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1130082

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to roll-out new Rapid Diagnostic Centres; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	260651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>NHS England has made Service Development Funding available to every Cancer Alliance across the country to support the roll out from this year, starting with one Rapid Diagnostic Centre in each cancer alliance region in 2019/20.</p><p>NHS England has announced funding of £70 million over four years to fund lung health checks in 10 areas of the country with some of the highest death rates from lung cancer. The roll out has the potential to reach around 600,000 people over four years, detecting approximately 3,400 cancers and saving hundreds of lives across the country. Work has started now in the 10 areas to plan the delivery of projects.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260652 question first answered 10/06/2019 15:11:21 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130083

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Lung Cancer: Tomography
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to deploy more mobile lung CT scanners starting in parts of the country with the lowest lung cancer survival rates; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	260652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>NHS England has made Service Development Funding available to every Cancer Alliance across the country to support the roll out from this year, starting with one Rapid Diagnostic Centre in each cancer alliance region in 2019/20.</p><p>NHS England has announced funding of £70 million over four years to fund lung health checks in 10 areas of the country with some of the highest death rates from lung cancer. The roll out has the potential to reach around 600,000 people over four years, detecting approximately 3,400 cancers and saving hundreds of lives across the country. Work has started now in the 10 areas to plan the delivery of projects.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 260651 question first answered 10/06/2019 15:11:21 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130084

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to start data collection for all patients for the new faster diagnosis standard and to start ramping up performance as additional diagnostic capacity comes online; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	260653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>We will begin introducing a new faster diagnosis standard from 2020 to ensure most patients receive a definitive diagnosis or ruling out of cancer within 28 days of referral from a general practitioner or from screening.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Operational Planning and Contracting Guidance 2019/20, all providers must start collecting mandatory data items for the 28-day faster diagnosis standard cohorts this year and, working through their Cancer Alliance, use the data to improve time to diagnosis, in particular for lung, prostate and colorectal cancers, before the standard is introduced in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/06/2019 15:17:40 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130080

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on the commitment to build on work already undertaken to ensure that patients have direct access to MSK First Contact Practitioners; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	260649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>To support the 2018/19 mobilisation of first contact practitioner (FCP) services for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, 98% of sustainability and transformation plans identified pilot sites for FCP services and 98% of those sites were operational by 31 March 2019. The NHS Long Term Plan’s commitment is to build on this work of piloting FCP services across England.</p><p> </p><p>Further progress to be delivered in 2019/20 includes the development of a national mobilisation plan for local systems to roll out this service for patients across the country. To support successful mobilisation by local systems, the specification for FCP services for MSK conditions has recently been published and can be found via the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/elective-care-high-impact-interventions-first-contact-practitioner-msk-services-specification.pdf" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/elective-care-high-impact-interventions-first-contact-practitioner-msk-services-specification.pdf</a></p><p>All adults in England will have direct access to MSK FCP by 2023/24, across all Primary Care Networks. This will enable patients to see the right professional first time, first place without needing a general practitioner (GP) referral.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England published a five-year framework for GP contract reform this year which has committed to invest £891 million to fund an additional 20,000 workforce across five staff groups including MSK FCPs to support general practice.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/06/2019 15:43:37 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130081

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Lung Diseases: Screening
	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 NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on the commitment to build on the Right Care programme to reduce variation in quality of spirometry testing across the country; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	260650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist systems, which will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Planning Guidance, all systems will work with the NHS RightCare programme to implement national priority initiatives for respiratory conditions in 2019/20.</p><p>Action will include:</p><p>- Expanding the pioneering lung health checks trialled in Manchester and Liverpool, which will identify more cancers quickly and detect other conditions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); and</p><p> </p><p>- Rolling out the NHS RightCare COPD pathway nationally through clinical commissioning groups. This includes timely access to pulmonary rehabilitation as part of the optimal treatment pathway. The pathway provides a set of resources to support local health economies to concentrate their improvement efforts to address variation and improve population health.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 10/06/2019 15:31:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth