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date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Continuing Care: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) Southport and Formby CCG and (b) South Sefton CCG on (i) a moratorium on and (ii) funding for retrospective reviews of continuing healthcare; when funding will be available for retrospective claims and reviews in those CCG areas; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	117117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not had discussions with Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) or South Sefton CCG about ‘retrospective reviews’ of NHS Continuing Healthcare, otherwise known as ‘previously unassessed periods of care’.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals, their families, or a representative are currently able to request an assessment from their responsible CCG for an NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed period of care’ for periods from 1 April 2012 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2012, deadlines were introduced for requests for an assessment for NHS Continuing Healthcare ‘previously unassessed periods of care’ between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2012. The deadline for registering for a review of unassessed periods of care during this time period was 31 March 2013.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2017 14:59:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

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registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to provide (a) information on its services in British Sign Language (BSL) and (b) correspondence in BSL to people whose principal language is BSL; and what steps he has taken to encourage GPs and other practitioners to provide (i) prescriptions, (ii) details of medical appointments and (iii) other essential personal medical documents in BSL to people whose principal language is BSL.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	8998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>Departmental publications are available in British Sign Language (BSL) on request. The Department does not provide a correspondence service in BSL, nor has it received any requests for such a service.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners and other health and care professionals have a legal duty to comply with the Accessible Information Standard, which sets out a series of requirements that organisations providing National Health Service care or publicly funded social care in England must follow. These include arranging for communication support, including support to BSL users, where this is needed for effective communication. The Standard does not direct how such support should be arranged or funded, as this is a matter for local decision.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/09/2017 14:50:25 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson