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1121896

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Allergies: Medical Equipment
	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 assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of adrenaline auto-injectors.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	245895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Supplies of EpiPen and other adrenaline auto-injectors are currently available in volumes that are sufficient to meet normal levels of demand. The Department continues to work very closely with all the manufacturers of adrenaline auto-injectors and can confirm that the supply situation continues to improve with further deliveries expected over the coming months. All patients who require an adrenaline auto-injector should now be able to obtain a device from their pharmacy.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 245896 question first answered 30/04/2019 13:08:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1121898

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Allergies: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that users are protected in the event that they are unable to have their prescriptions for adrenaline auto-injectors fulfilled by pharmacists.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	245896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>Supplies of EpiPen and other adrenaline auto-injectors are currently available in volumes that are sufficient to meet normal levels of demand. The Department continues to work very closely with all the manufacturers of adrenaline auto-injectors and can confirm that the supply situation continues to improve with further deliveries expected over the coming months. All patients who require an adrenaline auto-injector should now be able to obtain a device from their pharmacy.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 245895 question first answered 30/04/2019 13:08:53 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1124298

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Public Health: Finance
	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 assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes in the level of public health budgets on patients’ health.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	250010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties. This funding is in addition to what the National Health Service spends on preventative interventions such as immunisation and screening, including over £1.2 billion on national public health functions in 2018/19.</p><p>Public Health England monitors and publishes data on trends for the wide range of indicators of public health set out in the Public Health Outcomes Framework. Most are stable or improving. The framework can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-outcomes-framework" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-health-outcomes-framework</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 16:05:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1123157

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patient and health professional organisations are engaged in the Department's working group on medicinal cannabis.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	247543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department has held a number of engagement events with representatives of patients and health professionals in relation to this policy.</p><p>The Department has also arranged three meetings with stakeholders, ahead of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence publishing its guidelines on the prescribing of cannabis-based products for medicinal use in October 2019. These meetings are attended by relevant Government departments, public bodies including advisory committees and professional clinical organisations. The purpose of these meetings is to make sure work, already commissioned to implement policy on medicinal cannabis, continues to align in the interim period before the guidelines are issued.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/05/2019 13:02:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1122461

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2019
	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	Breast Cancer
	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 he has made of trends in the level of care and support available for women with breast cancer in (a) Merseyside, (b) North West England and (c) England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
	uin	246436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Cancer Programme is committed to ensuring, where appropriate, every person diagnosed with cancer, including breast cancer, will have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, a care plan and health and wellbeing information by 2021. This involves assessing the trends in the level of care and support available for all cancer patients, including breast cancer, at a Cancer Alliance level.</p><p>Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance have achieved full implementation of personalised stratified follow up for breast cancer patients, which includes supported self-management, holistic needs assessments, care planning and health and wellbeing information. Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance are also looking to improve personalised follow up for all cancers, including breast cancer, such as improving access to psychological care and access to care for, and prevention of, other consequences of treatment. The provision of support and care in the area covered by the Alliance has significantly improved (Alliance level results from the National Cancer Patients Experience Survey (2018)). Cancer patients in Cheshire and Merseyside rate their overall care as 8.9/10, with 92% reporting that they had access to a Clinical Nurse Specialist. For breast cancer patients, 98% of patients reported having access to a Clinical Nurse Specialist, and their overall rating of care was 9.1/10.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 01/05/2019 15:17:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1125005

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Asthma: Air Pollution
	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 he has made of the recent trends in air quality on the well being of people with a diagnosis of asthma across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	251378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Short-term peaks of air pollution are associated with a range of adverse health effects including exacerbation of asthma.</p><p>Public Health England (PHE) has not made any specific assessment of the impact of air pollution on the well-being of people with asthma diagnosis, across the United Kingdom.</p><p>PHE is continuously developing and reviewing the evidence on the health effects of air pollution, to help reduce the health burden attributable to air pollution in England, for the general population and vulnerable groups, including those suffering from asthma. Examples of this can be seen at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-matters-air-pollution/health-matters-air-pollution" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-matters-air-pollution/health-matters-air-pollution</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/committee-on-the-medical-effects-of-air-pollutants-comeap" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/committee-on-the-medical-effects-of-air-pollutants-comeap</a></p><p>PHE will start a project in September 2019 to examine any associations in seasonal variation of fungal spores with asthma incidence that may also consider pollution levels.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 16:04:55 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1125006

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	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	Asthma: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with a diagnosis of asthma have access to the medication required to deal with that condition.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	251379
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Long Term Plan, pharmacists in primary care networks will undertake a range of medicine reviews for asthma patients, including – patient education on inhaler use; encouraging uptake of dry powder inhalers where clinically appropriate; and the uptake of new smart inhalers and other treatments as clinically indicated.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 15:41:56 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1125474

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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	Public Health: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Consensus Statement, published by Cancer Research UK on 7 May 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications of that statement for his Department's policy on ensuring that there is a sustainable funding solution for public health services provided by local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	uin	252121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties. This funding is in addition to what the National Health Service spends on public health, which included over £1.2 billion in 2018/19 on national public health programmes such as immunisations and screening. Future funding arrangements for local authorities’ health duties will be considered carefully in the next spending review, in the light of all the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 16:32:28 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1124341

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Hepatitis: Primary Health Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve awareness of hepatitis C among primary care professionals.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	249817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>A variety of initiatives are underway in England to improve hepatitis C awareness and case finding, re-engagement and linkage to care, especially in drug services, primary care, prisons and accident and emergency centres. In addition, NHS England is funding access to new hepatitis C treatments in accordance with guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has developed and shared materials with a range of stakeholders, including the voluntary sector, to help raise awareness of hepatitis C infection and highlight the need for those at risk to seek testing and treatment. The resources and materials available comprise of posters, a quiz, social media videos and social banners in a variety of different languages; all of these resources are available online to download or order by healthcare professionals as well as the public themselves.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 15:57:09 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1124342

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Blood: Viral Diseases
	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 his Department has made of the potential merits of trialling opt-out testing for (a) hepatitis C, (b) HIV and (c) other blood-borne viruses in emergency care settings.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	249818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England specialised commissioning does not run a national programme of opt-out screening within emergency care settings. NHS England is aware of some hospital trusts that have implemented an opt-out screening protocol within emergency care settings, but this is not routine practice in all hospitals. Where opt-out is implemented there are posters on display advising patients, attending the emergency department, that they will be tested unless they tell their attending clinician that they want to opt-out and do not wish to be tested.</p><p>Opportunistic testing for blood-borne diseases may also occur in non-traditional healthcare settings frequently used by people who inject drugs (or used to), such as doctors’ surgeries, community pharmacies, prisons and sexual health centres.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 15:48:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley