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1128521

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
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 his oral contribution of 8 April 2019, Official Report, column 36, what the timetable is for making available a public register of specialist clinicians who can prescribe cannabis-based medicines.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	257698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The law provides that specialist clinicians on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ can prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use, where clinically appropriate and in the best interest of patients.</p><p>A general practitioner (GP) may make a referral to a specialist clinician on the General Medical Council’s ‘Specialist Register’ once the patient reaches the appropriate point in their treatment pathway.</p><p>A list of Registered Medical Practitioners, including specialist clinicians, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/the-medical-register" target="_blank">https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/the-medical-register</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 13:48:29 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1128532

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Diabetes: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the NHS establish a pathway of care for (a) emotional and (b) mental health support for people with diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	257715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed to increasing the provision of mental health support for all patients who require it. The importance of addressing the mental health needs of people with diabetes is recognised and further work is underway to consider the most effective routes for supporting this as part of the future development of services.</p><p> </p><p>On 21 March 2018, NHS England and NHS Improvement, along with the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, published ‘The Improving Access to Psychotherapy Therapy (IAPT) Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms’. The guidance outlines the IAPT pathway, and accompanying benchmarks, to support the national expansion of IAPT services for adults with long term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a project working group has been established involving NHS England, Diabetes UK and other stakeholders which aims to develop a care pathway which, when adopted locally, would help improve access to emotional and psychological support for people with diabetes.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:23:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1128556

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish data on the uptake of influenza vaccinations by social care workers in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	257680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>There is no nationally agreed data set or data collection for recording the immunisation of social care workers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:16:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1128558

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Neurofibromatosis: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to add a body map insert page to the Personal Child Health Record to improve recognition of neurofibromatosis.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
uin	257816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The content of the Personal Child Health Record (PCHR) is overseen by a multi-disciplinary group hosted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). The inclusion of a body map in the paper-based version of the PCHR to help improve recognition of conditions such as neurofibromatosis has previously been discussed.</p><p>Whilst it is recognised that some areas choose to include a body map in the paper-based version of the PCHR they issue to new parents/carers at a child’s birth, the RCPCH hosted committee rejected a request for it to be included universally. The matter has subsequently been referred to the UK National Screening Committee for further consideration.</p><p>An electronic version of the PCHR is being piloted and will be further developed. Access to information on neurofibromatosis and other conditions which can be accessed by parents, carers or health professionals will be considered as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 13:50:09 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

1128572

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Dental Health: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the level of child tooth decay was in (a) Birkenhead, (b) Bootle and (c) Crewe in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	257654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Data on the level of child tooth decay in five-year-old children are published at upper and lower-tier local authority level and, therefore, are not available in the format requested.</p><p>Local authority data for 2014/15 and 2016/17 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/oral-health-survey-of-5-year-old-children-2017</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:18:45 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1128577

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Asthma: Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring that there are asthma specialist pharmacists in all regions.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	257659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been undertaken on this subject.</p><p>There are currently 14 severe asthma centres in England. All specialist providers are required to develop a networked model of care as the vehicle for delivering an optimal pathway and maximising patient outcomes and experience.</p><p>It is expected that National Health Service patients with severe asthma are referred to their specialist asthma service by secondary care physicians where they will receive appropriate investigation and treatment.</p><p>Respiratory disease is a clinical priority within the recently published NHS Long Term Plan. The Plan has the overarching objective of improving outcomes for people with respiratory disease, including asthma.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 14:27:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1128585

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
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	Asthma: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of severe asthma services in (a) England and (b) North Staffordshire.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	257660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of provision of severe asthma services in England and North Staffordshire.</p><p>Respiratory disease is a clinical priority within the recently published NHS Long Term Plan. The Plan has the overarching objective of improving outcomes for people with respiratory disease, including asthma.</p><p>There are currently 14 severe asthma centres in England. All specialist providers are required to develop a networked model of care as the vehicle for delivering an optimal pathway and maximising patient outcomes and experience.</p><p>It is expected that National Health Service patients with severe asthma are referred to their specialist asthma service where they will receive appropriate investigation and treatment.</p><p>The closest specialist centres to North Staffordshire are located in Birmingham and Manchester. Services for patients in Stoke and North Staffordshire with severe asthma are provided by University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. The Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust also supports asthma patients.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 14:24:58 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1128292

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	General Practitioners: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2019 to Question 253711 on General Practitioners: Finance, from which sources GPs’ surgeries can obtain funding for recruitment costs in the period before clinical directors take up their posts.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	257552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Each Primary Care Network (PCN) is required to appoint a Clinical Director who will take up their post formally from July 2019. Under the terms of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES), PCNs can claim a funding contribution for this role. In 2019/20 this is a payment of £0.51430 per registered patient for the period 1 July 2019 to 31 March 2020.</p><p>Practices will receive funding for participating in a PCN through the Network Participation Payment of £0.147 per weighted patient for the period from 1 April 2019. This becomes payable once they have signed up to the Network Contract DES and the DES commences, from 1 July 2019. In addition, once established, PCNs are entitled to funding of £0.125 per patient per month from clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations, the first payment of which will cover the period 1 April to 31 July.</p><p>Collectively, these funding streams and others mean PCNs receive £296 million in 2019/20. The Network Participation Payment and the clinical commissioning group PCN funding together reflect the additional work undertaken, including between 1 April and 30 June, to establish PCNs and appoint Clinical Directors.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:24:43 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1128359

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	General Practitioners: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average number of hours general practitioners spend on writing NHS prescriptions in England per week.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
uin	257429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The data requested is not collected or held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 15:16:55 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

1128360

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Pharmacy: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent on delivering the NHS England Stay Well Pharmacy campaign; and over what time period those funds were spent.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
uin	257430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The most recent NHS England ‘Pharmacy Advice’ campaign - previously called the Stay Well Pharmacy campaign - ran between 4 February and 17 March 2019. We are informed by NHS England that the overall cost of running the advertising campaign was £2 million.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 05/06/2019 14:35:07 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron