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1127955

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date	21/05/2019
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	Diabetes: Mental 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, what steps his Department is taking to support the mental health of people who have diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	257141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to improving access to mental health services to all sections of the population in England, including those with diabetes.</p><p>On 21 March 2018 NHS England and NHS Improvement along with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health published 'The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Pathway for People with Long Term Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms'. This provides advice to clinical commissioning groups on how to ensure that Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services provide people with such conditions with the same access to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended psychological therapies as other people.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/05/2019 14:10:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1127580

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Child Rearing
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 the Government is taking to invest in evidence-based parenting support.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	256283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Becoming a parent is an important period and opportunity to offer evidence-based advice and support whilst creating opportunities to support a child’s very early development.</p><p>Through our new workforce of Mental Health Support Teams, staffed by a new role of Education Mental Health Practitioners, we are providing new capacity for addressing the needs of children and young people with mild to moderate mental health issues. The first cohort of trainees started in early 2019 and the first wave of trailblazer areas will become operational during 2019. The Support Teams will provide evidence-based interventions, which may include family-based behaviour change interventions, which can be successfully delivered to help reduce child conduct problems.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/05/2019 14:24:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1127592

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Gender Dysphoria: Young People
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 have been taken in the last six months to reduce the waiting time for transsexual youths at the Tavistock Hospital Gender Identity Clinic.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	256374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is working with NHS England to develop and implement measures to reduce waiting times. NHS England has increased funding for the Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) by around 150% since 2015/16, but the Trust continues to face challenges in recruiting clinical staff in GIDs with significant experience and expertise.</p><p>The service has trialled several initiatives to provide support to young people who are referred, this includes - but is not limited to:</p><p>- an ongoing recruitment drive;</p><p>- initiatives to actively manage the waiting list offering consultations to local services in complex cases while they wait for specialist input;</p><p>- consultation sessions with local mental health services and group sessions with children under 10 years of age;</p><p>- regularly reviewing communication around the waiting lists to equip young people with information which is as accurate as possible about their wait;</p><p>- reviewing policies and procedures around first appointments, for example looking at Did Not Attend (DNA) policies to ensure those offered appointments to take them up;</p><p>- giving more attention to clinically appropriate timely transitions between the Trust’s gender identity service and adult services; and</p><p>- clinician operated ‘helpline’ for urgent enquiries/concerns from young people, their families and referrers on the waiting list.</p><p>NHS England has also committed to reviewing the service specification for GIDS in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/05/2019 14:26:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1127675

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Suicide: Young People
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 the number of teenage suicides.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	256417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>Although relatively rare, the number of suicides amongst children and young people remains a concern. The National Suicide Prevention Strategy highlights children and young people as a group requiring tailored approaches to mental health to reduce their risk of suicide. We published the first Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Workplan in January this year which sets out an ambitious programme for suicide prevention across national and local government. This workplan highlights steps we are taking across Government to reduce suicides in children and young people. The workplan is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/772210/national-suicide-prevention-strategy-workplan.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/772210/national-suicide-prevention-strategy-workplan.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/05/2019 14:22:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon