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1105059

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent progress has been made on the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
uin	910043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>In September 2017, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announced its plans for a full update to the existing clinical guideline on the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) to ensure that treatment reflects the latest available evidence. The revised guideline will be published in 2020.</p><p>Since 2011, we have also invested £6 million into research into CFS/ME via the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/03/2019 15:46:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey

1092539

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
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	Pathology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the level of misdiagnosis by NHS employees and locums in hospital pathology departments.
tabling member constituency	Chichester
tabling member printed	Gillian Keegan
uin	910031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not routinely collect this information and we have not made an estimate.</p><p>Whilst the vast majority of patients receive safe and effective care, any incident of misdiagnosis can have a significant impact on patients and their families, which is why have we are committed to a systematic approach of understanding and learning from avoidable causes of patient harm. Since 2016, the National Health Service has been creating 29 national pathology networks that bring together clinical expertise in regional hubs. This will deliver the highest-quality service for patients and allow the use of cutting-edge technology to increase the speed and accuracy of diagnostics.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/03/2019 15:24:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan

1091234

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Consultants
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 consultants his Department has hired in each year since 2016; and what the cost to the public purse of that process has been.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	234206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department contracts for the delivery of consultancy services from companies and does not keep central records of the number nor the identities of individual management consultants or staff used to deliver services for each contract to the Department.</p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr Nigel Evans) on 25 February to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-02-15/221999/" target="_blank">221999</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/03/2019 17:11:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 109603 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1091021

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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	Community Nurses: Recruitment
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 he is taking to recruit more community nurses.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	233435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of individual health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the workforce required to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service Long Term Plan, published 7 January 2019, made clear the importance of moving care into the community, and the government’s commitment to achieving this. We know that to deliver this, we need to have the right community services workforce with the skills, knowledge and capacity to meet current and future needs of an ageing population with more complex needs.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked Baroness Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement, to oversee the delivery of a Workforce Implementation Plan to be published in the spring.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) is leading a review of community nursing to better understand the skills and knowledge required within a contemporary community nursing workforce, both for now and into the future.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is also proactively encouraging more people to train to become learning disability nurses through a number of initiatives, including:</p><p> </p><p>- An accelerated postgraduate nurse programme for mental health and learning disabilities to attract high-achieving graduates into a career in nursing; and</p><p>- Ensuring nurses in other sectors have the opportunities to develop their skills further to work in learning disability nursing.</p><p> </p><p>Announced on 9 May 2018, students who commenced loan funded postgraduate pre-registration nursing courses in the 2018/19 academic year will be eligible for a ‘golden hello’ payment of £10,000 once they have graduated and go on to work in learning disability, mental health or district nursing. Payments will be made to these graduates once they take up in employment in the health and care sector in England.</p><p> </p><p>Working with the NHS and the university sector, the Government is finalising the most effective way to administer and introduce the scheme and will set out details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 233440 question first answered 21/03/2019 16:04:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

1091022

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
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	Nurses: Recruitment
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 he is taking to recruit additional nurses with a specialism in learning (a) difficulties and (b) disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	233440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of individual health and care employers to have staffing arrangements in place that deliver safe and effective care. This includes recruiting the workforce required to support these levels and meet local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service Long Term Plan, published 7 January 2019, made clear the importance of moving care into the community, and the government’s commitment to achieving this. We know that to deliver this, we need to have the right community services workforce with the skills, knowledge and capacity to meet current and future needs of an ageing population with more complex needs.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked Baroness Harding, Chair of NHS Improvement, to oversee the delivery of a Workforce Implementation Plan to be published in the spring.</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England (HEE) is leading a review of community nursing to better understand the skills and knowledge required within a contemporary community nursing workforce, both for now and into the future.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is also proactively encouraging more people to train to become learning disability nurses through a number of initiatives, including:</p><p> </p><p>- An accelerated postgraduate nurse programme for mental health and learning disabilities to attract high-achieving graduates into a career in nursing; and</p><p>- Ensuring nurses in other sectors have the opportunities to develop their skills further to work in learning disability nursing.</p><p> </p><p>Announced on 9 May 2018, students who commenced loan funded postgraduate pre-registration nursing courses in the 2018/19 academic year will be eligible for a ‘golden hello’ payment of £10,000 once they have graduated and go on to work in learning disability, mental health or district nursing. Payments will be made to these graduates once they take up in employment in the health and care sector in England.</p><p> </p><p>Working with the NHS and the university sector, the Government is finalising the most effective way to administer and introduce the scheme and will set out details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 233435 question first answered 21/03/2019 16:04:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

1089459

registered interest
date	15/03/2019
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	Hearing Impairment: Emergency Calls
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 has taken to enable deaf people to use 999 to contact the ambulance service using video relay services.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	232986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>In England, the provision of an assistive service such as video relay for deaf people to use 999 to contact ambulance services, is determined by local authorities, local clinical commissioning groups and National Health Service emergency services dependant on individual circumstances. A more common means of contacting ambulance services is the use of text messaging from mobile phones for emergencies. Deaf people can register to do so with local emergency services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/03/2019 12:16:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1089469

registered interest
date	15/03/2019
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	Hearing Impairment: 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, what assessment he has made of potential merits of the NHS offering micro suction treatments to improve hearing (a) in addition to and (b) instead of syringing; what information his Department holds on the number of people whose impaired hearing is not improved by syringing; whether the NHS has plans to introduce micro suction as part of NHS Long-Term Plan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	232980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>The management of ear wax removal is a decision that is taken at a local level by each clinical commissioning group informed by relevant clinical guidelines. The Department does not collect data on the impact of not syringing on hearing impairment. There are no plans to introduce micro suction as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p> </p><p>To support local practice the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline ‘NG98 on Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management’, was published in June 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/03/2019 14:42:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1088772

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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	Autism: Children
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 children are living with autism in (a) Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency, (b) Sheffield and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	232625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Data is not held centrally on the number of autistic children in Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency and in Sheffield.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, Autism spectrum, eating and other less common disorders topic report 2017’ presents the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and other less common disorders in five to 19 year olds in England. Autism Spectrum Disorder was identified in 1.2% of five to 19 year olds. The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in five to 15 year olds remained stable between 2004 (1.0%) and 2017 (1.3%). A copy of the report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2017/2017" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2017/2017</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/03/2019 12:42:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1088233

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Community Hospitals: Social Services
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 increasing the proportion of specialised social care provided by community hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	231928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the potential merits of increasing the proportion of specialised social care in community hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have duties under the Care Act 2014 to meet the eligible needs of the people in their local area, subject to a financial assessment. Local authorities should ensure that they commission appropriate and effective services for people with eligible care and support needs.</p><p> </p><p>Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) bring together local organisations to redesign care and improve population health, creating shared leadership and action. They are a pragmatic and practical way of delivering the ‘triple integration’ of primary and acute care, physical and mental health services, and health with social care. ICSs will have a key role in working with local authorities at ‘place’ level and through ICSs, the National Health Service and local government will work together to design services and improve population health. The NHS Long Term Plan set out a vision for ICSs to cover the whole country by April 2021.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/03/2019 11:09:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 108485 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1088498

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Medical Treatments: Technology
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 regional variation in the uptake of MedTech products across the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	231898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Through the Accelerated Access Review, the NHS Long Term Plan and the second Life Sciences Sector Deal, the Government and the National Health Service have confirmed their commitment that, where appropriate, all patients should be able to benefit from the best treatments as fast as possible. To deliver on this, we have announced a number of measures to improve the spread of health tech innovations:</p><p> </p><p>- Strengthening the Innovation Scorecard, the national tool that measures the uptake of cost effective innovations approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and widening the range of medtech products it covers;</p><p>- From 2020, a new NHS England health tech funding requirement will identify the best value innovations as ‘ready to spread’ and help the NHS to adopt them quickly. This will apply to health tech products assessed as cost saving by NICE. In addition, NICE will significantly increase the number of evaluations it does for health tech products, so that the NHS has the evidence it needs to decide the best products to adopt and spread;</p><p>- The Accelerated Access Collaborative, under the chairmanship of Lord Darzi, will be expanded to be the umbrella organisation across the innovation landscape in the United Kingdom, tackling the system wide-barriers that cause unwarranted variation in the level of access for patients;</p><p>- The regional network of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) will also continue to be a key partner in adoption and spread of health technology. AHSNs bring together the assets in their regions to drive innovation uptake and support local service transformation, promoting health equality, best practice and transformation in leadership, quality and safety of care; and</p><p>- These approaches build on NHS Improvement’s Getting It Right First Time and NHS RightCare initiatives, which seek to improve the quality of care within the NHS by reducing unwarranted variation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/03/2019 12:15:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe