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50375

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve awareness of and early intervention for rheumatoid arthritis.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	198171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published clinical guidance on the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in adults, which set outs best practice on the diagnosis, care, treatment and support of patients. The guidance makes clear the importance of early diagnosis and is explicit that suspected cases should be referred as an urgent priority for specialist assessment and that early initiation of treatment can prevent irreversible damage to joints.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, information on the diagnosis and treatment of RA can also be accessed via the NICE Clinical Knowledge summaries website at:</p><p> </p><p>http://cks.nice.org.uk/rheumatoid-arthritis</p><p> </p><p>and more general information for the public can be found on the NHS Choices website at:</p><p> </p><p>www.nhs.uk/conditions/rheumatoid-arthritis</p><p> </p><p>Through the mandate we have asked NHS England to make measurable progress towards making our health service among the best in Europe at supporting people with ongoing health problems, such as RA, to live healthily and independently, with much better control over the care they receive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

50396

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2014, Official Report, column 714, on physical and mental health (parity of esteem), if he will collect and publish mental health spending data for (a) 2012-13, (b) 2013-14 and (c) future years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	198290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p>NHS England currently collects and publishes information about mental health spending via its Programme Budgeting Data collection and published expenditure data for 2012-13 on 21 February 2014. This is available on its website at:</p><p> </p><p>www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting</p><p> </p><p>We are working with NHS England to support its plans to develop the Programme Budgeting Dataset for 2013-14 to provide a more meaningful analysis of expenditure on mental health conditions.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

50398

registered interest
date	08/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the findings of the recent Global Forum on Incontinence into improving health and social care in incontinence.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Jim Dobbin
uin	198200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the findings of the recent Global Forum on Incontinence (GFI) into improving health and social care in incontinence. However, we applaud the work of the GFI and the work it is doing to improve the health and social care provisions for incontinence, giving patients and care givers a better quality of life.</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility for continence services sit with NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCG). CCGs are responsible for commissioning high quality continence services based on an assessment of local need and performance managing their providers in the delivery of high quality services.</p><p> </p><p>The Mandate to NHS England requires it to deliver continued improvements in relation to enhancing the quality of life for people with long-term conditions, including those suffering incontinence, across the five domains of the NHS Outcomes Framework. NHS England will be taking forward a major programme of work through the Primary Care Strategy; it has established a working group on continence care and will provide an update for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Continence Care on 24 June.</p><p> </p><p>To improve standards in continence care, the Department commissioned the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to develop clinical guidelines on the management of urinary incontinence in women (issued in 2006) and faecal incontinence in adults (issued in 2007), which are supported by commissioning tools to support CCGs. In February, NICE published a clinical Quality Standard on Faecal Incontinence, QS54, which describes high-priority areas for quality improvement in this area. NHS England continues to champion the use of Quality Standards with both commissioners and providers.</p><p> </p><p>We believe all patients have the right to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that continence can impact on every aspect of peoples' lives and that it often requires a joined approach from both health and social care services. That is why in April the Department published the policy paper, <em>Transforming Primary Care: safe proactive, personalised care for those who need it</em>, which focuses on improving and individualising the management of out of hospital care, directly supporting those with continence problems by creating more integrated health and social care services. This paper has been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name PQ198200 - Library Doc - Report.pdf title Transforming Primary Care
tabling member	446 label Biography information for Jim Dobbin

50177

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals for regulations to ensure that ME and chronic fatigue syndrome are included in all pre- and post-registration training of (a) GPs and (b) other healthcare professionals.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	198120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>In 2007, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produced the clinical guidance, <em>Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): Diagnosis and management of CFS/ME in adults and children</em>. This guidance set out best practice on the diagnosis, treatment care and support of children and adults with CFS/ME. Information on CFS/ME diagnosis and treatment can also be accessed via the NHS Evidence and NICE Clinical Knowledge summaries websites.</p><p> </p><p>The content and standard of healthcare professional training is the responsibility of regulators, such as the General Medical Council, which are independent statutory bodies. They have the general function of promoting high standards of education, working with the Royal Colleges, and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that students and newly qualified professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has mandated Health Education England (HEE) to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service. HEE is responsible for ensuring that the future workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours to meet patients' needs today and tomorrow, and will work with stakeholders to influence training curricula as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 198121 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

50178

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department plans to take to improve information and support for GPs regarding ME or chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will take steps to improve access to specialist services for people with those conditions.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	198121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>In 2007, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produced the clinical guidance, <em>Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): Diagnosis and management of CFS/ME in adults and children</em>. This guidance set out best practice on the diagnosis, treatment care and support of children and adults with CFS/ME. Information on CFS/ME diagnosis and treatment can also be accessed via the NHS Evidence and NICE Clinical Knowledge summaries websites.</p><p> </p><p>The content and standard of healthcare professional training is the responsibility of regulators, such as the General Medical Council, which are independent statutory bodies. They have the general function of promoting high standards of education, working with the Royal Colleges, and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that students and newly qualified professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has mandated Health Education England (HEE) to provide national leadership on education, training and workforce development in the National Health Service. HEE is responsible for ensuring that the future workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours to meet patients' needs today and tomorrow, and will work with stakeholders to influence training curricula as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 198120 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

50180

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to social care assessments for people with ME or chronic fatigue syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	198039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Care Bill will require local authorities to provide information and advice on how to access care and support in their area including assessments.</p><p> </p><p>The Bill will place local authorities under a duty to assess any adult who appears to have needs for care and support, whatever their level of need. The assessment will look at the person's needs and outcomes they want to achieve, and the person must be involved throughout the process. Authorities will have to ensure that anyone who is undertaking an assessment is appropriately trained to do so, and that where the assessor is not experienced in the condition of the person they are assessing, they must consult someone who is.</p><p> </p><p>These measures will ensure that the person needing care has an effective assessment carried out by an appropriately trained assessor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

49739

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations have received how much funding from his Department aimed at supporting access to short breaks and respite provision for children, young people and their families experiencing all types of disadvantage in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
uin	197823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p>From 2008-09, the Department made £340 million available (for three years), for palliative care and end-of-life services, short breaks, community equipment and wheelchair services for disabled children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>In each of the last five years, we have made an annual grant of £10 million to 40 children's hospice services. An additional £721,000 was made available from 2012-13 for seven new children's hospices not in receipt of the original grant. In addition to the annual grant, we also made available a one-off grant of £19 million in 2010-11 to support local children's palliative services and over £7.5 million in 2013-14 in capital grants for children's hospices and hospices at home.</p><p> </p><p>We have also provided £400 million to the National Health Service over four years from 2011 for family carers to have breaks from their caring responsibilities. In the 2013 Spending Review, we announced the £3.8 billion Better Care Fund, which includes £130 millionfunding for carers' breaks for 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard

49807

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for Health in Northern Ireland on the establishment of a cancer drugs fund; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	197834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>We have had no such discussions.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

49881

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 27 March 2014, Official Report, column 364W, on mental health services, when the guidance and Choice Framework which he referred to will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	197978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The Department published the NHS Choice Framework 2014 on 1 April 2014. A copy has been placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has been working with NHS England and other partners and stakeholders to develop supporting guidance for the National Health Service. A consultation on this will commence shortly and final guidance will be published in the summer.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and NHS England will continue to work with partners and stakeholders to ensure that the extended rights to choice in mental health are fully embedded by 2015 as set out in the NHS Mandate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb attachment 1 file name PQ197978 - Library Doc - Report.pdf title 2014/15 Choice Framework 2 file name House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 27 Mar 2014.docx title Mental Health Services Hansard Extract question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

49976

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the £2.7 million announced for learning disability in the recently published NHS England business plan for 2014-15 will be spent on the proposed premature mortality review function.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Clarke
uin	197897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has made £1.5 million available in 2014-15 to undertake the work required to establish a national learning disability mortality review function by the end of March 2015. NHS England is currently undertaking work to define the detail of how the review function will operate. However, NHS England is clear that the starting point will be the proposals put forward by the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities team and will aim to develop proposals with input from a range of partners.</p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb grouped question UIN 197898 197899 question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	583 label Biography information for Mr Tom Clarke