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872275

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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 Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with (a) NHS England and (b) NICE on the development of (a) multi-indication pricing, (b) outcomes-based pricing and (c) annuity deals for new treatments.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has regular and ongoing dialogue with NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on matters related to medicines pricing and patient access to new treatments. We will consider all relevant issues in upcoming discussions with the pharmaceutical industry on medicines pricing arrangements for 2019 onwards to succeed the current Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 14:02:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872373

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Cancer Drugs Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what drugs have been funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund this year; and how much funding remains in that Fund.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>Since April 2017, there are currently 27 drugs in 42 indications that are funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). A full list of current and previous CDF drugs can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/cdf/cancer-drugs-fund-list/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/cdf/cancer-drugs-fund-list/</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest published spend for the first six months of 2017/18 implies a circa £76 million of unused funding for that period against the CDF. The quarterly activity report is a snapshot of CDF spend at a point in time and the spend figure will increase as more drugs are added to the fund. The link to the report can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cdf-activity-update-Q2-2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cdf-activity-update-Q2-2017-18.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:51:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872374

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have accessed the Cancer Recovery Package in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those people had blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. NHS England is currently developing plans for national data collection.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 14:00:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872375

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Blood Cancer: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2018 to Question 132195, on Haematological Cancer: Mental Health Services, whether patients diagnosed with blood cancer but not yet starting treatment will be eligible for the Cancer Recovery Package.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>Every cancer patient will be eligible for the Recovery Package intervention regardless of their treatment status.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:57:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872376

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Cancer: Nurses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether every patient diagnosed with cancer receives support from a clinical nurse specialist; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2016 results show that 90% of respondents said that they were given the name of a clinical nurse specialist who would support them through their treatment. NHS England is working alongside Health Education England to expand the number of Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) and develop clear CNS competencies and routes into training. This will ensure every cancer patient has access to a CNS or other support worker by 2021.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:56:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872380

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Blood Cancer
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 19 March 2018 to Question 132100, on Haematological Cancer, whether he or NHS England plan to publish information on the work of multidisciplinary diagnostic centres before December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The 10 multidisciplinary diagnostic centres or ‘rapid assessment and diagnostic centres’ have been described in the Progress Report on the cancer strategy published by NHS England in October 2017 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The evaluation of the centres is being undertaken by the Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate Partnership, which will publish its final report in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:55:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

860743

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what proportion of patients referred to a multidisciplinary diagnostic centre have been (a) suspected of having blood cancer and (b) diagnosed with blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	132100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>An evaluation is currently being prepared on the work of the multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres, which will include further information on blood cancer patient referral and diagnosis numbers. A final report will be published in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/03/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

837754

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the most recent results of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to improve the training for healthcare professionals to ensure that people with blood cancer understand their diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Health Education England, alongside NHS England, has recently published the Cancer Workforce plan, which sets out the steps to transform the cancer workforce in line with the independent cancer taskforce recommendations. This will aim to improve patient outcomes and deliver a better patient experience across all tumour types, including haematological cancers. The report sets out the plan for improving the training of healthcare professionals, as well as recruitment and retention plans. The report can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/health-education-england-unveils-plan-transform-future-nhs-cancer-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/health-education-england-unveils-plan-transform-future-nhs-cancer-workforce</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:29:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836016

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many emergency presentations there were of blood cancer; what proportion of those presentations were of all diagnoses of blood cancer; and what proportion those were of the total of all emergency presentations of cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the latest year for which data are available, the percentage of patients diagnosed after an emergency presentation in England for all blood cancers was 28% (7,626 of 26,869).</p><p> </p><p>There has been a fall in the percentage diagnosed through this emergency presentation route over the last 10 years for some of these cancers: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (26% in 2006 down to 13% in 2015), multiple myeloma (37% down to 31%), and other haematological malignancies (37% down to 25%). The proportion over time in the other groups remained relatively stable.</p><p> </p><p>As a proportion of all emergency diagnoses, the proportion of blood cancers diagnosed as an emergency was 12% in 2011 and 13% in each of 2012-2015.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126372 question first answered 08/02/2018 14:30:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836017

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of trends in the instances of blood cancer being diagnosed after an emergency admission; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the latest year for which data are available, the percentage of patients diagnosed after an emergency presentation in England for all blood cancers was 28% (7,626 of 26,869).</p><p> </p><p>There has been a fall in the percentage diagnosed through this emergency presentation route over the last 10 years for some of these cancers: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (26% in 2006 down to 13% in 2015), multiple myeloma (37% down to 31%), and other haematological malignancies (37% down to 25%). The proportion over time in the other groups remained relatively stable.</p><p> </p><p>As a proportion of all emergency diagnoses, the proportion of blood cancers diagnosed as an emergency was 12% in 2011 and 13% in each of 2012-2015.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126371 question first answered 08/02/2018 14:30:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith