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926592

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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: Armed Forces
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 funding his Department allocated to mental health services for armed forces personnel in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	154717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Serving and former armed forces personnel and their families access a wide range of services provided by the National Health Service in England, including mental health services. These are not identified separately in clinical commissioning groups’ accounts.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, NHS England was allocated £6.4 million in 2017/18 for bespoke veterans’ mental health services including the Veterans Mental Health Transition, Intervention and Liaison service and the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder service.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 154718 question first answered 21/06/2018 11:27:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

923518

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Pregnancy: 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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that more mothers are able to access perinatal mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	153277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million by 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services. This investment will ensure that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year will be able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This includes access to psychological therapies and specialist community or inpatient care.</p><p> </p><p>A key element of the programme is to increase awareness and skills across the workforce, supporting better identification of perinatal mental illness, early intervention and consequently improved recovery rates.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:22:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

874879

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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	Life Expectancy
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 is taking to reduce the gap in life expectancy between people from affluent and low-income communities.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	135180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The causes of health inequalities are multi-faceted and highly complex. The Department’s aim is to take action to promote and support people to have healthier lifestyles and to tackle differences in access to, and outcomes from, our health and public health services.</p><p> </p><p>Our commitment and approach to tackling health inequalities – and social injustice – is underpinned by the legal duty enshrined in the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which is to work to reduce inequalities.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced transparent high level measures to reduce health inequalities in the Public Health Outcomes Framework and NHS Outcomes Framework. In March 2015, we published an additional list of selected NHS Outcomes Framework indicators for which health inequalities data has been made available. We have also recently published the NHS Mandate for 2018/19 and the Public Health England (PHE) Remit letter for 2018/19 which clearly set out those organisations’ responsibilities and work on reducing inequalities in health.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling health inequalities is a core part of PHE’s Strategic Vision for 2020. Statistics, evidence and tools are being developed to support action by local authorities and the wider public health system to take effective action on health equity.</p><p> </p><p>There is more to do to systematically address inequalities and NHS England aims to improve and measure the impact of their programmes and also better support local commissioners and providers in their work. The NHS England Board discussed health inequalities and life expectancy at a meeting in March 2018, and plans are being developed to take work forward. The board paper – Item 9 - on health inequalities is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-board-meeting-papers-29-march-2018/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-board-meeting-papers-29-march-2018/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 16/04/2018 15:57:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

834823

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the proportion of state primary schools which have a school nurse.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	126245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>School nurses are not based in or employed by schools and they will usually cover a cluster of secondary schools and their feeder primary schools. The delivery of services within schools is for local determination and commissioning for the service is led by local authorities. Some schools will choose to commission additional school nursing capacity to meet specific identified public health needs. Due to the variable nature of a school nurse’s commitments no national data exists on the proportion of schools that currently have a school nurse.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 126246 question first answered 06/02/2018 12:13:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

834824

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
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	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the proportion of state secondary schools which have a school nurse.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	126246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>School nurses are not based in or employed by schools and they will usually cover a cluster of secondary schools and their feeder primary schools. The delivery of services within schools is for local determination and commissioning for the service is led by local authorities. Some schools will choose to commission additional school nursing capacity to meet specific identified public health needs. Due to the variable nature of a school nurse’s commitments no national data exists on the proportion of schools that currently have a school nurse.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 126245 question first answered 06/02/2018 12:13:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

833117

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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 Foods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will reinstate the infant feeding survey.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	125433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>There are no current plans to reinstate the Infant Feeding Survey. Some information on the incidence and prevalence of breastfeeding is available from other sources including Public Health England (Breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks) and NHS Digital’s Maternity Services Dataset (First feed breastmilk) official statistics. Other surveys of women’s experiences of maternity services undertaken by the Care Quality Commission and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University provide background and context.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 01/02/2018 16:05:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

833118

registered interest
date	29/01/2018
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	Maternity 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 all maternity services are accredited by the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	125434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England and UNICEF UK have developed a toolkit to support commissioning of evidence-based interventions to improve breastfeeding rates across England, including provision of effective professional support to mothers and their families through implementation of the Baby Friendly Initiative in every maternity unit.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of maternity units (91%) and health visiting services (85%) across the United Kingdom are now working towards Baby Friendly accreditation, and new neonatal and children’s centre standards have been introduced to help services improve care.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 01/02/2018 16:07:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

797631

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department have taken to ensure that patients are not discharged before a care plan has been put in place.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	116594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>Patients must only be discharged from hospital when it is safe to do so and they have reached the point where care and any on-going assessment can be safely continued in a non-acute setting.</p><p> </p><p>Where a patient is likely to need on-going social care support after being discharged, the Care Act 2014 requires the National Health Service to notify the relevant local authority of the patient’s likely need for social care. Where the patient is unlikely to be safely discharged without arrangements for such support being put in place, the NHS must issue an assessment notice to the local authority and must give at least 24 hours’ notice of when it intends to discharge the patient to allow appropriate arrangements to be put in place.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/12/2017 16:57:21 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

795057

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Employment
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 7 July to Question 1686, if he will adopt the recommendations of Thriving at Work: a review of mental health and employers, to reform mental health practices in the work place.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister welcomed the review, and has accepted the review’s recommendations that apply to the Civil Service and NHS England as employers. The Government will support and encourage the wider public sector in taking forward the recommendations wherever possible.</p><p> </p><p>It is our hope that responsible employers will choose to adopt the mental health core standards and improve their workplace environment, with recommendations for trade bodies, regulators and the Government supporting them in making this happen.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will respond to the full review as a part of our response to the consultation on the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/11/2017 17:31:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

778209

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
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 6 February 2017 to Question 62727, how much his Department spent on organ donation (a) between 2010 and May 2015 and (b) since May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	110018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>The table below sets out the total amount of funding for organ donation provided per year to NHS Blood and Transplant by the Department since 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>51.4</p></td><td><p>55.2</p></td><td><p>54.3</p></td><td><p>52.88</p></td><td><p>53.95</p></td><td><p>55.05</p></td><td><p>61.9</p></td><td><p>61.9</p></td><td><p>61.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 31/10/2017 17:31:52 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis