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749219

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bicycles: Lighting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they will take in response to claims that hospital patients are paying 50p a minute to make telephone calls.
tabling member printed	Lord Cotter
uin	HL555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department is not party to the contracts made with any of the companies that provide the bedside telephone service to patients and it has not made an assessment of the contingency arrangements National Health Service trusts have in place, should their service provider be unable to fulfil its contractual obligations. Therefore it has no authority to impose any price changes on the suppliers of the services.</p><p>Patients can use their mobile phones as an alternative in specified areas of the hospital and payphones should be available as an alternative.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the NHS trust to consider contingency arrangements, should it wish to continue to provide this service to its patients. The telephone company contracts are made between individual NHS trusts and their chosen suppliers. Trusts do, in fact, have the ability to renegotiate their terms.</p><p>The bedside telephone is an additional service to that which existed in the past so alternatives already exist in hospitals. It is still possible for relatives and friends to contact a hospital via its main switchboard, and then be transferred to the nurses’ station on a ward to enquire about their relative’s health, as they have always been able to do in the past.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 14/07/2017 13:02:14 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3786 label Biography information for Lord Cotter

749220

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Epilepsy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which parity of esteem between the treatment of mental health and physical health is applied across the NHS.
tabling member printed	Lord Cotter
uin	HL556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government set out parity of esteem in physical and mental health in law in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The Government also set up the first waiting times for mental health – to improve access to psychological therapies and early intervention in psychosis, we have also introduced a waiting time for General Practitioners, reflecting commitments which had existed in physical health for some time. The Government further retained this commitment by welcoming the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s <em>Five Year Forward View for Mental Health</em> report in February 2016. The report set out a strategy for change in four key areas to drive forward improvements in mental health: promoting good mental health and helping people lead the lives they want to live, integrating care, creating a seven-day National Health Service for mental health and hard-wiring mental health across health and social care. The Government accepted all the report’s recommendations in January 2017 and published a detailed action plan for taking forward the recommendations, including how we will monitor progress and report transparently. NHS England’s implementation plan for the Five Year Forward View, published in July 2016, also set out a robust plan for delivering the commitments set out in the <em>Five Year Forward View for Mental Health</em>.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 14/07/2017 12:50:13 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	3786 label Biography information for Lord Cotter

749226

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bacterial Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefit of playing chess and bridge for (1) older people, (2) those with mental health problems and (3) children.
tabling member printed	Lord Harrison
uin	HL562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the benefit of playing chess and bridge for older people, those with mental health problems or children.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 14/07/2017 13:02:35 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2488 label Biography information for Lord Harrison

748848

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to reduce the level of smoking in both indoor and outdoor public places.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Legislation introduced in 2007 made it illegal to smoke in all public enclosed or substantially enclosed areas and workplaces. There are no current plans to introduce further smoke free legislation to outdoor places.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities can however, consider adopting more extensive no smoking policies locally. Local authorities are best placed to do this working with its local population to develop flexible plans that suit the local area.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 11/07/2017 15:03:02 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

748864

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how they intend to ensure that the UK's withdrawal from the EU does not jeopardise or undermine cross–border healthcare provision in Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister said in her Article 50 letter we want to avoid a return to a hard border between the United Kingdom and Ireland and maintain the Common Travel Area (CTA) between us. We recognise that for the people of Northern Ireland and Ireland, the ability to move freely across the border is an essential part of daily life. There is a strong appetite on both sides of the border and in all parts of the UK to maintain the current status quo. The Government has been clear that there will be no immediate changes to our practices surrounding the CTA.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 11/07/2017 15:02:39 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

748867

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many people commenced treatment for hepatitis C in the financial year 2016–17 broken down by operational delivery network area.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of people who commenced treatment in the financial year 2016-17 broken down by operational delivery network (ODN) area. The data has been collected by NHS England and was previously unpublished.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Network(ODN)</p></td><td><p>Actual</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barts</p></td><td><p>494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>748</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol and Severn Hep C ODN</p></td><td><p>326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire and Merseyside</p></td><td><p>347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastern Hepatitis Network</p></td><td><p>586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire</p></td><td><p>687</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside and North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>377</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent Network via Kings</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire and South Cumbria</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Central London Viral Hepatitis Network</p></td><td><p>730</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East and Cumbria</p></td><td><p>395</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>383</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Thames Hepatitis Network</p></td><td><p>870</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey Hepatitis Services</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex Hepatology Network</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SW Peninsula Hepatitis C ODN</p></td><td><p>328</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley Hep C ODN</p></td><td><p>347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wessex Hep C ODN</p></td><td><p>341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West London</p></td><td><p>562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>9,440</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 17/07/2017 11:52:58 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

747967

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether civil servants in the Department of Health are permitted to use the term “hard Brexit” in official briefing papers.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to seizing the opportunities arising from exiting the European Union, and to ensuring that we exit smoothly on the best possible terms. The terms 'hard' and 'soft' are commonly used outside the Civil Service and within discussions around EU exit.</p><p> </p><p>The role of the Civil Service is to provide impartial advice and to deliver Government policy, and is focused on delivering this Government’s commitment to leave the EU and get the very best deal for the United Kingdom.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 17/07/2017 11:52:06 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

747971

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the age profile of mental health nurses employed by the NHS in England in each of the last ten years.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the attached table shows the age profile of mental health nurses in the National Health Service in England at 30 September 2007 to 2016. Data for March 2017 is also provided as this is the latest available.</p><p> </p><p>The data is headcount because equality data relates to individuals.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 17/07/2017 11:51:03 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL425 table formatted.xlsx title Age profile of mental health nurses
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

748004

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the ruling by the Information Commissioner's Office on 3 July that the transfer of patient data from the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust to DeepMind was illegal, what guidance they will give to NHS trusts regarding the sharing of patient data.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>We expect to publish the Government’s response to the National Data Guardian’s review of data security, consent and opt-outs and the Care Quality Commission’s review <em>Safe data, safe care</em> shortly. This will provide information to the National Health Service and adult social care on sharing data in lawful, safe and secure ways. In addition we intend to publish summary guidance in the autumn on the current regulatory framework for NHS trusts and suppliers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 11/07/2017 15:06:37 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

748019

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how they ensure that, in responding to acid attacks, first responders are adequately equipped to deal with (1) the immediate effects, and (2) the need to prevent prolonged physical damage.
tabling member printed	Baroness Uddin
uin	HL473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Emergency medical technicians and paramedics operate to the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Clinical Practise Guidelines 2016. This does not refer to the use of Diphoterine. Ambulance personnel would follow the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear advice in the guidelines to disrobe the patient and decontaminate with water.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL475 question first answered 11/07/2017 15:01:51 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1827 label Biography information for Baroness Uddin