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1024696

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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	North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	o ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what correspondence he has received from (a) local authorities in Staffordshire and (b) the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust on the future of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; and if he will place a copy of such correspondence in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
	uin	202089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has received one item of relevant correspondence from a local authority in Staffordshire, which is attached. There has been no correspondence from the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust on the future of the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/12/2018 17:00:30 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond attachment 1 file name Staffs County Council.pdf title Letter Staffs County Council
	tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1015553

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	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	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, with reference to the report, Letting local systems lead, how the long-term plan could deliver a more sustainable NHS, published by the NHS Confederation in November 2018, whether he has plans to implement the recommendation to make support for effective local leadership and relationships a priority for the NHS Long Term Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	196189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>National Health Service leaders are producing a new 10-year plan, led by clinicians and professionals, and supported by local health and care systems across the country. We expect the plan to be published later this year and as such decisions are still being taken on the exact content of the plan.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/12/2018 16:58:51 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1027427

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	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: Procurement
	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 oral evidence by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England to the Health and Social Care Committee on 27 November 2018, if he will publish the conclusions of the NHS's comprehensive assessment of supply lines that was set to take place in the first ten days of December.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	202794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department is conducting supply chain reviews across the health and care system to assess commercial risks. This includes a self-assessment tool for National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts to review risks for non-clinical consumables, goods and services. The results of these self-assessments were received at the end of November, and the Department is conducting analysis on the data that will be used to provide additional guidance to trusts and foundation trusts in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 20/12/2018 16:19:26 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1041692

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	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: Staff
	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 commitment in the NHS Long Term Plan to reduce administrative costs by £700 million across commissioners and providers, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of jobs as a result of that reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	208909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan is a 10-year strategy for our National Health Service. It sets out how the NHS will spend the £20.5 billion a year real terms annual increase going into the NHS budget by 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that every additional penny of funding is being well spent. Through year-on-year improvements in efficiency and productivity, the NHS will continue to cut waste from the system. This includes delivering savings of over £700 million by 2023/24 across providers and commissioner administrative costs to ensure that an increasing share of the NHS budget is invested in frontline services including additional frontline workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Local health systems will be expected to engage with their local communities and delivery partners in developing local plans in 2019, setting out proposals for how they will deliver the outcomes in the Long Term Plan. These will be brought together in a detailed national implementation programme by the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 22/01/2019 17:26:55 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1025308

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2018
	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	Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 Written Statement of 12 December 2018 on the review of amendments made to the NHS Overseas Visitor Charging Regulations in 2017, HLWS1142, what information his Department holds on the effect of NHS charging on access to maternity services by vulnerable pregnant migrant women.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
	uin	202325
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to produce and publish a formal review document or the evidence collected as part of it. In undertaking the review, the Department called for evidence from interested stakeholders which included several confidential individual case studies from organisations who have not permitted the Department to share these within the public domain. A summary of the findings will be shared with contributors to the review and we will continue to keep the impact of the regulations under close review, working closely with our stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>National guidance is clear that National Health Service maternity treatment should always be considered as immediately necessary and provided to all patients regardless of whether or not they are entitled to receive it free of charge or there are doubts about whether they could pay if subsequently found to be chargeable under the regulations.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 202322 202323 question first answered 20/12/2018 17:30:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1025305

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2018
	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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 Written Statement of 12 December 2018 on the review of amendments made to the NHS Overseas Visitor Charging Regulations in 2017, HLWS1142, if he will publish the full text of that review.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
	uin	202322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to produce and publish a formal review document or the evidence collected as part of it. In undertaking the review, the Department called for evidence from interested stakeholders which included several confidential individual case studies from organisations who have not permitted the Department to share these within the public domain. A summary of the findings will be shared with contributors to the review and we will continue to keep the impact of the regulations under close review, working closely with our stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>National guidance is clear that National Health Service maternity treatment should always be considered as immediately necessary and provided to all patients regardless of whether or not they are entitled to receive it free of charge or there are doubts about whether they could pay if subsequently found to be chargeable under the regulations.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 202323 202325 question first answered 20/12/2018 17:30:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1025306

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2018
	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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 Written Statement of 12 December 2018 on the review of amendments made to the NHS Overseas Visitor Charging Regulations in 2017, HLWS1142, if he will publish the evidence collected for that review.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
	uin	202323
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to produce and publish a formal review document or the evidence collected as part of it. In undertaking the review, the Department called for evidence from interested stakeholders which included several confidential individual case studies from organisations who have not permitted the Department to share these within the public domain. A summary of the findings will be shared with contributors to the review and we will continue to keep the impact of the regulations under close review, working closely with our stakeholders.</p><p> </p><p>National guidance is clear that National Health Service maternity treatment should always be considered as immediately necessary and provided to all patients regardless of whether or not they are entitled to receive it free of charge or there are doubts about whether they could pay if subsequently found to be chargeable under the regulations.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 202322 202325 question first answered 20/12/2018 17:30:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1039034

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	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	Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals
	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 Written Statement of 12 December 2018 on NHS Overseas Charging Regulations Review 2017, HCWS1174, what discussions he held with (a) healthcare professionals, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) others with an expertise in maternity care as part of that review.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	207240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department engaged with 79 organisations as part of the process of reviewing the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and received 57 formal responses. The Department met with and received responses from a number of organisations with expertise in maternity care, including a royal college, maternity staff groups and maternity stakeholder groups. A number of other organisations and individuals who contributed to the review also commented on the impact of the amendment regulations on maternity service users.</p><p> </p><p>Although maternity treatment must always be regarded as immediately necessary, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, some evidence suggested that overseas visitors may not always be aware of this. The Department has therefore committed to develop user-friendly, culturally-appropriate guidance, that will clarify that maternity treatment is never subject to the upfront charging requirement and ensure this reaches those who may be impacted. The Department has also updated national guidance (published 24 December 2018) to make clear that termination of pregnancy services are to be regarded as urgent, and therefore not subject to the upfront charging requirement, where the overseas visitor cannot reasonably be expected to leave the UK before the date which an abortion may no longer be a viable option.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the 2017 amendment regulations some secondary care services, including community midwifery services, have become chargeable. However, these services were already chargeable if delivered by hospital employed or directed staff and the removal of the exemption was important in ensuring that charging rules apply in a fair and consistent manner, regardless of where a service is provided. The exemption from the charging regulations for conditions caused by sexual violence remains in place to protect this vulnerable group.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 207239 question first answered 17/01/2019 12:00:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1027227

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Weather
	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 Winter Daily Situation Report published by NHS England on 13 December 2018, what distance the 25 patients who were diverted to another A&E department between 3 December and 9 December 2018 had to travel (a) from their local hospital and (b) from their homes.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	202727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Winter Daily Situation Reports are published at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/winter-daily-sitrep-2018-19-data/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/winter-daily-sitrep-2018-19-data/</a></p><p> </p><p>The data record the number of diverts in place and not the number of patients. The plans for diverts are pre-agreed locally between ambulance service and neighbouring trusts and are designed to ensure patients can be seen faster.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 202726 question first answered 20/12/2018 12:58:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1027226

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Weather
	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 Winter Daily Situation Report published by NHS England on 13 December 2018, what assessment has been made of the health outcomes of the 25 patients that were diverted to another A&E department between 3 December and 9 December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	202726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Winter Daily Situation Reports are published at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/winter-daily-sitrep-2018-19-data/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/winter-daily-sitrep-2018-19-data/</a></p><p> </p><p>The data record the number of diverts in place and not the number of patients. The plans for diverts are pre-agreed locally between ambulance service and neighbouring trusts and are designed to ensure patients can be seen faster.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 202727 question first answered 20/12/2018 12:58:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb