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768105

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on the connection between height and prostate cancer risk.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>No such discussions have taken place.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:19:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

768109

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Eylea: Macular Degeneration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Lars Bruening, Bayer UK and Ireland CEO, as a result of the recognition by NICE of the merits of using Eylea to treat myopic choroidal neovascularisation.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>No Ministerial discussions have taken place. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing guidance on the use of Eylea for the treatment of myopic choroidal neovascularisation. NICE has published draft guidance that recommends use of the drug subject to a patient access scheme that makes the drug available to the National Health Service at a discounted price. NICE expects to publish final guidance this November. This is the first drug to be appraised through NICE’s new fast track appraisal process for treatments that can clearly demonstrate cost-effectiveness. Should the guidance remain unchanged, the NHS is committed to funding the treatment 30 days after NICE’s final guidance is published.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/10/2017 16:39:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767562

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks and Smoking: Television
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with television companies on reducing the prevalence of smoking and alcohol consumption in programming.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>No such discussions have taken place. It is for content makers to decide what to include in their programmes, provided that they comply with the Broadcasting Code. As television reflects real life, it can be expected that some people on television may smoke and drink alcohol. In respect of children and young people, the Ofcom Broadcasting Code stipulates that smoking, drugs and the misuse of alcohol must not be featured in programmes made primarily for children, and must generally be avoided and not condoned, encouraged, or glamorised before the watershed or in programmes likely to be seen by children.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:36:16 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767566

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Exercise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to incentivise people to have an active lifestyle.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Public Health England uses a range of approaches to encourage people to be more physically active. Its social marketing campaigns Change4Life and Active 10, the recent One You physical activity campaign, was supported by a mobile phone app to encourage 10 minute bouts of walking and has been downloaded over 400,000 times.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS England Healthy New Towns programme, one of the ‘Five Year Forward View’ innovation programmes, launched in July 2015, is working with 10 new housing developments across England to deliver a range of innovative interventions and implement best practice to co-create with local communities new places which promote health and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:34:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767568

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Butterfly Health Device Mobius HD to prevent strokes will be available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>According to the available information the product is currently undergoing clinical trials to determine safety and performance. We understand that so far there has just been one study in humans, a proof of concept study on 30 patients.</p><p>Once these trials have been completed and the manufacturer is able to meet all the other requirements of the medical device directives, they may use the “CE” mark on their product as a medical device. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is not in a position to advise how long this process will take, as this will be dependent on the manufacturers’ data and their ability to meet the requirements of the relevant regulations.</p><p>Before treatments can be made available for patients careful assessments of the evidence for clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness are needed in order to ensure that the treatment will give patients benefit in clinical practice, with acceptable risk and within established cost effectiveness thresholds. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will normally review such treatments and make a recommendation on whether they should be used in the National Health Service, by publishing a Technology Appraisal. Commissioners will not usually develop a commissioning policy on treatments in advance of NICE Technology Appraisal.</p><p>Although stroke is one of a number of potential complications associated with untreated hypertension, the manufacturer of this device states it is intended to be used to treat resistant hypertension (hypertension which does not respond to drug treatment) and not for stroke prevention.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:41:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767569

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hay Fever: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people (a) have been diagnosed and (b) are being treated for hay fever aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 16 to 30, (iii) 30 to 80 and (iv) over 60 years in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>This information is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:25:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767571

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Acupuncture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will outline the process within the NHS for patient referrals to an acupuncturist.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>National Health Service processes to refer patients to an acupuncturist will be determined locally.</p><p>It is the responsibility of local NHS organisations to make decisions on the commissioning and funding of any health care treatments for NHS patients, such as acupuncture, taking account of issues to do with safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness and the availability of suitably qualified or regulated practitioners.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:38:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767572

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	HIV Infection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people there were with HIV in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>In each of the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 there were 77,333, 81,062, 85,162, 89,289 and 91,987 people living with diagnosed HIV in the United Kingdom, respectively.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:23:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767581

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs: Chronic Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that delivery of prescription drugs for patients with long-term conditions and illness will be maintained.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>Delivery of prescription medicines can continue to be commissioned by NHS England from community pharmacies, depending on local needs as an enhanced service, in which case it is provided free of charge to patients. However, pharmacies can of course offer delivery services to their patients – even if they are not commissioned by NHS England. Where they do, it is a private arrangement between the pharmacy and the patient.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 13/10/2017 13:30:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767583

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Plastic Surgery: Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to investigate the connection between breast implants and heart problems.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is not currently conducting any regulatory activity concerning heart, or other cardiovascular disease, in respect of these medical devices. No reports of adverse events related to these devices and the diagnosis of cardiac or other cardiovascular disease have been received. The Agency is not aware of any concerns being voiced by the patients or healthcare professionals; or of action being undertaken by any other regulator either in the European Union or worldwide.</p><p> </p><p>The Agency is aware of recent media coverage of a very small study regarding the interpretation of electrocardiographs in women who have breast implants. We will continue to monitor the situation and will take action if necessary.</p><p> </p><p>We encourage anyone who suspects they have had a complication after having a medical device implanted to discuss this with their clinician and report to us via the Yellow Card scheme regardless of how long ago the implant was inserted.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/10/2017 16:33:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon