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1507207

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Barts Health NHS Trust: Patient Choice Schemes
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 her Department's guidance, The NHS Choice Framework: what choices are available to me in the NHS?, updated 14 January 2020, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the implementation of her Department's policy on equality of access to a hospital of choice by Barts Health NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>‘The NHS Choice Framework: what choices are available to me in the NHS?’ is currently being updated to reflect changes arising from the Health and Care Act 2022. The updated guidance will be published later this year. The existing Framework remains applicable and is available to commissioners, providers and patients.</p><p>All services offered by Barts Health NHS Trust are subject to the Framework and there are local policies for each hospital within the Trust to implement it. The Trust will investigate any complaint received, either directly from a patient or via an intermediary.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:26:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507295

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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 Trusts: Clinical Waste
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 NHS Trusts have a six month termination clause in contracts for the supply of clinical waste services.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	53297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally. Contractual decisions are made by individual trusts locally and the Department does not mandate terms of each contract.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:00:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1507412

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average pay of NHS staff working in (a) Newham and (b) Tower Hamlets.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. For over one million National Health Service non-medical staff, including nurses, paramedics, and midwives, the average basic pay has increased from approximately £31,500 to £32,900 from 2021/22 to 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:40:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507413

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her policy to allow NHS bodies to invoice a patient for hospital care not excluded from the Charging Regulations prior to evidencing that a patient does not have entitlement to free NHS care.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Guidance to providers of National Health Service-funded secondary care states that where a person cannot support their entitlement to care free of charge, the provider may decide to charge for treatment. In making this decision, the provider should judge each case on its own merits and take any reasonable steps to ascertain a patient's claim that an exemption applies. If charged, the person can subsequently claim reimbursement where there is sufficient evidence to show an entitlement to free treatment at the time it was given.</p><p>The guidance also states that any treatment a clinician determines to be immediately necessary or urgent must never be delayed due to charging. Where a charge applies it cannot be waived for any reason. However, the guidance sets out circumstances when providers may write off the charge in the accounts and not pursue the debt, including if the patient is destitute or genuinely without access to funds. The Department works with NHS England to support NHS providers in implementing the Regulations appropriately. The Department and NHS England are producing additional guidance relating to debt and destitution to support relevant bodies dealing with financially vulnerable patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53328 question first answered 27/09/2022 10:59:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507414

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance has been provided to NHS bodies on the criteria needed to exempt patients from NHS debt where they have been determined to not be ordinarily resident including (a) which criteria are used to determine if such a patient is destitute and (b) any other criteria.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Guidance to providers of National Health Service-funded secondary care states that where a person cannot support their entitlement to care free of charge, the provider may decide to charge for treatment. In making this decision, the provider should judge each case on its own merits and take any reasonable steps to ascertain a patient's claim that an exemption applies. If charged, the person can subsequently claim reimbursement where there is sufficient evidence to show an entitlement to free treatment at the time it was given.</p><p>The guidance also states that any treatment a clinician determines to be immediately necessary or urgent must never be delayed due to charging. Where a charge applies it cannot be waived for any reason. However, the guidance sets out circumstances when providers may write off the charge in the accounts and not pursue the debt, including if the patient is destitute or genuinely without access to funds. The Department works with NHS England to support NHS providers in implementing the Regulations appropriately. The Department and NHS England are producing additional guidance relating to debt and destitution to support relevant bodies dealing with financially vulnerable patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53327 question first answered 27/09/2022 10:59:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507481

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to tackle care backlogs associated with the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	53529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ set out a target to deliver a 10% increase in elective activity compared to pre-pandemic levels, rising to 30% by 2024/25. In 2021/22, the Department provided an additional £39 billion to support health and care services, including a £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund to increase elective activity.</p><p> </p><p>n Lancashire and South Cumbria, £60.5 million was allocated for the recovery of elective services. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust received £15.1 million from this allocation, with a further £2.5 million from specialised commissioners to support the restoration of tertiary activity.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 11:00:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1507483

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust during the course of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	53530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department issues funding to NHS England which determine allocations to integrated care boards. National Health Service trusts receive payment by activity commissioned by integrated care boards to provide a range of healthcare services.</p><p>The funding received by Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, including funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic, is published in the Trust’s published Annual Report and Accounts for 2019/20 and 2020/21. The Trust has not yet published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/09/2022 10:56:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1507484

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional funding her Department has made available to Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to help tackle health inequalities.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	53531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Allocations to integrated care boards (ICBs) made through NHS England, including NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, are adjusted for health inequalities and unmet need in the weighted capitation formula, which was recently reviewed by the independent Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation. ICB allocations were published in April 2022 and are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/allocation-of-resources-2022-23/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/allocation-of-resources-2022-23/</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:39:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1507485

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional capital funding her Department has made available for the development of facilities at Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Scott Benton
uin	53532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust receives an annual capital allocation for its operational needs. In addition, the Trust has received £22.7 million for local infrastructure schemes over the last three years. The Trust received £5.1 million for investment in its estate and digital initiatives from the Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund announced in September 2021. In 2020/21, the Trust received £2.8 million for the expansion of the emergency department and £1.9 million to address backlog maintenance across its estate. In 2021/22, we also provided the Trust with £12.9 million for improvements to Fylde Coast Emergency Department to expand and develop an ambulatory village and centralise clinical care.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 13:52:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4793 label Biography information for Scott Benton

1507494

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Tixagevimab/cilgavimab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department used to support its recent decision not to currently offer the drug Evusheld to people for whom covid-19 vaccines do not work; who (a) was consulted and (b) took that decision; by what process that decision was made; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	53358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has decided not to procure Evusheld at this present time for prevention through emergency routes at this time. This is a decision based on independent clinical advice by the multi-agency RAPID C-19 and a national expert policy working group. These groups considered a range of evidence, including clinical trial data, in vitro analysis and emerging observational studies and concluded that there is currently insufficient evidence of benefit to recommend deployment. The Chief Medical Officer for England is content that the correct process for providing clinical advice has been followed and agrees that this should now be referred to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for further evaluation.</p><p>The Department wrote to patient groups on 5 September 2022 with information on this decision and evidence considered and intends to publish further details of the clinical advice received shortly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 28/09/2022 16:07:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas