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1121423

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Naloxone: Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2018 to Question 158990 on Naloxone: Prisoners, which prisons provided take-home Naloxone in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	244050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>In the replies to Questions 153247 and 158990, we stated that this information would be published in 2019. While the numbers of people who were provided with take-home Naloxone are published, the names of prisons that provided take-home Naloxone to prisoners in 2017-18 are not included in the data collection.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/04/2019 09:20:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110962

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Medical Equipment: Computers
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 effect of the regulation of section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 on medical devices containing computers.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
uin	243321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effect of the regulation of section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 on medical devices containing computers.</p><p> </p><p>Section 6 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 places duties on any person who designs, manufacturers, imports or supplies any article for use at work to ensure that it will be safe and without risks to health. In general this applies to all devices used in the workplace but there are exceptions, such as medical devices, which are regulated by specific regulations that set out more detailed duties.</p><p> </p><p>The Medical Devices Regulations 2002 deal with the design, manufacture, import or supply of medical devices, including those which may contain computers/software. It is for the designer, manufacturer, importer or supplier to demonstrate that their product is safe. These regulations transpose the requirements of the following European Directives concerning product safety for medical devices:</p><p>- Council Directive 90/385/EEC on Active Implantable Medical Devices (AIMDD)(1990);</p><p>- Council Directive 93/42/EEC on Medical Devices (MDD)(1993); and</p><p>- Council Directive 98/79/EC on In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (IVDMD)(1998).</p><p> </p><p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regulates medical devices in the United Kingdom. The following link provides more information on MHRA and its role:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/topic/medicines-medical-devices-blood/medical-devices-regulation-safety" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/topic/medicines-medical-devices-blood/medical-devices-regulation-safety</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/04/2019 14:26:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1110965

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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 Mortality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2018 to Question 137006, whether he commission an assessment of the reasons for the trends in data provided by the Office for National Statistics in relation to infant mortality rates in households in different income quintiles.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	243351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>We have not commissioned such an assessment. Public Health England (PHE) monitors trends in infant mortality at national and local level as part of the Public Health Outcomes Framework, which is statutory guidance for local authorities and published on PHE’s fingertips platform. Inequalities in infant mortality are monitored by decile of deprivation, which is updated every year and available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework/data#page/7/gid/1000044/pat/6/par/E12000001/ati/102/are/E06000005/iid/92196/age/2/sex/4" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework/data#page/7/gid/1000044/pat/6/par/E12000001/ati/102/are/E06000005/iid/92196/age/2/sex/4</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/04/2019 12:45:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1111021

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Medical Records
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 improve data sharing between private and NHS hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	243337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) was established on 9 January 2018, and was launched in June 2018. The ADAPt Programme is jointly led by NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) in partnership with stakeholders from the Department, NHS Improvement, NHS England, and the Care Quality Commission.</p><p> </p><p>The programme has served to develop good working relationships between PHIN, NHS Digital and key stakeholders. The first phase focuses on ensuring that independent hospitals and National Health Service private patient units are submitting robust, complete and accurate data to PHIN, and that performance measures already required to be published by Order of the Competition and Markets Authority can be achieved as quickly as possible. The second phase will ensure the data flows from independent providers into NHS Digital, just as it does from NHS providers, enabling consistency in measurement and understanding of both risk of harm and health outcomes for patients wherever they are treated.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/04/2019 12:38:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1111113

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Pregnancy Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 239926 on Pregnancy Tests, for what reason previous studies were not considered robust; and what the extensive limitations were.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	243382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests considered that the key limitations of previous studies related to the accuracy of recording of what drug was taken by the women; clarity over the timing of administration during pregnancy; adjustment for confounding factors; selection of controls; and the statistical methodology.</p><p> </p><p>The Expert Group used a quality scoring system to evaluate the quality of each individual study according to a set of seven pre-defined quality criteria. The criteria and score agreed by the Expert Working Group for each study are published in Annex 27 of the final report.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for selecting members of the Expert Working Group were based on the expertise needed to evaluate all aspects of the questions before the Group and the types of data that would need to be assessed. Membership included those with expertise in pharmaco-epidemiology, including perinatal and paediatric epidemiology, medical statistics, embryology, clinical genetics, gynaecology, reproductive endocrinology, toxicology and pharmacology.</p><p> </p><p>The process for selecting members was in line with established policy for expert groups of the Commission on Human Medicines, with the nominations being agreed by the Commission and endorsed by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 243383 question first answered 15/04/2019 14:23:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1111114

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Hormone Pregnancy Tests Expert Working Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the criteria were for selecting members of the Expert Working Group for Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	243383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests considered that the key limitations of previous studies related to the accuracy of recording of what drug was taken by the women; clarity over the timing of administration during pregnancy; adjustment for confounding factors; selection of controls; and the statistical methodology.</p><p> </p><p>The Expert Group used a quality scoring system to evaluate the quality of each individual study according to a set of seven pre-defined quality criteria. The criteria and score agreed by the Expert Working Group for each study are published in Annex 27 of the final report.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for selecting members of the Expert Working Group were based on the expertise needed to evaluate all aspects of the questions before the Group and the types of data that would need to be assessed. Membership included those with expertise in pharmaco-epidemiology, including perinatal and paediatric epidemiology, medical statistics, embryology, clinical genetics, gynaecology, reproductive endocrinology, toxicology and pharmacology.</p><p> </p><p>The process for selecting members was in line with established policy for expert groups of the Commission on Human Medicines, with the nominations being agreed by the Commission and endorsed by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 243382 question first answered 15/04/2019 14:23:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1111160

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Hearing Impairment
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 ensure that deaf people are able to access appropriate, specialist mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	243354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England commissions specialised mental health services for children, young people and adults who are deaf. These include inpatient and outreach services for children and young people and services for adults who require inpatient care, including care in secure mental health services.</p><p>Access to services is based on a clinical assessment of need and conducted with the support and involvement of clinicians, including consultant psychiatrists and mental health nurses, with the skills and experience of working with deaf people with mental illness and are able to communicate using British Sign Language where needed.</p><p>To further develop these services, the Specialised Mental Health Clinical Reference Group provides advice and support to NHS England about improving commissioning, including through service specifications and quality schemes.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/04/2019 12:21:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1111177

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Mental Illness: Children
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 are being taken to support the parents of children with mental illness in order that they are still able to work.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	243405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the challenges of combining work and care. In June 2018 we published an action plan setting out a cross-Government programme of targeted work to support carers over the next two years. That includes action to support employers to improve working practices and to help carers to stay in work and return to work, as well as improving advice on financial support.</p><p>Employees already have the right to request flexible working, to take a reasonable amount of time off from work to deal with an emergency involving a child or dependant and to take unpaid parental leave. We are also considering creating a duty for employers to determine whether a job can be done flexibly, and make that clear when advertising.</p><p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we continue to prioritise mental health in the National Health Service and are investing in improving early intervention and access to services. We are also implementing new mental health services in schools and colleges as announced in the Green Paper on Children and Young People’s Mental Health.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/04/2019 12:24:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1110548

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Databases
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 Government's development of combined interpretable data sets.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	242861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>Access to comprehensive, accurate and timely data is critical to the safe, effective and efficient running of the health and social care system in England. We set out our ambition to introduce and use new technology including the innovative use of data in ‘The future of healthcare: our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care’.</p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on getting the digital architecture of the health and care system right, including open standards, secure identity and interoperability, which are critical to the safe and successful use of technology, ensuring that systems talk to each other and that the right data gets to the right place at the right time.</p><p> </p><p>New technologies offer great potential to support preventative, predictive and personalised care. For example, enabling data sets to be linked effectively provides the opportunity to use data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence to help diagnose diseases or conditions and to gain better insights into treatments and preventions that could benefit all of society.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that despite recent progress and many areas of excellence the digital transformation of the health and care system is the most important change we will make over the next decade. In order to do this effectively and efficiently, we have established NHSX to bring together in one place the responsibility for driving the transformation of technology, digital and data policy and implementation.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/04/2019 14:33:20 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1110597

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Older 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 recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mental health provision for the elderly.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	242728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, commits the National Health Service to improving the provision of mental health support for older people with a range of needs and diagnoses, including common mental health problems and severe mental illnesses. This improvement applies across all mental and physical health services and settings, including Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), community, crisis and liaison mental health care as well as new models of integrated care for older people living with frailty. The National Implementation Framework, to be published later this spring, will provide further information on how the Long Term Plan will drive improvements in older people’s mental health care.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England remains committed to increasing older people’s access to psychological therapies via the IAPT programme. Data shows that once older people access psychological therapy in IAPT they achieve positive outcomes. The recovery rate for those people aged 65 and over who access treatment has increased from 57.8% in 2014/15 to 64.9% in 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/04/2019 12:44:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly