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437169

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the effects of zero-hour and uncertain hour contracts on the mental health of people holding such contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	19559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to make any such assessment.</p><p /> <p>Research undertaken by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that, compared to the average employee, zero hours contract workers are just as satisfied with their job (65% versus 63%) and happier with their work-life balance (62% versus 58%).</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 17:46:46 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

437162

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Weather: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the NHS was of treating cold-related admissions to hospitals in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	19510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/12/2015 14:13:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

437163

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time sight loss adviser posts there are in hospitals in England.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	19511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>In England, eye clinics and their staffing, including Eye Clinic Liaison Officers (ECLO), are commissioned and funded by individual clinical commissioning groups on the basis of local assessments of need.</p><p /> <p>The Department does not collect data on the number of eye clinic liaison officers employed in hospitals or how much has been spent on funding ECLOs.</p><p /> <p>The Government fully appreciates the impact that sight loss can have on a person’s life and the importance of information being available for those newly diagnosed with sight loss, including signposting patients to appropriate support and rehabilitation services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19512 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:57:57 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

437164

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on the provision of eye clinic care liaison officers in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	19512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>In England, eye clinics and their staffing, including Eye Clinic Liaison Officers (ECLO), are commissioned and funded by individual clinical commissioning groups on the basis of local assessments of need.</p><p /> <p>The Department does not collect data on the number of eye clinic liaison officers employed in hospitals or how much has been spent on funding ECLOs.</p><p /> <p>The Government fully appreciates the impact that sight loss can have on a person’s life and the importance of information being available for those newly diagnosed with sight loss, including signposting patients to appropriate support and rehabilitation services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19511 question first answered 16/12/2015 17:57:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

437173

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received (a) since his appointment as Secretary of State and (b) since the appointment of his predecessor in that post expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	19686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 40 items of correspondence expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><br /><p>In 2014, NHS England initiated action including an investigation of the deaths of all patients of the trust who had been in receipt of mental health or learning disability services since 2011.</p><br /><p>We are advised by NHS England that a first draft of the Mazars report was shared with it and Southern Health Foundation Trust in September 2015. The Department has not received a copy of the report and the report is still to be finalised before publication.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19687 question first answered 15/12/2015 17:48:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

437174

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust first received a copy of the Mazers report on Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	19687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 40 items of correspondence expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><br /><p>In 2014, NHS England initiated action including an investigation of the deaths of all patients of the trust who had been in receipt of mental health or learning disability services since 2011.</p><br /><p>We are advised by NHS England that a first draft of the Mazars report was shared with it and Southern Health Foundation Trust in September 2015. The Department has not received a copy of the report and the report is still to be finalised before publication.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19686 question first answered 15/12/2015 17:48:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

437175

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on making additional funding available to local authorities to help fund the introduction of the national living wage into social care from April 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Over the course of the Spending Review there have been a large number of in-depth discussions at both official and Ministerial level to inform the outcome. These discussions and analysis informed the decision to provide a settlement which means local government has access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending in real terms by the end of the Parliament, including:</p><br /><p>- The introduction of a social care precept, which puts money raising powers into the hands of local areas who understand the need in their area and who are best placed to respond. This could raise up to £2 billion by the end of the Parliament; and</p><p>- From 2017/18, additional funds for social care will be made available through the Better Care Fund. This will rise to £1.5 billion by 2019/20.</p><br /><p>Following this additional funding, we expect councils will be able to increase the prices they pay for care in order to cover costs providers are facing such as the national living wage.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 12:29:03 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

437179

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
	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 cost to the public purse of introducing the national living wage into social care from April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>These estimates are a matter for HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/12/2015 17:54:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 35761 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

437034

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 10 December (HL3975), what was the increase in demand they assumed and modelled for social care year on year for each year between 2015 and 2020.
	tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
	uin	HL4500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>To model the increased demographic demand on state funded adult social care the Department commissioned modelling from the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU). PSSRU’s analysis is currently in the process of being peer reviewed prior to publication.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 21/12/2015 17:14:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

436978

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether any disciplinary action is being taken against the doctors at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate who listed Down’s syndrome and learning difficulties among the reasons for issuing a Do Not Resuscitate order.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL4444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department expects National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts to have in place local policies on resuscitation that are based on expert professional guidance. We have commended, as a basis for local policies, professional guidance, Decisions Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (2014), published jointly by the British Medical Association, the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the Royal College of Nursing. The guidance is clear that any resuscitation decision must be tailored to the individual circumstances of the patient and must not be made on the basis of blanket assumptions. A copy of the guidance is attached.</p><p>Where a person lacks capacity to make decisions about their care or treatment, the Mental Capacity Act makes clear that doctors must act in the best interests of patients. Doctors must take account as far as possible of the known wishes of the person and consult with relatives and colleagues as appropriate to help inform their decision.</p><p>Departmental officials have recently contacted the Trust about recent media coverage concerning an incident when Down’s syndrome was listed as a reason to issue a Do Not Resuscitate order. The Trust confirms it accepts that it failed to consult with the family and has apologised unreservedly for this isolated incident by a junior doctor.</p><br /><p>In regards to any disciplinary action taken against the doctor this would be an operational issue for the Foundation Trust. We have written to Ms Nikki Cole, Chair of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust informing her of the Noble Lord’s enquiry. She will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL4441 HL4445 question first answered 21/12/2015 17:11:57 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name DecisionsRelatingToCPR.pdf title Decisions Relating to CPR
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool