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479187

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date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to implement an adult hearing screening programme; and if he will recommend to the National Screening Committee that it undertakes a public health campaign on deafness and hearing loss.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee recommended in 2015 that screening for hearing loss in adults should not be offered because:</p><p> </p><p>- although hearing loss in older adults is a serious public health problem the evidence is too limited to establish the type of screening test to be used, the severity of hearing loss to target, the age of the population to be screened and the frequency of screening;</p><p>- uncertainty on the effectiveness of the long term use of hearing aids and on the effectiveness of additional interventions aimed at improving the duration of hearing aid use; and</p><p>- the absence of randomised controlled trials of screening in the general population. Screening has not been shown to provide any hearing related improvement in quality of life in comparison to hearing loss identified in other ways.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans by Public Health England to run an awareness campaign on adult hearing loss.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/03/2016 17:40:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

479188

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department permits GP practices to require patients to have a telephone consultation prior to seeing a GP.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31179 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475750

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on the length of time a patient should expect to wait between a telephone consultation taking place and being given an appointment to see their GP.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31342 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper