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1123527

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Lung Cancer: 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 increase the number of diagnoses of lung cancer before it has reached stage 3 or 4.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	248575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan included an ambition that 75% of cancers will be diagnosed at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. The plan sets out a number of key steps to achieve this, including raising greater awareness of symptoms of cancer, accelerating access to diagnosis and treatment and maximising the number of cancers that we identify through screening. Meeting this ambition will also require the National Health Service to harness new technological advances to target at risk patients more effectively; directing our research and innovation effort to the areas where the data tells us we can have the biggest impact; and mobilising the NHS so that we can adopt proven new approaches more quickly.</p><p>In February 2019, NHS England announced that Targeted Lung Health Checks will be one of the first projects to roll out following the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan that was published in January 2019. The Targeted Lung Health Check programme will cover 10 initial sites covering 14 clinical commissioning groups until 2023 in areas that have been selected as they have some of the highest rates of lung cancer mortality. People aged 55-74 that have ever smoked will be invited to have a free lung check. Results from these initial sites will form the basis for a wider rollout across the country.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:53:55 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1123528

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Lung Cancer: Health Education
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 tackle the misconception that only people who smoke are at risk of developing lung cancer.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	248576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) continues to run awareness campaigns focused on the symptoms of lung cancer where the messaging is relevant to both smokers and non-smokers.</p><p>For example, the PHE Be Clear on Cancer Respiratory Symptoms campaign encourages those with a persistent cough or inappropriate breathlessness to visit their doctor, with the aim of improving earlier diagnosis of heart and lung disease, including lung cancer. The campaign has run twice nationally, in 2016 and 2017. This campaign can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer</a></p><p>The precursor to this campaign centred on one main symptom, that of a persistent cough, as a possible symptom of lung cancer. This lung cancer campaign ran nationally three times, in 2012, 2013 and 2014.</p><p>The Be Clear on Cancer campaign materials, explain that although lung cancer is more common in smokers, those who have never smoked can also get the disease, including details of the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer each year. The leaflet is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744" target="_blank">https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:40:01 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1123572

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Pharmacy: Finance
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 agree a multi-year funding commitment with community pharmacies to help ensure they can help achieve the goals of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department, with NHS England, has recently begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. The length of any settlement will form part of these negotiations and as such a decision has not yet been taken. These negotiations are confidential and no further information can be provided at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:50:32 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123573

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to use community pharmacies to reduce pressure on urgent care services across England as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	248663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Both the NHS Long Term Plan and the Prevention is Better than Cure vision document set out an ambition to better utilise the skills and expertise within community pharmacy. The NHS Long Term Plan introduces the development of pharmacy connection schemes that will enable patients, who do not need primary medical services, to be referred from NHS 111 and General Practitioner practices, to a community pharmacy for support and advice with a minor illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department, with NHS England, has recently begun negotiations to determine the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. These negotiations will include discussions about the role of community pharmacy as set out within the NHS Long Term Plan. As the negotiations are confidential, no further detail can be provided at this time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:53:47 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1123679

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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: Cost Benefit Analysis
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 has made a cost-benefit analysis of advancing the development of (a) better diagnostics and (b) new antibiotics.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	248602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>It is widely recognised that, along with lowering the burden of infection and exposure to resistance and optimising our use of antimicrobials, we also need a sustainable supply of new diagnostics, therapies and vaccines to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The World Bank has predicted a global shortfall of $1 trillion gross domestic product per year after 2030 that could push an extra 28.3 million people into extreme poverty if we do not address AMR; potentially an additional 10 million deaths will be attributable to AMR by 2050.</p><p>The new United Kingdom five-year AMR national action plan, published alongside the UK 20-year vision for AMR on 24 January 2019, has therefore made the commitment to continue to invest in and promote innovation to tackle AMR and to work with international partners to agree a coordinated global system for incentivising new diagnostics and therapeutics. The UK is leading the way in testing solutions that address the failure of companies to invest in the development of new antimicrobials.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:46:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1123694

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
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	Opioids: Prescriptions
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 made of the level of opioid prescription rates per 100,000 people in each local authority area in England in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	248592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 02/05/2019 15:42:30 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1123441

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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: Drugs
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 12 April 2019 to Question 242165 on NHS: drugs, whether the drug distribution issues have been resolved.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	248045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department is aware that the supplier of Sabril tablets has experienced a delay in delivery and as a result the short term local distribution issues are now expected to be resolved in mid-May 2019.</p><p>The supplier has confirmed that there are no current supply issues affecting Sabril granules and supplies are available.</p><p>We understand the importance of this medicine and we continue to monitor the situation and work with the supplier to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 01/05/2019 15:20:37 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1123446

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Heart Diseases: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review into screening for risk of sudden cardiac death has commenced.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	247990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is in the process of reviewing the evidence to screen for the major causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people between the ages of 12 to 39 as per its three-yearly cycle and a public consultation will open in summer 2019. A wide range of relevant stakeholders will be consulted during the next SCD review.</p><p>The UK NSC is an independent committee that advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four UK countries on all aspects of screening and supports implementation of screening programmes. Conditions are reviewed against evidence review criteria according to the UK NSC’s evidence review process.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 01/05/2019 15:26:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1123023

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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	Heart Diseases
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 has made an assessment of the potential link between the consumption of ready-made meals and heart disease.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	247699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England has advised that it has not made any assessment of the potential link between the consumption of ready-made meals and heart disease, and that attributing disease to particular foods would be difficult due to the range of factors that play a part in causing the development of diet-related diseases.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/05/2019 11:32:59 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1123025

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
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	Dental Health: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase public awareness of gum disease and tooth loss.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	247701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing the oral health needs of their local population, developing appropriate strategies and commissioning oral health improvement programmes for both gum disease and tooth loss.</p><p>In 2017, Public Health England (PHE) published a ‘Guide to a healthy mouth in adults’ which provides a summary of the simple steps that can be taken to protect and improve oral health. In 2018, PHE also published ‘Commissioning Better Oral Health for Vulnerable Older People’ which supports commissioners in improving the oral health of vulnerable older people. Finally, in 2019, PHE published ‘Adult Oral Health- applying All Our Health’, online guidance for healthcare professionals to improve oral health in adults. This guidance is available at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601835/healthy_mouth_adults_quick_guide.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/601835/healthy_mouth_adults_quick_guide.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-better-oral-health-for-vulnerable-older-people" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commissioning-better-oral-health-for-vulnerable-older-people</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-oral-health-applying-all-our-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-oral-health-applying-all-our-health</a></p><p>The National Health Service website also has information on preventing and treating gum disease. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gum-disease/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gum-disease/</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/05/2019 11:30:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon