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389840

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made an estimate of the annual cost to the public purse of all medicines costing over £20 issued by the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	6914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of dispensed prescription items valued greater than £20.00, with the net ingredient cost (NIC), compared with the total for all dispensed prescription items, is provided for the last complete calendar year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed, in the community, in England - 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Items (000’s)</p></td><td><p>NIC (£000’s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Items with NIC greater than £20.00</p></td><td><p>104,576.4</p></td><td><p>5,295,382.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All items</p></td><td><p>1,064,573.8</p></td><td><p>8,852,574.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Prescription Cost Analysis, provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Note:</em> NIC per item is an average; it is not an exact measure of the cost of the medicine. The quantity of the medicine prescribed can vary for each prescription item.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 10:55:56 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

389841

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices in Woking constituency have received funding from the GP Access Fund.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	6900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>There are currently no general practitioner (GP) practices in Woking receiving funding from the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (known formerly as the PM Challenge Fund).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the availability of GP appointments in Woking is not collected centrally. GP practices are responsible for managing their appointments in accordance with the needs of their patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to GP and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, there are 57 schemes covering over 2,500 practices and 18 million patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 6902 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:13:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

389843

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP appointments were available in Woking constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	6902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>There are currently no general practitioner (GP) practices in Woking receiving funding from the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (known formerly as the PM Challenge Fund).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the availability of GP appointments in Woking is not collected centrally. GP practices are responsible for managing their appointments in accordance with the needs of their patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to GP and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, there are 57 schemes covering over 2,500 practices and 18 million patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 6900 question first answered 21/07/2015 16:13:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

389848

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will publish the analysis and assumptions which underlie its policy of securing £22 billion of efficiency savings in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The National Health Service's own action plan for the next five years – the NHS Five Year Forward View – anticipated a gap between resources and patient needs of nearly £30 billion a year by 2020/21, if there were no further efficiencies. To fill this gap the Five Year Forward View called for an extra £8 billion in funding, which the Government has committed to, along with £22 billion of efficiency savings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to work together with the health service, our partners and patients to develop key elements of the programme required to achieve the £22 billion of efficiency savings. The precise health budget will be determined by the Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 16:27:41 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

389854

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what formula determined the level of NHS funding for devolution to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England are working closely with Greater Manchester to develop the devolved arrangements that will be implemented from April 2016. The <em>Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution Memorandum of Understanding</em> has identified around £6 billion of health and social care funding which has currently been allocated at the full Greater Manchester level.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The large majority of total health funding for England is allocated to NHS England by the Department. NHS England is then responsible for making allocations of funding to individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which are responsible for commissioning most local health services. Decisions on CCG allocations are taken independently of Government by NHS England. What the Government does is to set some broad principles, as part of the Mandate to NHS England, to which they must conform.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 10:50:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

389855

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of GP practices participating in the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund were already offering evening or weekend opening hours prior to their participation in that fund.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>36% of practices participating in wave one schemes (announced in October 2013) offered some form of weekday extended hours provision and 17% offered some form of weekend extended hours provision prior to participating in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (formerly the PM Challenge Fund). NHS England is currently undertaking a baseline exercise for those practices participating in wave two (announced September 2014). We do not hold data on how many days a week these practices were offering extended hours, nor whether they offered routine appointments or reserved them for urgent care.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to general practitioner (GP) and primary care services. We have invested in the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund to test improved and innovative access to GP services. This includes longer opening hours – such as evening and weekend hours – but also different ways of accessing services, for example telephone and Skype consultations. Across two waves of the Fund, 57 schemes will be set up covering over 2,500 practices. All schemes within the GP Access Fund are now offering some form of extended opening hours at evenings or weekends.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 16:48:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

389860

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether (a) NHS England and (b) Health Education England made any representations to HM Treasury prior to the Summer Budget 2015 announcement on public sector pay.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	7144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>We understand that neither body made any representations to HM Treasury in advance of the summer Budget.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/07/2015 16:22:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

389210

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Career Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to review responsibilities within pay bands in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	6816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>The March 2013 national Agenda for Change collective agreement sets out the respective responsibilities between staff and employers on workforce re-profiling and can be found on the NHS Employers website at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/pay-and-reward/pay/agenda-for-change-pay/agenda-for-change-amendments-2013" target="_blank">http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/pay-and-reward/pay/agenda-for-change-pay/agenda-for-change-amendments-2013</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to review how job responsibilities will be evaluated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/07/2015 16:46:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

389564

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sheffield Heeley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of GP surgeries in Sheffield, Heeley constituency that will have to (a) reduce patient services and (b) close as a result of the phased withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	6570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) was introduced as part of the 2004 General Medical Services (GMS) contract as a temporary top-up payment to some general practitioner practices to smooth the transition to new funding arrangements. It is being phased out because it is not fair. We want a simplified, fair and transparent system. The funding released from MPIG over seven years will be reinvested in the basic payments made to all GMS practices. For the majority of practices there will be a net gain in practice income. Making changes over this period will allow the minority of practices that lose funding to adjust gradually to a reduction in payments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 6572 question first answered 20/07/2015 10:37:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

389565

registered interest
date	13/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sheffield Heeley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries in Sheffield, Heeley constituency will be affected by the phased withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	6572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>This is a matter for NHS England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) was introduced as part of the 2004 General Medical Services (GMS) contract as a temporary top-up payment to some general practitioner practices to smooth the transition to new funding arrangements. It is being phased out because it is not fair. We want a simplified, fair and transparent system. The funding released from MPIG over seven years will be reinvested in the basic payments made to all GMS practices. For the majority of practices there will be a net gain in practice income. Making changes over this period will allow the minority of practices that lose funding to adjust gradually to a reduction in payments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 6570 question first answered 20/07/2015 10:37:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh