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1246202

registered interest
date	22/10/2020
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	Phlebotomy: Redbridge
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 14 September 2020 to 84711, what progress he has made on tackling the waiting time for phlebotomy appointments in the London Borough of Redbridge.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	107686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service is taking action locally to improve the waiting times for non-urgent blood tests. In order to create additional capacity, North East London Foundation Trust increasing phlebotomy staffing levels through redeployment, recruitment, staff bank and agency. Staff are being seconded from Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust to provide additional capacity and a further eight administrators are now in place to improve the booking service.</p><p>In Redbridge, three additional blood testing clinics are already open and will now be extended until at least April 2021. Capacity will be used across the local system to help ensure patients are seen at the sites with the shortest waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/11/2020 12:54:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 58288 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1246338

registered interest
date	22/10/2020
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	Health Services: Trade Agreements
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 the Secretary of State for International Trade on including UK health priorities in future trade negotiations.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	107724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for International Trade have worked together at all levels to ensure that United Kingdom health priorities are represented in the UK’s trade policy.</p><p>The Government has been consistently clear that protecting the National Health Service is a fundamental principle of our trade policy. The NHS, the price it pays for drugs and its services are not for sale. Indeed, our published objectives for negotiations with the United States and other new trade partners make it clear that we will not agree measures which undermine the Government’s ability to deliver on these commitments.</p><p>The Government has been clear that it will uphold the UK’s high levels of public, animal, and plant health. As such, public health issues are being actively considered as part of the Government’s trade policy development.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/11/2020 12:51:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 58293 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1244562

registered interest
date	19/10/2020
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	Health Services: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to fund nationwide roll-out of medical drone technologies.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Jamie Stone
uin	105498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan is bringing new technologies into the National Health Service to improve patient care and save lives, and we continue to support testing of innovations such as convenient, faster technology to help frontline staff to give people world-leading treatment. This includes supporting NHS staff through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, run by the Accelerated Access Collaborative, to develop their own innovative ideas, for example exploring the potential use of autonomous drone delivery systems within healthcare.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/11/2020 12:42:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 56529 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4612 label Biography information for Jamie Stone

1241875

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
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	Hospitals: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the covid-19 response.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	100996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership with private hospitals as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked with the independent sector to secure all appropriate inpatient capacity and other resource across England.</p><p>Information on the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the COVID-19 response is not available. However, latest collected information shows that over 215,000 patient contacts nationally had taken place under the contract</p><p><br> Recoverable costs payable to each independent sector hospital provider are paid on account, with reconciliation adjustments made on a monthly basis to reflect actual recoverable costs incurred by the provider as verified by KPMG on NHS England’s behalf on an open book basis and in accordance with <em>International Financial Reporting Standards</em> accounting principles.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100997 question first answered 03/11/2020 13:02:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54071 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1241876

registered interest
date	08/10/2020
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	Hospitals: Private Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the payments to each of the private hospital companies under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 were made after the costs had first been verified by external auditors on an open book accountancy basis.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	100997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership with private hospitals as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked with the independent sector to secure all appropriate inpatient capacity and other resource across England.</p><p>Information on the number of NHS patients treated by each private hospital under the arrangements announced on 21 March 2020 for the provision of healthcare services and facilities to support the COVID-19 response is not available. However, latest collected information shows that over 215,000 patient contacts nationally had taken place under the contract</p><p><br> Recoverable costs payable to each independent sector hospital provider are paid on account, with reconciliation adjustments made on a monthly basis to reflect actual recoverable costs incurred by the provider as verified by KPMG on NHS England’s behalf on an open book basis and in accordance with <em>International Financial Reporting Standards</em> accounting principles.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 100996 question first answered 03/11/2020 13:02:10 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 54072 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy