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522568

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what framework assessment is undertaken when determining the allocation of financial resources to a clinical commissioning group for primary care.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The allocations for primary medical care announced in January 2016 are based on a statistical model of workload which takes into account differences due to the age and sex of the population, differences associated with deprivation, and the higher workload associated with new registrations. There are also adjustments for differences in the unavoidable costs of general practitioner practice staff across the country and for unmet need.</p><p>The model determines target allocations, while pace of change policy sets how quickly actual allocations move over time towards target allocations. The pace of change policy announced in January for the period 2016-17 to 2020-21 was that no clinical commissioning group’s area is further than 5% below target by 2018-19 for primary medical care allocations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:15:11 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522571

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to introduce (a) video consultations and (b) other new technology into primary care service delivery.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>From April 2014 to April 2016, the Government has invested £175 million in developing innovative approaches to extend access to general practice through the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund which has included testing, adoption, and evaluation of:</p><p> </p><p>― new types of consultation such as phone, video and online consultations;</p><p>― online pre-referral diagnosis tools; and</p><p>― telehealth, telecare and healthy living apps.</p><p> </p><p>During 2017/18<ins class="ministerial"> and 2018/19</ins>, £171 million will be made available <del class="ministerial">to</del> <ins class="ministerial">from </ins>clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to enable practices to upscale and implement measures tested through the Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>A further £1 billion multiyear investment has been committed via the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund from April 2015 to April 2019, to help GP practices go further and faster to increase the use of technology and develop the primary care estate. Funding will be aligned with local digital roadmaps priorities and will support technology led improvement and innovation which improve patient and clinician experience of services, and access to primary care.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘General Practice Forward View’, released in April 2016, announced a commitment to greater use of technology. This includes an increase of over 18% in allocations to CCGs for provision of IT services and technology for general practice, alongside revised funding arrangements for GP IT in 2016-18. This will allow CCGs sufficient local flexibility to commission and procure GP IT services to meet local need. There will also be an additional £45 million multiyear national programme to stimulate uptake of online consultation technology for every practice.</p><p> </p><p>The National Information Board also has a programme of work known as Transforming General Practice which will use technology to free GPs from time consuming administrative tasks and provide patients with online services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:08:23 question first ministerially corrected 16/06/2016 10:28:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 2969 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522572

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of UK funding for primary care is spent on BME communities in the Southampton City Council area.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested on the proportion of Unite Kingdom funding for primary care spent on Black or Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the Southampton City Council area is not collected centrally. NHS England advises that funding is provided to practices to deliver a service and is not attributable to communities or neighbourhoods. NHS England confirms practices in the centre of the city support the majority of the BME communities; however, their boundaries encompass other areas as well.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:05:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522573

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the funding allocation for GPs in the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group area is spent on (a) leases and (b) land.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested on the funding allocation for general practitioners (GP) in the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group area that is spent on leases and land is not collected centrally. NHS England advises that premises funding is assessed by the District Valuer and based on the amount of space primary care estates occupy. NHS England confirms that in 2015/16 the amount paid for primary care estates was £2,692,000.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:17:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522576

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to increase the number of health professionals who support GPs in the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group area.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>NHS England advises the Clinical Commissioning Group has given practices the opportunity to take part in Productive General Practice to evaluate their workforce and this was further supported through a Local Improvement Scheme to develop general practice by undertaking a workforce analysis.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:20:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522577

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have benefited from improved access to GP services in the Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group area since the announcement of the Challenge Fund in October 2013.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Southampton City Primary Care Hub, the local Wave 2 Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund scheme in Southampton, supports 276,338 patients (registered population at April 2016) registered across 33 general practitioner practices, and works from five hubs. There were 4,873 referrals to the scheme between 22 June 2015 to 13 March 2016 and the scheme is still operating.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:16:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522578

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group's funding for primary care services was spent on translation services in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>NHS England confirms it commissions translation services for Southampton City general practitioners (GPs) and advises that in 2015/16 there were 70 translation service requests made by Southampton City GP practices costing £7,457.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522579

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group receives from the public purse; and what that funding is for the (a) highest and (b) lowest funded clinical commissioning group.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has received an allocation of £315 million for 2016-17, and although it is still 4.71% below its target allocation, this is an uplift of 7.10% on 2015-16 allocations, well above the national average of 3.74%.</p><p>The highest funded CCG, when looking at how far it is from its target allocation, is NHS West London (Kensington &amp; Chelsea and Queen’s Park &amp; Paddington) CCG who has received an allocation of £353.5 million for 2016-17 and is 30.51% over its target allocation. In line with the pace-of-change policy, NHS West London CCG received an uplift of 1.39% in 2016-17.</p><p>The lowest funded CCG is NHS North Manchester CCG who has received an allocation of £280.6 million for 2016-17 and is 5% below their target allocation.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:19:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522585

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to evaluate the effectiveness of the 2014 mental health pilots aimed at helping people with mental health problems back into work.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	39215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>We have published the following evaluation reports of mental health and work pilots:</p><p>― Evaluation of the ‘Telephone Support’ Psychological Wellbeing and Research report (September 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/telephone-support-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/telephone-support-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation</a>;</p><p> </p><p>― Evaluation of Group Work Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility (September 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-work-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/group-work-psychological-wellbeing-and-work-feasibility-pilot-evaluation</a>; and</p><p> </p><p>― Evaluation of the ‘IPS in IAPT’ Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility (March 2015). A copy of the document is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/helping-people-with-mental-health-problems-find-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/helping-people-with-mental-health-problems-find-work</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 10:56:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

522602

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the distance is between two pharmacies that his Department uses to define a cluster.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	39074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department has defined a cluster for the purposes of the consultation on community pharmacy in 2016/17 and beyond as pharmacies in clusters of three or more, where a pharmacy is within 10 minutes’ walk of two or more other pharmacies. A 10 minute walk at an average speed of three miles per hour is equivalent to 0.5 miles distance.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:14:11 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain