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1132221

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2019
	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	Mortality Rates
	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 level of mortality experienced by (a) BAME people, (b) people with mental health conditions and (c) people with learning difficulties.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out clearly the need to reduce inequalities in health that different groups of the population currently face.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan will give 370,000 adults and older adults with severe mental illness greater choice and control over their care through new models of integrated primary and community mental health care.</p><p>In addition, the first ever cross-Government suicide prevention workplan sets out an ambitious programme for every local authority, every National Health Service trust and every prison will have a plan in place to prevent suicide. We will invest up to £600,000 to support local authorities to strengthen their suicide prevention plans and implement the recommendations identified by the independent evaluation of local plans.</p><p>The learning disabilities health check scheme is designed to encourage general practices to identify patients aged 14 and over with learning disabilities, to maintain a learning disabilities 'health check' register and offer individuals an annual health check, which will include producing a health action plan. Such checks are intended to ensure that any undetected health conditions are identified earlier and that on-going treatment and care is appropriate to the individual’s needs. The NHS Long Term Plan commits to improve uptake of the scheme so that at least 75% of those eligible have a health check each year.</p><p>In addition, the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme supports local areas to review the deaths of people with learning disabilities and to use the information to build up a detailed picture of key improvements needed, both locally and at a national level, to reduce the inequality in life expectancy between people with a learning disability, and those without. The learning from the programme is being used to inform programmes of work to address key mortality issues such as sepsis, constipation, and cancer.</p><p>Regarding black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups, the Long Term Plan also highlights improvements to continuity of midwifery care for women from the BAME community; improving the Diabetes Prevention Programme; and improving bowel screening rates for people from minority ethnic groups. In addition to these, BAME communities will benefit from the wide range of programmes set out in the Long Term Plan.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/06/2019 16:40:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1132262

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2019
	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	Healthy Start Scheme: Publicity
	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 allocate funding for (a) local promotion and (b) outreach programmes to increase the number of people claiming healthy start vouchers.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	264742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>We are developing a digital approach to Healthy Start, which should make it easier for families to apply for, receive and use Healthy Start benefits. As part of the digitisation process, we are working with a number of local areas to consider how to encourage people to claim Healthy Start.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/06/2019 16:38:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1132263

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2019
	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	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, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people in receipt of Healthy Start vouchers.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	264743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Between 29 April and 26 May 2019, 54% of people eligible to make an application for Healthy Start vouchers had made an application and been accepted onto the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/06/2019 16:39:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1132420

	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	NHS: Digital Technology
	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 the NHS has access to faster digital technology systems to enable practices to be run more efficiently.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	265459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all practices have access to faster digital technology systems to enable to high quality, effective healthcare services that are responsive to all patients’ needs.</p><p>We have rolled out National Health Service WiFi across 96.8% of general practitioner (GP) practices, benefiting the care of an estimated 57.8 million patients. The new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) arrangements are enabling clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to obtain faster data network connections for GPs and all GP practices are expected to have migrated from their legacy connectivity to new HSCN services by the end of 2020.</p><p>The fourth edition of the GP IT Operating Model requires CCGs to adopt appropriately-sized HSCN connectivity capable of supporting their current and future GP business needs and states they should upgrade any existing copper-based asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) connections providing primary connectivity to practice premises to fibre-based connections such as Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) or Fibre to the Premise (FTTP) as a minimum.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/06/2019 16:00:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1132434

	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	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, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of funding allocated to (a) NHS Trusts and (b) Clinical Commissioning Groups for eating disorder treatments; and what steps he is taking to ensure the effectiveness of the use of that funding by (i) NHS Trusts and (ii) Clinical Commissioning Groups.
	tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
	tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
	uin	265499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed at least a further £2.3 billion a year to mental health services by 2023/24. This investment will transform and expand services for people with mental health conditions, including eating disorders, building on our current targets.</p><p>The mental health investment standard (MHIS) requires clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to increase the amount spent on mental health by at least as much as their overall budget. In 2018/19 it is expected all CCGs will achieve the MHIS level of investment.</p><p>We have set up the first waiting times standard to improve access to eating disorder services for children and young people with the aim that 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases by 2020/21. The latest available waiting times figures against this standard, indicate that NHS England is on track to meet it by 2020/21. Data from the quarter 4 January to March 2019 shows 80.6% of all patients started urgent treatment within one week and 82.4% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to testing four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, in selected local areas. The exact scope and timelines of these pilots are yet to be finalised.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/06/2019 15:59:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti

1132442

	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	North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
	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 Service Ombudsman report of 12 June 2019 entitled Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the findings of this report are shared across the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	265506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report recommended that NHS Improvement conduct a review of the cases detailed in the report once the Health and Safety Executive investigation and any related activity has been completed. NHS Improvement will make recommendations to the Department once its review has been completed. The review will also ensure that the learning from these tragic incidents is shared with mental health providers across the country.</p><p>NHS Improvement has reported that there is now a stable leadership team at the successor Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust under a new chief executive.</p><p>In October 2017, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission launched a national patient safety improvement programme for mental health trusts, which is committed to engaging with all mental health trusts by the end of March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 265507 question first answered 25/06/2019 16:02:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1132443

	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	North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
	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 Service Ombudsman report of 12 June 2019 entitled Missed opportunities: What lessons can be learned from failings at the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, what steps his Department is taking to (a) address the criticisms of leadership at that Trust and (b) ensure that mental health Trusts across the NHS are operating and delivering safe, high quality services for patients.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	265507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report recommended that NHS Improvement conduct a review of the cases detailed in the report once the Health and Safety Executive investigation and any related activity has been completed. NHS Improvement will make recommendations to the Department once its review has been completed. The review will also ensure that the learning from these tragic incidents is shared with mental health providers across the country.</p><p>NHS Improvement has reported that there is now a stable leadership team at the successor Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust under a new chief executive.</p><p>In October 2017, NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission launched a national patient safety improvement programme for mental health trusts, which is committed to engaging with all mental health trusts by the end of March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 265506 question first answered 25/06/2019 16:02:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1132485

	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	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, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of people who seek mental health support through the NHS qualifying to receive such support.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	265427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all those who need support with their mental health are able to access the services they require in a timely manner based on their clinical need.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/06/2019 15:56:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

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

1132584

	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	Mental Health Services: Schools
	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 introduce mental health support in schools in relation to the effect of social media.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	265617
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of the potential health harms of screen use and social media, on both the mental and physical health of young people and are undertaking several actions relevant to this area.</p><p>In line with the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, on 20 December the Government announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites that will test the plans set out in ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’, published in December 2017.</p><p>These new plans will significantly increase the availability of mental health support to children and young people, including creating new Mental Health Support Teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions. Mental Health Support Teams will provide brand new services and are intended to offer earlier help and intervention with issues such as online harms and the adverse effects of social media.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/06/2019 15:58:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore