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167349

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Independent Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to publish a progress report on the Government's implementation of the recommendations in Hard Truths: The Journey to Putting Patients First.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	216745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Since the publication of Hard Truths: The Journey to Putting Patients First, the Government has taken huge strides to boost safety, transparency, compassion and accountability in the National Health Service. We have legislated to make the Care Quality Commission independent, and a new rigorous inspection regime for hospitals, primary care and adult social care has been introduced, resulting in a clear rating on the quality of care. We have also introduced a robust special measures regime for struggling hospitals, so that poor care is identified and rectified. In addition, we have legislated to place a new duty of candour and fit and proper person requirement for directors of NHS bodies, as well as to create a new offence of wilful neglect and ill treatment. This Government has also placed an unprecedented amount of data on the MyNHS website, so that the public can see how their local services perform.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing an update and summary of this progress shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 13:02:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

167497

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Terrence Higgins Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2014, Official Report, columns 1107-19HL, by how much the funding for the Terrence Higgins Trust will be reduced.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Discussions are continuing with Terrence Higgins Trust about extending their contract for a year in 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 14:11:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

167499

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	fpa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding the Family Planning Association has received from the Government in each of the last four years; and what funding will be made available to the Family Planning Association.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>In each of the last four years the Family Planning Association (FPA) has received:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 2011-12: £1,376,000</p><p> </p><p>- 2012-13: £571,797</p><p> </p><p>- 2013-14: £390,713</p><p> </p><p>- 2014-15: £239,365 (with a further £111,818 due to be invoiced by 31 March 2015)</p><p> </p><p>Discussions are continuing with the FPA about extending their contract for a year in 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 14:10:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

167500

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, at what cost to his Department senior management of each London NHS clinical commissioning group and trust have been sent on trips abroad in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	216897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 13:00:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

167503

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dialysis Machines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 27 November to Question 215754, what main concerns have been raised by stakeholders in renal services at the recent meeting with the head of the Specialised Services Task Force in NHS England; and what steps he is taking in response to such concerns.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Graham Evans
uin	216873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Concerns raised by stakeholders in the meeting hosted by the head of the Specialised Services Task Force in NHS England included: the status of service specifications and clinical policies, mandatory hospital data collection requirements, clinical commissioning group (CCG) understanding of renal dialysis and a potential fragmentation of the renal transplant pathway.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has recently established a Task &amp; Finish group through the NHS Commissioning Assembly. This group comprises representatives from CCGs and NHS England, and will oversee the development and delivery of proposals for commissioning of specialised services in 2015-16 and beyond.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Within this Task &amp; Finish group, a sub-group will be responsible for planning and managing the transition process for services that are being transferred from national to CCG commissioning (including renal dialysis) from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 27 November 2014, the Department issued a public consultation on the arrangements for the transfer of commissioning responsibility from NHS England to CCGs for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The consultation seeks views on what type of support CCGs will need from NHS England to be able to commission renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services effectively and whether, if all this support can be put in place, the timing of the transfer is right.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results of the consultation will be used to inform the decisions on when and how to transfer the commissioning responsibility for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services to CCGs, and the work of the NHS England Task &amp; Finish group. The consultation will close on 9 January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to issuing commissioning guidance for the safe transfer of renal dialysis services from national NHS England responsibility to local CCG responsibility.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 13:08:55 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

167506

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dialysis Machines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2014 to Question 215754, what consideration the new Task and Finish group will give to the commissioning of kidney services; and when he expects the advisory group to report on what support clinical commissiong groups will require to take on commissioning of dialysis.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Graham Evans
uin	216874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has recently established a Task and Finish group through the NHS Commissioning Assembly. This group comprises representatives from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and NHS England, and will oversee the development and delivery of proposals for commissioning of specialised services in 2015-16 and beyond.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Within this Task and Finish group, a sub-group will be responsible for planning and managing the transition process for services that are being transferred from national to CCG commissioning (including renal dialysis) from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 27 November 2014, the Department has issued a public consultation on the arrangements for the transfer of commissioning responsibility from NHS England to CCGs for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The consultation seeks views on what type of support CCGs will need from NHS England to be able to commission renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services effectively and whether, if all this support can be put in place, the timing of the transfer is right.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The results of the consultation will be used to inform the decisions on when and how to transfer the commissioning responsibility for renal dialysis and morbid obesity surgery services to CCGs, and the work of the NHS England Task and Finish group. The consultation will close on 9 January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to issuing commissioning guidance for the safe transfer of renal dialysis services from national NHS England responsibility to local CCG responsibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 12:55:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

167511

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) elective and (b) non-elective operations were carried out in the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2004.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	216831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of Finished Consultant Episodes (FCE) for all main procedures by admission method carried out in the Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in each year since 2003-04 is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Elective Admission Method</p></td><td><p>Non-Elective Admission Method</p></td><td><p>Other Admission Method</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>28,587</p></td><td><p>6,803</p></td><td><p>4,037</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>29,488</p></td><td><p>7,567</p></td><td><p>4,057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>30,690</p></td><td><p>7,403</p></td><td><p>3,961</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>29,868</p></td><td><p>8,902</p></td><td><p>4,274</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>34,699</p></td><td><p>9,803</p></td><td><p>5,389</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>34,425</p></td><td><p>10,545</p></td><td><p>4,674</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>36,015</p></td><td><p>12,674</p></td><td><p>4,833</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>36,581</p></td><td><p>13,431</p></td><td><p>5,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>38,706</p></td><td><p>14,299</p></td><td><p>5,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>39,681</p></td><td><p>13,957</p></td><td><p>5,607</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>A FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. Figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</li><li>The main procedure is the first recorded procedure or intervention in each episode, usually the most resource intensive procedure or intervention performed during the episode. It is appropriate to use main procedure when looking at admission details, (e.g. time waited), but a more complete count of episodes with a particular procedure is obtained by looking at the main and the secondary procedures.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 14:13:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

167515

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to help GPs diagnose cancer at an early stage.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	216751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p><em>Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer </em>(January 2011) is backed by an additional £750 million over the four year Spending Review period including over £450 million to achieve early diagnosis. The earlier diagnosis money is designed to support improved direct general practitioner (GP) access to four key diagnostic tests to support the diagnosis of brain tumours, bowel, lung, and ovarian cancers; and increased testing and treatment costs in secondary care. GPs are able to access these tests directly in cases where the two-week urgent referral pathway is not appropriate but a patient’s symptoms require further investigation. The intention is that more people presenting with relevant symptoms will be tested and at an earlier stage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the Department published ‘Direct access to diagnostic tests for cancer: best practice referral pathways for general practitioners’ to provide criteria for accessing these diagnostic tests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The earlier diagnosis money also supports centrally led Be Clear on Cancer (BCOC) symptom awareness campaigns to raise the public’s awareness of cancer symptoms and encourage people with persistent symptoms to go to the doctor. Since 2011 the Department and Public Health England (since 2013) in partnership with NHS England (including NHS Improving Quality) and other stakeholders have run national BCOC campaigns for bladder and kidney, bowel, breast and lung cancers; regional campaigns for ovarian, oesophagogastric cancers, and local pilot campaigns to raise awareness of four symptoms of unexplained bleeding, lump, pain, and weight loss; and awareness of skin and prostate cancers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the BCOC campaign process, the Department, Public Health England, and NHS England have worked with Cancer Research UK and other partners to develop briefing sheets to support GPs and other healthcare professionals during the campaigns.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More generally, to increase awareness of cancer amongst GPs, the Department supported British Medical Journal (BMJ) Learning to develop and launch an on-line learning tool for GPs in 2012. The tool offers accredited professional development and includes four modules - tackling late diagnosis; risk assessment tools; cancer pathway and the role of primary care; and diagnosing osteosarcoma and brain tumours in children with an additional section on communication skills. The tool can be accessed at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://learning.bmj.com/learning/home.html" target="_blank">http://learning.bmj.com/learning/home.html</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2013, Macmillan Cancer Support, partly funded by the Department, piloted an electronic cancer decision support (CDS) tool for GPs to use in their routine practice. It is designed to help GPs recognise the symptoms of cancer and identify patients that they might not otherwise refer urgently for suspected cancer. The CDS covers lung, colorectal, oesophagogastric, ovarian and pancreatic cancers and a new symptom checker for melanoma. Following the pilot, Macmillan Cancer Support is able to offer the tool to GPs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, since 2005, the Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has supported GPs to identify patients with the symptoms of suspected cancer and urgently refer them as appropriate. NICE is in the process of updating this guidance to ensure that it reflects the latest evidence and the anticipated publication date for the revised guidelines is May 2015.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 13:06:18 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

167516

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that donated organs are suitable for transplant.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	216752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Potential donors are screened for a number of infections, such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis, Cytomegalovirus and Human T-cell lymphotropic virus. In addition, organs are routinely evaluated prior to retrieval, during retrieval and before implantation by both the retrieval team and the transplantation clinical team.</p><p> </p><p>Trained Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation review the donor’s clinical notes and contact the general practitioner or relevant health professional to obtain the medical history. In order to build an accurate background of the donor’s social and medical history, the Specialist Nurse approaches the family to gather information about the potential donor’s lifestyle choices, travel history and other factors that may impact on whether or not a donor’s organs are appropriate for transplantation, using a standard form to ensure that all relevant history is captured. The decision whether or not to accept an organ for a patient is ultimately made by the transplant surgeon, using their clinical expertise and the information collected to carefully weigh up the risks.</p><p> </p><p>In line with guidance, the transplant team discuss with the potential recipient any known risks associated with the organ which could affect its function in the short and long term before obtaining consent for its use.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/12/2014 13:07:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon