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1029388

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Schools
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 plans to put NHS-funded counsellors in every school to ensure easy access to mental health services for children.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	204507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Whilst the National Health Service does not plan to fund counsellors in every school, the joint Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education Green Paper, ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision’, set out our plans to improve access to mental health services for children. The Government plans have three key components: creating new mental health support teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions; piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children’s mental health services; and training Designated Senior Leads in mental health in schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:28:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1029389

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Veterans
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 his Department has made of the potential merits of an independent inquiry on the treatment of ex-service personnel with mental health issues.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	204508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no current plans for such an inquiry.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and the National Health Service are taking forward a number of initiatives to support ex-service personnel with mental health issues.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissions two bespoke services for ex-service personnel. The first is the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service, which supports serving personnel who need additional support as they are leaving the armed forces and veterans who have mental health issues. The second is the NHS Veterans’ Mental Health Complex Treatment Service, which is a community-based service providing a range of more intensive care and treatment for ex-service personnel with military attributable complex mental health problems that have not improved with earlier care and treatment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:24:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1029418

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer of 26 November 2018 to Question 194124 on Blood: Contamination, what plans he has to increase the level of financial support provide to people affected by infected blood and blood products; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	204532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The England Infected Blood Support Scheme (EIBSS), administered by NHS Business Services Authority, was launched on 1 November 2017 following two public consultations in 2016 and 2017. These consultations sought views on the proposed reforms to the EIBSS and the new special appeals mechanisms for those with chronic hepatitis C infection. Over the period of the current spending review, the launch of the EIBSS was part of the Government’s commitment, in January 2016, to provide an extra £125 million to support people affected by infected blood and blood products.</p><p> </p><p>The Infected Blood Inquiry, announced in July 2017, has included examination of the support provided to people affected by infected blood in its terms of reference. The Department continues to follow the Inquiry closely and will careful consider any views from the Inquiry on where further improvements to the EIBSS could be made.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:15:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1029493

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Infant Mortality
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 increase support for families who have suffered baby loss.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	204429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is working to improve the care and support received by families who experience baby loss. The Department has provided funding to Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, to work with other baby loss charities and Royal Colleges to produce the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP) to reduce the variation in the quality of bereavement care provided by the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The NBCP helps professionals to support families in their bereavement after any pregnancy or baby loss, be that miscarriage (including ectopic and molar pregnancy), termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly, stillbirth, neonatal death or sudden unexpected death in infancy. In October 2018, all of the NBCP guidance materials and tools were published online.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England’s Perinatal Mental Health Team has been working with Sands to ensure that the NBCP guidelines effectively signpost universal mental health screening and referral to evidence-based interventions and support.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Pregnancy Loss Review which the Department commissioned earlier this year, has been considering the question of whether legislation should provide new rights to bereaved parents to register pregnancy loss occurring before 24 weeks gestation, as well as investigating the impact of such losses on families and how care can be improved for parents who experience this. The review has been widely consulting with parents, charities and medical professionals and is currently scheduled to be completed in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:16:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1029539

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Royal College of Psychiatrists report Suffering in Silence: age inequality in older people’s mental health care which concluded that older adults are the least likely group to seek treatment for mental health care despite being the group who achieve the highest recovery rates in services provided under the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	204487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the findings in the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ report that older people are less likely to seek mental health treatment and are therefore under-represented in mental health services and do not access them as readily as people who are under 65 years of age.</p><p> </p><p>As part of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), NHS England introduced financial incentives through the Mental Health Premium in 2017-18 and 2018-19, to ensure clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) improve access and outcomes for under-represented groups, particularly older people. The Mental Health Premium Guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/annx-b-quality-premium-april-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/annx-b-quality-premium-april-18.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Also in June 2018, NHS England, with support from the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, published its Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Manual, which includes a section dedicated to improving and adapting IAPT services for older people. This manual aims to help commissioners, managers and clinicians improve and expand their local IAPT services. The manual is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-iapt-manual.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-iapt-manual.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Since April 2018 all CCGs have been expected to expand IAPT by commissioning services that are integrated into physical healthcare pathways. These services are designed to support people with combined physical health long term conditions (LTCs) and depression and anxiety disorders. We anticipate this expansion will further increase access for older people, who are more likely than working age people to live with one or more LTCs.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:20:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1029541

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 December 2017 Green Paper entitled Transforming the Mental Health of Children and Young People, what progress has been made on implementing the four-week waiting time target.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	204489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>On 20 December we announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites that will test the plans set out in the Green Paper on children and young people’s mental health which have three key components: creating new mental health support teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions; piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children’s mental health services; and training Designated Senior Leads in mental health in schools and colleges.</p><p> </p><p>Twelve of the 25 areas have been chosen to pilot a four-week waiting time. The 12 clinical commissioning group pilot areas are Bromley, Buckinghamshire, Camden, Doncaster and Rotherham, Gloucestershire, Haringey, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, South Warwickshire, Stoke on Trent and Tower Hamlets.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:21:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1029542

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 December 2017 Green Paper entitled Transforming the Mental Health of Children and Young People, whether the four-week waiting time target refers to a waiting time from referral to (a) assessment or (b) treatment.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	204490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The four week waiting time to be piloted for children’s and young people’s mental health services is from referral to treatment, rather than assessment.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:25:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1029558

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
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 effectiveness of the (a) support and (b) treatment for people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	204428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission has a statutory duty to monitor how mental health providers exercise powers and discharge their duties when people are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. It reports annually, and its most recent report Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2016/17 was published in February 2018. The report contains a specific chapter on care, support and treatment in hospital. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180227_mhareport_web.pdf" target="_blank">www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180227_mhareport_web.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to reform mental health legislation. As a first step towards this, the Prime Minister asked Professor Sir Simon Wessely to chair a full and independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983. Modernising the Mental Health Act Increasing choice, reducing compulsion, the final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act, was published in December. The Government will consider the report and its recommendations in detail, and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:30:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1028678

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
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	Arthritis: Mental 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 assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations made by National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society in their report entitled Emotional Health and Well-being Matters.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	203876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The recommendations made in the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society’s report, Emotional Health and Well-being Matters, are aimed at a number of different bodies and Government to improve the monitoring and measuring of mental health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis and to improve access to services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that long-term conditions, such as arthritis, can have an impact on a person’s mental wellbeing. The guideline Rheumatoid arthritis in adults: management, updated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2018, sets out best practice in the diagnosis, treatment, care and support of people with rheumatoid arthritis. The guidance recommends that patients should be offered psychological interventions, for example, relaxation, stress management and cognitive coping skills to help them to adjust to living with their condition.</p><p> </p><p>We expect National Health Service organisations and clinicians to take NICE guidelines into account fully as best practice, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng100" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng100</a></p><p> </p><p>As set out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, the expansion of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services now under way has a focus on helping people with long-term conditions, including conditions such as arthritis.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:32:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1028693

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the first set of trailblazers for mental health in schools; and whether the associated training in relation to those trailblazers will be delivered in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	203905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>We announced the first wave of 25 trailblazer sites on 20 December. The trailblazer sites will test out the plans previously announced in ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’, published in December 2017, creating new mental health support teams working in and near schools and colleges to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions; piloting a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children’s mental health services; and training Designated Senior Leads in mental health in schools and colleges. There will be 59 mental health support teams across the first wave of 25 sites, covering a population of around 470,000 children and young people. The first cohort of new staff for the Support Teams, the Education Mental Health Practitioners, start training in January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/01/2019 15:26:14 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck