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1503584

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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: Labelling
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 efficacy of standardising colour coding of capsules between manufacturers to help patients ensure that they are taking the correct medicine.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	45298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>Regulatory guidance published since 2015 recognises the issue of tablet colour in treatment compliance and encourages suppliers and manufacturers to produce generic versions which are visually aligned with the innovator product.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:19:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1503607

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Allergies: Medical Equipment
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 supply of EpiPen/epinephrine; and what steps his Department takes to help ensure sufficient supply of that medication.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Johnny Mercer
uin	45331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Epipen 300 microgram pens and Epipen 150 microgram Epipens continue to be available and alternative brands of adrenaline auto-injectors also remain available.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 15:33:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer

1503769

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Midwives: Recruitment
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 develop a long-term workforce strategy for the NHS which will support the recruitment and retention of midwives.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has commissioned NHS England to develop a long-term workforce plan and its key conclusions will be available in due course. In 2022/23, NHS England will invest £127 million in the National Health Service maternity workforce and improving neonatal care. This is in addition to £95 million invested in the recruitment of a further 1,200 midwifery and 100 consultant obstetrician posts.</p><p>The Government also committed to expand midwifery training places by 3,650 in the four years to 2022/23. To support student midwives in training, the Government has made a non-repayable training grant available of at least £5,000 per academic year for eligible midwifery students. The number of applicants for nursing and midwifery courses in England has increased in each of the last three years and there has been a 21% increase in applicants compared with this period in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS People Plan focuses on supporting staff health and wellbeing, including through flexible working and a renewed commitment to tackling inequality. In addition, the NHS Retention Programme includes targeted intervention aimed at nurses and midwives at different career stages. All NHS organisations are prioritising the delivery of five actions to impact on early career, experience at work and late career staff and maximising the retention and experience of nursing and midwifery staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:43:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503771

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Accident and Emergency Departments
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 help reduce Accident & Emergency waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>In order to mitigate the impact of the number of admitted patients who no longer have medical Criteria to Reside and cannot be swiftly discharged on accident and emergency services, Humber and North Integrated Care Board held a winter planning summit in August to identify actions and risks on patient flow and system pressures.</p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is examining measures to improve average length of stay within acute wards to improve flow from the emergency department; identify actions with ambulance service and system partners to improve ambulance handover times; change clinical pathways to turn around more patients on the same day; and improve morning discharges. The Trust has also opened approximately 100 additional beds to support the management of No Criteria to Reside patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:08:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503772

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Hospitals: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to increase NHS staffing levels in hospitals in Hull.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	45474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Local National Health Service trusts are responsible for managing staffing levels and recruiting the appropriate number of health professionals required to meet local service need. In the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff has decreased by 49 or 0.6% through the transfer of approximately 280 staff from Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in November 2021. The number of FTE staff has increased by 731 or 10.5% since May 2010, which includes an increase in the number of doctors by 314 or 38.2% since May 2010. The number of FTE nurses and health visitors has increased in the last year by 80 or 3.9%.</p><p> </p><p>Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has offered 146 posts to adult nurse students and 20 posts to paediatric nurse students predominantly from the University of Hull to commence in September and October 2022. In addition, the Trust has employed 340 international nurses since 2018 and are recruiting a further 60 in 2022/23. A schools engagement programme is promoting National Health Service careers to students in Hull and East Yorkshire and a partnership is in place with a local sixth form college to provide a health and social care academy.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:30:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1503783

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Infectious Diseases: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, through which consultation process or processes, have (a) relevant stakeholders and (b) members of the public been given the opportunity to contribute to the UK’s position on the World Health Organization’s new international agreement on pandemic preparedness and response; and if he will publish a list of participants.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	45483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is engaging with a range of stakeholders on the instrument, through roundtables with civil society and discussion with relevant groups. Non-state actors had the opportunity to present views on the working draft of the instrument at recent meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, the Member State-led process for drafting and negotiating the pandemic instrument. The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding public hearings seeking input from interested parties, including the public. We will continue engaging relevant stakeholders as it progresses.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:44:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1503835

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
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 his Department has made of the effectiveness of the triage and call categorisation scripts used by NHS Ambulance Trust call handlers.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	45578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made.</p><p>There are currently two systems approved in England for 999 call triage: NHS Pathways and the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System. The licences issued with each approved 999 triage system states the training requirements and these standards must be met by the call handler before they are able to take calls. This is the responsibility of the ambulance trust and regular audits are taken on call handling and outcomes to maintain trusts’ accreditation status.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:31:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503839

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Emergency Calls and NHS 111
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 his Department has made of levels of public knowledge of (a) the roles and purposes of 999 and NHS 111 and (b) when it is appropriate to contact each service respectively.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	45587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 14:09:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503840

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Ambulance Services: Standards
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 (a) steps his Department has taken and (b) research his Department has commissioned to understand the (i) causes and (ii) potential solutions of the pressures being experienced by NHS Ambulance Trusts; and how much funding was allocated to that work.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	45428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health including ambulance services. While the NIHR do not usually ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics, research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. Since April 2017, there have been 15 research projects on ambulance services with combined funding of £12,513,665.</p><p>NHS England has allocated an additional £150 million for ambulance service pressures in 2022/23, supporting improvements to response times through additional call handler recruitment, retention and other funding requirements. This is further to a £20 million investment to upgrade the ambulance fleet, which aims to increase ambulance capacity by reducing the age profile of the fleet, increasing productivity and the size of the fleet while decreasing emissions.</p><p>Additionally, St John Ambulance has been contracted to deliver auxiliary ambulance services, providing national surge capacity of at least 5,000 hours per month as needed to support the ambulance response during periods of increased pressure, allowing NHS ambulance crews to focus on responding to emergency calls. Ambulance trusts receive continuous central monitoring and support from the NHS England’s National Ambulance Coordination Centre.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:37:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1503849

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Clinical Trials: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Life Science competitiveness indicators 2022, published in July 2022, what assessment he has made of the performance of the UK in the metric for median time from clinical trial application and the first patient receiving a first dose for a subset of commercial trials.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	45598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The annual Life Sciences competitiveness indicators have highlighted that trial establishment times in the United Kingdom are slower than several of our competitors. In 2022, indicators showed that the median time was 247 days for a subset of commercial trials, with the UK ranked seventh out of 10. In March 2021, we published ‘Saving and Improving Lives: The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery’ which highlighted improving the speed and efficiency of study set-up. This is being taken forward through the Recovery Resilience and Growth Programme. The Programme’s delivery partners are simplifying and streamlining processes to improve the median time from clinical application and first patient.</p><p>In 2021, a combined review by the Health Research Authority (HRA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) reduced approval times for clinical trials to 61 days, compared to 90 days for those that did not go through combined review. ‘The Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery: 2022 to 2025 implementation plan’, published on 30 June 2022, includes actions designed to improve set-up times over the remainder of this Parliament, including:</p><p>- Implementing the UK-wide National Contract Value Review for commercial research to ensure costing does not delay study set-up in the National Health Service;</p><p>- Introduction of a single UK approval service to replace the HRA and Health Care Research Wales’ approval and equivalent processes in Northern Ireland and Scotland; and</p><p>- Further development of the Integrated Research Application System by the HRA and the MHRA to streamline health technology and medicines research.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 45435 question first answered 22/09/2022 14:16:09 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel