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1507207

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Barts Health NHS Trust: Patient Choice Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's guidance, The NHS Choice Framework: what choices are available to me in the NHS?, updated 14 January 2020, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the implementation of her Department's policy on equality of access to a hospital of choice by Barts Health NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>‘The NHS Choice Framework: what choices are available to me in the NHS?’ is currently being updated to reflect changes arising from the Health and Care Act 2022. The updated guidance will be published later this year. The existing Framework remains applicable and is available to commissioners, providers and patients.</p><p>All services offered by Barts Health NHS Trust are subject to the Framework and there are local policies for each hospital within the Trust to implement it. The Trust will investigate any complaint received, either directly from a patient or via an intermediary.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:26:13 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507212

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Health Services and Social Services: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on (a) the number of applications for job vacancies in the UK health and social care sector which were made by individuals from countries listed on the World Health Organisation's Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List and (b) the number of such applicants who were subsequently granted visas by the UK government, in the most recent period for which these figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	53413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/10/2022 09:29:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1507213

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Health Services and Social Services: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which countries listed on the World Health Organisation's Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List currently have agreements with the UK to allow the recruitment of individuals from such countries to fill vacancies in the UK health and social care sectors; and which countries on that list the Government is currently seeking to negotiate such an agreement with.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	53414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>Of those countries listed on the World Health Organization's Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, the United Kingdom currently has a memorandum of understanding on the recruitment of healthcare workers with Nepal.</p><p>We are unable to provide information requested on countries we are currently in discussion with as it would be likely to prejudice relations between the UK and other states. When signed, Government-to-Government agreements are published to ensure transparency.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/10/2022 09:30:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1507286

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Social Services: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions her Department has had with representatives of Adult Social Care IT providers on the capability of technology to support increased assessments at (a) local authority and (b) level.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	53437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England have worked with the IT suppliers providing adult social care case management systems to local authorities in England to design the core functionality required for the implementation of charging reform. The Department regularly engages with suppliers and local authorities to discuss delivery and implementation, including the role of technology in supporting the delivery of assessments.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53438 question first answered 11/10/2022 08:58:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1507287

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Social Services: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the planned reforms to adult social care charging set out on 8 March 2022, what recent discussions she has had with providers in that sector about the adequacy of their IT systems to deliver those reforms.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	53438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England have worked with the IT suppliers providing adult social care case management systems to local authorities in England to design the core functionality required for the implementation of charging reform. The Department regularly engages with suppliers and local authorities to discuss delivery and implementation, including the role of technology in supporting the delivery of assessments.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53437 question first answered 11/10/2022 08:58:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1507295

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	NHS Trusts: Clinical Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS Trusts have a six month termination clause in contracts for the supply of clinical waste services.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	53297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally. Contractual decisions are made by individual trusts locally and the Department does not mandate terms of each contract.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:00:52 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1507412

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	NHS: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the average pay of NHS staff working in (a) Newham and (b) Tower Hamlets.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. For over one million National Health Service non-medical staff, including nurses, paramedics, and midwives, the average basic pay has increased from approximately £31,500 to £32,900 from 2021/22 to 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 14:40:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507413

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	NHS: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her policy to allow NHS bodies to invoice a patient for hospital care not excluded from the Charging Regulations prior to evidencing that a patient does not have entitlement to free NHS care.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Guidance to providers of National Health Service-funded secondary care states that where a person cannot support their entitlement to care free of charge, the provider may decide to charge for treatment. In making this decision, the provider should judge each case on its own merits and take any reasonable steps to ascertain a patient's claim that an exemption applies. If charged, the person can subsequently claim reimbursement where there is sufficient evidence to show an entitlement to free treatment at the time it was given.</p><p>The guidance also states that any treatment a clinician determines to be immediately necessary or urgent must never be delayed due to charging. Where a charge applies it cannot be waived for any reason. However, the guidance sets out circumstances when providers may write off the charge in the accounts and not pursue the debt, including if the patient is destitute or genuinely without access to funds. The Department works with NHS England to support NHS providers in implementing the Regulations appropriately. The Department and NHS England are producing additional guidance relating to debt and destitution to support relevant bodies dealing with financially vulnerable patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53328 question first answered 27/09/2022 10:59:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507414

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	NHS: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance has been provided to NHS bodies on the criteria needed to exempt patients from NHS debt where they have been determined to not be ordinarily resident including (a) which criteria are used to determine if such a patient is destitute and (b) any other criteria.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	53328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>Guidance to providers of National Health Service-funded secondary care states that where a person cannot support their entitlement to care free of charge, the provider may decide to charge for treatment. In making this decision, the provider should judge each case on its own merits and take any reasonable steps to ascertain a patient's claim that an exemption applies. If charged, the person can subsequently claim reimbursement where there is sufficient evidence to show an entitlement to free treatment at the time it was given.</p><p>The guidance also states that any treatment a clinician determines to be immediately necessary or urgent must never be delayed due to charging. Where a charge applies it cannot be waived for any reason. However, the guidance sets out circumstances when providers may write off the charge in the accounts and not pursue the debt, including if the patient is destitute or genuinely without access to funds. The Department works with NHS England to support NHS providers in implementing the Regulations appropriately. The Department and NHS England are producing additional guidance relating to debt and destitution to support relevant bodies dealing with financially vulnerable patients.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 53327 question first answered 27/09/2022 10:59:44 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1507445

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Tixagevimab/cilgavimab
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 decision-making process was ahead of the decision not to procure Evusheld including what (a) discussions took place and (b) evidence was used to inform the decision; and for what reason the Government decided not to procure Evusheld.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	53385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government has decided not to procure Evusheld for prevention through emergency routes at this time. This is a decision based on independent clinical advice by the multi-agency RAPID C-19 and a national expert policy working group. These groups considered a range of evidence, including clinical trial data, in vitro analysis and emerging observational studies and concluded there is currently insufficient evidence of benefit to recommend deployment. The Chief Medical Officer for England is content that the correct process for providing clinical advice has been followed and this should now be referred to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for further evaluation.</p><p>The Department wrote to patient groups on 5 September 2022 with information on this decision and evidence considered. The letter summarised the evidence considered by RAPID C-19 that contributed to the decision not to procure and deploy Evusheld and detailed the next steps the Government will take.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/10/2022 09:22:37 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy