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1046999

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
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	Fibromyalgia
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 support families with members who have fibromyalgia syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	211936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to making sure people with long term conditions receive the personalised care and support they need. Where suitable, loved ones and carers should be involved in tailoring care options.</p><p>Last summer the Department published a Carers Action Plan, setting out a cross-Government programme of targeted work to support carers over the next two years and will also ensure a clear focus on carers in the forthcoming Adult Social Care Green Paper. The Department is clear that planning for people with long term conditions should involve loved ones and carers. The aim is supporting carers to provide care as they would wish, and to do so in a way that supports their own health and wellbeing.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, NHS England is taking action in range of areas to improve the care treatment and support provided to people with neurological conditions including rolling out the NHS Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care across the country, reaching 2.5 million people by 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/01/2019 17:17:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

938677

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) the practices in place to allow medical professionals to identify fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in (i) newborn and (ii) young children and (b) how those cases are recorded.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Maternity Transformation Programme, Public Health England is leading work to provide prevention-focused leadership to support a reduction in the proportion of women drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Midwives and health visitors also have a role in providing clear, consistent advice and early identification and support.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2018 09:40:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

931364

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Medical Treatments
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 review NICE guidelines on the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	157851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for determining whether its guidance should be updated to take into account new evidence. NICE is currently updating its clinical guideline on the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and is consulting stakeholders on a draft scope for the guideline update.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/07/2018 11:23:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

917628

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in (a) the UK, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Colne Valley suffer from asthma.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	150241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold the data in the format requested. However, the Department can provide a response using data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) covering primary care. This data covers England and we cannot answer for the entire United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The QOF provides the number of patients registered with asthma for England, West Yorkshire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), for 2016/17, shown in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>QOF Asthma recorded disease prevalence, 2016-17</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Asthma Recorded Prevalence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Organisation Name</p></td><td><p>Number of practices</p></td><td><p>List Size</p></td><td><p>Register of asthma patients</p></td><td><p>Prevalence (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>7,392</p></td><td><p>58,029,147</p></td><td><p>3,444,218</p></td><td><p>5.94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire STP</p></td><td><p>334</p></td><td><p>2,682,913</p></td><td><p>170,435</p></td><td><p>6.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Greater Huddersfield CCG</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>246,583</p></td><td><p>15,923</p></td><td><p>6.46</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/06/2018 15:18:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

917629

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
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 merits of reviewing prescription charges for people with long-term conditions.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	150242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to review prescription charges for people with long-term conditions. In the financial year 2016/17, prescription charge income generated £554.9 million of revenue for the National Health Service which played a key role in contributing to the cost of providing services.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/06/2018 11:23:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

893020

registered interest
date	27/04/2018
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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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 support people diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	139045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) can have a significant impact on the early years development of children, their behaviours and their life chances. Early intervention services can help reduce some of the effects of FASD and prevent some of the secondary disabilities that result. Responsibility for commissioning these services lies with clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ low risk drinking guidelines provide the public with the most up to date scientific information to help people make informed decisions about their own drinking. The guideline for women who are pregnant or think they could become pregnant, is that the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all, to reduce risks to the baby to a minimum.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/05/2018 16:10:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

892295

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
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	Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been diagnosed with foetal alcohol syndrome in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	138537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Hospital Episode Statistics database contains counts of hospital episodes and attendances rather than people. The following table shows a count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) in England with a primary or secondary diagnosis of foetal alcohol syndrome 2010-11 to 2016-17.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>FAEs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>286</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>361</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/05/2018 15:03:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872243

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	General Practitioners: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of doctors who have been awarded bonuses by clinical commissioning groups limiting the number of patients they refer to hospital; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England confirms that no bonuses have been paid.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:59:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

872244

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	General Practitioners: Incentives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of doctors who have been awarded bonuses by clinical commissioning groups for limiting the number of patients they refer for cancer screening; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	134158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not support bonus payments to general practitioners for reducing referrals.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:52:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

862294

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Nabiximols
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 the Answer of 12 March 2018 to Question 130778 on Nabiximols, what progress his Department has made on reducing the cost of the drug Sativex.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	132713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has had no discussions on reducing the cost of Savitex. The decision to prescribe and fund a licensed treatment on the National Health Service is taken by the relevant clinician and commissioner (such as NHS England or individual clinical commissioning groups) based on the individual needs of the patient.</p><p> </p><p>When the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its guideline on the treatment of adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2014, it recommended that Sativex should not be offered as an option to treat spasticity in people with MS because it is not a cost effective treatment. NICE is responsible for determining whether its guidance should be updated following the publication of any significant new evidence.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/03/2018 17:28:38 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker