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1129520

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	NHS: Buildings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many accidents have occurred within the NHS Estate in each of the last five years involving, or caused by, external facilities maintenance contractors whilst carrying out maintenance work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL16005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015 apply to all National Health Service construction and design work and as such are implemented across all capital investment, including the responsibilities of specific professionals employed.</p><p>NHS trusts will have local policy and procedures in place to manage external contractors including their competence.</p><p>Dissemination of information related to the Act and enforcement of it are carried out by the Health and Safety Executive.</p><p>No recent discussions have taken place with the Health Estates and Facilities Management Association or the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estates Management in respect of the Regulations.</p><p>Data is not collected centrally on the costs have been incurred by the NHS in respect of safety breaches by external facilities maintenance contractors or the how many accidents have occurred within the NHS Estate in each of the last five years involving, or caused by, external facilities maintenance contractors whilst carrying out maintenance work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL16001 HL16002 HL16003 HL16004 question first answered 18/06/2019 13:07:18 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1129528

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Cancer
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were diagnosed with cancer in the last year for which records are available, broken down by (1) cancer type, and (2) Clinical Commissioning Group area.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jolly
	uin	HL16013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Data is not collected in the format requested. However, tables showing a full breakdown of male and female cancer diagnoses by type and number at clinical commissioning group level in 2017, the last year for which records are available, is attached due to the size of the data.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 12:50:56 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name HL16013_Table.xlsx title HL16013_Table
	tabling member	4203 label Biography information for Baroness Jolly

1130222

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Dairy Products
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many dairy producers in England and Wales were registered with the Food Standards Agency in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, (3) 2016, (4) 2017, (5) 2018, and (6) 2019.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Byford
	uin	HL16083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>As at 1 April for each of the specified years, the number of milk production holdings registered by the Food Standards Agency is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Number of Registered Milk Production Holdings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2014</p></td><td><p>10,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015</p></td><td><p>9,866</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2016</p></td><td><p>9,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2017</p></td><td><p>9,444</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2018</p></td><td><p>9,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2019</p></td><td><p>8,889</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 13:02:51 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	3343 label Biography information for Baroness Byford

1130245

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Rheumatology: Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of training opportunities for rheumatology specialist nurses in England.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL16106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>It is for local National Health Service organisations with their knowledge of the healthcare needs of their local population to invest in post registration training for specialist skills and to deploy specialist nurses. The Nursing and Midwifery Council does not require a specific post-registration education programme to be undertaken in order for a Registered Nurse to become a Rheumatology Specialist Nurse.</p><p>The Department is making significant investment in nurse training, putting in place a range of measures to increase nursing workforce supply and support recruitment, including additional clinical placement funding to make available 5,000 more nurse training places each year and introducing Nurse Degree and Nursing Associate apprentices.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 13:06:08 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1130247

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Vaccination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 22 May (HL15599 and 15600), which innovative vaccination schedules have been introduced following the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's advice, including when a dose has been removed from an established programme.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL16108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is the Government’s independent expert advisory body and its advice has always previously been followed.</p><p>The United Kingdom frequently adopts innovative immunisation schedules and we regularly change the vaccine schedule following the advice of the JCVI.</p><p>The JCVI advised that a two-dose schedule for the infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevenar13 is appropriate for the UK in place of the current three-dose schedule.</p><p>The JCVI’s advice was given full consideration, taking into account the potential public health implications, such as impact on cases of pneumococcal disease, before a decision was made to implement it. The evidence shows that two doses will sustain the results we have already seen. The decision is based on the excellent effectiveness of the vaccine and years of high uptake, which has helped to provide protection to the rest of the population and has successfully controlled many types of pneumococcal disease in this country.</p><p>We are confident that the world-class disease surveillance system we have in this country means our expert committee can closely monitor the impact of this change.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 12:30:18 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1130248

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2019
	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	Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 22 May (HL15599 and HL15600), what plans they have to carry out a formal public consultation before implementing a 1+1 vaccine schedule in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
	uin	HL16109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) provides independent expert advice on the United Kingdom immunisation programme. It bases its recommendations on review of a wide range of scientific and other evidence, including from the published literature, and commissioned studies such as independent analyses of vaccine effectiveness and cost effectiveness. It can consult with stakeholders on its advice when it deems this necessary.</p><p>Between January and April 2018, the JCVI undertook a focused stakeholder consultation on its proposed advice about a change to the UK’s childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule. The JCVI is well placed to carry out stakeholder consultation to ensure the latest and most appropriate evidence has been considered on potential changes to scheduling within the vaccine programme, including identifying who to target to obtain the evidence it needs to inform its advice. It is the JCVI rather than the Government that is best placed to carry out consultation about scheduling within the vaccine programme and who to target the consultation at.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 12:51:32 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1130595

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Learning Disability: Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which universities in England and Wales provide undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses; and how many undergraduate training places for learning disability nurses will be available in each of those universities in each of the next three academic years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
	uin	HL16139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Students (OfS) published data on the names of the universities in England which offered pre-registration undergraduate learning disability nursing courses in 2018 /19. These universities are shown in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Coventry University</p></td><td><p>University of Greenwich</p></td><td><p>University of Chester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edge Hill University</p></td><td><p>University of Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>The University of Cumbria</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston University</p></td><td><p>University of Keele</p></td><td><p>De Montfort University</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Teesside University</p></td><td><p>University of Northampton</p></td><td><p>University of Northumbria at Newcastle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The University of East Anglia</p></td><td><p>University of the West of England, Bristol</p></td><td><p>University of Salford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The University of Huddersfield</p></td><td><p>University of Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>Sheffield Hallam University</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The University of Hull</p></td><td><p>Birmingham City University</p></td><td><p>University of Sunderland</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Published OfS Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey 2018/19</p><p>Healthcare education, training and recruitment in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland is a matter for the devolved governments in each nation, and the Department does not hold information on this.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the numbers of training places for undergraduate learning disability nursing that are expected to be available at universities in future years.</p><p>Universities are autonomous private institutions and are responsible for setting the number of training places they offer. It is for universities to work as part of their local health economy to secure training places.</p><p>In August 2017, the Government changed the funding system for pre-registration undergraduate nurse training. The funding reforms unlocked the cap which constrained the number of pre-registration nursing, midwifery and allied health profession training places, meaning that we have moved away from centrally imposed number controls and financial limitations, creating a sustainable model for universities and the healthcare workforce supply.</p><p>In support of the reforms, we announced additional clinical placement funding to make available 5,000 more nurse training places each year.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 13:05:11 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1130604

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Shingles: Vaccination
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for encouraging people who are 60 years old and above who have not been vaccinated against shingles to receive a vaccination; and what steps they are taking to encourage the take-up of that vaccine amongst that cohort.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL16148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The National Shingles Vaccination Programme, implemented in September 2013 is provided by general practices. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation recommends the shingles vaccine for adults routinely at age 70 years with a phased catch up for those aged 71-79 years. The eligibility criteria change means that patients become eligible for the vaccine from their 70th and 78th birthdays, if not previously vaccinated, and can be offered the vaccine opportunistically all year round.</p><p>In support of this change, Public Health England (PHE) has updated the communication materials for both patients and healthcare professionals to better identify those who are eligible and emphasise the benefits to patients from the shingles vaccination. This includes guidance for those individuals who have missed the opportunity to receive the vaccine previously but who remain eligible, up to their 80th birthday.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 18/06/2019 12:29:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

1130606

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Infant Foods
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Baby Feeding Law Group UK Comfort milks, lactose-free infant milks and anti-reflux infant milks, published in May; and what steps they will take in response to it.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL16150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the report <em>Comfort milks, lactose-free infant milks and anti-reflux infant milks</em> which provides a valuable contribution to developing policy in this area.</p><p>Departmental officials are planning to meet with the Baby Feeding Law Group UK shortly to discuss their report.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL16151 question first answered 18/06/2019 13:06:31 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1130607

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2019
	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	Infant Foods
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will meet the Baby Feeding Law Group UK to discuss their report Comfort milks, lactose-free infant milks and anti-reflux infant milks, published in May.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL16151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the report <em>Comfort milks, lactose-free infant milks and anti-reflux infant milks</em> which provides a valuable contribution to developing policy in this area.</p><p>Departmental officials are planning to meet with the Baby Feeding Law Group UK shortly to discuss their report.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford grouped question UIN HL16150 question first answered 18/06/2019 13:06:31 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath