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1692977

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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	Defibrillators: Rural Areas
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 she is taking to increase access to defibrillators in rural communities.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	16521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease is a priority for the Government. We want people to have the best chance of survival from cardiac arrest, and rapid intervention is central to improving outcomes. This is why the Government wants to increase the number of publicly accessible automated external defibrillators. The Government has therefore announced the Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) Fund, with a £1 million investment that will increase the number of AEDs within England. We want to ensure AEDs are located where they are needed most. Applications that are submitted for funding are assessed to ensure that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device, such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will also be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot, with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs within the local area.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 10:55:55 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1693032

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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 her Department is taking to help ensure that the outcomes of applications for funding to cover one off lump sum payments for frontline NHS staff employed by social enterprises are decided by the end of the financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	16492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with NHS England to finalise the outcomes of the applications, and has committed to communicating these directly to the organisations, ahead of the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 10:53:28 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1693043

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
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	Liraglutide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress her Department has made on tackling shortages and disruption to supplies of liraglutide for patients with type 2 diabetes.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	16496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Following intensive work with industry, the broad supply position for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) in the United Kingdom has improved. However, global supply issues remain with specific medicines, including Victoza (liraglutide). We issued updated guidance to healthcare professionals in the form of a National Patient Safety Alert on the 3 January 2024 on how to manage patients requiring these medicines, with input from expert clinicians. We continue to work closely with manufacturers and others working in the supply chain to help ensure the continued supply of GLP-1 RAs for UK patients, and to resolve the remaining supply issues as quickly as possible, for example by asking suppliers to expedite deliveries.</p><p>We know how distressing and frustrating medicine supply issues can be, and the Department will continue to help ensure that these critical medicines reach diabetes patients. If any patient is concerned about their treatment, they should discuss this with their clinician at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 17:20:12 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1692715

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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, what steps her Department is taking to determine workforce requirements in the (a) health and (b) social care sectors in the context of (i) an ageing population and (ii) trends in the level of ill health in later life.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan recognises that healthcare need is growing and changing, driven by ageing, and increasing morbidity. The plan sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take, to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term.</p><p>The modelling NHS England has used in the plan is founded on data, evidence, and analysis. It looks at the projected demand for NHS staff and compares it with projected supply, taking into account anticipated changes in productivity, retention, and other factors. This leaves a gap between demand and supply. The plan then proposes how that gap should be filled. We have committed to refreshing the modelling that underpins the plan every two years, or in line with fiscal events.</p><p>On social care, as set out in our strategy for the social care workforce in our People at The Heart of Care white paper in December 2021, responsibility for delivering social care is devolved to local authorities. Local government has a key role to play in supporting recruitment and retention in their areas, using their oversight of local systems to identify workforce shortages, and develop workforce plans.</p><p>A new duty for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), to assess local authorities’ delivery of their adult social care duties, has gone live. As part of these assessments, the CQC will consider if local authorities understand their current and future workforce needs, and if councils are working in partnership with providers to develop, support, and promote a capable and effective care workforce.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated care systems also have a key role to play in ensuring joined-up workforce planning. They should be working with NHS providers, local authorities, and independent care providers, to ensure effective system-wide coordination of recruitment and development.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 17:38:59 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1692716

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ageing: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has taken recent steps to commission research into (a) disease progression and (b) the intersection of comorbidities in the ageing population.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	16345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and research into Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) is a strategic priority for the NIHR. The NIHR funds significant research into disease progression and the intersection of comorbidities in older adults through its ongoing artificial intelligence for MLTC programme, that was established in 2021.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 17:35:51 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1692747

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of collecting data centrally about levels of (a) reuse and (b) discard of NHS equipment.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	16318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department published the inaugural Medical Technology Strategy in February 2023, which included a focus on improving resource efficiency. The Department is working with industry, the health and care sector, and academic partners to develop medical technology systems that support reuse, remanufacture, and material recovery, by default. The Department is exploring options for reuse, remanufacture, and material recovery in medical devices, through its Design for Life programme. This includes developing regulatory, commercial, and infrastructure and policy environments that support these aims. As part of the programme, the Department recognises we will need to define future data requirements, and align digital infrastructure to improve the gathering of core data. <br> <br></p><p><br> NHS England has developed a waste planning tool for all National Health Service providers, consistent with the Clinical Waste Strategy, which includes improved waste segregation, minimisation, and increased reuse programmes. This will lead to reductions in the road miles the waste travels, increases in the use of re-usable sharps bins, and furthers plans made towards the achievement of Net Zero Carbon from waste management. <br> <br> NHS England has an ambition to expand existing walking aid refurbishment schemes. Arrangements for the return and reuse of walking aids are managed locally, and a number of NHS trusts already have local return and reuse schemes, with over 200 return sites now featured on the Recycle Now website. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/walking-aids" target="_blank">https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/walking-aids</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 17:42:08 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1692800

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ovarian Cancer: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to increase awareness of ovarian cancer symptoms.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	16431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England is taking a wide range of activity to increase awareness and early diagnosis of, as well as tackle regional variations in, ovarian cancer. Since 2020 NHS England has run several Help Us Help You campaigns, that have included a focus on abdominal symptoms which, amongst other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England relaunched the Help Us Help You cancer campaign on the 8 January 2024, to encourage people to get in touch with their general practitioner if they notice, or are worried about, symptoms that could be cancer. The campaign address barriers to people coming forward with suspected signs of cancer in general, and is not specific to ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Raising awareness and improving early diagnosis of cancers, including ovarian cancer, remains a priority across all regions in England. NHS England is working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage one and two by 2028. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, around 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>To help increase cancer diagnosis rates, as of February 2024, there are 154 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) open with over six million checks carried out, with the aim of having 160 CDCs open by March 2025. We also plan to transform the way the National Health Service provides elective care, by increasing activity at dedicated and protected surgical hubs. These will help separate elective care facilities from urgent and emergency care, including for ovarian cancer. At present, the surgical hubs are focusing on a number of specialities, including gynaecology.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is improving pathways to get people diagnosed faster once they are referred, and is looking into alternative routes into the system, including non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who do not fit clearly into a single urgent cancer referral pathway, but who are at risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This will help support faster ovarian cancer diagnosis. 108 NSS pathways are currently operational, with more in development.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 16432 16433 question first answered 06/03/2024 12:33:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1692801

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ovarian Cancer: Diagnosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to tackle regional variations in early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	16432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England is taking a wide range of activity to increase awareness and early diagnosis of, as well as tackle regional variations in, ovarian cancer. Since 2020 NHS England has run several Help Us Help You campaigns, that have included a focus on abdominal symptoms which, amongst other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England relaunched the Help Us Help You cancer campaign on the 8 January 2024, to encourage people to get in touch with their general practitioner if they notice, or are worried about, symptoms that could be cancer. The campaign address barriers to people coming forward with suspected signs of cancer in general, and is not specific to ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Raising awareness and improving early diagnosis of cancers, including ovarian cancer, remains a priority across all regions in England. NHS England is working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage one and two by 2028. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, around 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>To help increase cancer diagnosis rates, as of February 2024, there are 154 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) open with over six million checks carried out, with the aim of having 160 CDCs open by March 2025. We also plan to transform the way the National Health Service provides elective care, by increasing activity at dedicated and protected surgical hubs. These will help separate elective care facilities from urgent and emergency care, including for ovarian cancer. At present, the surgical hubs are focusing on a number of specialities, including gynaecology.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is improving pathways to get people diagnosed faster once they are referred, and is looking into alternative routes into the system, including non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who do not fit clearly into a single urgent cancer referral pathway, but who are at risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This will help support faster ovarian cancer diagnosis. 108 NSS pathways are currently operational, with more in development.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 16431 16433 question first answered 06/03/2024 12:33:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1692803

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ovarian Cancer: Diagnosis
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 she is taking to increase early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	16433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>NHS England is taking a wide range of activity to increase awareness and early diagnosis of, as well as tackle regional variations in, ovarian cancer. Since 2020 NHS England has run several Help Us Help You campaigns, that have included a focus on abdominal symptoms which, amongst other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England relaunched the Help Us Help You cancer campaign on the 8 January 2024, to encourage people to get in touch with their general practitioner if they notice, or are worried about, symptoms that could be cancer. The campaign address barriers to people coming forward with suspected signs of cancer in general, and is not specific to ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p>Raising awareness and improving early diagnosis of cancers, including ovarian cancer, remains a priority across all regions in England. NHS England is working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage one and two by 2028. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, around 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>To help increase cancer diagnosis rates, as of February 2024, there are 154 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) open with over six million checks carried out, with the aim of having 160 CDCs open by March 2025. We also plan to transform the way the National Health Service provides elective care, by increasing activity at dedicated and protected surgical hubs. These will help separate elective care facilities from urgent and emergency care, including for ovarian cancer. At present, the surgical hubs are focusing on a number of specialities, including gynaecology.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS is improving pathways to get people diagnosed faster once they are referred, and is looking into alternative routes into the system, including non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who do not fit clearly into a single urgent cancer referral pathway, but who are at risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This will help support faster ovarian cancer diagnosis. 108 NSS pathways are currently operational, with more in development.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 16431 16432 question first answered 06/03/2024 12:33:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1692353

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Prescription Drugs: Shortages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a strategy to (a) tackle critical medicines shortages and (b) help improve the resilience of the community pharmacy sector.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	16184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to publish a strategy. There are around 14,000 medicines licensed for supply in the United Kingdom, and most are in good supply. However, the medicine supply chain is highly regulated, complex, and global, which means that there can sometimes be supply issues which affect the UK, along with other countries around the world. Medicine supply problems may be caused by several factors, including manufacturing difficulties, regulatory non-compliance, demand surges, problems with the supply of raw materials, and issues related to distribution of the product. We work with industry, NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the devolved administrations, and other stakeholders to address these issues and help ensure patients continue to have access to the treatments they need. Communications about supply issues requiring active management are issued to healthcare professionals, and guidance is provided to help them manage their patients, where necessary.</p><p>Access to community pharmacies in England is good, with 80% of the population living within 20 minutes walking distance from a pharmacy, and twice as many pharmacies in the most deprived areas. We are funding pharmacies with £2.6 billion per year, and have invested up to an additional £645 million in the sector across this and next year, for the recently launched Pharmacy First service and the expansion of the existing Blood Pressure Check Service and Pharmacy Contraception Service. The contractual arrangements and funding for 2024/25 are being currently consulted on with Community Pharmacy England.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/03/2024 12:42:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill