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1127181

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date	16/05/2019
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	Prisons: 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, what recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the assessment and treatment of prisoner mental health.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	255324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice and immigration removal system to improve services for offenders and detainees with mental health difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service England specialised commissioners and NHS England health and justice (H&amp;J) Commissioners have also been working collaboratively alongside the mental health team in NHS England to develop work to improve mental health of prisoners and to develop and improve the system for transfers and remissions of adult prisoners to mental health hospitals</p><p> </p><p>Mental health summits are being delivered regionally to develop the whole offender mental health pathway, identifying local anomalies, and gaps as well as good practice, and producing locally owned action plans to improve services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, new service specifications have been published for both low and medium secure hospitals as well as prison mental health services. The prison mental health specification embeds the ‘Standards for Prison Mental Health Services’, developed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to ensure high quality care for all.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/05/2019 12:46:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1127186

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Prisons
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 have been taken to tackle delays in transferring people with mental health problems from prison to hospital.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	255327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is the commissioning body responsible for ensuring high quality low, medium and high secure hospital accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this role, NHS England has developed a national approach to ensuring close partnership working with local NHS England health and justice teams to review patients’ needs and expedite access to secure mental health beds. This also includes a more detailed understanding of challenges in the system in relation to remissions from hospital to prison, so that access, progress and throughput is improved.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissioned a repeat of the 2017 National Health Service benchmarking audit on transfers and remissions in early 2019, and a full analysis of this data is currently taking place. This information will help to ensure that challenges and delays in the system are addressed to ensure timely and appropriate transfers of care.</p><p> </p><p>The current ‘Prison Transfer and Remission Best Practice Guidance’, published by the Department in 2011, is being reviewed and two separate documents are being developed to replace it: one for immigration removal centres and another for prisons.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2019 16:31:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

855776

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
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	Genetics: Screening
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 the Government has made of the effect on (a) jobs and (b) patient care of the potential reduction of genetic testing facilities in Newcastle.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	131081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has welcomed and accepted the recommendations in the Chief Medical Officer for England Annual Report ‘Generation Genome’ published in July 2017. In her report, Dame Sally Davies recommended the recommissioning of genomics services nationally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England launched a procurement for genomic laboratory services in December 2017, which is still live. The aim of the procurement is to put in place a world-class resource for the National Health Service delivering cutting-edge genomic technology to deliver equitable access for patient benefit. As part of the evaluation NHS England will assess, amongst other areas, the proposed organisational and governance structures of the genomic laboratories and their ability to deliver high quality genomic tests equitably to patients across England.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/03/2018 11:57:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

855777

registered interest
date	05/03/2018
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	100,000 Genomes Project
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has plans to commission an external evaluation of the 100,000 genomes project.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	131082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>The project is regularly reviewed by Infrastructure and Projects Authority which provides independent assurance to the most complex and strategically significant projects across Government.</p><p> </p><p>A number of pilot sites were in operation prior to the start of the 100,000 Genomes Project. Following the evaluation of these pilot projects, processes were put in place for how the 100,000 Genomes Project is delivered at scale across the country.</p><p> </p><p>Learning from the 100,000 Genomes Project has been key to the development of a new National Genomic Medicine Service and National Genomic Test Directory by the National Health Service in England both of which will become operational in autumn 2018.</p><p> </p><p>A study ‘Understanding Experiences of Recruiting for and Participating in Genomics Research’ is being undertaken at the Departmental–funded Policy Innovation Research Unit. The study will include people's experience of taking part in the 100,000 Genomes Project and is due to report in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/03/2018 11:58:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

809607

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medical Records: Disclosure of Information
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 effectiveness of the Great North Care Record and its opt-in model for data sharing.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	120251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>The Great North Care Record is a local initiative led by the Connected Health Cities initiative and supported by general practices, hospitals, community and mental health trusts across the North East and North Cumbria region. It aims to make an agreed set of information from each organisation immediately available between health and care professionals using a secure, electronic system to help provide the best treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The Department understands that people receiving treatment at emergency departments or out of hours services ‘opt in’ at the point of care by giving permission for their Great North Care Record to be viewed by health professionals and that people can ‘opt out’ of the scheme via their general practitioner practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/12/2017 14:12:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

802692

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish further details on the Health Advanced Research Programme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	118241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The Health Advanced Research Programme is being developed in collaboration with health charities, who are exploring the concept and potential structure to shape the future of the programme. The Government is taking forward, in partnership with the life sciences sector, programmes in genomics and digital imaging/ Artificial Intelligence to drive health research and this is funded by the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/12/2017 14:37:46 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

773233

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate the Government has made of the number of people who are in receipt of social care.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	108638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>During 2015/16, 872,000 long term users were in contact with their local authority for adult social care support.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/10/2017 16:43:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

760693

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
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 quality of care homes since the publication of the report of the Care Quality Commission, The state of adult social care services 2014 to 2017, on 6 July 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>While this report shows that 79% of inspected adult social care services in England were rated good or outstanding, it is completely unacceptable that standards in some settings are below those rightly expected by care users and their families.</p><p>The Department is working with organisations from across the social care sector to implement Quality Matters – a commitment to improving quality to make a real difference for service users, carers, families and everyone working in the sector.</p><p>The Department will also be consulting on the future of social care. The consultation will set out options to improve the social care system and to put it on a more secure financial footing and address issues related to the quality of care and variation in practice.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/10/2017 15:12:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

760705

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genomics
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 13 September 2017 to Question 8799, on genetics: screening, in what locations other than Cambridge NHS genome testing will take place.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is currently preparing to procure a network of genomic laboratory hubs to provide comprehensive coverage across the country. The process is currently in the pre-procurement phase and therefore the defined geographies for these hubs have not yet been confirmed.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/10/2017 13:00:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

757687

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genetics: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to issue technology guidelines to the new regional genetics laboratories in England on the storage of genetic data.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	8801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is currently preparing to procure a network of genomic laboratory hubs. A full service specification will be issued at the start of the formal procurement process that will set out the requirements for the future informatics and data infrastructure, including the storage of genetic data.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 13/09/2017 15:45:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah