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416562

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date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his speech of 19 June 2015, on A new deal for general practice, in what ways he expects GPs to play more of a role in public health.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View focuses on prevention of illness and empowering patients to take an active role in their health and wellbeing with the support of clinicians and other healthcare professionals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined, this includes general practice working across traditional boundaries with other sectors to ensure patients are able to access the most appropriate service. Supporting general practice to take on a bigger role in public health would help to implement a proactive approach to the whole practice population.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In general, general practitioners have an important role to play in supporting public health, for example, through offering vaccinations. General practice is well placed to encourage people to lead healthy lifestyles, as well as to direct people to other appropriate public health or prevention services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Supporting general practice to take on a bigger role in public health would help to implement a proactive approach to the whole practice population in relation to primary and secondary prevention, for example inclusion of weight management, physical activity and healthy eating programmes into existing care pathways. This helps patients to become more actively involved in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 16:18:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

416563

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his speech of 19 June 2015, on A new deal for general practice, what the terms of reference will be of the review by the Health Foundation and NHS England of data and metrics assessing quality in general practice; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Health Foundation has said that they will publish an independent review of data and metrics assessing quality in general practice at the end of September 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The attachment ‘<em>The Health Foundation’s GP indicators review</em>’ contains the terms of reference for this review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 16:17:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name The Health Foundations's GP indicators review.pdf title The Health Foundation's GP Indicators Review
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

416569

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his speech of 19 June 2015, on A new deal for general practice, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) practice nurses, (b) district nurses, (c) physicians' associates and (d) pharmacists that the NHS will need to recruit in the primary care sector to meet the goals outlined in his speech.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced on 19 June the first stages of a New Deal for general practice. As part of that New Deal, the Department is committed to working to increase the primary and community care workforce by at least 10,000 by 2020. This number will comprise a range of roles across the primary and community care workforce, including an additional 1,000 physician associates available to work in primary care by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) has responsibility for workforce planning and commissioning education and training. In December 2014 HEE established an independent Primary Care Workforce Commission, chaired by Professor Martin Roland, Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge, to inform priorities for HEE investment in education and training to deliver a primary care workforce that is fit for purpose, flexible and able to adapt to new models of primary care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Commission’s report was published in July 2015 and has identified good examples of integrated, patient focused, primary care. The report will inform HEE’s priorities for education and training to ultimately deliver a primary care workforce that is fit for purpose, flexible and able to respond to new models of care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HEE is considering the recommendations that the report has outlined and will formally respond in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 16:20:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

416571

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his speech of 19 June 2015, on A new deal for general practice, in what ways he plans for GPs to work more closely with (a) the social care sector, (b) the community care sector and (c) mental health providers.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	8587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The NHS Five Year Forward View set out the ambition that over the next five years and beyond, the traditional boundaries between general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals, social care and mental health services will be dissolved, in recognition of the fact that rather than a single episode of care, people increasingly need a range of services over a longer period, organised around their specific needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A number of established initiatives are already driving this, such as the Better Care Fund, where councils and clinical commissioning groups are required to pool a proportion of their respective budgets and spend this on the joined-up provision of health and care services, and improved communication between general practice and other sectors, with many GPs now providing dedicated phone lines and timely access for staff in other care settings to contact them for advice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Key to supporting the closer working of GPs and other sectors are the 29 vanguard geographies that were announced in March this year. These bring home care, mental health and community nursing, GP services and hospitals together for the first time since 1948.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 14 multispecialty community providers are moving care out of hospitals into the community by bringing together GPs and specialists, for example those who work in mental health;</p><p> </p><p>- nine integrated primary and acute care systems are joining together GP, hospital, community and mental health services;</p><p> </p><p>- six sites covering enhanced health in care homes are offering older people better, joined up health, care and rehabilitation services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Together with other vanguard sites looking at coordinated urgent and emergency care, and the acute care collaboration sites that will be announced later this year, it is estimated that the vanguards will benefit more than five million patients, and they will take the national lead on the development of innovative care models.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 16:03:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry