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1132427

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date	17/06/2019
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	Genomics: 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, how many patients have received whole genome sequencing through the NHS; and how many of those patients had a type of blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	265508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265509 265510 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132428

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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	Genomics: 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, how many patients he estimates will benefit from whole genome sequencing in (a) 2019 and (b) each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	265509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265508 265510 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1132429

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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	Genomics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the NHS Genomic Medicine Service will begin performing whole genome sequencing.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	265510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the National Health Service has committed to sequencing 500,000 whole genomes by 2023/24.</p><p>During 2019, the NHS will begin to offer whole genome sequencing (WGS) as part of clinical care for:</p><p>- Seriously ill children likely to have a rare genetic disorder;</p><p>- People with one of 21 rare conditions where current evidence supports early adoption of WGS as a diagnostic test; and</p><p>- People with specific types of cancer for which there is likely to be the greatest patient benefit from using WGS – children with cancer, sarcoma and Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.</p><p> </p><p>As the price of whole genome sequencing falls and the evidence improves, we envisage that it will be extended to more conditions and therefore more patients.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 265508 265509 question first answered 20/06/2019 15:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1127781

registered interest
date	21/05/2019
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	Social Prescribing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on social prescribing.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	257061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>‘Prevention is better than cure’, published by the Department in November 2018, highlighted the important role social prescribing can play in reducing people’s isolation and improving levels of activity.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England has committed to deliver at least £4.5 billion of new investment in primary medical and community health services over the next five years. Part of this investment will support the recruitment of over 1,000 trained social prescribing link workers - in place by the end of 2020/21 rising further by 2023/24, with the aim that over 900,000 people are able to be referred to social prescribing schemes by then.</p><p>The Prevention document and the Long Term Plan can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer</a></p><p><a href="http://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/" target="_blank">www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/05/2019 14:58:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston