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1132491

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	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	Anaesthetics: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide sedation services at all NHS Trust for children and young people with phobias to needles.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	265434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The use of sedation services is a matter of clinical judgement. Training in engaging children and young people forms the basis of training in all paediatric specialties, for all grades of staff. Clinicians are trained to approach a child or young person in a sensitive, skilled and friendly manner and crucially, make a judgement as to how any procedure or treatment will be administered in the best interest of the child. Treatment decisions should always be made by doctors based on patients’ clinical needs.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence provides guidance on using sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This covers the assessment, preparation, training and monitoring needed when using sedation in people aged under 19. This guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG112" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/CG112</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/06/2019 16:01:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1125046

	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	Mental Health Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have waited for over six months for mental health treatment following a referral in West Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	251237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>This data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:21:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1125047

	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	Mental Health Services: Children
	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 reduce waiting times for children receiving initial mental health treatment in West Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	251238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Protecting our children’s mental health is a priority for this Government and a core part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The National Health Service has set a goal of an extra 345,000 children and young people, aged 0-25, receiving support via NHS-funded mental health services by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Close to 325,000 children and young people have been treated through NHS commissioned community services in 2017/18. We are on track to deliver the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health’s commitment to improve care and extend access to 70,000 more children and young people by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The recent ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a Green Paper’ aims to improve provision of support for all children and young people through its three key proposals:</p><p>- Incentivising every school/college to identify and train Designated Senior Lead for Mental Health;</p><p>- Creating new Mental Health Support Teams in/around schools; and</p><p>- Piloting a four-week waiting time for specialist NHS services.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups in West Yorkshire are responsible for ensuring adequate access to mental health treatment locally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/05/2019 16:26:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

868384

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to improve free of charge information sharing between GPs and (a) clinical commissioning groups and (b) health trusts on which of their patients have ME.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	133604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The commissioning of services for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is a matter for local clinical commissioning groups. General practitioner (GP) Practices are required to keep adequate records of the attendance and treatment of all their patients.</p><p> </p><p>Summary Care Records enable healthcare professionals working in different care settings to access an electronic summary of key information from a patient’s GP record. Currently, Summary Care Records are widely used across National Health Service urgent and emergency care. However, the Summary Care Record may also be used in planned care to provide up to date clinical information.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/03/2018 11:25:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

790113

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Anorexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with anorexia have access to timely treatment and early intervention.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	113381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government made £150 million of additional investment available in the 2014 Autumn Statement for children and young people’s eating disorder services (including services for anorexia), over the five years to 2019/20. From April 2017, we established a new eating disorder service waiting time for children and young people – with the ambition that by 2020/21 95% of children will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases.</p><p> </p><p>The latest data from NHS England showed that in Q1 2017-18 73.3% of patients started urgent treatment within one week and 78.7% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has now commissioned 70 new or enhanced community services for eating disorders so everyone can get the help they need to manage these conditions. The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing a pathway for adults with eating disorders, together with detailed implementation guidance for providers, during 2017/18. The pathway will be fully informed by the available evidence and the views of experts.</p><p> </p><p>NICE also published its updated Clinical Guideline: Eating Disorders – recognition and treatment, on managing and treating eating disorders for the over 8s - including adults, children and young people in May 2017.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2017 12:32:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

788547

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on autism.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	112643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Autism Act was made and given Royal Assent on 12 November 2009.</p><p> </p><p>The Act places three key duties on the Secretary of State for Health:</p><p> </p><p>- To produce a strategy for meeting the needs of adults in England with autistic spectrum conditions (the Strategy), and to keep the Strategy under review;</p><p>- To produce Statutory Guidance for local councils and local health bodies on implementing the Strategy which they have a duty to act in accordance with; and</p><p>- To keep the Statutory Guidance under review, considering, in particular, the extent to which the guidance has been effective in securing the implementation of the strategy.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/11/2017 13:41:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

786397

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Chlorine Dioxide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to prohibit the promotion, sale and use of MMS chlorine dioxide bleach as a cure for autism.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	112048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>There are no circumstances in which sodium chlorite or bleach, or these other substances, should be used as a treatment for autism.</p><p> </p><p>We have been clear that these compounds have no proven or conceivable health benefit and may cause serious damage to health.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency has issued advice on sodium chlorite to local authorities to take appropriate action and placed consumer advice for oral products on its website.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have responsibility for preventing the sale of these products through retail outlets under trading standards legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is any threat to the safety and wellbeing of a child, this may lead to offences of child cruelty being considered, requiring a wider safeguarding response involving the police, children's services and relevant partners. Such a threat could include any harm caused by the administration of a potentially noxious substance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 112049 question first answered 16/11/2017 13:34:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

786398

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Autism: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to prohibit the promotion, sale and use of Turpentine, GcMAF and Rerum as treatments for autism.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	112049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>There are no circumstances in which sodium chlorite or bleach, or these other substances, should be used as a treatment for autism.</p><p> </p><p>We have been clear that these compounds have no proven or conceivable health benefit and may cause serious damage to health.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency has issued advice on sodium chlorite to local authorities to take appropriate action and placed consumer advice for oral products on its website.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have responsibility for preventing the sale of these products through retail outlets under trading standards legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Where there is any threat to the safety and wellbeing of a child, this may lead to offences of child cruelty being considered, requiring a wider safeguarding response involving the police, children's services and relevant partners. Such a threat could include any harm caused by the administration of a potentially noxious substance.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 112048 question first answered 16/11/2017 13:34:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman