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428479

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2015
	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, if he will promote the development of a pharmacist-led common ailments service to reduce winter pressures on A&E departments and GP practices.
	tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
	tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
	uin	16349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Minor ailment schemes are commissioned locally by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups in many parts of England to meet local need. As part of its urgent and emergency care strategy, NHS England has run campaigns for the last two winters to encourage wider use of community pharmacies to treat coughs and colds. This year’s campaign Stay Well This Winter, launched on 2 November, directs people to their local pharmacy to seek advice on common ailments and advises people who feel unwell to get help from their pharmacy team quickly before it gets more serious.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 24/11/2015 12:05:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

513518

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the cost of medical indemnity insurance premiums on the number of female GPs returning to work after maternity leave.
	tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
	tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
	uin	34259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England recognise that increasing medical indemnity costs are a significant issue for general practitioners (GPs), including for particular groups of the workforce, such as those GPs who may work part time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England will bring forward proposals for reviewing indemnity arrangements in primary care in the summer for discussion with the profession, medical defence organisations, the commercial industry and the NHS Litigation Authority.</p><p> </p><p>To address rising indemnity costs, NHS England has already negotiated changes to the products offered by Medical Defence Organisations to bring down costs of indemnity for extended access and from December 2015 to March 2016 ran a winter indemnity scheme to offset the additional indemnity premium for GPs who wish to work additional sessions for their out-of-hours providers.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/04/2016 10:22:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

514050

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Working Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support his Department provides to GPs to assist with the cost of insuring work undertaken outside of normal working hours.
	tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
	tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
	uin	34665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England are committed to addressing the issue of increasing medical indemnity costs for general practitioners (GPs), including those working out of hours.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England will bring forward proposals for reviewing indemnity arrangements in primary care in the summer for discussion with the profession, medical defence organisations, the commercial industry and the NHS Litigation Authority.</p><p> </p><p>To address rising indemnity costs, NHS England has already negotiated changes to the products offered by Medical Defence Organisations to bring down costs of indemnity for extended access and from December 2015 to March 2016 ran a winter indemnity scheme to offset the additional indemnity premium for GPs who wish to work additional sessions for their out-of-hours providers.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/04/2016 10:26:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

470494

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	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 proportion of local authorities that will exercise their right to levy the two per cent social care tax precept; and what assessment he has made of whether the revenue so raised will be sufficient to cover the funding gap for adult social care.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	31013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>It is the decision of local councils whether to raise the adult social care precept in order to pay for adult social care in their local area. The precept gives local areas who are best placed to respond to local needs and pressures the flexibility to be able to do so. There will be a statistical release showing the number of councils taking up the precept on 30 March 2016.</p><p>Additionally, from April 2017 the Spending Review makes available social care funds for local government, rising to £1.5 billion by 2019-20, to be included in the Better Care Fund (BCF). We have deliberately distributed the improved BCF in such a way that those councils with low council tax bases will benefit most.</p><p>Taken together, the new precept and additional BCF contribution mean local government has access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending in real terms by the end of the Parliament.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/03/2016 15:17:59 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

506538

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wheelchairs
	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 in response to the findings of the first set of operational data collected by NHS England on wheelchair services; and what steps he is taking to ensure that short-term wheelchair loans are available for people waiting for provision of NHS wheelchairs.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	32929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The national wheelchair services data collection was introduced by NHS England in July 2015 and requires clinical commissioning groups to submit quarterly data on their wheelchair services. Data has so far been published for quarter two and quarter three 2015/16. This is a new collection and therefore does not yet provide an opportunity to draw national or regional comparisons. The vast majority of short term wheelchair loans are provided through charities such as the Red Cross and not via the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/04/2016 10:47:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

438972

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the nutritional adequacy of food provided by private care homes.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <p>The law requires that care homes must meet the nutritional and hydration needs of service users, including any reasonable requirements for food and hydration arising from their preferences or religious or cultural backgrounds.</p><br /><p>The Care Quality Commission has a range of enforcement powers it can use to ensure that providers of health and adult social care services comply with their legal responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 06/01/2016 12:54:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438975

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on the number of private care homes with inadequate numbers of staff.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted any such research.</p><br /><p>The law requires that all care homes must ensure that sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff are on duty at all times to meet the needs of users of services.</p><br /><p>The Care Quality Commission has a range of enforcement powers it can use to ensure that providers of health and adult social care services comply with their legal responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 20522 question first answered 06/01/2016 13:03:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438978

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on the introduction of CCTV in private care homes.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The abuse or neglect of vulnerable people is deplorable. We have strengthened the powers of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to prosecute providers for unacceptable care, including abuse.</p><br /><p>The Government believes strongly that closed circuit television (CCTV) should not be regarded as a substitute for proper recruitment procedures, training, management and support of care staff, or for ensuring that numbers of staff on duty are sufficient to meet the needs of users of services.</p><br /><p>It is a legal requirement that care providers must ensure that the safety, welfare, privacy and dignity of service users at all times. The Government considers that the widespread introduction of CCTV into care homes would raise important concerns about privacy, as well as practicality.</p><br /><p>The use of CCTV and other forms of covert surveillance should not be routine, but should be considered on a case by case basis. The Department does not object to the use of CCTV in individual care homes or by the families of residents, provided it is done in consultation with and with the permission of those residents and their families.</p><br /><p>The CQC has published guidance for care homes and the families of residents on the issues that should be taken into account when deciding whether or not to use CCTV or other forms of covert surveillance. The guidance is available on CQC’s website at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/using-surveillance-information-service-providers" target="_blank">http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/using-surveillance-information-service-providers</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/01/2016 15:26:27 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438982

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will research the causes of systemic failure at private care homes run by the same provider.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is working in partnership with local authorities, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the provider sector to understand the viability of the care home sector as a whole, including any issues that may be affecting a care home provider’s ability to deliver quality services at any of the locations in which it operates.</p><br /><p>The Department receives inspection reports of all adult social care providers from the CQC. These reports state publicly why a service may be rated as Inadequate. In addition, the CQC’s annual State of Care report summarises issues across the entire care sector, from which lessons can be and are drawn, including those concerning providers with more than one home.</p><br /><p>Since 1 April 2015, any service rated Inadequate by the CQC has been placed in special measures. Such services will have six months to improve. If they fail to do so, their registration may be cancelled and they will exit the market. If they show significant improvement after six months, they will have a further six months to demonstrate that they can maintain that improvement. If they do, they will leave special measures. If they do not, they will exit the market.</p><br /><p>People can be confident that there is now a strict time limit under which providers must improve or cease to operate.</p><br /><p>The CQC will continue use its full range of enforcement powers, including removing providers immediately from the market if necessary. It will also use the special measures system to help tackle those services which, whilst not being so poor as to warrant immediate closure, have ratings that vary continually between Inadequate and Requires Improvement.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:15:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438983

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Care Homes: Trade Unions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department will take to enable union representation in private care homes.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	20491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is not responsible for enabling trades union representation in private care homes. Such matters are for negotiation and agreement between operators of care homes, their staff and trades unions themselves.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 06/01/2016 12:47:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne