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867295

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	904476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available until 2019/20 in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent Green Paper published jointly with the Department for Education, will revolutionise services in schools, bolster links between schools and commits us to pilot a four week waiting time for National Health Service specialist services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 14:43:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

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

833174

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	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	European Medicines Agency
	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 his Department has made of the effect of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Medicines Agency on the UK health sector.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	903665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the important role that the European Medicines Agency plays in the protection of human and animal health.</p><p> </p><p>In negotiations, the Government will discuss with the European Union and Member States how best to continue cooperation in the field of medicines regulation in the best interests of both the United Kingdom and the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is fully committed to continuing the close working relationship with our European partners. Our aim is to ensure that patients in the UK and across the EU continue to be able to access the best and most innovative medicines and be assured that their safety is protected through the strongest regulatory framework and sharing of data. As the Prime Minister has stated, we want deep, broad and dynamic co-operation and in this context, the UK would like to find a way to continue to collaborate with the EU, in the interests of public health and safety.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 01/02/2018 15:53:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

864439

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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	Psychiatry: 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 NHS child and adolescent psychiatrists have been employed in the West Midlands in the last two years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	132922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) child and adolescent psychiatrists employed in the West Midlands between September 2015 and September 2017 and latest data available.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the West Midlands, as at 30 September for each specified year and latest data available, FTE:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in Health Education West Midlands (FTE)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2017</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Monthly HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>FTE figures are given as this is the most accurate measure of service capacity.</p><p> </p><p>FTE figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 17:01:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

864316

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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	Gender Dysphoria: 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 assessment he has made of the effect on the wellbeing of children who may be permitted to change gender below the age of 18 without parental consent.
	tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
	uin	132800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Valid consent to treatment is a central to all forms of healthcare, from providing personal care to undertaking major surgery. If a child is not competent to give consent for themselves, consent should be sought from a person with parental responsibility. This will often, but not always, be the child’s parent.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions about whether to give medical treatment in such cases before the age of 18 without parental consent are properly a matter for clinical judgment, having regard to the best interests and wellbeing of the patient. In exercising their judgment, clinicians will be guided by various pieces of evidence based guidance, such as that published in 2017, Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/ Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. This is available on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=Transgender+conditions" target="_blank">https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?q=Transgender+conditions</a></p><p> </p><p>This guideline recognizes that there may be compelling reasons to initiate sex hormone treatment prior to age 16 years, but notes that there are minimal published experience treating prior to 13.5 to 14 years of age. For the care of peri-pubertal youths and older adolescents, the guideline recommends that an expert multidisciplinary team comprised of medical professionals and mental health professionals manage this treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Any child under 18 thought to have gender dysphoria will usually be referred to a specialist child and adolescent Gender Identity Clinic. Staff at these clinics can carry out a detailed assessment of the child, to help them determine what support they need. Depending on the results of this assessment, the options for children and young people with suspected gender dysphoria can include family therapy, individual child psychotherapy and hormone therapy.</p><p> </p><p>Psychological support offers young people and their families a chance to discuss their thoughts and receive support to help them cope with the emotional distress of the condition, without rushing into more drastic treatments. Further information on the laws and guidelines that protect transsexual people and outline how they should be treated by medical professionals is available on the NHS Choices website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/guidelines/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/guidelines/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 17:04:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

864284

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	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: Reviews
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS (a) fit and proper person requirement and (b) duty of candour applies to an individual who undertakes an independent review commissioned by an NHS body that is funded by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	132768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The fit and proper person requirement requires all registered health and adult social care providers to make sure board directors, board members and individuals who perform the functions equivalent to the functions of a board director and member, are fit for their roles. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) assesses whether registered providers have appropriate processes in place for this. In this regard the CQC does not look at individuals, an approach which would extend to independent reviewers.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory duty of candour applies to organisations, rather than to individual members of staff. All regulated healthcare professionals working in the United Kingdom have an individual professional duty of candour, which is a responsibility to be open and honest. This responsibility is set out in their respective professional codes of conduct. The duty of candour set out in professional codes of conduct would therefore not automatically extend to independent reviewers, but any reviewer would be expected to be independent and able to express views with candour.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 17:02:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

862296

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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: 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 the use of (a) the arts and (b) culture was included in the consultation on the Green Paper on Transforming children and young people's mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	132715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The use of arts and culture was not specifically included in the consultation for the recent Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health. The full list of consultation questions were published alongside the Green Paper itself and are available on the Department website.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/03/2018 11:32:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

862245

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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	Psychiatry: 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 NHS child and adolescent psychiatrists have been employed in the North West in each of the last two years for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	132664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes information on workforce statistics and the following table shows the full time equivalent (fte) figures for child and adolescent psychiatrists in the last two years.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the North West as at 30 September each specified year and latest month available (fte)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (fte)</p></td><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>November 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Education North West</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Monthly HCHS workforce statistics</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 132526 question first answered 19/03/2018 17:17:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

862160

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 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 estimate he has made of the number of people who have received mental health treatment from South Tees NHS Trust since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Redcar
	tabling member printed	Anna Turley
	uin	132579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/03/2018 17:03:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

862158

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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
	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 are taking to reduce patient waiting lists for mental health services in England.
	tabling member constituency	Redcar
	tabling member printed	Anna Turley
	uin	132577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government published Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020 in autumn 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The publication was backed by -</p><p>- £80 million of funding in 2015-16 to deliver:</p><p>­ Treatment within six weeks for 75% of people referred to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, with 95% of people being treated within 18 weeks (introduced in April 2015); and</p><p>­ Treatment within two weeks for more than 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis (introduced in April 2016).</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service is currently exceeding its mental health access standards.</p><p> </p><p>For IAPT, as at November 2017, of those people completing treatment, 89.1% of people waited less than six weeks (exceeding the 75% target) and of those people completing treatment, 98.8% of people waited less than 18 weeks (exceeding the 95% target).</p><p> </p><p>For Early Intervention in Psychosis, as at January 2017, the NHS is exceeding the target with 69.3% of patients starting treatment within two weeks.</p><p> </p><p>For Eating Disorders – The Department is investing £30 million a year to 2020 to support clinical commissioning groups in developing and enhancing eating disorder services for children and young people so that by 2020/21, 95% of young people in need of an eating disorders service will be seen within four weeks, and one week in urgent cases. The NHS is on track to meet this standard. As at Q3 (October-December 2017) 76.9% of patients started urgent treatment within one week and 83.1% of patients started routine treatment within four weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/03/2018 17:15:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley