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1624042

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
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	Radiology: Paediatrics
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 plans to take to ensure equal access to paediatric interventional radiology services in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	182782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department regularly discusses the equity of access to health services with NHS England. We will discuss access to paediatric interventional radiology services specifically with NHS England.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/05/2023 09:22:18 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1624044

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
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	Radiology: Paediatrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to require all hospitals that provide paediatric services to have paediatric interventional radiology service policies in place.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	182784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department will discuss these issues with NHS England. National Health Service trusts are expected to have the relevant policies in place, in line with service specification and commissioning guidance produced by NHS England.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 182954 182959 182960 182962 question first answered 15/05/2023 16:14:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589113

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: Surgery
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 is taking to help support people with arthritis who are waiting for elective surgery.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>To support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment, NHS England has worked with Versus Arthritis on their Joint Replacement Support Package, a six point package aimed at local health systems to provide to patients.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has taken steps to assist those waiting for elective treatment and surgery, for instance through patient choice and the My Planned Care platform.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced on 24 January 2023 a Major Conditions Strategy, for which an interim report will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 152192 153860 question first answered 06/03/2023 17:03:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589114

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: 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, what steps his Department is taking to support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>To support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment, NHS England has worked with Versus Arthritis on their Joint Replacement Support Package, a six point package aimed at local health systems to provide to patients.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has taken steps to assist those waiting for elective treatment and surgery, for instance through patient choice and the My Planned Care platform.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced on 24 January 2023 a Major Conditions Strategy, for which an interim report will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 152191 153860 question first answered 06/03/2023 17:03:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589115

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: Surgery
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 people with arthritis are currently waiting for elective surgery.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The data is not available in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 153862 question first answered 06/03/2023 15:40:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589117

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: Diagnosis
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 is taking to help improve early diagnosis rates for arthritis.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is working to help improve early diagnosis rates for arthritis through its Getting It Right First Time rheumatology programme, which is designed to improve the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with musculoskeletal conditions such as arthritis. The national report makes a number of recommendations which look to support equitable and consistent access to diagnostic tests.</p><p>In addition, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a range of guidance to support early diagnosis of conditions including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Whilst NICE guidelines are not mandatory, healthcare professionals and commissioners are expected to take them fully into account.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 06/03/2023 17:06:05 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1588610

registered interest
date	23/02/2023
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	Social Security Benefits: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has discussed uprating social care benefits in line with inflation with MENCAP in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	151255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>There have been no specific discussions. The 2023 Local Authority Circular, published on 9 February, sets out that the rates of the Minimum Income Guarantee will be uprated in line with consumer price index inflation for the financial year 2023/2024.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/03/2023 13:52:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1585811

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
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	Arthritis: 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, what support he is providing to arthritis patients in Huddersfield constituency awaiting orthopaedic surgery.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	143691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is contacting all patients on waiting lists to determine what support they need whilst waiting for treatment.</p><p>Ongoing clinical support services can be accessed via a patient’s general practitioner or First Contact Practitioner for reassessment and medication review for pain control, and through a specialist community musculoskeletal service. Further support is available to patients on the National Health Service website, which provides advice on living with arthritis and links to national and local charities. This information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/arthritis/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/arthritis/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/02/2023 11:07:32 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1566373

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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	Terminal Illnesses: 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 much funding his Department provided for services that support children with terminal life-shortening conditions in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	122061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>Funding for children’s and young people’s palliative and end of life care is made available locally through integrated care boards, who are responsible for commissioning services in response to the needs of their local population.</p><p> </p><p>At a national level, NHS England supports palliative and end of life care for children and young people through the Children and Young People’s hospice grant, providing approximately £15 million in 2020/21, £17 million in 2021/22, £21 million in 2022/23, rising to £25 million in 2023/24. Furthermore, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, up to £2 million in 2020/21, up to £3 million in 2021/22 and up to £5 million in 2022/23 of match funding has been made available to commissioners who increase their overall level of investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services, rising to up to £7 million in 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/01/2023 11:23:19 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1540099

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
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: Diagnosis
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 13 June 2022 to Question 13826 on Dementia: Diagnosis, when he plans to publish further details of the financial support that will be provided by his Department to help tackle the backlog of dementia diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	80593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>Last financial year, £17 million was made available to Clinical Commissioning Groups to specifically address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. Work to improve dementia diagnosis rates will continue in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/11/2022 17:18:58 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman