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1002634

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Medical Records
	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 has taken to ensure that medically unqualified staff do not make additions to patients' medical notes.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	188917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the Information Governance Alliance published the NHS Records Management Code of Practice which sets out what people working with, or in, National Health Service organisations in England need to do to manage records correctly.</p><p> </p><p>The Code of Practice is based on current legal requirements and professional best practice. It includes advice that each NHS organisation should have an overall policy statement on how it manages all its records, including electronic records.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of each NHS organisation to ensure that staff are assigned access to patient records based on their role in the organisation and that, where appropriate, they should document their actions and decisions in patients’ records.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 188916 question first answered 13/11/2018 11:48:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1002631

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Medical Records
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on which people are authorised to make notes on a patient's medical record.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	188916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the Information Governance Alliance published the NHS Records Management Code of Practice which sets out what people working with, or in, National Health Service organisations in England need to do to manage records correctly.</p><p> </p><p>The Code of Practice is based on current legal requirements and professional best practice. It includes advice that each NHS organisation should have an overall policy statement on how it manages all its records, including electronic records.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of each NHS organisation to ensure that staff are assigned access to patient records based on their role in the organisation and that, where appropriate, they should document their actions and decisions in patients’ records.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 188917 question first answered 13/11/2018 11:48:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1002660

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	General Practitioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	188904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the adequacy of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) voluntary erasure code in cases where a general practitioner (or any other doctor) is under investigation.</p><p> </p><p>The GMC is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for considering and approving applications for voluntary erasure from the medical register.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:50:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002537

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department has examined the (a) rate and (b) local effect on health of medication errors in each region of England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	188825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital currently collects data on select indicators for safer prescribing, with the first phase focused on admissions related to gastrointestinal bleeding and acute kidney injury. These indicators link hospital admission to prescription data, and identify the population at risk of harm at a national, regional, or clinical commissioning group level for each given indicator. Data may be used by local teams to alter prescribing practice to lower the risk associated with prescriptions where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Data are available publicly through the Medicine Safety Dashboard at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://apps.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/MOD/MedicationSafety/atlas.html" target="_blank">https://apps.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/MOD/MedicationSafety/atlas.html</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2018 11:46:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1002536

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	NHS: Drugs
	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 the number of medication errors made each year in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	188824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 October 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-09-12/174058/" target="_blank">174058</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2018 11:44:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1002553

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Ambulance Services: Standards
	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 England new story, New ambulance service standards announced, published on 13 July 2017, how many heart attack and stroke patients have been seen within ambulance performance target times.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	188785
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Ambulance quality indicators, including response time performance and specific measures for stroke and heart attack patients, are published by NHS England at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:53:09 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1002548

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Endoscopy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding has been made available to enable hospitals to increase their numbers of endoscopists to meet current and future demand.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing North
	tabling member printed	Stephen Pound
	uin	188700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>To address the increasing demand for endoscopy services, Health Education England (HEE) has worked with the Joint Advisory Committee on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to develop a clinical endoscopist training programme.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is providing an employer support package of £15,000 per National Health Service trainee to trusts for the programme. This has been provided to cohorts starting in September and December 2018 and for April and October 2019.</p><p> </p><p>An initial evaluation shows trainees are helping to meet clinical demand, reduce waiting lists and contributing to a good patient experience.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:51:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	161 label Biography information for Stephen Pound

1002105

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people in the (a) West Midlands and (b) England who experience Pathological Demand Avoidance.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	188184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate of the number of people who experience pathological demand avoidance in the West Midlands or England.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2018 13:46:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1001904

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of how much medication errors have cost the NHS in each year for which information is available; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	188107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department commissioned a study by the Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions on the prevalence and economic burden on medication errors in the National Health Service in England. Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England was published in February 2018.</p><p> </p><p>This study estimated a range of costs to the NHS depending on which costs are included in the analysis. The range is from a baseline of £98.5 million per annum. The highest cost scenario has estimated costs to the NHS of £1.6 billion.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2018 11:42:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1001903

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	NHS: Drugs
	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 the number of medication errors that result in serious harm to patients; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	188106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department works with NHS Improvement, NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Public Health England, and the Medication Safety Officer Network to improve the safety of medicine use across the National Health Service in England.</p><p> </p><p>The Medication Safety Programme, covering the NHS in England, has been established to take up the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global challenge to reduce the incidence of severe and avoidable harm in relation to medication globally by 50% over five years. Progress to date includes the publication of the Short Life Working Group into Reducing Medication Harm and the publication of an evidence-based review on the Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS in England, which has helped the programme to understand the scale of the issue and identify key areas for improvement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/11/2018 11:43:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon