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57541

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	04/06/2014 23:14:24
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:12:14
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Medical Records: Data Protection
	house id	2
	identifier	HL14
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/06/2014 11:45:03
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the rules relating to the release of patients' private medical information to insurance companies by general practitioners.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL14
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>General practitioners (GPs) must ensure that patients have provided explicit consent before disclosing information to insurance companies. Additionally, under the provisions of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, patients have the right to view medical reports prepared for insurance companies and, where a patient has exercised this right, a GP cannot disclose the report to the insurance company until the patient has had the opportunity to review it or if the patient withdraws their consent.</p> question first answered 11/06/2014 11:45:03 answering member 2000
	creator	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

57602

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	04/06/2014 23:50:34
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:29:32
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Clinical Trials
	house id	1
	identifier	198571
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 15:11:34
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are taken to verify the competence of (a) doctors and nurses and (b) staff of pharmaceutical companies involved in the conduct of clinical trials.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198571
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198571
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) expect everyone involved in a clinical trial to be qualified and trained to perform their tasks (as per Schedule 1, part 2 (2) of the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations(SI 2004/1031).</p><p> </p><p>Staff of pharmaceutical companies are not “conducting” a trial as defined in the clinical trial regulation (SI 2004/1031 Reg 2 “interpretation”). However, the same Good Clinical Practice principles apply to those involved in clinical trial activities; i.e. they should be qualified and trained to perform their tasks. At sponsor site inspection, inspectors will verify the training records, CV, and job description of selected employees to confirm adequate training has been given.</p><p> </p><p>Sponsors are expected to carry out checks in audits or monitoring to ensure that on completion of training, staff are indeed carrying out their duties according to requirements and/or procedures (these checks should be documented in monitoring/audit reports). Inspectors check the monitoring visit reports to determine non-compliances are adequately followed up and re-training is given to site personnel when necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The voluntary MHRA Phase 1 Accreditation Scheme requires that a Principal Investigator (PI) for a First in Human study has relevant experience and a post graduate qualification in pharmaceutical medicine (such as a Diploma in Pharmaceutical medicine, Diploma in Human Pharmacology, MSc in Clinical Pharmacology or equivalent). An exemption to this requirement has been issued for PI's that do not have a post graduate qualification but are able to demonstrate that they have a significant amount of experience in this field (and are often involved in teaching the post-graduate courses). An application for an exemption is assessed independently by the Faculty of Medicine.</p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 15:11:34 answering member 3932
	creator	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

57695

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	04/06/2014 23:58:56
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:38:25
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Television
	house id	1
	identifier	198561
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 15:18:50
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent meetings he has had with NHS England on the contracting of provision of television services in hospitals.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198561
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198561
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has not had any recent meetings with NHS England on the contracting of the provision of television services in hospitals.</p> question first answered 10/06/2014 15:18:50 answering member 3932
	creator	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

57741

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:03:10
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:42:42
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	identifier	198598
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 14:38:10
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual cost to the public purse is of processing applications for free social care in England.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
	tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198598
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198598
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Access to State financial support for adult social care in England is means-tested and is not generally provided free of charge. In this way, individuals are expected to pay towards the cost of their care and support based on what they can afford.</p><p> </p><p>Adults with less than £23,250 in capital can seek help with the cost of social care from their local authority. Local authorities carry out a financial assessment to decide what an individual can afford to pay. Local authorities must take account of an individual's capital assets and income, including income from Benefits and the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the cost to local authorities of carrying out financial assessments is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>In its 2011 report, the independent Palliative Care Funding Review recommended the provision of free social care at the end of life. A series of palliative care funding pilots were established to test the review's recommendations, and these completed their work in March 2014. NHS England is currently analysing the financial data collected from the pilots. Once this analysis has been completed, a decision will be made on the issue of free social care at the end of life, taking into account this analysis and wider policy and financial considerations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 14:38:10 answering member 1439
	creator	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

57742

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:03:14
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:42:48
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	identifier	198599
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 14:38:09
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many applications for free social care were (a) approved and (b) rejected in England in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
	tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198599
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198599
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Access to State financial support for adult social care in England is means-tested and is not generally provided free of charge. In this way, individuals are expected to pay towards the cost of their care and support based on what they can afford.</p><p> </p><p>Adults with less than £23,250 in capital can seek help with the cost of social care from their local authority. Local authorities carry out a financial assessment to decide what an individual can afford to pay. Local authorities must take account of an individual's capital assets and income, including income from Benefits and the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the cost to local authorities of carrying out financial assessments is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>In its 2011 report, the independent Palliative Care Funding Review recommended the provision of free social care at the end of life. A series of palliative care funding pilots were established to test the review's recommendations, and these completed their work in March 2014. NHS England is currently analysing the financial data collected from the pilots. Once this analysis has been completed, a decision will be made on the issue of free social care at the end of life, taking into account this analysis and wider policy and financial considerations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 14:38:09 answering member 1439
	creator	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

57743

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:03:20
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:42:53
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	identifier	198597
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 14:38:09
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost of administering the social care means test in England.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
	tabling member printed	Sarah Newton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198597
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198597
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Access to State financial support for adult social care in England is means-tested and is not generally provided free of charge. In this way, individuals are expected to pay towards the cost of their care and support based on what they can afford.</p><p> </p><p>Adults with less than £23,250 in capital can seek help with the cost of social care from their local authority. Local authorities carry out a financial assessment to decide what an individual can afford to pay. Local authorities must take account of an individual's capital assets and income, including income from Benefits and the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the cost to local authorities of carrying out financial assessments is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>In its 2011 report, the independent Palliative Care Funding Review recommended the provision of free social care at the end of life. A series of palliative care funding pilots were established to test the review's recommendations, and these completed their work in March 2014. NHS England is currently analysing the financial data collected from the pilots. Once this analysis has been completed, a decision will be made on the issue of free social care at the end of life, taking into account this analysis and wider policy and financial considerations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 14:38:09 answering member 1439
	creator	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton

57783

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:14:27
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:46:45
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Public Health
	house id	1
	identifier	198869
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 14:23:59
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198869
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198869
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department has worked closely with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the development of the Measuring National Wellbeing Framework. Given the experimental nature of the data it is too early to use it specifically to formulate policy. However, some examples of relevant work taken forward by the Department include:</p><p> </p><p>- working in partnership with ONS to include a measure of mental wellbeing into the Measuring National Wellbeing Framework;</p><p>- including wellbeing questions on a range of health surveys, for example the Health Survey for England, Health Behaviours of School-aged Children, the trial of a local level survey of 15 year olds, and the current wave of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey;</p><p>- including wellbeing as a key indicator in the Public Health Outcomes Framework;</p><p>- publishing a narrative and a series of factsheets on why wellbeing matters to health policy;</p><p>- publishing a report on the predictors of wellbeing across the lifecourse;</p><p>- conducting two wellbeing workshops with policy makers to allow them to consider their policies from a wellbeing perspective; and</p><p>- co-founding a collaborative studentship with the University of Warwick on positive genetics using twin data to explore how genetics are related to wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>Wellbeing will also be considered in the forthcoming Chief Medical Officer's annual report.</p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 14:23:59 answering member 1439
	creator	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

57804

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:25
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:37
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Ombudsman
	house id	1
	identifier	198693
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 15:16:44
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to simplify ombudsman services in health and social care.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198693
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198693
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is considering reports of the Public Administration Select Committee into how complaints about public services are handled. As part of this inquiry, the Cabinet Office is undertaking work to further investigate how public services can make best use of complaints and also to take a wider look at the role and powers of the public sector Ombudsmen. The Government will respond to these reports in due course.</p> question first answered 10/06/2014 15:16:44 answering member 3932
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57805

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:30
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:42
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Complaints
	house id	1
	identifier	198694
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 15:14:19
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness among service users of how to navigate the complaints systems in health and social care.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198694
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198694
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is working with partners across the health and care system to make improvements to complaints handling. This includes Healthwatch England working to improve the information and advice that people receive when they need support to raise a concern or make a complaint. It also includes working with the Care Quality Commission as they develop their inspection methodology across health and social care so it places greater emphasis on listening to, and learning from, complaints as well as other sources of patient feedback. A single legislative framework exists for complaints handling to ensure consistency across the health and social care system.</p> question first answered 10/06/2014 15:14:19 answering member 3932
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57806

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:37
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:48
	answering body	Department of Health
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Ombudsman
	house id	1
	identifier	198695
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 15:16:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment on the potential merits of merging health and social care ombudsman services in England.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198695
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198695
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is considering reports of the Public Administration Select Committee into how complaints about public services are handled. As part of this inquiry, the Cabinet Office is undertaking work to further investigate how public services can make best use of complaints and also to take a wider look at the role and powers of the public sector Ombudsmen. The Government will respond to these reports in due course.</p> question first answered 10/06/2014 15:16:45 answering member 3932
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland