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228156

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date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brain: Tumours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Headsmart Campaign in raising awareness of child brain tumours; and what steps he is taking to ensure that, after diagnosis of such tumours, (a) children and (b) adults receive the support they need for emotional and mental wellbeing.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	228285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We are aware of the HeadSmart Be brain tumour aware campaign which was launched in 2011, and fully support the campaign’s aims to raise awareness of brain tumours and promote earlier diagnosis in children and young people. In early 2014, I met with representatives of HeadSmart. I subsequently wrote to local health and wellbeing boards, and Public Health England (PHE) contacted all directors of public health in April 2014, encouraging them to support the campaign and drawing their attention to the campaign’s awareness-raising materials. PHE and Department of Health officials met with The Brain Tumour Charity on 23 January 2015, which resulted in the HeadSmart team giving a well-received presentation to the School Nursing Partnership Implementation Group on 17 March 2015. In addition, a meeting is being set up with officials from NHS England to discuss the evaluation and impact of the HeadSmart campaign. We will continue to work with stakeholders to see what more can be done to increase awareness of brain tumours.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI) has set out to understand the numbers, needs, and experiences of people living with and beyond cancer, including emotional and psychological needs, and the most effective service solutions to meet the growing numbers of survivors. The NCSI has recommended four priority areas: recovery packages, consequences of treatment and Patient Report Outcome Measures (PROMs), stratified pathways of care and physical activity. To support this work NHS England, in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, has established the Living with and Beyond Cancer Programme, a two-year programme of work to embed the four priority areas from NCSI into mainstream commissioning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also established the Teenage and Young Adults Clinical Reference Group (CRG) so that the clinical needs of teenagers and young people with cancer are taken into account as part of cancer commissioning. The CRG is working to ensure that teenagers and young people with cancer have access to dedicated pathways, and that the gaps in the associated services, such as mental health, palliative care and transition, are closed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:33:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

228159

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients spent 12 hours from the decision to admit to admission in A&E in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Andy Burnham
uin	228283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>This data is published by NHS England on a weekly basis and is available at the following website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:42:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1427 label Biography information for Andy Burnham

228162

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is his policy that specialised commissioning hubs will be able to deviate from national standards in their commissioning of specialised care.
tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
tabling member printed	Stephen Gilbert
uin	228108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>NHS England has a number of direct commissioning responsibilities, including for a range of prescribed specialised services for which national commissioning policies and service specifications are developed and published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The majority of other NHS services fall within the commissioning responsibilities of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and for these services it is for CCGs to determine commissioning policies and service requirements on a local basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is important that the respective commissioning approaches fit together in a way that provides clinically and cost effective and cohesive care for patients and for that reason NHS England is supporting a range of collaborative commissioning approaches between its specialised commissioning teams, clinical advisors and CCGs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National service specifications and clinical commissioning policies will still apply for those specialised services that will be collaboratively commissioned with CCGs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:50:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4101 label Biography information for Stephen Gilbert

228164

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London
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 215787, whether NHS England plans to publish the independent review of the adequacy of capacity planning and execution of delivery plans for A&E service changes that have taken place across north west London.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
uin	228106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The clinical commissioning groups in north-west London are committed to publishing their approach to assessing the impact and the benefits of the <em>Shaping a Healthier Future </em>programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are advised that they are also committed to publishing the review of the impact of the accident and emergency changes at Central Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:56:36 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

228170

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the British Medical Association and the Royal Colleges on the implications for the NHS of links between obesity and cancer; and what steps he is taking to reduce the incidence of obesity-related cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	228143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Ministers have had no such recent discussions but the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is a member of the Obesity Review Group, which I chair. I last met with the group on 27 January.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We know that obesity is a leading cause of serious diseases including some cancers and we have a well-developed and wide-ranging programme of actions to reduce levels of obesity. These include working with partners including Public Health England, NHS England, Government departments, including the Department for Education and Department for Transport, and industry through the Public Health Responsibility Deal. Key initiatives include Change4Life, the National Child Measurement Programme, NHS Health Checks, Change4Life Sports Clubs, School Sports Funding and the School Food Plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 16:43:34 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

228172

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
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, with reference to the table in Paragraph 123 of the Impact Assessment to the Government's 2011 Cancer Strategy, whether the projected increase in staff numbers required to deliver that strategy by 2014-15 was achieved for (a) radiographers, (b) consultant radiologists, (c) ultrasonographers, (d) technicians and (e) endoscopists.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	228259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Information for 2014-15 is not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:44:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

228173

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the NHS was of a (a) hip replacement, (b) knee replacement, (c) cataract operation and (d) hernia operation in England in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Andy Burnham
uin	228279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table and is from reference costs, which are the average unit cost to National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year. Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource group (HRG), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume similar levels of healthcare resource. The costs cover one episode of care under one consultant and do not include other elements of the patient pathway such as outpatient appointments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Estimated average unit cost to NHS providers in 2013-14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Average unit cost per one finished consultant episode</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hip replacement</p></td><td><p>£6,803</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Knee replacement</p></td><td><p>£6,059</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cataract operation</p></td><td><p>£878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hernia operation</p></td><td><p>£2,010</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>Reference costs, Department of Health</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. Includes the average unit costs for the following HRGs, weighted for the activity reported for each HRG:</p><p> </p><p>HA12, Major Hip Procedures for Trauma</p><p> </p><p>HB12, Major Hip Procedures for Non-Trauma</p><p> </p><p>HA21, Major Knee Procedures for Trauma</p><p> </p><p>HB21, Major Knee Procedures for Non-Trauma</p><p> </p><p>BZ01, Enhanced Cataract Surgery</p><p> </p><p>BZ02, Phacoemulsification Cataract Extraction and Lens Implant</p><p> </p><p>BZ03, Non-Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery</p><p> </p><p>FZ17, Abdominal Hernia Procedures</p><p> </p><p>FZ18, Inguinal, Umbilical or Femoral Hernia Procedures</p><p> </p><p>2. The majority of procedures in HA12, HB12, HA21 and HB21 are for total replacements of hip or knee joints but may include other hip or knee procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:47:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1427 label Biography information for Andy Burnham

228174

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Public Health England
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 17 March 2015 to Question 227480, what campaigns were funded from the social marketing budget; and how much was allocated to each such campaign.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	228260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) took over all the public health campaigns formerly run by the Department on 1 April 2013. PHE’s spend on specific marketing campaigns in 2013-14 is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Campaign</p><p> </p></td><td><p>Budget for 2013-2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Smokefree</p></td><td><p>£8,210,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change 4 Life</p></td><td><p>£12,400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Start4Life and Information Service for Parents</p></td><td><p>£700,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Youth</p></td><td><p>£30,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental health and Wellbeing</p></td><td><p>£205,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Be Clear on Cancer</p></td><td><p>£7,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Breathlessness</p></td><td><p>£70,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stroke</p></td><td><p>£870,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Flu</p></td><td><p>£480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>30,565,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:49:29 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

228178

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if NHS England will publish specialised commissioning policies for the 2015-16 financial year alongside the response to the Investing in Specialised Commissioning - Public Consultation; and when that response will be published.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
uin	228170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>All the commissioning policies for the 2015/16 financial year are currently being reviewed and will be published as soon as decisions are made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Investing in Specialised Commissioning Public Consultation closes in April 2015 and there will be a consultation outcomes report published as soon as is practicable following the closing date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:36:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

228186

registered interest
date	18/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median time to (i) assessment, (ii) treatment and (iii) departure was in (A) type one and (B) all A&E departments in (1) each quarter of 2013-14 and (2) 2014-15 to date.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	228066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) Hospital Episode Statistics measure accident and emergency waiting times from arrival to assessment, treatment and departure. This information is published on the HSCIC’s website and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?q=A%26E+attendances&amp;area=&amp;size=10&amp;sort=Relevance" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?q=A%26E+attendances&amp;area=&amp;size=10&amp;sort=Relevance</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 17:46:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne