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1003735

	registered interest
	date	09/11/2018
	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	Palliative Care: 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 his Department is taking to monitor how effectively (a) sustainability and transformation partnerships, (b) integrated care systems, (c) clinical commissioning groups and (d) local authorities are supporting children's palliative care in accordance with their legal duties.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	189538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated care systems are made up of bodies including local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, which retain statutory responsibility for providing health and care services for the populations they serve. These include a range of services involved in children’s palliative care.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and the Department would expect all of these partners to be regularly talking to, and working with, relevant organisations given their remit to identify overall local need and to join up services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is also working with commissioners, clinicians, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and people with lived experience to refresh the children’s palliative and end of life care service specification and the commissioning pathway, to reflect collective responsibilities across health and social care. Work will continue on this until spring 2019. NHS England is also making available guidance across the sector to support good practice, including sharing examples.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/11/2018 16:37:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1011648

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	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 1 October 2018 to Question 175904 on colorectal cancer, whether NHS England has a timeframe for lowering the screening age to 50.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	194051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is currently prioritising the introduction of the faecal immunochemical test at 120μg/g to the current eligible cohort, and plans for lowering the age eligibility will be confirmed as part of the National Health Service long term plan.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/11/2018 17:48:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1016326

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Palliative Care: 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 November 2018 to Question 189538 on Palliative Care: Children, what processes (a) NHS England and (b) his Department have in place to assess the level of collaboration between the relevant authorities and organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	196694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and the Department do not currently have any processes for measuring or monitoring collaboration between services involved in delivering children’s palliative care. NHS England and the Department would expect all the partners involved to be regularly talking to, and working with, relevant organisations, given their remit to identify overall local need and to join up services.</p><p> </p><p>As with the vast majority of NHS services, the funding and commissioning of palliative and end of life care is a local matter over which individual National Health Service commissioners have responsibility. Local commissioners are best placed to understand the needs of local populations and commission services to meet those needs accordingly. The only exception to this are small numbers of specialist paediatric palliative care inpatient services, commissioned nationally by NHS England from eight centres across England as part of its remit to deliver specialised services.</p><p> </p><p>To support effective service collaboration locally, NHS England has worked with Public Health England and the Care Quality Commission to provide bespoke end of life care data and support packs to sustainability and transformation partnerships to plan for, and improve, end of life care services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/12/2018 12:08:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1027351

	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	Cataracts: Surgery
	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 cataract procedures have been undertaken by each NHS trust in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	202702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is attached. NHS Digital has provided data on the number of finished consultant episodes where a cataract procedure has occurred in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector between 2013/14 and 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/12/2018 16:02:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ202702 - Cataract data.xlsx title PQ202702 attached data
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1027630

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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	Drugs: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on the recommendations in relation to the provision of information on industry (a) activities, (b) risks, (c) costs and (d) returns on R&D made in the report on Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines, published by the OECD in November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	203274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>We note the report ‘Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines’ published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in November 2018 and agree with the recommendation that a more informed debate on the cost and benefits of research and development would be beneficial. The OECD’s work through the papers published by the health division of the Directorate of Labour and Social Affairs is a welcome contribution to that debate and we look forward to future publications from them.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/12/2018 13:55:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1051451

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	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	Nurses: Training
	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 removal of bursaries for undergraduate nurses on the number of people choosing to study nursing.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	214460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the National Health Service will have the staff it needs so that nurses have the time they need to care, working in a supportive culture that allows them to provide the expert compassionate care they are committed providing.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.</p><p> </p><p>The University and College Admissions Service end of cycle data, published in December 2018, shows that the demand for nursing and midwifery courses remained strong in 2018, with 22,200 acceptances to study nursing and midwifery at English providers in England.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 04/02/2019 14:56:31 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1051452

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	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: Vacancies
	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 fill staff vacancies in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	214461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service employs more staff now than at any other time in its 70-year history, with an increase of 72,100 full time equivalent staff since May 2010<sup>1</sup>. Posts may be vacant for a variety of reasons, including maternity and career breaks. Trusts make decisions based on local needs about how they fill these posts, including looking at short-term options for cover, including bank and agency staff. The latest data from NHS Improvement’s quarterly performance report shows that as at September 2018, around 80% of nursing and 85% of medical vacancies are filled by a combination of bank and agency staff.</p><p>The Department has provided a 25% increase in funding available for training places for doctors and nurses from September 2018. There are currently over 52,000 nurses in undergraduate training, over 30,000 doctors in undergraduate training, and over 50,000 doctors currently in foundation and specialty postgraduate medical training. The Department is continuing to work closely with universities and stakeholders to ensure the uptake of additional training places.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the NHS will have the staff it needs, so that nurses and doctors can administer the expert compassionate care they are committed to providing. Baroness Dido Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement, working closely with Sir David Behan, Chair of Health Education England, will lead a number of programmes to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. Baroness Harding and Sir David Behan will present initial recommendations to the Department in spring 2019. A final workforce implementation plan will follow later in the year, taking into account the outcomes of the Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><sup>1</sup>NHS Digital Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England: latest data as at October 2018</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 04/02/2019 15:06:10 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1055966

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	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: Vacancies
	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 Answer of 30 January 2019 to Question 214461, what comparative estimate his Department has made of cost of filing 80 per cent of nursing and 85 per cent of medical vacancies with (a) the bank and agency staff and (b) permanent staff members.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	217436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not currently have clear estimates of the comparative cost of filling National Health Service vacancies with permanent rather than bank and agency staff. However, we do recognise that the cost of meeting the current level of staff shortages through bank and agency is greater than if those vacancies were filled by permanent staff. This is why we are working hard to boost NHS recruitment and reduce reliance on expensive agency workers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has provided a 25% increase in funding available for training places for doctors and nurses from September 2018. There are currently over 52,000 nurses in undergraduate training, over 30,000 doctors in undergraduate training, and over 50,000 doctors in foundation and specialty postgraduate medical training. The Department is continuing to work closely with universities and stakeholders to ensure the uptake of additional training places.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working with NHS Improvement to implement a number of measures to reduce agency expenditure and ensure that trusts have effective and efficient banks. As a result of this work, total agency expenditure across NHS trusts in England has fallen from a peak of £3.6 billion in 2015/16 to £2.4 billion in 2017/18 – a £1.2 billion reduction.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 14/02/2019 11:55:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1055997

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	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	Nurses: Recruitment
	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 4 February 2019 to Question 214460 on Nurses: training and with reference to NHS Digital data showing 33,500 nurses left the NHS in 2016-17, what steps his Department is taking to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	217448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service employs more staff now than at any other time in its 70 year history. There are currently 16,100 more nurses on wards in England than in 2010, with a further 52,000 undergraduates in training.</p><p> </p><p>The latest University and College Admissions Service data shows that applications for full-time undergraduate nursing and midwifery courses has increased by 4.5% on last year. We also announced additional clinical placement funding to support 5,000 more training places each year from September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has put in place a range of measures to increase nursing workforce supply, including a new route in to nursing through a Nurse Degree and Nursing Associate apprenticeships.</p><p> </p><p>National programmes led by NHS Improvement, NHS Employers and Health Education England are focused on improving staff retention, increasing the number of nurses returning to practice, increasing overseas recruitment and improving sickness absence.</p><p> </p><p>Around 1 million NHS workers will benefit from the new Agenda for Change pay and contract reform deal. The deal includes important changes to pay and non-pay benefits to help support recruitment and retention and boost productivity in return for additional pay investment.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 14/02/2019 11:50:52 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1057018

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2019
	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	Pancreatic Cancer
	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 every patient with pancreatic cancer receives treatment within the first 20 days of diagnosis.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	218748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical priority remains the main determinant of when a patient should be treated.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will shortly be introducing a new Faster Diagnostic Standard for all cancer patients, including those with suspected pancreatic cancer, which will see patients given a diagnosis or the all clear within 28 days. The 31-day standard of decision to treat to undergoing first treatment will remain in place. However, this is an upper limit and clinical priority will always remain the main determinant of when a patient should be treated.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 218749 question first answered 18/02/2019 17:29:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe