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971494

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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: Data Protection
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 his Answer of 24 July 2018 to Question 166138 on NHS: Data Protection, if he will make an assessment of the financial effect on the NHS of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	172604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>There are no current plans to undertake an assessment of the financial effect implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have on the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>However, the impact of the GDPR’s potential impact on general practitioner practices has been raised as part of the General Medical Services contract negotiations which are currently on-going. Negotiations are confidential and neither we, nor the General Practitioner Committee, comment on the content of negotiations as it may prejudice the outcome.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/09/2018 11:27:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

968138

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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 Records: Veterans
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 introduce a notification on the medical files of military veterans to help increase awareness in the NHS of that service's responsibilities under the Military Covenant.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	170793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>General practitioner (GP) Registration forms currently ask if the patient has been a serving member of the armed forces, their address before listing, service or personnel number and enlistment date. Plans are in place to widen the question to also ask if a patient was a regular, reservist or service family member. This can then be recorded and logged on the GP IT system using Read and SNOMED Codes.</p><p> </p><p>Further work is ongoing to increase awareness of the Armed Forces Covenant within the NHS, such as the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Accreditation programme (over 90 GP practices in the pilot area of the West Midlands) and Veterans Covenant Hospital Alliance, improved e-learning packages and it also forms part of the curriculum for all GPs nationally and is tested in the RCGP membership exam.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 13/09/2018 11:20:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

968148

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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: Disclosure of Information
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 improve data access and sharing arrangements between the Health and Social Care Information Centre and NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	170802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Digital (formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre) work together to ensure the data required to operate the National Health Service is collected and made available where required.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital shares data for secondary purposes with customers through its Data Access Request Service (DARS) and NHS England applies for data from NHS Digital through this service.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital continues to deliver a significant programme of work to further improve the efficiency of this service and this includes:</p><p> </p><p>- Delivering a more streamlined approvals process;</p><p>- Implementing revised governance in line with the Data Protection Act 2018;</p><p>- Increasing the number of datasets available through DARS; and</p><p>- Making datasets available through a new secure on-line service.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/09/2018 16:00:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

968130

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Disability Aids and Prosthetics: Veterans
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 average waiting time is for veterans to receive (a) prothetics and (b) mobility aids for injuries caused as a result of their service in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	170786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 13/09/2018 09:48:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

944691

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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: Data Protection
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 he made of the financial effect on the NHS of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	166138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not made any assessment of the financial effect on the National Health Service of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).</p><p> </p><p>The GDPR came into effect on 25 May, replacing the Data Protection Act 1998. Its provisions form legal obligations that must be observed. The right of access plays a central role in the GDPR. This updates similar provisions, known as Subject Access Requests, that were available within the Data Protection Act 1998, giving individuals the right to obtain a copy of their personal data, including, from a health perspective, copies of medical records.</p><p> </p><p>Previously, under the Data Protection Act 1998, organisations were able to make a charge for dealing with the administration required in such a request. Under the GDPR, the ability, in law, to levy such charges has been removed in most cases. This is a blanket requirement of the GDPR, applicable to all businesses and public authorities which was subject to the collective agreement of all European Union member states. There has been no assessment made on the cost of dealing with such requests.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/07/2018 14:52:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

944694

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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: Data Protection
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 the NHS has taken to maintain patient records in a suitable format to reduce the time it takes staff to comply with subject access requests resulting from the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	166139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Professional bodies emphasise the importance of appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours in the education and training of health professionals. This includes the accurate recording, maintenance and retrieval of patient records as a key part of providing quality and safe care and to support effective and efficient management of the healthcare system.</p><p> </p><p>Employers will also ensure that their employees have undertaken relevant training in information governance and data protection.</p><p> </p><p>The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998. Its provisions form legal obligations that must be observed. The right of access plays a central role in the GDPR. This updates similar provisions, known as Subject Access Requests, that were available within the DPA 1998.</p><p> </p><p>The GDPR provides that the usual time limit for responding to right of access requests (within one month) may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and the number of the requests and providing an explanation is given to the data subject within a month of receiving the request.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital holds important patient information, created from general practitioner medical records, in the Summary Care Record system. It can be seen and used by authorised staff in other areas of the health and care system involved in the patient's direct care. This information is already stored in a suitable format and therefore no changes have been required to support timely response to subject access requests.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/07/2018 14:54:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

932812

registered interest
date	29/06/2018
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	Naloxone: Prisoners
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 18 June 2018 to Question 153247 on prisons issuing Naloxone, in which month in 2019 the collated data are expected to be published.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	158990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>The data on prisons issuing Naloxone is expected to be published in January 2019 in the ‘Substance misuse treatment in secure settings: statistics 2017 to 2018’.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2018 15:54:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

931855

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Hospital Wards: Gender
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Government has made on eliminating mixed-sex wards in NHS hospitals in England.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	158220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>All patients deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. The Government have made it clear that providers of National Health Service-funded care are expected to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, except where this is in the overall best interest of the patient, or reflects their personal choice. There are overriding operational and clinical reasons why patients might sometimes need to be placed in mixed wards or bays. The need to treat a patient safely and urgently must take priority. In such cases, the breach will be rectified as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Hospitals therefore need to take action to address breaches of mixed sex accommodation and put plans in place to avoid further breaches where it is appropriate to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The number of breaches has fallen by 86.6% (as of April 2018) since reporting began in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Data on breaches of mixed sex accommodation are collected monthly and the annual totals for the last five years are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Breaches</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>7,756</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>14,737</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on fines is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the NHS Standard Contract 2017-18 to 2018-19, where breaches occur, the commissioner whose patient is affected must levy the financial sanction specified by the contract. That sanction is £250 (introduced in April 2011) for each day that a patient is affected by the breach.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 158221 158222 158223 question first answered 02/07/2018 15:36:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

931856

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Hospital Wards: Gender
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 mixed-sex ward breaches there have been in NHS hospitals in England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	158221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>All patients deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. The Government have made it clear that providers of National Health Service-funded care are expected to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, except where this is in the overall best interest of the patient, or reflects their personal choice. There are overriding operational and clinical reasons why patients might sometimes need to be placed in mixed wards or bays. The need to treat a patient safely and urgently must take priority. In such cases, the breach will be rectified as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Hospitals therefore need to take action to address breaches of mixed sex accommodation and put plans in place to avoid further breaches where it is appropriate to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The number of breaches has fallen by 86.6% (as of April 2018) since reporting began in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Data on breaches of mixed sex accommodation are collected monthly and the annual totals for the last five years are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Breaches</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>7,756</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>14,737</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on fines is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the NHS Standard Contract 2017-18 to 2018-19, where breaches occur, the commissioner whose patient is affected must levy the financial sanction specified by the contract. That sanction is £250 (introduced in April 2011) for each day that a patient is affected by the breach.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 158220 158222 158223 question first answered 02/07/2018 15:36:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

931857

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Hospital Wards: Gender
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 eliminate mixed-sex wards in NHS hospitals in England.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	158222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>All patients deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. The Government have made it clear that providers of National Health Service-funded care are expected to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, except where this is in the overall best interest of the patient, or reflects their personal choice. There are overriding operational and clinical reasons why patients might sometimes need to be placed in mixed wards or bays. The need to treat a patient safely and urgently must take priority. In such cases, the breach will be rectified as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Hospitals therefore need to take action to address breaches of mixed sex accommodation and put plans in place to avoid further breaches where it is appropriate to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The number of breaches has fallen by 86.6% (as of April 2018) since reporting began in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Data on breaches of mixed sex accommodation are collected monthly and the annual totals for the last five years are shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Breaches</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,309</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>7,756</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>14,737</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on fines is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Under the terms of the NHS Standard Contract 2017-18 to 2018-19, where breaches occur, the commissioner whose patient is affected must levy the financial sanction specified by the contract. That sanction is £250 (introduced in April 2011) for each day that a patient is affected by the breach.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 158220 158221 158223 question first answered 02/07/2018 15:36:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris