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992661

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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	Vaccination
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 his Department holds on the time being taken to supply and provide the (a) flu and (b) pneumonia vaccine for those eligible for free vaccinations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	182217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>General practices (GPs) and pharmacies are responsible for procuring seasonal flu vaccines and pneumococcal vaccine (PPV) for eligible adults aged 18 years and over directly from the manufacturers/suppliers for the populations they serve.</p><p> </p><p>Delivery dates for the flu vaccines are arranged directly between the supplier and the practice. The adjuvanted trivalent flu vaccine (aTIV) is recommended for those aged 65 and over. Delivery of the aTIV has had to be phased and all GP practices and community pharmacies will receive their supplies in three deliveries in September, October and November. This is a specific arrangement for 2018-19 to allow effective supply of the vaccine. The majority of vaccinations are usually given between the vaccine becoming available in September and December.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) provides flu vaccines centrally for the children’s flu programme. Centrally purchased flu vaccines are carefully monitored by PHE to ensure there is equal distribution across England and sufficient in-date vaccine for patients who present throughout the season. Vaccines usually become available for them to order in late September. Providers aim to complete the children’s programme before Christmas.</p><p> </p><p>Due to supply constraints from the only manufacturer of the PPV vaccine in the United Kingdom, there has been a temporary shortage of the 23-valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharides Vaccine (PPV23) across the UK. Patients should be invited for this vaccination when they become eligible.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/10/2018 15:55:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

990422

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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	Vaccination
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 the (a) availability and (b) provision of (i) flu and (ii) pneumonia vaccines for people eligible for free vaccinations.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	181349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) provides flu vaccines centrally for the children’s flu programme. Centrally purchased flu vaccines are carefully monitored by PHE to ensure there is equitable distribution across England and sufficient in-date vaccine for patients who present throughout the season.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and other providers are directly responsible for the flu vaccine supplies used to deliver the national flu programme to the other eligible groups. PHE maintains oversight to help facilitate a constant supply of vaccine, liaising with vaccine manufacturers to ascertain whether there are any manufacturing problems which could impact the running of the national programme.</p><p> </p><p>Pneumococcal vaccine PPV23 is not centrally procured; the vaccine is purchased by individual GPs or hospital trusts. The Department monitors the supplies of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products purchased by the National Health Service. They supply regular updates to the field and GPs can check the current supply position by contacting the Department’s Medicine Supply team.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/10/2018 11:59:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

874744

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
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	Defibrillators: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of publicly accessible defibrillators in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) Yorkshire and the Humber.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	135045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold up to date information on the number of Public Access Defibrillators.</p><p> </p><p>The British Heart Foundation (BHF) funded a project to determine if it was feasible and affordable to establish a national database of Public Access Defibrillators and to make this available to ambulance services.</p><p> </p><p>The project concluded it was feasible and the BHF has now committed the funds to implement the database and has identified an ambulance service to be the lead organisation helping the development of this database, which will be offered to all services once shown to be safe and effective.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/04/2018 14:06:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

850876

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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 help support people with long term conditions to manage their conditions.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	130096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that community pharmacies make to the National Health Service. We are encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call in mass media campaigns such at the current Stay Well pharmacy campaign and by better integration with the rest of the NHS to help take pressure off general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>In the North East we are currently piloting referrals direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy and early results are promising. We are also extending the pilot supply of urgent medicines. This has also demonstrated how community pharmacy can relieve pressure on GP and Out of Hours services. Between December 2016 and December 2017 the pilot NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service saved 38,900 GP appointments. We will continue to build on this evidence based approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Payment scheme introduced by this Government in 2017/18 has encouraged an increase in community pharmacies that are accredited as Healthy Living Pharmacies and there are now over 9,000 embedded in the community, supporting people both with and without long term health conditions to stay well. In addition community pharmacists play an important role through the New Medicines Service and in the advice they provide alongside their dispensing activity in ensuring everyone knows how to take their medicines most effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Pharmacy will continue to be a trusted partner in delivering a world class National Health Service and the Government is committed to working with community pharmacy to help make this a reality.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 130097 130098 question first answered 07/03/2018 16:55:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

850877

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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 for greater use of community pharmacies to support (a) A&E departments and (b) general practices.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	130097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that community pharmacies make to the National Health Service. We are encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call in mass media campaigns such at the current Stay Well pharmacy campaign and by better integration with the rest of the NHS to help take pressure off general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>In the North East we are currently piloting referrals direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy and early results are promising. We are also extending the pilot supply of urgent medicines. This has also demonstrated how community pharmacy can relieve pressure on GP and Out of Hours services. Between December 2016 and December 2017 the pilot NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service saved 38,900 GP appointments. We will continue to build on this evidence based approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Payment scheme introduced by this Government in 2017/18 has encouraged an increase in community pharmacies that are accredited as Healthy Living Pharmacies and there are now over 9,000 embedded in the community, supporting people both with and without long term health conditions to stay well. In addition community pharmacists play an important role through the New Medicines Service and in the advice they provide alongside their dispensing activity in ensuring everyone knows how to take their medicines most effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Pharmacy will continue to be a trusted partner in delivering a world class National Health Service and the Government is committed to working with community pharmacy to help make this a reality.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 130096 130098 question first answered 07/03/2018 16:55:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

850878

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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 recent assessment he has made of the contribution of community pharmacies to the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	130098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that community pharmacies make to the National Health Service. We are encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call in mass media campaigns such at the current Stay Well pharmacy campaign and by better integration with the rest of the NHS to help take pressure off general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>In the North East we are currently piloting referrals direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy and early results are promising. We are also extending the pilot supply of urgent medicines. This has also demonstrated how community pharmacy can relieve pressure on GP and Out of Hours services. Between December 2016 and December 2017 the pilot NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service saved 38,900 GP appointments. We will continue to build on this evidence based approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Payment scheme introduced by this Government in 2017/18 has encouraged an increase in community pharmacies that are accredited as Healthy Living Pharmacies and there are now over 9,000 embedded in the community, supporting people both with and without long term health conditions to stay well. In addition community pharmacists play an important role through the New Medicines Service and in the advice they provide alongside their dispensing activity in ensuring everyone knows how to take their medicines most effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Pharmacy will continue to be a trusted partner in delivering a world class National Health Service and the Government is committed to working with community pharmacy to help make this a reality.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 130096 130097 question first answered 07/03/2018 16:55:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

816713

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (a) nationally and (b) in South Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	121140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held, as the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database contains records of hospital episodes and attendances rather than people.</p><p> </p><p>A count of finished admission episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in England and one of the four clinical commissioning groups located in South Yorkshire, for the years 2012-13 to 2016-17 is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>3,496</p></td><td><p>3,570</p></td><td><p>4,047</p></td><td><p>4,391</p></td><td><p>4,397</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>35,624</p></td><td><p>38,334</p></td><td><p>42,160</p></td><td><p>46,293</p></td><td><p>49,558</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: HES, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 11:50:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

816714

registered interest
date	05/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce incidences of pulmonary hypertension.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	121141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is caused by changes to the pulmonary arteries, but as these changes can be caused by a number of internal structural changes and medical conditions, it is difficult to target a reduction in incidence of PH.</p><p> </p><p>However, where PH is caused by an underlying lung condition such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the Department’s action to reduce incidence of the condition also contributes to a reduction in incidence of PH. The Department is taking action to prevent cases of COPD in the first place, through initiatives including the recently published tobacco control plan and its commitment to tackling obesity.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2018 11:37:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

781411

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what percentage of pharmacies that applied for the Pharmacy Access Scheme payment were deemed eligible for that payment.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	110672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department applied the criteria for the Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) to all pharmacies in England and published a list of those it deemed eligible in 2016. There were 1,340 pharmacies on this list.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England reviewed, on application, pharmacies that believed there had been an error in drawing up that list; could demonstrate that a physical feature, such as a semi-permanent road block impeded access, meaning that in practice two pharmacies were more than one mile away from each other; or that the pharmacy was 0.8 miles or more from another pharmacy, in an area of high deprivation, and critical for access. Of 356 applications, a further 62 met these review criteria and were subsequently deemed eligible for PhAS payments.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, pharmacies that returned from locally funded arrangements to the national community pharmacy contractual framework from September 2016 to date have been reviewed to determine whether they are eligible. A further 13 pharmacies qualified for PhAS payments via this route.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 110673 question first answered 07/11/2017 15:02:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

781413

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many additional pharmacies who applied for the Pharmacy Access Scheme payment were deemed eligible for that payment.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	110673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department applied the criteria for the Pharmacy Access Scheme (PhAS) to all pharmacies in England and published a list of those it deemed eligible in 2016. There were 1,340 pharmacies on this list.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England reviewed, on application, pharmacies that believed there had been an error in drawing up that list; could demonstrate that a physical feature, such as a semi-permanent road block impeded access, meaning that in practice two pharmacies were more than one mile away from each other; or that the pharmacy was 0.8 miles or more from another pharmacy, in an area of high deprivation, and critical for access. Of 356 applications, a further 62 met these review criteria and were subsequently deemed eligible for PhAS payments.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, pharmacies that returned from locally funded arrangements to the national community pharmacy contractual framework from September 2016 to date have been reviewed to determine whether they are eligible. A further 13 pharmacies qualified for PhAS payments via this route.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 110672 question first answered 07/11/2017 15:02:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock