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1654470

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2023
	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	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has provided guidance to NICE on the evidence used to inform the criteria updates to its Highly Specialised Technology processes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	195282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not issued any such guidance. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for the methods and processes that it uses in the development of its guidance, including the criteria used to determine whether topics should be routed to the technology appraisal or highly specialised technologies programmes. NICE made changes to its health technology evaluation manual in January 2022 following a comprehensive review of its methods and processes, including public consultation. As part of these changes, the eligibility criteria for the highly specialised technologies programme were clarified to make them clearer and more predictable.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/09/2023 10:12:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1653811

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	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	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
	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 NICE’s Topic Selection Oversight Panel considers (a) clinical and (b) patient expert insights in its decision-making processes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	194779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for the decision-making processes that it operates.</p><p>NICE’s Topic Selection Oversight Panel (TSOP) is responsible for the selection of topics for guidance development in the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation. The group considers the available evidence as well as clinical and patient insights to apply the medicines and highly specialised technologies criteria and decide whether to route medicines to the technology appraisal or highly specialised technologies programmes, or to deselect the topic. The TSOP’s membership includes lay members to provide the perspective of patients, people who use services and carers in the selection and routing of topics. It also includes members with responsibility for providing clinical insights and expertise.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/09/2023 09:38:40 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1654028

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	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	Joint Replacements: 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, if he will make an assessment of the potential (a) merits and (b) implications for his Department's policies of the Joint Replacement Support Package created by Versus Arthritis.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	194861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2023 answer text <p>The recommendations made in Versus Arthritis’s Joint Replacement Support Package have been factored into NHS England’s planning for the care and support needed by people with arthritis waiting for treatment.</p><p>NHS England has also embedded Versus Arthritis’s ‘Let’s Move for Surgery’ toolkit on the My Planned Care website, which helps people waiting for surgery, and includes appropriate physical activity, help with managing pain and mental health support. The toolkit is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/care-support/" target="_blank">https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/care-support/</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/07/2023 12:35:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1627112

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2023
	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	Medicine: Overseas Students
	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 international medical students are studying at UK universities.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	184716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>Office for Students publishes statistics on number of entrants into medical courses. Latest figures show there were 875 entrants to medical schools in the United Kingdom that were ineligible to pay home fees, this is around 9% of the total number of entrants (9,820).</p><p>The Department does not hold information on breakdown of nationalities or where international medical students go after training.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 184717 184718 question first answered 18/05/2023 15:50:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1627113

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2023
	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	Medicine: Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the breakdown of nationalities of International medical students studying in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	184717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>Office for Students publishes statistics on number of entrants into medical courses. Latest figures show there were 875 entrants to medical schools in the United Kingdom that were ineligible to pay home fees, this is around 9% of the total number of entrants (9,820).</p><p>The Department does not hold information on breakdown of nationalities or where international medical students go after training.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 184716 184718 question first answered 18/05/2023 15:50:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1627116

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2023
	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	Medicine: Overseas Students
	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 international medical students who completed their degree in the UK left the UK once qualified in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	184718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>Office for Students publishes statistics on number of entrants into medical courses. Latest figures show there were 875 entrants to medical schools in the United Kingdom that were ineligible to pay home fees, this is around 9% of the total number of entrants (9,820).</p><p>The Department does not hold information on breakdown of nationalities or where international medical students go after training.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 184716 184717 question first answered 18/05/2023 15:50:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1609901

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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
	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 reduce overprescribing.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	180034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>In September 2021, the Government published its review of overprescribing ‘Good for you, good for us, good for everybody’, ‘National overprescribing review report’. The review report evaluated the extent, causes and consequences of overprescribing and made recommendations to address it. A copy of the report can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-overprescribing-review-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-overprescribing-review-report</a></p><p>Led by the National Clinical Director for Prescribing, NHS England and partner organisations are working to implement long term, sustainable reductions to overprescribing. This work includes: t</p><p>The development of national resources to help practices improve the consistency of repeat prescribing processes, supported by training;</p><p>the publication of NHS England’s prescribed medicines review report, ‘Prescribed medicines review: summary’ which includes information to help systems support patients who take medicines associated with dependence and withdrawalwithdrawal; and</p><p>interventions to reduce polypharmacy. A copy of the report can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prescribed-medicines-review-report/prescribed-medicines-review-summary" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prescribed-medicines-review-report/prescribed-medicines-review-summary</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/05/2023 12:11:17 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1588262

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	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	Bevacizumab
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to fund the use of the medication Avastin on the NHS for the treatment of bowel cancer when alternate medications are not suitable due to gene mutations.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	150615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effective use of resources. NICE’s guidance is based on a thorough assessment of the available evidence and developed through extensive engagement with stakeholders. NICE was unable to recommend bevacizumab (Avastin) as an effective use of NHS resources for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, and it is not routinely funded on the NHS in England.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has been asked to consider updating its appraisals of bevacizumab for colorectal cancer given that there are now multiple biosimilars available, some at significantly lower cost than the price at which bevacizumab was originally assessed. However, NICE must also take into consideration wider considerations regarding the use of bevacizumab in different scenarios that have evolved since the original appraisals. NICE is exploring options and further information on any proposed changes will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/03/2023 12:00:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1566532

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	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, what recent discussions his Department has had with NHS staff on the (a) workload of management staff and (b) support available to management staff.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to looking after the National Health Service workforce. The health, safety and wellbeing of NHS staff, including mangers, is a priority as we continue to grow the NHS workforce. Strong and effective NHS management is vital to delivering safe and high-quality care.</p><p>The NHS People Plan and NHS People Promise, published in July 2020, set out a comprehensive range of actions that are focussed on making the NHS a better place to work and to improve retention. This includes a stronger focus on health and wellbeing, strengthening leadership and management to support staff and expanding opportunities for flexible working. We have committed to publishing a long term workforce plan this year to help ensure the NHS has the robust and resilient workforce it needs for the future.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/01/2023 16:45:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1566536

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2023
	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: Cost Effectiveness
	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 inefficiencies across the NHS are reduced.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The National Health Service has agreed to double its annual efficiency target from 1.1% to 2.2%. The ‘2023/24 priorities and operational planning’ guidance, published on 23 December 2022, sets out key objectives to deliver this target over the year ahead. This includes supporting a more productive workforce, taking advantage of opportunities to deploy staff more flexibly, increasing theatre productivity, drawing on ‘Getting It Right First Time’ guidance, reducing agency spending, reducing corporate running costs, reducing procurement and supply chain costs, improving inventory management, and purchasing medicines at the most effective price point.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/01/2023 16:44:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel