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1135846

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2019
	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	Haemochromatosis: 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 he is taking to improve the (a) rates of diagnosis and (b) management of genetic haemochromatosis.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	271374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making the United Kingdom a leader in embedding genomics in healthcare and offer a consistent, world class approach to the genetic identification of rare diseases, including genetic hemochromatosis. The Genomics Medicine Service was announced in October 2018, supported by the National Genomic Test Directory which specifies which genomic tests are commissioned by the National Health Service in England, the technology by which they are available, and the patients who will be eligible to access a test. Genetic haemochromatosis is included in the National Genomic Test Directory.</p><p>Services for patients with genetic haemochromatosis are commissioned locally through clinical commissioning groups with sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) enabling service coordination across wider footprints. The NHS Long Term Plan set out the ambition for all STPs to evolve into Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) by April 2021. ICSs are an ‘evolved’ form of an STP, making faster progress in integrating care across their area, bringing together organisations to provide more seamless care for patients.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/07/2019 16:14:46 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1134894

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	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	Prescriptions: Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254153 on prescriptions: universal credit, when the new NHS prescription form will be introduced; and whether the new form will be used throughout the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	269647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>A revised version of the FP10 prescription form, featuring a dedicated tick-box for use by Universal Credit (UC) claimants who meet the criteria for free National Health Service prescriptions, has been approved by Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>Any change involves major system and software updates across the NHS to allow the re-designed form to be used and processed. The revised paper form is currently being prepared for testing, to ensure it is compatible with the scanners used by the NHS Business Services Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The revised form will be introduced at the earliest opportunity. The new form is for use in England only.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 01/07/2019 15:51:44 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1131321

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on ensuring that medical cannabis is available to people who need it.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	263063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The law was changed on 1 November 2018 to allow clinicians on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate and in the best interest of patients.</p><p>Interim clinical guidance has been issued by the Royal College of Physicians, the British Paediatric Neurology Association and the Association of British Neurologists to support doctors looking to prescribe cannabis-based products. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has been commissioned to develop updated clinical guidance on the prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products, which will be published by October 2019. It will be based on the best available international evidence and will have been produced using NICE’s world-renowned process for delivering such guidance.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:21:18 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1131782

	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	Radioisotopes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) national and (b) regional supplies of radionuclide chemicals.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	263719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department is not aware of any disruption to the supply of medical radionuclide chemicals (radioisotopes) at a national level. However, the Department does not hold information about the volume of any of medical radioisotopes that are currently available at a national or regional level.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 17/06/2019 15:29:33 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1128815

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	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 ensure that all patients who would benefit from medical cannabis are able to access that treatment on prescription on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	259011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>Cannabis-based products for medicinal use are no different from other medicines, and existing systems for the funding of both licensed and unlicensed medicines apply.</p><p>Any medicines which receive a marketing authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency or European Medicines Agency will be assessed for cost effectiveness by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. This is the foundation of National Health Service decisions about routine funding, and applies to all licensed medicines. For unlicensed medicines, the normal NHS medicines governance systems apply, as they do to all locally funded unlicensed treatments. These processes support good clinical practice and safe and effective prescribing. Decisions will be taken, at NHS Trust level on a case by case basis, based on the needs of the individual patient and the evidence of efficacy and cost effectiveness available.</p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has heard patients report difficulties in accessing medicinal cannabis. As a result, he asked the Department to work closely with NHS England to undertake a rapid process evaluation. This is underway and will review NHS system processes to identify and make recommendations to address any barriers to clinically appropriate prescribing, should they exist.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 11/06/2019 16:52:22 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1128572

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2019
	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	Dental Health: 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 the level of child tooth decay was in (a) Birkenhead, (b) Bootle and (c) Crewe in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	257654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on the level of child tooth decay in five-year-old children are published at upper and lower-tier local authority level and, therefore, are not available in the format requested.</p><p>Local authority data for 2014/15 and 2016/17 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2017</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:18:45 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1127581

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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	Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the conclusion of negotiations between NHS England, NICE and Vertex on access to (a) Orkambi and (b) Symkevi for people with cystic fibrosis.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	256233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England provided an update to the Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC) of the House of Commons on 23 May 2019, which can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Health/Correspondence/2017-19/19-05-23-NHS-England-update-availability-of-Orkambi-on-the-NHS.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Health/Correspondence/2017-19/19-05-23-NHS-England-update-availability-of-Orkambi-on-the-NHS.pdf</a></p><p>This update informed the HSCC that a revised and improved offer had been made to Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Discussions between Vertex, NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are ongoing.</p><p>The Government fully supports NICE and NHS England in seeking to ensure access for patients to effective and innovative medicines at a price that represents value to the National Health Service, and expects companies to engage realistically with NHS England and NICE regarding pricing issues. Where companies engage positively and show appropriate flexibility, it is possible to find a way to enable access to important treatments in a way that is also cost effective for the NHS.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 29/05/2019 11:10:57 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1126678

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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	Prescriptions: Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for NHS prescription forms to be amended to include tick boxes for universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	254153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>A revised version of the FP10 prescription form, featuring a dedicated tick-box for use by Universal Credit claimants who meet the criteria for free National Health Service prescriptions, recently received Ministerial clearance.</p><p> </p><p>Any change involves major system and software updates across the NHS to allow the re-designed form to be used and processed. The revised paper form is currently being prepared for testing, to ensure it is compatible with the scanners used by the NHS Business Services Authority.</p><p> </p><p>The revised form will be introduced at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 20/05/2019 15:59:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1125378

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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	Obesity: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 May 2019 to Question 249880, which local authorities have received funding to deliver the trailblazer programme.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	251921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>The local authorities that have gone through to the discovery phase of the Trailblazer Programme and received funding are:</p><p> </p><p>- Bath and North East Somerset Council;</p><p>- Birmingham City Council;</p><p>- Blackburn with Darwen Council;</p><p>- City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council;</p><p>- London Borough of Havering;</p><p>- London Borough of Lewisham;</p><p>- Middlesbrough Council;</p><p>- North Tyneside Council;</p><p>- North Yorkshire County Council;</p><p>- Nottinghamshire County Council;</p><p>- Peterborough City Council;</p><p>- Rochdale Borough Council; and</p><p>- Walsall Council.</p><p> </p><p>The next phase of the Trailblazer Programme begins early this summer when five authorities will be selected from this list to take forward their plans to address childhood obesity at local level over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 13/05/2019 16:03:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1124237

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	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	Obesity: 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 steps he plans to take to promote the child-obesity strategy developed by Leeds City Council to improve levels of nutrition among children from disadvantaged households in other areas of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	249880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>Through ‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, Chapter 2’, we are delivering a Trailblazer Programme in partnership with the Local Government Association and Public Health England, working with local authorities to address childhood obesity at local level.</p><p>The programme has a strong focus on inequalities and ethnic disparities in childhood obesity and in the next phase that begins this spring, the Trailblazer Programme will support five local authorities with £100,000 a year in funding to take innovative action to address these issues in their community.</p><p>Brilliant, innovative projects are already taking place across the country, and we will look closely at what has worked in Leeds, and with our Trailblazer councils to consider what more the Government can do to enable ambitious local action.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/05/2019 13:55:26 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead