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837679

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2018
	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	Life Sciences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What progress the Government has made on implementing the recent life sciences strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
	tabling member printed	Paul Scully
	uin	903789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>In December 2017, Government and the life sciences sector agreed a landmark sector deal that follows on from, and starts to implement, the sector-led Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.</p><p>An Implementation Board for this will convene in the coming weeks to discuss implementation of the Deal and wider Strategy, with working sub-groups to lead on specific aspects of the Deal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/02/2018 14:17:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully

818698

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	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: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using Blockchain technology to store, update and access patient records in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	121462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently assessing the potential benefits of Blockchain along with a number of other innovative, emerging technologies. Blockchain has the potential to enable patients to have greater control over who can access their records through the use of encrypted data and a permanent ledger in which all transactions are recorded.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/01/2018 12:17:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

828878

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: 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, with reference to the £1.4 billion allocated under the young people’s mental health strategy Future in Mind, how much of that funding for what purposes has been spent in each year since that funding was announced.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has received allocations under the £1.4 billion made available to implement Future in Mind of £173 million in 2015/16, £262 million in 2016/17 and £262 million in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The purposes for the use of this expenditure are set out in chapter 2 of Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, NHS England 2016. This is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fyfv-mh.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fyfv-mh.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2018 17:10:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

828216

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Prisons
	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 written evidence submitted to the Public Accounts Committee by NHS England on 23 October 2017, MHP0008, on mental health in prisons, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for prisoners to be transferred to a mental health ward.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice system to improve services for offenders with mental health difficulties, which includes a service review across all adult medium and low secure services.</p><p> </p><p>The service review is considering a number of issues including the future demand and capacity required against a number of criteria, levels of security, gender, service type and geographical location. A detailed understanding of difficulties in the system in relation to remissions from hospital to prison is being considered so that access, egress and throughput are all improved. This is vital to ensuring that the appropriate capacity is planned for the future.</p><p> </p><p>The current Prison Transfer and Remission Guidance, published by the Department in 2011, is being reviewed, and two separate documents being developed to replace it, one for Immigration Removal Centres and another for Prisons. A particular focus of this work is about ensuring that the timescales within the guidance take into account clinical urgency and need. NHS England anticipates publication of the new guidance documents in April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Regulation 28 letters are sent to local commissioning leads, in addition to NHS England’s National Medical Director. Local commissioners produce reports in response to the challenges raised in each Regulation 28 letter.</p><p> </p><p>The dedicated NHS England national lead picks up any recurring themes and reflects these in the responses made on behalf of NHS England. Action plans are initiated at a local level to support changes in how organisations and professionals work locally, where these are viewed as potentially being contributory to deaths.</p><p> </p><p>The national lead works very closely with the local commissioner to ensure activities described in the local response, and reiterated in the national report, are adhered to.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124179 question first answered 25/01/2018 14:41:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

828219

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Suicide: Prisoners
	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 written evidence submitted by NHS England to the Public Accounts Committee on 23 October 2017, NHS England MHP0008, what steps are being taken to prevent Regulation 28 failures from contributing to prisoners taking their own life.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice system to improve services for offenders with mental health difficulties, which includes a service review across all adult medium and low secure services.</p><p> </p><p>The service review is considering a number of issues including the future demand and capacity required against a number of criteria, levels of security, gender, service type and geographical location. A detailed understanding of difficulties in the system in relation to remissions from hospital to prison is being considered so that access, egress and throughput are all improved. This is vital to ensuring that the appropriate capacity is planned for the future.</p><p> </p><p>The current Prison Transfer and Remission Guidance, published by the Department in 2011, is being reviewed, and two separate documents being developed to replace it, one for Immigration Removal Centres and another for Prisons. A particular focus of this work is about ensuring that the timescales within the guidance take into account clinical urgency and need. NHS England anticipates publication of the new guidance documents in April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Regulation 28 letters are sent to local commissioning leads, in addition to NHS England’s National Medical Director. Local commissioners produce reports in response to the challenges raised in each Regulation 28 letter.</p><p> </p><p>The dedicated NHS England national lead picks up any recurring themes and reflects these in the responses made on behalf of NHS England. Action plans are initiated at a local level to support changes in how organisations and professionals work locally, where these are viewed as potentially being contributory to deaths.</p><p> </p><p>The national lead works very closely with the local commissioner to ensure activities described in the local response, and reiterated in the national report, are adhered to.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124176 question first answered 25/01/2018 14:41:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

828220

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Prisons
	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 written evidence submitted by NHS England to the Public Accounts Committee on 23 October 2017, NHS England MHP0008, what steps are being taken to monitor the (a) quality and (b) outcome of mental health services delivered by private providers in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The need to improve the collection and analysis of performance and activity data in relation to mental health provision in prisons has been recognised.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently reviewing existing systems to identify and improve current processes. The first of these changes, amendments to the Health and Justice Indicators of Performance data set, will be in place by April 2018, ensuring that NHS England is able to track and manage performance of all providers within all prisons. This will also identify blockages within the system and highlight where NHS England needs to take steps and remedial measures to ensure better outcomes for this patient group.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England plan to work with NHS Improvement to agree comparable performance measures.</p><p> </p><p>The funding breakdown submitted to the Public Accounts Committee in October 2017 outlined how much each NHS England region spent on mental health and substance misuse services in prisons as a percentage of the total adult prison healthcare budget.</p><p> </p><p>This was 37% of the £400 million budget for healthcare in adult prisons in England in 2016-17. Information on individual contract values per prison is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124181 question first answered 25/01/2018 16:03:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

828221

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Prisons
	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 written evidence on NHS England's spending on mental health and substance misuse services in prisons in 2016-17 which was submitted to the Public Accounts Committee on 23 October 2017, NHS England MHP0008, how much of the funding referred to was provided to which prisons; and what contracts were allocated to healthcare providers in respect of that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The need to improve the collection and analysis of performance and activity data in relation to mental health provision in prisons has been recognised.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently reviewing existing systems to identify and improve current processes. The first of these changes, amendments to the Health and Justice Indicators of Performance data set, will be in place by April 2018, ensuring that NHS England is able to track and manage performance of all providers within all prisons. This will also identify blockages within the system and highlight where NHS England needs to take steps and remedial measures to ensure better outcomes for this patient group.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England plan to work with NHS Improvement to agree comparable performance measures.</p><p> </p><p>The funding breakdown submitted to the Public Accounts Committee in October 2017 outlined how much each NHS England region spent on mental health and substance misuse services in prisons as a percentage of the total adult prison healthcare budget.</p><p> </p><p>This was 37% of the £400 million budget for healthcare in adult prisons in England in 2016-17. Information on individual contract values per prison is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124180 question first answered 25/01/2018 16:03:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

828879

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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	Pregnancy: Mental 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 specialist perinatal mental health community services development fund launched in August 2016, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of funds allocated to new or expanded specialist perinatal mental health community teams; and when such funding was received by each such team.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	124496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England allocated funding of £4.7 million in December 2016 for 2016/17, and £18.6 million between June and December 2017 for 2017/18 through its Perinatal Mental Health Specialist Community Services Development Fund.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will allocate funding in 2018/19 to those sites that received funding in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2018 17:09:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

819064

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Eating Disorders: Mental 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 report of the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman, Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, HC 634, what steps he is taking to address the gaps in provision of eating disorders specialists.
	tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
	tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
	uin	121741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>For children and young people aged between eight and 18 years, the Government is investing £150 million to expand eating disorder services and staff – with 70 new or enhanced services already in place.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s aim is for the National Health Service to meet the access and waiting time standard for children and young people with an eating disorder by 2020/21 so that 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases. NHS England has published a Commissioning Guide that sets out its recommended staffing and training requirements for these services. This is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cyp-eating-disorders-access-waiting-time-standard-comm-guid.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>We are on track to meet the eating disorders waiting time target. 68.7% of children and young people are currently being seen within one week and 78.9% within four weeks (against target of 95% for both by 2020/21).</p><p> </p><p>For adults, NHS England is conducting a baseline audit to measure existing levels of investment, capacity and activity across inpatient and community services for adults with eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will develop evidence based treatment pathways across mental health services over the next five years in line with the recommendations of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. NHS England is working with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health to ensure that each pathway is fully informed by the available evidence and the views of experts by experience.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/01/2018 14:50:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

822899

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	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 Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman’s report, Ignoring the alarms: how eating disorder services are failing patients, HC 634, published on 6 December 2017, when (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) NHS Improvement plan to make a formal response to the recommendations of that report.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	122582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the report of the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>Following on from the publication of the report the Department will work with partner organisations and arm’s length bodies, including NHS England, and NHS Improvement to consider how the recommendations can be taken into account as part of the planned improvements to mental health and eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is considering the recommendations within the PHSO’s report and will be responding fully in due course to both the PHSO and the family of the patient concerned. The response will outline a proposed set of actions around reviewing provision of adult eating disorder services and the question of parity of adult services with children and young people services. Their formal response to the recommendations of the report will include our plans to review existing levels of geographical variation and the scope to address as part of future improvements to adult eating disorder services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/01/2018 15:32:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley