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	registered interest
	date	15/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will roll out a national breathlessness campaign to follow the pilots in the North and East of England.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	12166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>The regional pilot of the breathlessness campaign was carried out in the East of England 2 February – 1 March 2015. The evaluation of the campaign is ongoing.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/10/2015 13:05:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

429388

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Employment: Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to work with businesses to improve the health of the workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	16967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The Workplace Wellbeing Charter, published by Public Health England (PHE) provides a national standard for employers of all sizes and sectors with a systematic, evidence-based approach to workplace health improvement. The Charter is commissioned and coordinated by local authorities to support coherent action by businesses to improve the health of the local population.</p><br /><p>The Workplace Wellbeing Charter consolidates the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance relating to employer action. Organisations are accredited across critical areas such as leadership, specific health issues, systems for absence management and health and safety at three levels; commitment, achievement and excellence.</p><br /><p>PHE has worked with the Work@Health Centre, Alzheimer’s Society and British Heart Foundation and other partners to develop a series of topic based guides for businesses to support action on specific areas such as the food environment in workplaces and promoting physical activity and supporting carers.</p><br /><p>PHE is currently working with Business in the Community on a new resource for businesses focused specifically on addressing mental health issues building on the existing best practice and considering the transferable learning between business sectors and businesses of different sizes.</p><p><strong></strong></p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/11/2015 16:13:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

444234

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis will be made available on the NHS to men who have sex with men.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	22187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>NHS England is working with local authorities, clinicians, patient representatives and Public Health England to consider the clinical and cost effectiveness of providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to at-risk groups to prevent them acquiring HIV. The PrEP clinical policy proposition is one of many going through NHS England’s 2016/17 prioritisation round.</p><br /><p>In July 2015 NHS England approved a significant new investment in a ‘Treatment as Prevention’ programme to help reduce transmissions from persons known to be HIV positive.</p><br /><p>We have made no estimates of the number of people accessing PrEP through private provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 22188 question first answered 20/01/2016 16:10:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

444235

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in England accessing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis through private provision.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	22188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>NHS England is working with local authorities, clinicians, patient representatives and Public Health England to consider the clinical and cost effectiveness of providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to at-risk groups to prevent them acquiring HIV. The PrEP clinical policy proposition is one of many going through NHS England’s 2016/17 prioritisation round.</p><br /><p>In July 2015 NHS England approved a significant new investment in a ‘Treatment as Prevention’ programme to help reduce transmissions from persons known to be HIV positive.</p><br /><p>We have made no estimates of the number of people accessing PrEP through private provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 22187 question first answered 20/01/2016 16:10:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

446342

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted or commissioned on the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in preventing HIV infection in men who have sex with men.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	23245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England part funded the PROUD study that examined the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis in preventing HIV infection in men who have sex with men. The results of the study were published in September 2015.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/01/2016 11:35:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

456677

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions for increased asthma care are being taken in the implementation of the Five Year Forward View.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	29317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View makes clear that supporting people living with long term conditions, such as asthma, is core business for the National Health Service and that this requires a partnership with patients over the long term, rather than providing single, unconnected episodes of care.</p><p> </p><p>In order to achieve this, the NHS is focusing on empowering patients and communities. The 2016/17 NHS Shared Planning Guidance requires local areas to produce five year sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). In developing their STP, local areas are asked to consider how they will:</p><p> </p><p>― achieve a step-change in patient activation and self-care;</p><p>― embed the six principles of engagement and involvement of patients, carers, and communities developed to help deliver the Five Year Forward View; and</p><p>― make real the aspiration to design person-centred coordinated care, including plans to ensure patients have access to named, responsible consultants.</p><p> </p><p>Vanguard sites for the new care models programme, one of the first steps towards delivering the <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/" target="_blank">Five Year Forward View</a>, are focusing on developing new ways of working to improve the care provided to patients and local people. The vanguards will consider the provision of asthma care at a local level as they develop and implement their plans.</p><p><br> More generally, NHS England continues to work with Asthma UK and professional groups in both primary and secondary care to improve outcomes for all those with asthma by, for example, underlining the importance of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s asthma quality standard in commissioning and delivering good quality asthma care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/03/2016 14:54:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

456678

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma: South West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to expand access to treatments for severe asthma in the South West of England.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	29318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>Services for people with severe asthma are commissioned by NHS England in line with national specifications to ensure patient numbers are sufficient to support safe services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are advised by NHS England that in the South West there are currently treatment hubs in Bristol and Taunton that provide services for children; and services for adult in hubs at Bristol, Taunton, Exeter, Plymouth, Swindon and Gloucestershire.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England advises that other asthma services are commissioned locally, via community providers and primary care (general practice and pharmacy).</p><p> </p><p>In the constituency of Bath, we are informed by NHS England that asthma is largely managed by primary care providers, while more complex patients with severe or difficult asthma are seen by the acute respiratory teams. We are assured by NHS England that secondary care services in the area are both appropriate and accessible for patients with acute asthma and that NHS Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group has no plans to change or expand its existing asthma provision at this time.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/03/2016 15:01:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

519196

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maximum distance recommended by NHS England is for people with severe asthma to travel to receive day-case treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	37090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37091 37092 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

519197

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist centres for asthma are recognised by NHS England.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	37091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37090 37092 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

519198

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Asthma
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what treatments are commissioned by specialist centres for severe asthma.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	37092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37090 37091 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett