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date	06/06/2019
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	Dietetics
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 the Government is taking to reduce waiting times for dietetic services in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	261167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for assuring timely access to dietetic services, both in hospitals and community settings.</p><p>In addition, the NHS Long Term Plan makes several direct commitments to support timely intervention for specific conditions such as weight management services in primary care for people with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes or hypertension with a Body Mass Index of 30+ (adjusted appropriately for ethnicity), where it is known that significant impact can be made on improving health, reducing health inequalities and reducing costs.</p><p>The Long Term Plan commits to test a National Health Service programme supporting very low-calorie diets for obese people with type 2 diabetes. Additionally, the Long Term Plan commits to fund a doubling of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme over the next five years, including a new digital option to widen patient choice and target inequality.</p><p>Nutrition training, and an understanding of what is involved in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, varies between medical schools. The Long Term Plan commits to working with academic institutes to increase focus across the professional bodies and universities to ensure nutrition has a greater place in professional education and training.</p><p>Additionally, NHS England’s nutrition quality improvement collaborative programme, 41 NHS provider organisations have focussed on gaining improvements in the accuracy of nutritional screening and subsequent appropriateness of nutritional care. These organisations have introduced a range of interventions to directly improve care locally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:43:32 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1130415

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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	HIV Infection: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's policy is to ensure that HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis is available to all people who could benefit from it.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	261092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is currently available through the three year, NHS England funded, PrEP impact trial, which is providing HIV prevention drugs to people at high risk of HIV infection. Expansion of the trial is underway across the country following the my Rt. hon. Friend Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcement in January that the trial would be expanded to 26,000 people. Participation in the trial is on a voluntary basis and it is for local authorities to decide whether they wish to take part. Work is now starting to consider future commissioning for PrEP after the trial has ended.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:44:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1130522

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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	Children: Health
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 he has made of the number of children who have suffered health problems as a result of poor housing conditions in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	261223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) does not hold data on the number of children who have suffered health problems as a result of poor housing conditions.</p><p>PHE is working with partners across the housing and health systems to reduce housing-related ill-health, including in children, by supporting local authorities, the National Health Service and frontline staff through guidance in the Cold Weather Plan and through the resources available online in Homes for Health. More information is available at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cold-weather-plan-for-england" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cold-weather-plan-for-england</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-for-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-for-health</a></p><p>Public Health England is also working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to ensure that existing resources to improve energy efficiency and reduce fuel bills (including the Winter Fuel Payment) are targeted at the most vulnerable groups.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:42:32 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1130042

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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	Cancer: Health
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 the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on introducing an innovative quality of life metric to track and respond to the long-term impact of cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the NHS will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>As recommended in the Independent Cancer Taskforce report, NHS England has run a pilot project to test data collection methods and gather data to support the development of summary Quality of Life metric(s). Patients with breast, prostate and colorectal cancer in seven hospital trusts have been completing questionnaires, and up to May 2019, 3,700 patients had been invited and 1,914 patients completed questionnaires. The project is now entering a data analysis phase, and a recommendation on which statistics to use for the Quality of Life metric(s) is due by the end of the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:43:22 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130043

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
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	Breast Cancer: 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, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on establishing a stratified follow-up approach for breast cancer in all NHS trusts; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	260648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan states that, after treatment, patients will move to a follow-up pathway that suits their needs, and ensures they can get rapid access to clinical support where they are worried that their cancer may have recurred. This stratified follow-up approach will be established in all trusts for breast cancer in 2019.</p><p>As set out in the Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:41:49 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth