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1166959

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	Radiotherapy: Stevenage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether he plans to increase access to radiotherapy in Hertfordshire by introducing a satellite radiotherapy service in Stevenage.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	900211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>A review conducted by NHS England and published in July 2019, concluded that expanded access to radiotherapy services for patients in the Hertfordshire area was desirable through the provision of a satellite service in the north part of the Mount Vernon catchment area, but recommended that the core service issues should be addressed prior to this. The review of Mount Vernon Cancer Centre is ongoing to ensure the service is able to respond to the significant advances in cancer treatment over recent decades which includes identifying a specialist cancer provider to run the centre.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/10/2019 17:48:43 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1166961

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	Health Services and Social Services: Northamptonshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will establish an integrated health and social care pilot programme in Northamptonshire.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	900216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Last week, in a Westminster Hall debate called by my Hon. Friend, I announced the approval of £46 million for the Urgent Care scheme at Kettering General Hospital, to be awarded at the next capital review.</p><p>Officials have been supporting Northamptonshire to develop their proposals on health and social care integration. The Secretary of State is looking forward to considering the updated proposals from Northamptonshire in due course.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 29/10/2019 17:03:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

1167191

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	Doctors: 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 increase the retention of newly qualified doctors in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	7082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to introduce a requirement for newly qualified doctors to begin working in the National Health Service once they have completed their training.</p><p>The vast majority of doctors do go on to work in the National Health Service after completing their Foundation Programme training. Analysis by the General Medical Council shows that 92.5% of doctors are present in specialty or general practitioner training or work as a doctor in the United Kingdom within three years after completing the Foundation Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 7083 question first answered 04/11/2019 10:32:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1167192

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	Doctors: Recruitment
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system that requires newly qualified doctors to work for the NHS for a specified number of years to (a) increase retention levels and (b) reducing the cost to the public purse of training doctors who leave to work overseas; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	7083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to introduce a requirement for newly qualified doctors to begin working in the National Health Service once they have completed their training.</p><p>The vast majority of doctors do go on to work in the National Health Service after completing their Foundation Programme training. Analysis by the General Medical Council shows that 92.5% of doctors are present in specialty or general practitioner training or work as a doctor in the United Kingdom within three years after completing the Foundation Programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 7082 question first answered 04/11/2019 10:32:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1167206

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	NHS: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost to the NHS is of (a) pharmaceutical drugs, (b) examination gloves, (c) disposable aprons, (d) other medical consumables, (e) medical scanning devices and (f) other equipment.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	7108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Expenditure on medicines in 2018/19 financial year in England in primary care and secondary care was £15.4 billion.</p><p> </p><p>All National Health Service trusts as autonomous entities record their data locally. NHS Improvement and NHS Digital have been working to centralise purchase order and invoice data centrally to provide better national data visibility on common goods and supplies (everyday hospital consumables; high value healthcare consumables; common goods and capital equipment). Spend is reported by NHS trusts on the NHS Spend Comparison Service for England; common goods and supplies contains £5.6 billion of expenditure. Reviewing the categories requested below within the spend comparison service shows:</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on examination gloves for 2018/19 financial year was £41.7 million; expenditure on disposable aprons was £4.9 million and expenditure on medical scanning devices was £359.5 million. There are no categories on the Spend Comparison Service for ‘other medical consumables’ and ‘other equipment’.</p><p> </p><p>The figures above will exclude any spend not reported through the Spend Comparison Service.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Trusts are autonomous entities who will make their own procurement decisions based on local pressures and demands. Collaborative procurement is promoted across healthcare to make the most of the NHS budget ensuring value for money is delivered. NHS trusts work with other local hospitals, regional procurement hubs and the national framework organisations that the Department has established - Commercial Medicines Unit and NHS Supply Chain Coordination Ltd for medicines and common goods and supplies respectively – to purchase these supplies.</p><p> </p><p>NHS trusts will make individual decisions on what to do with products which expire, are decommissioned or are at the end of their lifecycle. The decision will depend on the value of the asset and whether the asset has any ongoing use. There are charities which will collect expired products for use in third world countries and there are also specialist auctioneers who will sell equipment with residual life and use. Quite often old imaging equipment will be purchased by vets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 7109 question first answered 04/11/2019 14:40:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1167207

registered interest
date	29/10/2019
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	NHS Trusts: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how NHS Trusts procure (a) pharmaceutical drugs, (b) medical consumables, (c) medical devices and (d) medical equipment; and what happens to those items when they (i) expire, (ii) are decommissioned and (iii) reach the end of their life cycle.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	7109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>Expenditure on medicines in 2018/19 financial year in England in primary care and secondary care was £15.4 billion.</p><p> </p><p>All National Health Service trusts as autonomous entities record their data locally. NHS Improvement and NHS Digital have been working to centralise purchase order and invoice data centrally to provide better national data visibility on common goods and supplies (everyday hospital consumables; high value healthcare consumables; common goods and capital equipment). Spend is reported by NHS trusts on the NHS Spend Comparison Service for England; common goods and supplies contains £5.6 billion of expenditure. Reviewing the categories requested below within the spend comparison service shows:</p><p> </p><p>Expenditure on examination gloves for 2018/19 financial year was £41.7 million; expenditure on disposable aprons was £4.9 million and expenditure on medical scanning devices was £359.5 million. There are no categories on the Spend Comparison Service for ‘other medical consumables’ and ‘other equipment’.</p><p> </p><p>The figures above will exclude any spend not reported through the Spend Comparison Service.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Trusts are autonomous entities who will make their own procurement decisions based on local pressures and demands. Collaborative procurement is promoted across healthcare to make the most of the NHS budget ensuring value for money is delivered. NHS trusts work with other local hospitals, regional procurement hubs and the national framework organisations that the Department has established - Commercial Medicines Unit and NHS Supply Chain Coordination Ltd for medicines and common goods and supplies respectively – to purchase these supplies.</p><p> </p><p>NHS trusts will make individual decisions on what to do with products which expire, are decommissioned or are at the end of their lifecycle. The decision will depend on the value of the asset and whether the asset has any ongoing use. There are charities which will collect expired products for use in third world countries and there are also specialist auctioneers who will sell equipment with residual life and use. Quite often old imaging equipment will be purchased by vets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 7108 question first answered 04/11/2019 14:40:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies