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733037

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Fracking: Public Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the findings of the Medact report, A public health assessment of shale gas in England, published in July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	1515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) reviews the evidence base on the health impacts of chemical and radiological emissions associated with shale gas extraction as it emerges, considering the available evidence as a whole.</p><p> </p><p>The 2016 MEDACT report is one of a large number of publications PHE is currently considering.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/07/2017 10:54:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

765280

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Oral Tobacco: Standards
	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 introduce product standards for chewed tobacco in order to reduce the health effect.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	105475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce specific product standards for chewed tobacco.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/10/2017 12:59:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

777660

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Kidney Diseases
	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 improve the prognosis for (a) adults and (b) children diagnosed with kidney disease.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	109519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>NHS England commissions specialist renal services for adults, children and young people and has recently published renal service specifications (that cover dialysis, acute kidney injury, renal assessment and transplantation) that should lead to uniform high levels of kidney care across England. Further information can be found via the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-a/a06/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/group-a/a06/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/11/2017 11:38:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

582514

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS 111
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many calls NHS 111 has received in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	46221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>NHS England publishes national data on the numbers of calls received (which are referred to as “offered”) through the NHS 111 number each month. This information provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Number of calls offered through the NHS 111 number, August 2015 to July 2016</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>1,033,643</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>933,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>1,062,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>1,140,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>1,329,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2016</p></td><td><p>1,343,248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2016</p></td><td><p>1,194,928</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>1,488,928</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2016</p></td><td><p>1,169,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2016</p></td><td><p>1,282,993</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2016</p></td><td><p>1,105,485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2016</p></td><td><p>1,222,866</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: NHS England, NHS 111 Minimum Data Set 2016-17</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/09/2016 08:13:07 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

582515

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS 111
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of NHS 111 on reducing the uptake of other NHS services.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	46222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>NHS 111 providers are expected to conduct a patient survey every six months for each area they provide services for.</p><p>Considering the latest year for which survey results are available (April 2015 to September 2015 and October 2015 to March 2016 surveys), for 11.6% of triaged calls an ambulance was dispatched by the NHS 111 service and in 8.4% of calls the caller was advised to attend accident and emergency (A&amp;E). However, 18% of patients who responded to the survey reported they would have called for an ambulance if NHS 111 had not been available, and 28.3% would have attended A&amp;E.</p><p>For the full year period (April 2015 to March 2016), 11.3 million calls were triaged. From this we can estimate the impact of the 111 service. The differences mean that due to availability of the NHS 111 service, over 2.25 million people this year were directed away from using A&amp;E and over 750,000 were directed away from calling an ambulance.</p><p>Data about the service to which patients are recommended during an NHS 111 call (“dispositions”) are collected by NHS England and published on a monthly basis. Latest data are for July 2016 and can be found at the following website:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/nhs-111-minimum-data-set-2016-17/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/nhs-111-minimum-data-set-2016-17/</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/09/2016 08:18:28 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

582517

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to clinical commissioning groups and NHS trusts on recommended travel times to local health services.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	46223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>It is for local commissioners to ensure services are provided in a manner that combines quality of provision with timeliness of access, taking into account local geography and other issues.</p><p> </p><p>When considering service reconfiguration, NHS England has issued guidance on <em>Planning and Delivering Service Change for Patients</em>, and as part of this guidance specify that: ‘Based on evidence and national clinical reference groups’ advice, commissioners need to determine the appropriate range of providers and interplay of key access requirements such as travel time.’</p><p> </p><p>The guidance can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/plan-ass-deliv-serv-chge.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/plan-ass-deliv-serv-chge.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/09/2016 08:11:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

582532

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Standards
	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 improve NHS triage systems.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	46204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2016 answer text <p>As part of NHS England’s review of urgent and emergency care, the intention is to develop a clinical decision support system to enable patients to be directed to or connected with the right service to meet their needs, rather than being sent or taken to accident and emergency unless absolutely necessary.</p><p>Commissioners, clinicians and the wider governance of urgent and emergency care have requested a next generation system that builds on the success of NHS Pathways but recognises the needs of individuals on the basis of the language they use, links to patient records and crisis plans and has the potential to factor in phenotypic data from wearables and remote monitoring devices.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/09/2016 08:20:15 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

595752

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Sepsis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital-borne cases of sepsis in England were recorded in (a) 2000, (b) 2005, (c) 2010 and (d) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	47400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England and NHS Digital do not collect this data to the level of detail and format as requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital is unable to identify the source of a sepsis infection. They are only able to provide data on a count of the number of Finished Discharge Episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of sepsis.</p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon MP) to Question 45207 regarding available information on sepsis.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:58:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

595756

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital-borne infectious diseases were recorded in England in (a) 2000, (b) 2005, (c) 2010 and (d) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	47404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>In April 2013, Public Health England took over the mandatory surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), formerly undertaken by the Health Protection Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of trust apportioned cases of HCAIs can be found in Table 1. For the purposes of answering this question trust apportioned cases can be considered “hospital-borne” infections.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the years 2000 and 2005 are not available.</p><p> </p><p>Table: Counts of trust apportioned HCAIs by financial year in 2010 and 2015:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>April 2010 to March 2011</p></td><td><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Meticillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)</p></td><td><p>ND</p></td><td><p>2,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>E.coli</p></td><td><p>ND</p></td><td><p>7,692</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clostridium difficile infection (patients aged 2 years and over)</p></td><td><p>10,417</p></td><td><p>5,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)</p></td><td><p>688</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><ol><li>ND - Not Determined</li><li>Cases are deemed to be trust apportioned if the following criteria are met:-</li></ol><p>- The location where the specimen was taken is given as ‘acute trust’ or is not known;</p><p>- The patient was either an ‘In-patient’, ‘Day-patient’, in ‘Emergency assessment’ or is not known.</p><p>- Patient’s specimen date is on, or after, the third day of the admission (or admission date is null), where the day of admission is day 1 (for MSSA or E. coli bacteraemia)</p><p>Or</p><p>- Patient’s specimen date is on, or after, the fourth day of the admission (or admission date is null), where the day of admission is day 1 (for Clostridium difficile infection).</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 15:42:42 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

595757

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	MRSA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital-borne cases of MRSA were recorded in England in (a) 2000, (b) 2005, (c) 2010 and (d) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	47403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>In April 2013 Public Health England took over the surveillance of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia, formerly undertaken by the Health Protection Agency. We do not hold the data for 2000 and 2005.</p><p> </p><p>Cases are published according to both trust apportionment and trust assignment. For the purpose of answering this question trust apportionment or assignment can be considered as “hospital borne” cases.</p><p> </p><p>The assignment process was added to the MRSA surveillance in 2013 superseding the previously used apportionment method. The assignment process utilises individual case review and therefore allows for a much more considered categorisation of a case and associated learning to prevent similar cases occurring in the future, than was previously possible. The assignment process was only introduced in 2013 as MRSA numbers were previously considered to be too high to make this resource demanding method viable.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of trust apportioned and trust assigned cases are displayed in Tables 1 and 2 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Trust apportioned counts of MRSA bacteraemia in 2008, 2010 and 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>April 2008 to March 2009</p></td><td><p>April 2010 to March 2011</p></td><td><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1,606</p></td><td><p>688</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 2: Trust assigned counts of MRSA bacteraemia in 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>302</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Cases are published on a financial year basis.</li><li>Trust apportioned data are not available for the years 2000 and 2005.</li><li>Trust assigned are not available for the years 2000, 2005 and 2010.</li><li>Cases are deemed to be Trust apportioned if the following criteria are met:-</li></ol><p>- The location where the specimen was taken is given as ‘acute trust’ or is not known;</p><p>- The patient was either an ‘In-patient’, ‘Day-patient’, in ‘Emergency assessment’ or is not known.</p><p>- Patient’s specimen date is on, or after, the third day of the admission (or admission date is null), where the day of admission is day 1.</p><ol start="5"><li>Cases are deemed to be trust assigned on the basis of Post Infection Review (PIR) assignment and relevant cases are assigned to acute trusts.</li><li>The trust assignment method supersedes the apportionment one post 2013 and utilises case review by the teams caring for the patient.</li></ol> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:48:59 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman