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631155

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 4 November 2016 to Question 50657, if his Department will collect centrally information on the cost of staff sickness to the NHS due to (a) hip arthroscopy and (b) other medical treatments not being provided by clinical commissioning groups.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	51996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>It is not the role of the Department to collect data on the cost of sickness absence to the National Health Service due to hip arthroscopy and other medical treatments not being provided by clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>The Department keeps NHS data collection requirements to a minimum, enabling trusts to concentrate their resources on improving the health and wellbeing of their staff and patients.</p><p> </p><p>Trusts, which are responsible for managing their staff sickness absence costs, should maintain comprehensive sickness absence records and, as indicated in my answer of 4 November to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=50657" target="_blank">50657</a>, from this information, tailor the health and wellbeing support they provide their workforce to meet staff needs and help keep them at work.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/11/2016 09:29:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

631156

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for each hospital trust in England, when that trust's governing body's regular or extraordinary meetings took place in the last six months; and whether each such meeting included a confidential section from which Healthwatch or the general public were excluded.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	51997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on these meetings centrally. It is for individual trusts and foundation trusts to manage regular and extraordinary meetings as appropriate for their organisation.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 14/11/2016 16:30:29 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

631161

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many perinatal mental health specialist midwives were active in (a) Liverpool Wavertree constituency, (b) Liverpool, (c) England and (d) each region and constituent part of the UK in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	51969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The number of perinatal mental health specialist midwives is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 14/11/2016 09:50:26 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

631162

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to help protect from closure the accident and emergency departments of Blackburn and Preston hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	51970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The provision of accident and emergency services at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, and the Royal Preston Hospital, are matters for the local National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 14/11/2016 16:28:26 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

631168

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Devon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what scientific evidence led to the promotion of the care closer to home model adopted by the north, east and west Devon Success Regime.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	52024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2016 answer text <p>The proposals developed by the north, east and west Devon Success Regime have drawn upon a range of evidence, including studies of the potential benefits of care closer to home. This included a number of national and local studies, such as the Torrington Community Care Test of Change in Social Care which can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.northdevonhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Appendix-7-Evidence-Review.pdf" target="_blank">www.northdevonhealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Appendix-7-Evidence-Review.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 16/11/2016 09:46:44 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

631170

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to reduce health spending inequalities between (a) the UK and other European countries and (b) UK health authority districts.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	52023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>Based on the latest internationally comparable Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data, total health spending in the United Kingdom, as set out by the OECD for 2014 (published 30 June 2016), and which includes public (Government) and private spend, is at 9.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), above the OECD average1 of 9.0% and the EU-15 average of 9.8%.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing health spending inequalities is part of the core formula that is used to determine the funding that is allocated to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), which are the equivalent of UK health authority districts in England. Responsibility for CCG allocations rests with NHS England. NHS England also has a duty to reduce health inequalities.</p><p> </p><p>The formula includes an adjustment for unmet need and health inequalities, which has been refined for 2016-17 to 2020-21 allocations.</p><p> </p><p>The unmet need and health inequalities adjustment continues to be based on the standardised mortality ratio for those aged under 75 years. The latest data has been used and the adjustment refined to give a higher weight per head to the areas with the worst standardised mortality ratio for those aged under 75 years and to be based on the size of each CCG’s registered lists in place of Office for National Statistics populations, on which it was previously based.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England has published a technical guide to allocations which sets out all the individual factors used in determining the allocation levels. The guide is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/04/allocations-tech-guide-16-17/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/04/allocations-tech-guide-16-17/#</a></p><p> </p><p>Funding for other parts of the UK is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p><em>Note</em>:</p><p><sup>1</sup>The reported averages reflect the simple average of countries’ figures without weighting that for population or GDP of the respective countries.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/11/2016 10:59:21 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

631171

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of skills shortages within the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	52157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>Working with local National Health Service organisations, Health Education England produces an annual National Workforce Plan for England, which sets out future training requirements for the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>At a local level, it is the responsibility of NHS organisations to ensure that their staff, through Continuing Professional Development, have the ongoing skills required to deliver safe and effective care to patients.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/11/2016 11:59:28 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

631182

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on NHS inflation of recent changes in the currency exchange rate.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	52196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The vast majority of income and costs of National Health Service budgets are denominated in pounds sterling. There are a number of reasons for changes in NHS costs, and, as ever, specifically identifying the impact of exchange rate changes is not routinely undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 52197 question first answered 14/11/2016 16:29:30 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

631183

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on NHS finances of recent changes in the currency exchange rate.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	52197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The vast majority of income and costs of National Health Service budgets are denominated in pounds sterling. There are a number of reasons for changes in NHS costs, and, as ever, specifically identifying the impact of exchange rate changes is not routinely undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 52196 question first answered 14/11/2016 16:29:30 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

631184

registered interest
date	07/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's national three-to-five strategy is for supporting the training and development of advanced paediatric and neonatal nurse practitioners, to enable skilled acute care for infants, children and young people close to home.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	52185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not have a dedicated three to five strategy for supporting the training and development of advanced paediatric and neonatal nurse practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>It is Health Education England’s (HEE) responsibility to ensure that there is sufficient future supply of staff, including those needed in specialist fields such as this, to meet the workforce requirements of the English health system.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its ongoing work HEE continually looks to ensure that staff groups, such as those highlighted, have the correct planned workforce growth, consider whether new roles are required and ensure that existing undergraduate training and education meets the needs of both students and patients.</p><p> </p><p>At a local level, it is the responsibility of National Health Service organisations to ensure that their staff, through Continuing Professional Development, have the ongoing skills required to deliver safe and effective care to patients.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/11/2016 10:47:47 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy