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770011

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date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve information for patients who may be exempt from dental charges.
tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
uin	107696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department makes available to all National Health Service dental practices a patient leaflet which includes information on how to claim free treatment and reminds practices annually of the need to display the leaflets. Information is also set out on NHS Choices and can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1786.aspx?CategoryID=74&amp;SubCategoryID=742" target="_blank">www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1786.aspx?CategoryID=74&amp;SubCategoryID=742</a></p><p>Information on NHS Choices is regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2017 16:48:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

770014

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
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 cost to the public purse of denying or delaying treatment for patients requiring bariatric surgery.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	107710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>NHS England has not made an assessment of the cost or delaying treatment for patients requiring bariatric surgery.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission services which meet the needs of their local population. When developing their associated commissioning policies and treatment criteria, we would expect CCGs to take into account any relevant current guidance, and consider the wider context of their actions which may include the costs incurred as a result of setting criteria which may deny or delay treatment for patients requiring bariatric surgery. Treatment decisions should always be made by doctors based on patients’ clinical needs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2017 16:48:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

770015

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that clinical commissioning groups follow National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	107711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>As statutory bodies, we would expect clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to take account of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and best practice guidance when developing policies and treatment criteria for the services they commission. There is no formal mechanism for requiring that CCGs follow NICE guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>CCGs are responsible for working with their local communities to understand the needs of the local populations and make decisions about how best to commission services that meet those needs, in partnership with other local commissioners and organisations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2017 16:50:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

770016

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
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 potential merits of NICE guidance on bariatric surgery (CG189).
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	107726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued a clinical guideline on the identification, assessment and management of obesity in 2014 that makes recommendations on the use of bariatric surgery.</p><p> </p><p>NICE’s guideline recommends bariatric surgery as an option for people with obesity if all of the following criteria are fulfilled:</p><p> </p><p>- They have a body mass index of 40 kg/m2 or more, or between 35 kg/m2 and 40 kg/m2 and other significant diseases (for example, type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure) that could be improved if they lost weight;</p><p>- All appropriate non-surgical measures have been tried but the person has not achieved or maintained adequate, clinically beneficial weight loss;</p><p>- The person has been receiving or will receive intensive management in a tier 3 service;</p><p>- The person is generally fit for anaesthesia and surgery; and</p><p>- The person commits to the need for long-term follow-up.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2017 16:50:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

770032

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sugar: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to restrict the sale of high-sugar food and drink products at the point of sale.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	107668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>As part of our plan to tackle childhood obesity we launched a broad, structured and independently monitored sugar reduction programme, led by Public Health England (PHE), to remove sugar from the products children eat most. This can be achieved through reduction of sugar levels in products, reducing portion size or shifting purchasing towards lower sugar alternatives.</p><p> </p><p>Since March 2017, PHE has engaged with all of the food industry (retailers, manufacturers and the out of home sector) to discuss what industry could do to meet the 20% reduction in sugar by 2020. PHE will continue these discussions and will publish regular updates on progress towards the 20% sugar reduction.</p><p> </p><p>A list of PHE’s industry and other stakeholder engagement on this agenda was published in March and can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-and-wider-reformulation-stakeholder-engagement" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/sugar-reduction-and-wider-reformulation-stakeholder-engagement</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 107586 question first answered 19/10/2017 16:15:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

770039

registered interest
date	13/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dentistry: Resignations
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 implications for his policies on dental services of the British Dental Association's press release of 1 October 2017 on the number of dentists intending to leave NHS dentistry.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	107739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting dentists and National Health Service dental services. NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dental services. It advises that it has not had any widespread reports of difficulty nationally in contracting dental providers to deliver NHS care.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17, 3,847 more dentists worked in the NHS than were working in the NHS when the current contract started in 2006/ 2007.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/10/2017 11:33:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders