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523086

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Gluten-free Foods: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the NHS's policy is on prescribing gluten-free food items to coeliacs; and whether any changes have recently been made to the allowance for such items.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	39426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>Gluten-free foods are available on National Health Service prescription to patients with established gluten-sensitive enteropathies. The Department provides general practitioners (GPs) and other prescribers with a list of recommended gluten-free products to help patients, including those with coeliac disease, to manage their condition but does not issue guidance on the number of units that should be prescribed.</p><p> </p><p>Prescribing decisions are a matter for GPs and other prescribers. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) set local guidelines on the number of units to be prescribed for their patients, depending upon age, sex and individual clinical circumstances. A national charity – Coeliac UK – publishes guidelines on the dietary requirements for coeliac patients which can help inform CCG local decisions.</p><p> </p><p>GPs should always satisfy themselves that the medicines or other substances they consider appropriate for their patients can be safely prescribed and that patients are adequately monitored.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/06/2016 10:14:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

523168

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 20 of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, published in February 2016, what steps he is taking to oversee implementation of the recommendations of that report.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	39546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic Implementation Plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations. This will include detail of the governance and reporting arrangements.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/06/2016 10:09:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

523191

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made to date on Recommendation 19 of the NHS England Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	39538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic Implementation Plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 39539 question first answered 09/06/2016 10:11:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

523192

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made to date on Recommendation 2 of the NHS England Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	39539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is working with delivery partners to carefully consider the Taskforce’s recommendations and aims to publish a strategic Implementation Plan in the autumn that will set out how Government and partners will deliver the recommendations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 39538 question first answered 09/06/2016 10:11:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

523193

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 23 May 2016 to Question 37371, how many people are in the team with specific responsibility for those areas of policy on children and young people's mental health for which he is accountable.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	39540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s team with specific responsibility for those areas of policy on children and young people’s mental health for which the Secretary of State for Health is accountable consists of eleven people.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/06/2016 10:10:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

523206

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions: Pregnancy
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 26 May 2016 to Question 37876, what (a) number and (b) proportion of penalty charge notices issued between January and December 2015 related only to medical exemption certificates.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	39488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>Between January and December 2015, a total of 34,142 penalty charge notices were issued to patients declaring they held a valid medical exemption certificate, which the National Health Service Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) was unable to verify. This equated to 7.92% of all penalty charge notices issued.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 9,170 of these were subsequently retracted when the patient proved their right to exemption. This equated to 26.86% of all penalty charge notices issued for medical exemption certificates.</p><p> </p><p>Often the reason the penalty charge notice is retracted is because the patient has not informed the NHSBSA of a change of address or surname. This means the record of the medical exemption does not match the patient information on the prescription form. If a patient provides details of a valid medical exemption certificate, the penalty charge notice is retracted and the medical exemption record is updated to ensure further notices are not issued in error.</p><p> </p><p>Following the introduction of prescription charge exemption checking, it became apparent some people receiving penalty charge notices had a qualifying medical condition, but had not applied for a medical exemption certificate. In response, a new process was introduced in early spring 2015. This means that if someone submits a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 39489 question first answered 09/06/2016 15:30:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

523207

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions: Pregnancy
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 26 May 2016 to Question 37876, what (a) number and (b) proportion of total penalty charge notices issued for invalid medical exemption certificates between January 2015 and December 2015 were subsequently retracted when the patient proved their right to exemption.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	39489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>Between January and December 2015, a total of 34,142 penalty charge notices were issued to patients declaring they held a valid medical exemption certificate, which the National Health Service Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) was unable to verify. This equated to 7.92% of all penalty charge notices issued.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 9,170 of these were subsequently retracted when the patient proved their right to exemption. This equated to 26.86% of all penalty charge notices issued for medical exemption certificates.</p><p> </p><p>Often the reason the penalty charge notice is retracted is because the patient has not informed the NHSBSA of a change of address or surname. This means the record of the medical exemption does not match the patient information on the prescription form. If a patient provides details of a valid medical exemption certificate, the penalty charge notice is retracted and the medical exemption record is updated to ensure further notices are not issued in error.</p><p> </p><p>Following the introduction of prescription charge exemption checking, it became apparent some people receiving penalty charge notices had a qualifying medical condition, but had not applied for a medical exemption certificate. In response, a new process was introduced in early spring 2015. This means that if someone submits a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 39488 question first answered 09/06/2016 15:30:12 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

522571

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to introduce (a) video consultations and (b) other new technology into primary care service delivery.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>From April 2014 to April 2016, the Government has invested £175 million in developing innovative approaches to extend access to general practice through the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund which has included testing, adoption, and evaluation of:</p><p> </p><p>― new types of consultation such as phone, video and online consultations;</p><p>― online pre-referral diagnosis tools; and</p><p>― telehealth, telecare and healthy living apps.</p><p> </p><p>During 2017/18<ins class="ministerial"> and 2018/19</ins>, £171 million will be made available <del class="ministerial">to</del> <ins class="ministerial">from </ins>clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to enable practices to upscale and implement measures tested through the Access Fund.</p><p> </p><p>A further £1 billion multiyear investment has been committed via the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund from April 2015 to April 2019, to help GP practices go further and faster to increase the use of technology and develop the primary care estate. Funding will be aligned with local digital roadmaps priorities and will support technology led improvement and innovation which improve patient and clinician experience of services, and access to primary care.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘General Practice Forward View’, released in April 2016, announced a commitment to greater use of technology. This includes an increase of over 18% in allocations to CCGs for provision of IT services and technology for general practice, alongside revised funding arrangements for GP IT in 2016-18. This will allow CCGs sufficient local flexibility to commission and procure GP IT services to meet local need. There will also be an additional £45 million multiyear national programme to stimulate uptake of online consultation technology for every practice.</p><p> </p><p>The National Information Board also has a programme of work known as Transforming General Practice which will use technology to free GPs from time consuming administrative tasks and provide patients with online services.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:08:23 question first ministerially corrected 16/06/2016 10:28:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 2969 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522572

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of UK funding for primary care is spent on BME communities in the Southampton City Council area.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The information requested on the proportion of Unite Kingdom funding for primary care spent on Black or Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the Southampton City Council area is not collected centrally. NHS England advises that funding is provided to practices to deliver a service and is not attributable to communities or neighbourhoods. NHS England confirms practices in the centre of the city support the majority of the BME communities; however, their boundaries encompass other areas as well.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:05:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

522578

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Primary Health Care: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group's funding for primary care services was spent on translation services in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>NHS England confirms it commissions translation services for Southampton City general practitioners (GPs) and advises that in 2015/16 there were 70 translation service requests made by Southampton City GP practices costing £7,457.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith