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1361353

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
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	Health Services: Standards
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 and NHS England are taking to ensure that best practice set out by the Getting It Right First Time programme in areas including orthopaedics are adopted throughout the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	59085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme is now embedded within NHS England and NHS Improvement’s programmes to improve quality and productivity, ensuring best practice is adopted throughout the National Health Service. GIRFT practices are incorporated into the Pathway Redesign Programme and fast track surgical hubs, which are tackling waiting lists in high volume, low acuity specialties such as orthopaedics by increasing surgical productivity across the NHS.</p><p>GIRFT metrics are also used in the model hospital system, which is a digital tool that provides an overview of a trust’s opportunities to enhance productivity. This enables peers to benchmark directly against one another and identify where improved practices can be adopted across the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/10/2021 14:07:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1361354

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
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	NHS
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 steps his Department has taken to help ensure that the NHS has capacity to deal with future infection outbreaks and deliver routine elective surgery.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	59086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The Department continues to provide additional funding, drive innovation, and supporting the National Health Service to deliver both the recovery of elective services and deal with future infection outbreaks and wider pressures. It is however difficult to ensure there will be no disruptions during future infection outbreaks especially over winter.</p><p>Operational plans are in place to better manage emergency care demand and capacity. It includes the largest ever seasonal flu vaccination programme over winter, COVID-19 booster vaccines for priority groups to reduce infection risk and a 10-point plan for emergency care, which includes a range of actions across urgent, primary and community care.</p><p> </p><p>To deliver elective services, the department has committed £2 billion this year to start to tackle backlogs and a further £8 billion across the following three years to increase elective activity and transform services, to improve productivity and expand capacity. At the Spending Review in October 2021, we also announced £5.9 billion capital investment to further support elective recovery, diagnostics, and technology over the next three years. This investment is key to increasing capacity and productivity.</p><p> </p><p>As we have throughout this pandemic, we continue to work closely with independent sector to make the most effective use of the capacity and services available, including over winter and if needed during any future outbreaks.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/11/2021 16:16:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1361356

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
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	Joint Replacements: Waiting Lists
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 will take under the Elective Recovery Plan to ensure that new funding for tackling the backlog will reduce waiting times for hip and knee replacement operations.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	59087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Department has provided £2 billion to the National Health Service to tackle the backlog, in addition to £8 billion over the next three years to increase activity and transform elective services. Trusts are encouraged to find innovative ways to deliver elective services, including high volume, low complexity approaches including surgical hubs for hip and knee replacements. The Department is also providing a £700 million Targeted Investment Fund to enable cutting edge technologies and to increase operating theatre capacity, thereby improving productivity in hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/10/2021 14:30:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1315130

registered interest
date	17/05/2021
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	Coronavirus: 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, what discussions he has had with non-emergency patient service providers on the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on their workload.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	2468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2021 answer text <p>We have had no recent discussions.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/05/2021 13:45:27 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1286306

registered interest
date	11/02/2021
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	Surgery: 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 he is taking to prevent the cancellation of priority 2 paediatric surgical procedures.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	153410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>The National Health Service continues to make full use of available capacity for non-urgent elective services, both in the NHS and in contracted independent hospitals, in order to maintain elective activity, including non-urgent paediatric operations, as far as possible.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/02/2021 09:26:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1244553

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Coronavirus: Noradrenaline
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which individuals and professional organisations issue guidance on the stockpiling of noradrenaline for the treatment of covid-19 to (a) his Department and (b) NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	105570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>In preparation for a second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, an assessment of intensive care unit and end of life care medicines and antibiotics that should be stockpiled, informed by senior clinicians and those with experience of treating COVID-19 patients, was led by NHS England in May and June and this fed into two Departmental tender exercises. Noradrenaline is one of the medicines that is being sourced by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 105573 105574 question first answered 27/10/2020 16:36:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1244554

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Noradrenaline
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 he has made of trends in the use of noradrenaline throughout the NHS in England in each month of 2020.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	105571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement undertake regular monitoring of the demand and supply position for priority medicines including noradrenaline. A table showing this information is attached.</p><p>We cannot make accurate projections of demand going forward. However, we have used the information regarding first wave usage to inform mitigations for a second wave, such as stockpiling.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/10/2020 16:09:55 question first ministerially corrected 11/11/2020 14:29:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2020 10 22 PQs 105571-72 Bristow attachment.xlsx title Noradrenaline demand and supply previous answer version 57690 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1244555

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Noradrenaline
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of demand for noradrenaline during the remainder of 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	105572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement undertake regular monitoring of the demand and supply position for priority medicines including noradrenaline. A table showing this information is attached.</p><p>We cannot make accurate projections of demand going forward. However, we have used the information regarding first wave usage to inform mitigations for a second wave, such as stockpiling.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/10/2020 16:09:55 question first ministerially corrected 11/11/2020 14:29:47 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2020 10 22 PQs 105571-72 Bristow attachment.xlsx title Noradrenaline demand and supply previous answer version 57691 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1244556

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Coronavirus: Intensive Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has made to ensure the adequate supply of ICU medicine supplies for the treatment of covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	105573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>In preparation for a second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, an assessment of intensive care unit and end of life care medicines and antibiotics that should be stockpiled, informed by senior clinicians and those with experience of treating COVID-19 patients, was led by NHS England in May and June and this fed into two Departmental tender exercises. Noradrenaline is one of the medicines that is being sourced by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 105570 105574 question first answered 27/10/2020 16:36:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow

1244557

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Coronavirus: Drugs
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 outcome was of his 23 July 2020 tender entitled the Supply of Supportive medicines for a UK stockpile of medicines for Covid-19 preparedness.
tabling member constituency	Peterborough
tabling member printed	Paul Bristow
uin	105574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2020 answer text <p>In preparation for a second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, an assessment of intensive care unit and end of life care medicines and antibiotics that should be stockpiled, informed by senior clinicians and those with experience of treating COVID-19 patients, was led by NHS England in May and June and this fed into two Departmental tender exercises. Noradrenaline is one of the medicines that is being sourced by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 105570 105573 question first answered 27/10/2020 16:36:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4792 label Biography information for Paul Bristow