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1132282

	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	Genomics: 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 estimate he has made of the number of patients that will benefit from whole genome sequencing in the first year of its introduction; and what steps is he taking to ensure the adequacy of trained professionals to provide that service.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	264725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test;</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:17:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1132107

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Hospices: 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 estimate he has made of the number of children's hospices in England; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of support for hospices provided by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	264389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of hospices which have closed in England since 2010 is not held.</p><p>There are currently around 223 registered independent hospices, and a very small number of public hospices run internally by National Health Service trusts. Around a quarter of these are children’s hospices. The vast majority of hospices are primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. CCGs are responsible for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p><p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding CCGs who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p>Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCG in children’s palliative and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments to be made to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 264390 question first answered 18/06/2019 14:49:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1132108

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Hospices: 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's hospices have closed in England in each year since 2010; and in which regions of England were those hospices located.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	264390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of hospices which have closed in England since 2010 is not held.</p><p>There are currently around 223 registered independent hospices, and a very small number of public hospices run internally by National Health Service trusts. Around a quarter of these are children’s hospices. The vast majority of hospices are primarily charity-funded but receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. CCGs are responsible for determining the level of NHS-funded hospice care locally and they are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population.</p><p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its investment in children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding CCGs who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p><p>Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant, which provides an annual contribution of £11 million. NHS England is currently establishing financial reporting systems to monitor the baseline investment of CCG in children’s palliative and end of life care services. This will enable match funding payments to be made to CCGs where the investments are increased above the investment baseline in the previous year. As baselining will be ongoing through 2019/20, and therefore match funding will not be available in this year, NHS England will be increasing the children’s hospice grant to £12 million for this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 264389 question first answered 18/06/2019 14:49:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1132150

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Dementia: Diagnosis
	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 improve the diagnosis of dementia.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Challenge on Dementia 2020 sets out the ambition for two thirds of people with dementia to receive a formal diagnosis. This has been achieved and exceeded nationally. Our focus now is on reducing the variation in local diagnosis rates and NHS England have published guidance and put programmes in place to further improve the quality and timeliness of diagnosis across the country.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital collects data on the number of patients with a recorded dementia diagnosis in their clinical record and report this on a monthly basis, so that the National Health Service (general practitioners and commissioners) can make informed choices about how to plan their services around their patient’s needs. The data is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/recorded-dementia-diagnoses" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/recorded-dementia-diagnoses</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 264469 question first answered 20/06/2019 10:41:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1132152

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Dementia: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of older people diagnosed with dementia.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Challenge on Dementia 2020 sets out the ambition for two thirds of people with dementia to receive a formal diagnosis. This has been achieved and exceeded nationally. Our focus now is on reducing the variation in local diagnosis rates and NHS England have published guidance and put programmes in place to further improve the quality and timeliness of diagnosis across the country.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital collects data on the number of patients with a recorded dementia diagnosis in their clinical record and report this on a monthly basis, so that the National Health Service (general practitioners and commissioners) can make informed choices about how to plan their services around their patient’s needs. The data is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/recorded-dementia-diagnoses" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/recorded-dementia-diagnoses</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 264467 question first answered 20/06/2019 10:41:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1132153

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Patients: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Learning from Deaths Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>Since its establishment in 2017, the national Learning from Deaths (LfD) Programme Board has overseen significant progress across several areas, benefiting from the inclusion of family representatives providing valued personal perspective and challenge.</p><p>This includes national guidance (on ‘Learning from Deaths’ and ‘working with bereaved families and carers’); greater scrutiny of the care provided to individuals with learning disabilities and mental health needs; legislation to mandate avoidable mortality reporting by trusts, as well as lessons learned and improvements made; and strengthened regulatory support and oversight of providers, including by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) through assessment of trusts learning from deaths as part of its inspection activity.</p><p>In May 2019, the CQC published its review of the first year of trusts implementing the LfD national guidance. The review highlighted that trusts are at different stages of implementation, and we remain committed to enabling trusts to develop a strong safety and learning culture when responding to deaths.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2019 10:47:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1132160

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Autism: Secure Accommodation
	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 increase the number of safe accommodations for children with severe forms of autism.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving how care and support is provided for autistic people, including for autistic children and young people. We are reviewing our autism strategy to ensure it remains fit for purpose, and working closely with the Department for Education, we are extending the scope of the strategy to include children. The refreshed ‘all age’ autism strategy is due to be published by the end of this year.</p><p>It is essential that autistic children get the right care and support, in the right setting and at the right time to meet their needs. Under the Children and Families Act 2014, health, education and social care providers must work together to make this happen.</p><p>Autistic children should only be admitted to hospital where absolutely necessary, for assessment and treatment of their needs and for as short a time as possible. The Long Term Plan for the National Health Service in England continues the work begun in 2015 to implement the ‘Building the Right Support’ plan by building capacity and services in the community in order to reduce reliance on inpatient care for people with a learning disability, and for autistic people.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/06/2019 10:49:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1131610

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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	Health Services: Autism and Learning Disability
	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 patient placements commissioned by NHS England through (a) central and (b) local commissioning functions on hospital wards run by independent providers for (i) learning disabilities and (ii) autism services were rated as inadequate by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	263786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>This data is not collected centrally. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of all providers – both National Health Service and independent sector - will vary over time and between the CQC’s visits. There is a clear process to be followed should a provider receive an inadequate rating to understand the reasons for that rating and the impact on patient care in that unit. This review will inform any required commissioner action.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/06/2019 15:32:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1131611

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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: 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, how many patient placements commissioned by NHS England through (a) central and (b) local commissioning functions on hospital wards run by independent providers providing services for children and young people with mental health conditions were rated as inadequate by the Care Quality Commission in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	263787
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>This data is not collected centrally. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of all providers – both National Health Service and independent sector - will vary over time and between the CQC’s visits. There is a clear process to be followed should a provider receive an inadequate rating to understand the reasons for that rating and the impact on patient care in that unit. This review will inform any required commissioner action.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/06/2019 15:33:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1131616

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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: Legal Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was money was spent by (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Trusts, (c) Health Education England and (d) NHS Improvement on the services of (a) Bevan Brittan, (b) Mills & Reeve, (c) DAC Beechcroft, (d) Hempsons, (e) Capsticks and (f) Hill Dickinson in relation to employment and whistleblower disputes in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	263752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The arm’s length bodies concerned do not collect information in a way that would enable them to answer this question in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/06/2019 15:42:04 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb