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1001981

	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	Mental Health Services: 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 report entitled Fair funding for mental health: Putting parity into practice, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research in October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the finding in that report on the additional funding required for mental health care.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	187998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need for additional investment in mental health services and the Institute for Public Policy Research report represents a valuable contribution to the debate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced its long term financial settlement for the National Health Service in June. This will represent an increase of £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023/24. The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and ensure every penny is well spent. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Budget set out some of aspects of what the long term plan will contain, and further details will follow when the plan is published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:52:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

1002032

	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	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, how many adult (a) male and (b) female inpatient facilities are available for the treatment of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder and other specified feeding or eating disorders in (i) Lancashire and (ii) England.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	188018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS England commissions 415 specialised adult eating disorder beds across England, 42 of which are in the North West: 10 in Preston, 18 in Cheadle and 14 within the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of male and female beds is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:49:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1002144

	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	Female Genital Mutilation
	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 he is taking to ensure that Primary Care practices have the ability to submit securely information on patients that have been subjected to female genital mutilation to the statutory database.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	188271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Female Genital Mutilation Enhanced Dataset is collected via the NHS Digital Clinical Audit Platform or CAP, which is an easy to use, intuitive, data submission tool that needs no specific training.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital has published clear guidance online to support National Health Service organisations, including primary care practices, to register to access CAP and to submit information on the system. In 2017, the process was simplified and streamlined to further support primary care practices to register on the CAP, and it was confirmed that the Senior Partner or Caldicott Guardian at a practice can submit the registration to access CAP.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:55:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1002156

	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	Healthy Start Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the public consultation on Healthy Start vouchers.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	188098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>We are considering a range of options for consulting on Healthy Start vouchers. This will take place shortly.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:56:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1002174

	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	Childbirth
	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 his Department has made of the number of premature births in (a) England, (b) London and (c) the London Borough of Lewisham in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	188219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Data for the number of premature births in England, London and the London Borough of Lewisham is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:57:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1002175

	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	Childbirth
	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 has made any recent estimate of the average amount of time premature babies spend in neonatal units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	188220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The following table shows the average amount of time spent in neonatal units for babies born before 37 weeks’ gestation in 2015, the latest year for which information is currently available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Gestation at birth</p></td><td><p>Average length of stay (days)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Before and up to 27 weeks</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28-31 weeks</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>32-36 weeks</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:54:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

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

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

1003701

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	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	Musculoskeletal Disorders
	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 reduce the number of working days lost as a result of musculoskeletal disorders; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	189525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, there was a historic low of working days lost due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSK) related sickness absence. However, MSK disorders remain the second largest reason for working days lost due to sickness absence – second only to minor illnesses (like colds and flu)<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>This is why in ‘Improving Lives, the Future of Work, Health and Disability’<sup>2</sup> this Government committed itself to ensuring that individuals suffering from MSK disorders get higher-quality, more joined up support - in the workplace and across the health and welfare systems.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s own strategy, includes research to build our understanding of existing MSK provision and piloting new models of service provision. The intention is to build our understanding of ‘what works’ to improve employment outcomes for individuals with MSK disorders, in order to inform future action.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects National Health Service leaders, clinicians and experts to develop the long-term plan to ensure that the NHS can cope with the serious demand and cost pressures it faces in the future. The plan should be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Labour Force Survey person datasets, ONS. 2018.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2016</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>Improving lives: the future of work, health and disability November 2017</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-the-future-of-work-health-and-disability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-the-future-of-work-health-and-disability</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 189526 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:24:14 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

1003702

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	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	Musculoskeletal Disorders
	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 include musculoskeletal disorders in the long-term plan for the NHS to reduce loss of working days; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Eltham
	tabling member printed	Clive Efford
	uin	189526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2017, there was a historic low of working days lost due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSK) related sickness absence. However, MSK disorders remain the second largest reason for working days lost due to sickness absence – second only to minor illnesses (like colds and flu)<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>This is why in ‘Improving Lives, the Future of Work, Health and Disability’<sup>2</sup> this Government committed itself to ensuring that individuals suffering from MSK disorders get higher-quality, more joined up support - in the workplace and across the health and welfare systems.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s own strategy, includes research to build our understanding of existing MSK provision and piloting new models of service provision. The intention is to build our understanding of ‘what works’ to improve employment outcomes for individuals with MSK disorders, in order to inform future action.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects National Health Service leaders, clinicians and experts to develop the long-term plan to ensure that the NHS can cope with the serious demand and cost pressures it faces in the future. The plan should be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Labour Force Survey person datasets, ONS. 2018.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2016</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>Improving lives: the future of work, health and disability November 2017</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-the-future-of-work-health-and-disability" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-the-future-of-work-health-and-disability</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 189525 question first answered 14/11/2018 16:24:14 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford