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1124567

registered interest
date	02/05/2019
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	Health Services: Access
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 ensure that the UK continues to uphold its commitment to the universal human right of access to healthcare.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	250468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The founding principles of the National Health Service, which are enshrined in law, set out that the NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all, with access based on clinical need and not an individual’s ability to pay. They are also reflected in the NHS Constitution.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out how the NHS will use the largest and longest funding settlement in NHS history to improve outcomes and patient experience over the next decade, meet the challenge of rising demand, and ensure that the NHS will remain sustainable for generations to come. As we work with the NHS to take the Plan forward, the Constitution continues to represent everything that the NHS stands for.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 09/05/2019 14:05:57 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1110240

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	NHS: Pay
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 close the pay gap in the NHS which affects outsourced staff.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	242038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>It is a matter for individual trusts and foundation trusts to agree with their outsourced service providers what level of pay increase they wish to fund for staff delivering services under contract to the National Health Service. For a number of outsourced services, we are aware that agreements are in place to implement the Agenda for Change (AfC) agreement for their staff.</p><p> </p><p>Funding has been provided for the AfC pay deal to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts from 2019/20 onwards through the normal funding routes from commissioners. This funding also covers services that trusts and foundation trusts have chosen to outsource.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/04/2019 16:07:52 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1104833

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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	Health Services and Social Services: Staff
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 on staffing of the March 2019 King's Fund report entitled Closing the gap: Key areas of action for the health and care workforce; and whether he is taking urgent steps to ensure an adequate level of staffing for the delivery of high-quality health and social care over the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	236311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the King’s Fund’s recent report, ‘Closing the gap: Key areas for action for the health and care workforce’, and agree that it is essential to ensure the health and care sector has the right number of people, with the right skills and values to provide high quality services.</p><p> </p><p>That is why the recently published Long Term Plan for the National Health Service committed funding for 20,000 more staff working in general practitioner practices and the Government has made funding available to increase university training places for nurses by 25%. Baroness Dido Harding is chairing a rapid programme of work, which will engage with staff, employers, professional organisations, trade unions and think tanks to build a shared vision and a plan of action that puts NHS people at the heart of NHS policy and delivery.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 28/03/2019 16:19:46 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1088242

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Eating Disorders
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 plans to ensure that on medicine courses the effect of eating disorders on mental health is given parity of esteem with their effect on physical health; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	231929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Undergraduate medical schools determine the content of their own curricula but are required to integrate the General Medical Council’s ‘Outcomes for Graduates’. These Outcomes include the knowledge, skills and behaviour that graduates must be able to demonstrate before gaining a licence to practise medicine.</p><p>The Outcomes were updated in 2018, with the integration of mental and social health care and caring for people with multiple morbidities, including mental health conditions, being key drivers for the update.</p><p>The new Outcomes specify that newly qualified doctors must explain and illustrate by professional experience the principles for the identification, safe management and referral of patients with mental health conditions. They must also take action in response to factors suggesting patient vulnerability, including assessing the needs of, and support required, for people with mental health conditions. Newly qualified doctors must be able to explain the relationship between psychological and medical conditions and how psychological factors impact on risk and treatment outcome. Finally the Outcomes take into account multi-professional working, noting that newly qualified doctors must work effectively within a multi-professional and multi-disciplinary team and across multiple care settings.</p><p>Medical schools have to design their curricula and assessments in order for their students to be able to meet all of the Outcomes by the time they complete their course. Schools have until summer 2020 to make sure their curriculum meets the new outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/03/2019 11:30:33 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1064434

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Medical Equipment: Regulation
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 UK leaving the EU will affect the way in which medical technology is regulated in the UK; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the ability of UK citizens to travel abroad with dialysis machines.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	223959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the safe and effective regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom. We continue to strengthen safety while ensuring patients and the public have fast access to new, innovative devices.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, there will be a two-year Implementation Period, during which the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) would continue to be recognised as a European Union competent authority designated under the EU Directives for medical devices, and the regulatory framework would operate as it does now. Arrangements beyond the implementation period are subject to further negotiation.</p><p> </p><p>In a ‘no deal’ scenario, the UK’s current participation in the European regulatory network for medical devices would end, and the MHRA would take on the responsibilities for the UK market that are currently undertaken through the EU system.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is seeking bilateral agreements with individual Member States to secure the continuation of existing arrangements or the establishment of comparable ones.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, the Government continues to advise people who require treatment for pre-existing conditions, including dialysis users, to seek the advice of their doctor or specialist unit before making travel arrangements. They should also contact the chosen specialist administrator in their destination to ensure treatment received after 29 March 2019 would not be affected by a ‘no deal’ scenario.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 25/02/2019 14:47:22 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1063813

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
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 potential effect on patient care of removing A&E waiting time targets.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	222748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2019 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced a clinically-led review of standards in June 2018. The review is considering the appropriateness of operational standards for physical and mental health relating to planned, unplanned urgent or emergency care, as well as cancer. The Review is being led by NHS England’s National Medical Director, Professor Stephen Powis. In the interest of patient safety, we are committed to ensuring that any changes to waiting time standards are based on clinical evidence. Any changes should, and will, only seek to further strengthen current operational standards.</p><p> </p><p>The Review will report its interim findings in the spring of 2019, after which any recommended changes will be carefully field-tested across the National Health Service, before they are implemented.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 26/02/2019 11:54:30 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1063816

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Nurses: Recruitment
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 encourage more people into nursing.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	222751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>There are more than 16,000 more nurses on our wards since May 2010. The Department of Health and Social Care has put in place significant actions to boost the supply of nurses, ranging from training more nurses, offering new routes into the profession, enhancing reward and pay packages to make nursing more attractive and improve retention, and encouraging those that have left to return to nursing. In 2018 NHS England and Health Education England ran an extensive communication campaign ‘we are the NHS’ which was focused on highlighting the positive image of nursing as a career.</p><p>The Department has made available funding for up to 5,000 additional clinical placements for nursing degrees in England.</p><p>Apprenticeships play a key role in ensuring the National Health Service has a future workforce, and the Department is committed to broadening routes into nursing. For the first time we now have a complete pathway of apprentice standards into nursing, from entry level Healthcare Support Worker, to Nursing Associate and onto the Nurse Degree Apprenticeship and Advanced Clinical Practice.</p><p>The latest data from the University and College Admissions Service (UCAS) shows that there has been a 4.5% increase in applicants to nursing or midwifery courses at English universities when compared to this time last year, 2018<sup>1</sup>.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next ten years the NHS will have the staff it needs. This will ensure that nurses are able to offer the expert compassionate care that they are committed providing.</p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding Chair of NHS Improvement, working closely with Sir David Behan Chair of Health Education England, to undertake a programme of work to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider proposals to grow the workforce, which will include growing the nursing workforce in order to ensure that the NHS has a sustainable supply of future nurses.</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup>Latest UCAS data received on 7 February 2019 shows that 34,030 people from all domiciles have applied to study nursing and midwifery courses at English universities as at 15 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/02/2019 13:09:38 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1057001

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
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 British citizens can access medical treatment in EU countries (a) for free or (b) at a reduced cost after 29 March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	218765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government appreciates the importance of retaining reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the European Union and has been clear in the negotiations that it wants to protect the rights of UK citizens in the EU.</p><p>Subject to the Withdrawal Agreement being agreed by Parliament, during the implementation period the current rules on reciprocal healthcare will continue until December 2020. The rights of UK nationals living in the EU, and who fall within the scope of the Withdrawal Agreement, will continue to be protected after December 2020, for as long as these individuals remain in scope of the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>In the event that the UK exits the EU without a deal, EU citizens resident in the UK by 29 March 2019 will be able to stay and continue to access in country benefits and services, including healthcare, on broadly the same terms as now. This demonstrates the UK Government’s ongoing commitment to citizens and removes any ambiguity over their future. We are engaging with EU counterparts to urge them to make the same commitment to protect the rights of UK nationals in the EU. The UK Government is seeking agreements with Member States, so that no individual will face sudden changes to their healthcare cover.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 15/02/2019 11:07:37 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1043054

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral contribution of 7 January 2019, Official Report column 80, when he plans to publish the local provision funding increases for the first year of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	209758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>NHS England set clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations. The National Health Service published draft five-year CCG allocations for 2019/20 to 2023/24 on 10 January 2019 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/draft-ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/draft-ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/</a></p><p> </p><p>These are subject to final approval by the NHS England Board on 31 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 22/01/2019 17:04:07 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly