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1169140

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date	07/01/2020
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	Fertility: Females
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 support women with fertility problems.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The level of provision of local health services available to patients, including fertility treatment, is, and has been since the 1990s, a matter for local healthcare commissioners. Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services including fertility services that meet the needs of their whole population.</p><p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) fertility guidelines.</p><p>The Government’s position is that CCGs should be following the NICE fertility guidelines as part of their National Health Service service offer to local people. On 17 June 2019, the then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention (Jackie Doyle-Price MP) wrote to the Chief Executives of all CCGs in England to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and strongly encourage them to implement the NICE fertility guidelines in full.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2020 15:33:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1169162

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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: Water
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when water infusion for colonoscopy will be available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	1003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The use of water infusion for colonoscopy in the National Health Service is a clinical decision as to what is the best procedure for the individual patient.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2020 15:33:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1169173

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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	Dementia: Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with football associations on former footballers and the diagnosis of dementia.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	1011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>We have had no discussions with football associations on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2020 15:30:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1169177

registered interest
date	07/01/2020
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	Dementia: Children
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 reduce the prevalence of childhood dementia.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	1015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>Dementia in children is exceptionally rare. If a ‘dementia’ developed during childhood, it is likely to be an inherited disease which would have implications for whether a clear diagnosis of dementia could be made.</p><p>Childhood dementia stems from several different groups of complex neurological diseases such as Niemann-Pick disease type-C, Batten disease and Mucopolysaccharide diseases. In the case of Batten disease for example, it is estimated to affect 25-40 children in England.</p><p>In September 2019, NHS England announced National Health Service funding for the treatment of Batten disease with access to a drug called Cerliponase alfa known to slow down onset and extend the child’s life.</p><p>We continue to implement the 2013 UK Strategy for Rare Diseases which contains 51 high level commitments to improve the lives of those with a rare disease or condition.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2020 15:32:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon