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1717955

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
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: Correspondence
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 hold discussions with Royal Mail on the potential merits of treating NHS letters as first class post, in the context of possible reforms to the second class delivery service.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Sir Charles Walker
uin	26093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has written to Royal Mail regarding proposed reforms to the universal postal service, to ask what consideration has been given to patients and National Health Service impacts. A meeting with the Group Chief Executive of Royal Mail is currently being considered.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/05/2024 07:39:59 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

1717671

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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: Training
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 made an impact assessment of ending new registrations by secondary care staff to the NHS Practitioner Health Programme before taking that decision; and whether she plans to reinstate this support.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	26002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The mental health and wellbeing of the National Health Service workforce is of paramount importance. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive of the NHS understand and sympathise with the concerns raised last month, in relation to the future of the NHS Practitioner Health service. They took swift action to ensure that it will continue to provide a full service to doctors and senior managers during 2023/24, whilst a review is carried out. This was confirmed by NHS England on 15 April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is reviewing the service as part of a wider review of its mental health and wellbeing offer to staff. They are working collaboratively with regions and integrated care systems to agree the best approach to providing mental health support for staff, including outreach for the workforce. They will confirm future arrangements once this review has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26003 26004 26005 question first answered 16/05/2024 08:01:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1717672

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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: Mental Health
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 she has made of the mental health of (a) doctors and (b) the wider NHS workforce.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	26003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The mental health and wellbeing of the National Health Service workforce is of paramount importance. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive of the NHS understand and sympathise with the concerns raised last month, in relation to the future of the NHS Practitioner Health service. They took swift action to ensure that it will continue to provide a full service to doctors and senior managers during 2023/24, whilst a review is carried out. This was confirmed by NHS England on 15 April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is reviewing the service as part of a wider review of its mental health and wellbeing offer to staff. They are working collaboratively with regions and integrated care systems to agree the best approach to providing mental health support for staff, including outreach for the workforce. They will confirm future arrangements once this review has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26002 26004 26005 question first answered 16/05/2024 08:01:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1717673

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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: Mental Health
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 her Department has made of the effectiveness of the NHS Practitioner Health Service in safeguarding the mental health of NHS professionals.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	26004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The mental health and wellbeing of the National Health Service workforce is of paramount importance. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive of the NHS understand and sympathise with the concerns raised last month, in relation to the future of the NHS Practitioner Health service. They took swift action to ensure that it will continue to provide a full service to doctors and senior managers during 2023/24, whilst a review is carried out. This was confirmed by NHS England on 15 April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is reviewing the service as part of a wider review of its mental health and wellbeing offer to staff. They are working collaboratively with regions and integrated care systems to agree the best approach to providing mental health support for staff, including outreach for the workforce. They will confirm future arrangements once this review has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26002 26003 26005 question first answered 16/05/2024 08:01:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1717674

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions she has had with the Chief Executive of NHS England on the renewal of funding for the NHS Practitioner Health Programme; and whether she plans to continue funding that programme beyond 31 March 2025.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	26005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The mental health and wellbeing of the National Health Service workforce is of paramount importance. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive of the NHS understand and sympathise with the concerns raised last month, in relation to the future of the NHS Practitioner Health service. They took swift action to ensure that it will continue to provide a full service to doctors and senior managers during 2023/24, whilst a review is carried out. This was confirmed by NHS England on 15 April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is reviewing the service as part of a wider review of its mental health and wellbeing offer to staff. They are working collaboratively with regions and integrated care systems to agree the best approach to providing mental health support for staff, including outreach for the workforce. They will confirm future arrangements once this review has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26002 26003 26004 question first answered 16/05/2024 08:01:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1717743

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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	Colonoscopy
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 18 April 2024 to Question 21865 on Bowel Cancer: Greater Manchester, what is the average waiting time to receive (a) an appointment for a coloscopy and (b) the results from a colonoscopy in (i) England, (ii) Greater Manchester and (iii) Stepping Hill Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	25999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>Statistics on diagnostics waiting times via modality for England, and at commissioner and provider levels, is publicly available and can be accessed via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/monthly-diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/monthly-diagnostics-data-2023-24/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/monthly-diagnostics-waiting-times-and-activity/monthly-diagnostics-data-2023-24/</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/05/2024 08:34:23 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1717095

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ritlecitinib: Shropshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects Litfulo to be made available to NHS patients in (a) Shropshire, (b) Telford and (c) Wrekin.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	25645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether all new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service, based on an assessment of their costs and benefits.</p><p>On 27 March 2024, NICE published final technology appraisal guidance recommending ritlecitinib (Litfulo) for treating severe alopecia areata in people 12 years old and over. The NHS in England is legally required to fund medicines recommended by NICE within three months of the publication of its final guidance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 14/05/2024 16:53:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1717159

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care
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 tackle post-operative infections in the context of (a) an ageing population and (b) trends in the number of joint replacement operations.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency manages a national surveillance programme, the Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Service, which enhances the quality of patient care by providing hospitals with a framework for collection and comparison of their rates of SSI against national benchmarks. This information is used to review and guide clinical practice to reduce the risk of infection following surgery. Hip and knee replacements are two of the 17 categories of surgery under surveillance by hospitals. Surveillance in at least one orthopaedic surgical category per quarter, per financial year is mandatory for all National Health Service hospitals undertaking orthopaedic surgery, with hip and knee replacements being the most numerous.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/05/2024 13:55:11 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1717160

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care
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 ensure that best practice guidelines for prosthetic infection are implemented across elective surgery clinical care pathways.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is working with NHS England to improve perioperative care. This should ensure best practice guidelines are implemented across surgery clinical care pathways, including for prosthetic infections. In May 2023, NHS England published guidance setting out five core perioperative care requirements relating to the care of adult patients awaiting planned inpatient surgery. These measures address the key objective of identifying health needs as early as possible in perioperative pathways, and then using time on the waiting list to optimise health. The NHS England National Elective Recovery and Outpatients programme is working with NHS England regional teams to help oversee and support compliance, and will continue to do so throughout 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 14/05/2024 16:56:42 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1717162

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Cancer and Joint Replacements: Health Services
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the holistic care approach for cancer (a) care and (b) delivery to (i) prosthetic infection and (ii) other clinical conditions.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department has not made a formal assessment of the merits of expanding the holistic approach, used for cancer, to prosthetic infection and other clinical conditions, however the National Health Service is working towards a holistic approach in infection prevention and control, and in long-term conditions. This includes improving perioperative care for surgical clinical care pathways, including for prosthetic infections, whereby patients receive proactive, personalised support to optimise their health before surgery.</p><p>The NHS works hard to deliver care to meet people’s needs as far as possible, given this can have a significant impact on their experience and quality of life. Cancer Alliances across England are working to ensure that every person receives personalised care and support from cancer diagnosis onwards. This involves holistic need assessments to ensure people's physical, practical, emotional, and social needs are identified and addressed at the earliest opportunity. It also involves accessible information about emotional support, coping with side effects, financial advice, getting back to work, and making healthy lifestyle choices, before, during, and after treatment.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/05/2024 13:51:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell