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1054562

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date	04/02/2019
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	Radiology: Training
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 effect of the end of NHS student bursaries for radiography courses on (a) the number of diagnostic tests undertaken and (b) trends in the level of the workforce recruitment and retention in radiotherapy.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	216168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, sets out a vital strategic framework to ensure that over the next 10 years the National Health Service will have the staff it needs.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key NHS interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce, including consideration of additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.</p><p> </p><p>Radiotherapy degree courses are three years in length, therefore students affected by the changes to the education funding system from 2017 will not have completed courses funded by loans to enable an assessment of the effect of the removal of bursaries on this profession.</p><p> </p><p>The Cancer Workforce Plan Phase 1, included a target of upskilling 300 more radiographers in image interpretation and reporting by 2021. Currently, 88 individuals have started training programmes towards this, 62 will start in January, and a further 150 during 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>Phase 2 of the Cancer Workforce Plan will follow the Workforce Implementation Plan published later in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 216167 question first answered 07/02/2019 17:28:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1054714

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Ketamine
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 awareness of the risks of ketamine amongst the adult population.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	216130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England delivers FRANK, the Government’s drug information and advisory website and is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.talktofrank.com/" target="_blank">https://www.talktofrank.com/</a></p><p> </p><p>The FRANK site offers information about ketamine, covering the risks of use, the law on using it and advice on what to do if you are concerned about your own drug use, or another person’s usage. It also sign-posts users to relevant support services and provides a 24 hour free-to-use confidential help line, text and email message services and online chat.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:30:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1054735

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Cervical Cancer
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 make it his policy that cervical cancer patients receive treatment within 20 days of diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	216141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan published in January 2019 sets out the Government’s ambitions to see 55,000 more people surviving cancer for five years in England each year from 2028 and three quarters of all cancers detected at an early stage by 2028. To achieve these targets, we will need to make significant progress on survival across all cancers, including cervical cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will shortly be introducing a Faster Diagnostic Standard of 28 days for all cancer patients which, when taken together with the 62-day referral to treatment standard, will mean that all patients should expect to start their treatment within 34 days of diagnosis. This is a maximum, and trusts should continue to treat patients more quickly particularly where there is a strong clinical need.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 15:14:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1054755

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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, whether he has received representations on patient anxieties about access to medicines including for epilepsy and depression; and what plans the Government has for communication on the availability of such medicines.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	216146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Medicines shortages are an ongoing issue that the Department manages constantly. The Department receives a wide range of representations regarding the availability of medicines on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s Medicines Supply Team has well established procedures to deal with medicine shortages and works closely with all stakeholders to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when they do arise.</p><p> </p><p>Every shortage is different. The decision to communicate, and type of communication, will depend on a number of factors. We work closely with all stakeholders in these situations to provide advice on management options and to consider how best to communicate a supply problem to those affected. Where necessary, we will engage with relevant patient groups regarding specific medicine shortages, including, for example, several epilepsy patient groups.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:29:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1054787

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Elton John AIDS Foundation: Finance
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 ensure that its £1.5 million contribution to the Elton John AIDS Foundation to support the Evening Standard’s AIDSfree campaign will help achieve the target of zero new HIV transmissions by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	216321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department is working with the Elton John AIDS Foundation to agree how the £1.5 million funding will be used and will confirm plans shortly.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:31:01 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1054818

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which of the 10 most prevalent forms of cancer for adults (a) women and (b) men have a national screening programme.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	216132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries on all aspects of population screening, and supports implementation. It is only where the offer to screen provides more good than harm that a screening programme is recommended. NHS England mandates the NHS to provide 11 national population-based screening programmes.</p><p> </p><p>There are three adult national cancer screening programmes: breast cancer and cervical cancer screening for women and bowel cancer screening for both men and women.</p><p> </p><p>According to research conducted by Cancer Research UK, both bowel and breast cancer are among the 10 most prevalent forms of cancers for adults.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:31:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1054862

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	National Child Measurement Programme
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 28 January 2019 to Question 213342, for what reasons his Department has no plans to extend the National Child Measurement Programme to measure children (a) after birth, (b) before school and (c) during adolescence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The inclusion of additional data points in the National Child Measurement Programme would provide minimal insight but would substantially increase the delivery costs of the programme for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 15:15:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1054864

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
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 page 8 of the January 2019 NAO report on the management of health screening, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of women who receive the results of cervical screening tests within 14 days from 55 per cent to the target rate of 98 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Prevention and early diagnosis of cancer are key priorities for this Government, and we are already working closely with NHS England and Public Health England to address the issues this useful report highlights.</p><p> </p><p>These include a national mitigation plan whereby a majority of existing HPV pilot sites have converted more of their cervical screening activity to human papilloma virus (HPV) primary screening. This has freed up cytology capacity which has been used for laboratories experiencing backlogs and therefore, samples have been transferred across the country. This has also been replicated amongst non-pilot sites who have converted to HPV primary screening when all other options for reducing their backlog have not proved successful.</p><p> </p><p>Most recently, a national resilience plan has been introduced whereby all existing laboratories have been given the opportunity to implement, as soon as possible, HPV primary screening prior to the conclusion of a procurement for new laboratory providers. Existing laboratory providers will continue this provision throughout the whole transitional period up to and following the commencement of the new service.</p><p> </p><p>As per the ministerial commitment, full geographical coverage of HPV primary screening within the NHS Cervical Screening Programme will be achieved by the end of December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, NHS England announced in November 2018 that Professor Sir Mike Richards will lead a review of the national cancer screening programmes. The review, expected to report by summer 2019 will include recommendations about future commissioning and delivery of cancer screening programmes in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:33:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1054865

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Health: Screening
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 page 8 of the January 2019 NAO report on the management of health screening, whether his Department plans to transfer power to Public Health England to enforce recommended changes in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	216352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to transfer power to Public Health England to enforce recommended changes in the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:34:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1054954

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
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	Cervical Cancer: Screening
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 Government is taking to encourage more women to attend cervical screening.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Rebecca Pow
uin	909064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England is working to raise awareness of this disease and encourage women to attend cervical screening through the national ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaigns, which have been run in partnership with Cancer Research UK since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>PHE is in the process of developing a new campaign that will promote the uptake of cervical screening. The campaign is scheduled to launch early in March.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is also investing in initiatives to help ensure equality of access to screening and is investing more than £258 million this year to improve access to general practice and more than half the country is benefitting from improved access to all routine appointments (including cervical screening), at evening and/or weekends.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 17:33:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow