/2016 08:29:51 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name Guidance for healthcare professionals HL5766.pdf title Guidance for healthcare professionals Zika
	tabling member	648 label Biography information for Lord Maginnis of Drumglass

450761

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Wealden
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Wealden constituency are registered as (a) blind and (b) partially sighted.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	25966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Information on the numbers of people with sight impairment is collected by the Health and Social Care Information Centre every three years. Data is not collected at constituency level as part of the Registered Blind and Partially Sighted collection and so a response has been provided covering East Sussex, the council with adult social services responsibility which includes the Wealden constituency. According to the Registered Blind and Partially Sighted People report for England for the year ending 31 March 2014, there were 1,915 people registered as blind and 1,990 people registered as partially sighted within the East Sussex local authority area.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/02/2016 10:22:04 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

451319

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Vaccination: Boys
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to conduct an equality impact assessment as part of its decision-making process on the vaccination of adolescent boys.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	26128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Answer I gave the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr John Baron) on 20 July 2015 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-07-15/7298/" target="_blank">7298</a>.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/02/2016 16:15:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

451729

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Urinary Tract Infections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the cost to the NHS of antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast East
	tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
	uin	26426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Information on why a drug has been prescribed is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/02/2016 16:25:21 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

451688

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times a prisoner from each prison has been airlifted to receive medical attention in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	26561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 12/02/2016 10:39:59 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

450772

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) the number of potential closures of and (b) the reduction in community pharmacies as a result of proposed reductions in funding to such pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	25931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Community pharmacy is a vital part of the National Health Service and can play an even greater role. In the Spending Review the Government re-affirmed the need for the NHS to deliver £22 billion in efficiency savings by 2020/21 as set out in the NHS’s own plan, the Five Year Forward View. Community pharmacy is a core part of NHS primary care and has an important contribution to make as the NHS rises to these challenges. The Government believes efficiencies can be made without compromising the quality of services or public access to them. Our aim is to ensure that those community pharmacies upon which people depend continue to thrive and so we are consulting on the introduction of a Pharmacy Access Scheme, which will provide more NHS funds to certain pharmacies compared to others, considering factors such as location and the health needs of the local population.</p><p> </p><p>We are not able to assess which pharmacies may close because we do not know the financial viability of individual businesses or the extent to which they derive income from services commissioned locally by the NHS or local authorities or have non-NHS related income.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/02/2016 10:23:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

451581

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Perinatal Mortality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to reduce stillbirths.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	26392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>We are committed making sure every baby receives consistently high quality care, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.</p><p> </p><p>In November 2015, the Government announced a national ambition to halve by 2030 the rates of stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths and brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth.</p><p> </p><p>To support the National Health Service in achieving this ambition we also announced:</p><p>― a £2.24 million capital fund for equipment to improve safety;</p><p>― over £1 million to roll out training programmes to make sure staff have the skills and confidence they need to deliver world-leading safe care; and</p><p>― £500,000 to develop a new system that can be used consistently across the NHS to enable staff to review and learn from every stillbirth and neonatal death.</p><p> </p><p>The announcement also committed to publishing an annual report to update the public, health professionals, providers and commissioners on the progress we are making towards achieving the ambition.</p><p> </p><p>The National Maternity Review, chaired by Baroness Cumberlege, will include proposals for the future shape of modern, high quality and sustainable maternity services across England. We anticipate that its report will have an important role in shaping the system to achieve our ambition.</p><p> </p><p>For those babies who are born sick or premature, NHS England commissions Neonatal Care from 165 neonatal units. These units are organised and supported by 13 Operational Delivery Networks. The organisation of networks has brought tangible benefits in the delivery of babies in the right place to receive specialist care when it is needed.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Neonatal Critical Care Service Specification states that providers should ensure that expert and experienced staff treat sufficient numbers of cases to maintain a safe high quality service and move towards national standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is for local hospital trusts and specialised commissioners to decide how best to use the guidance and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quality standard for specialist neonatal care to improve babies’ chances of survival and minimise mortality associated with being born either premature or unwell. We know that that there is still more to do to ensure these services are consistent across the country and that is why the Neonatal Clinical Reference Group at NHS England has committed to review the findings of the Bliss report, (published in October 2015 which can be found here http://www.bliss.org.uk/babyreport), and will work with all of its key partners to make recommendations for further improvement.</p><p> </p><p>Unless we invest in research we cannot understand how to best improve services for mothers and their babies. Significant sums have been invested over recent years in support of research looking at important questions regarding premature birth. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funds a range of research relating to causes, risk factors and prevention of stillbirth and neonatal death. The NIHR Health Technology Assessment is funding a £6.0 million trial of an intelligent system to support decision making in the management of labour using the cardiotocogram - due to report in 2017. The NIHR is also funding a £1.2 million study on preventing adverse pregnancy outcome in women at increased risk of stillbirth by detecting placental dysfunction– due to report in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>To help achieve the best outcomes, women are also offered a comprehensive programme of scans, screening tests and development examinations during pregnancy and following birth babies will receive the checks in the NHS newborn and infant physical examination screening programme and the NHS newborn blood spot screening programme .</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 26384 question first answered 12/02/2016 16:28:33 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451569

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ovarian Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the new treatment for ovarian cancer is likely to be available on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	26385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that makes recommendations for the National Health Service on the use of selected drugs and treatments through its technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies programmes.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2016 NICE published a technology appraisal guidance recommending olaparib as an option for treating adults with relapsed, platinum sensitive ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer who have BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations and whose disease has responded to platinum based chemotherapy where certain criteria apply.</p><p> </p><p>NICE is currently appraising a number of other potential treatments for ovarian cancer. Further information is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/cancer/ovarian-cancer" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/conditions-and-diseases/cancer/ovarian-cancer</a></p><p> </p><p>In developing its technology appraisal guidance NICE works closely with stakeholders, including manufacturers. In the absence of NICE guidance, it is for commissioners to make funding decisions based on an assessment of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/02/2016 16:23:21 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

450764

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Obesity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults in (i) Wealden constituency, (ii) East Sussex and (iii) England were classified as (A) overweight and (B) obese in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	25963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Child and adult overweight and obesity prevalence data are not published using parliamentary constituency boundaries, however the data is available for the corresponding local authority of Wealden.</p><p> </p><p>Local authority level data on overweight and obese children are collected through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The NCMP measures the height and weight of primary school children in Reception (age four-five years) and Year six (age 10-11 years). Data for each local authority, county, region and England are available to download from:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109</a></p><p> </p><p>and</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme" target="_blank">http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme</a></p><p> </p><p>(The first link is the latest NCMP data, 2014/15. The second link includes counts and rates of children and trend data from 2006/07 to 2014/15).</p><p> </p><p>Data on overweight and obese adults at a sub-national level are available through the active people survey and are published as pooled data for the period 2012-2014. The data for adults are from a sample survey (Active People Survey). The Active People Survey only began collecting data on adult height and weight in 2012, therefore local authority level data are not available before this date. Data for each local authority, county, region and England are available to download from:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation" target="_blank">http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation</a></p><p> </p><p>(the third article on the web page).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 12/02/2016 10:30:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

451784

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Per Capita Costs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the figures, in real terms, for spending per head of the population on the NHS in 1997–98 and 2014–15.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL6059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Latest available data for spending per head of population on the National Health Service in England is 2013-14.</p><p> </p><p>Spend per head of population on the NHS in England in real terms for 1997-98 and 2013-14 is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>England NHS health spend per head</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Spend per head in 2013-14 prices £</p></td><td><p>Source</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997-98</p></td><td><p>1,026</p></td><td><p>Office for National Statistics Mid 1997 population projection and net NHS spend 1997-98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>1,994</p></td><td><p>HM Treasury Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2015</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 12/02/2016 08:28:53 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon