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date	11/04/2019
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	Heroin and Morphine: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the numbers of deaths from misuse of heroin and morphine in (a) coastal communities and (b) Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	244175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. This includes helping to prevent drug-related deaths from the misuse of heroin and morphine in coastal communities. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities to do this by providing advice, guidance and tools.</p><p>Locally, PHE is supporting the South East substance misuse network, which includes Portsmouth, to review a range of opportunities to prevent drug misuse deaths including engaging more people at risk in treatment, improving the physical and mental wellbeing of people in treatment, improving access to naloxone, developing local arrangements for reviewing deaths and near misses, and developing drug alert and early warning systems.</p><p>Nationally, the Department and PHE have made it easier for drug services to supply naloxone, published updated clinical guidelines for drug treatment and worked with a network of treatment providers to establish good practice guidance on managing drug-related death risk factors and to improve partnership between treatment providers and other healthcare services. Updated clinical guidelines can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 13:59:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1121380

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Radioisotopes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has with NHS England on ensuring adequate supplies of Choline for cancer (a) scans and (b) diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has been in regular contact with NHS England regarding the availability of Choline used for PET scanning. Choline supplies are currently available and NHS England has taken a number of steps to stabilise the availability of Choline going forward to ensure adequate supply remains available for PET scanning.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 14:02:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1121381

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Cataracts: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guideline his Department has issued to Hospitals and Care Commissioning Groups on operations for cataracts.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	244016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to the prevention and detection of eye disease, which are both key to preserving sight along with access to timely treatment.</p><p> </p><p>National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines published in 2017 make clear the expectations on cataract surgery. The guidelines can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng77" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng77</a></p><p> </p><p>While commissioning decisions must remain a matter for individual clinical commissioning groups all National Health Service bodies are required to carefully consider NICE guidelines in making such decisions.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 14:05:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1121441

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children have been admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of asthma in (i) the Canterbury district and (ii) each of the Kent parliamentary constituencies in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	244189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital has provided the following data that detail the count of hospital finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of asthma, broken down by children under 18 and adults over 18 for Canterbury Local Authority District, and each Westminster parliamentary constituency in Kent for the financial years 2010-11 to 2017-18:</p><p>Canterbury Local Authority District:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Children</p></td><td><p>Adults</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p><p>Data for FAEs in Westminster parliamentary constituencies in Kent is attached.</p><p>A FAE is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 14:13:59 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name PQ244189 DATA.docx title PQ244189_data
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield