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1640485

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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 Professions: Recruitment and 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 plans he has to increase the (a) training and (b) recruitment of medical staff who were born in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	186833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government has funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places per year for domestic students in England, a 25% increase, taking the total number of medical school training places in England to 7,500 each year. This expansion was completed in September 2020 and has delivered five new medical schools in England.</p><p>In addition, the Government temporarily lifted the cap on medical school places for students who completed A-Levels in 2020 and in 2021 and who had an offer from a university in England to study medicine, subject to their grades. As a result of this temporary change, the intakes for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 were 8,405 and 8,460 respectively, significantly above the planned expansion cap of 7,500.</p><p>NHS England has been commissioned to produce a long-term workforce plan. The Government has committed to publishing the plan shortly which will include independently verified forecasts for the number of healthcare professionals required in future years, taking account of improvements in retention and productivity. The workforce plan is for the whole of the National Health Service workforce.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 12:27:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1640529

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Hospitals: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on determining the successful bids for the government's New Hospital Programme.
tabling member constituency	Watford
tabling member printed	Dean Russell
uin	186952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>We received 128 expressions of interest for new hospitals and the Government has now confirmed that five of these schemes will join the New Hospital Programme.</p><p>These hospitals all have significant amounts of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, and have been independently assessed as unsafe to operate beyond 2030. Government is therefore prioritising these major rebuilds. Considering this, the Government is not inviting further schemes to join the programme at this time. Going forward, new schemes will be considered through a rolling programme of capital investment in hospital infrastructure to secure the building of new hospitals beyond 2030.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 12:21:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell

1640549

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Clotrimazole: Standards
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 adequacy of the availability and supply of Canesten HC cream.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	186961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department is aware of a supply issue with Canesten HC cream. The manufacturer has advised that stock should be available from wholesalers in mid June. Alternative treatments remain available and patients should talk to their clinician to discuss treatment options.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 12:07:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1640624

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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 Workers: Pay
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 inclusion of the NHS social enterprise workforce within NHS Agenda for Change pay scales.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	186922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>As National Health Service social enterprises are independent providers, they remain free to develop and adopt the terms and conditions of employment that best help them attract and keep the staff they need. This includes the pay scales that they choose to use and many choose to mirror those of NHS employees on the Agenda for Change contract.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 12:14:39 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1642041

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on delivering the Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	905231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>We are continuing to make progress to deliver the 800 ambulances, 5,000 beds, and 3,000 additional virtual ward beds set out in our Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan.</p><p>This plan is backed by £1 billion of additional funding.</p><p>NHS England is working with Integrated Care Boards and Ambulance Trusts to review local demand and capacity and ensure plans are put in place to deliver these commitments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 16:46:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1640116

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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	Brain: Tomography
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 is taking steps to support the development of artificial intelligence in brain imaging.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	186772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department is funding the AI in Health and Care Award which has provided £123 million to 86 artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Award was created to accelerate the testing and evaluation of some of the most promising AI technologies that can support clinicians.</p><p>One of the areas supported by the AI Award is brain imaging. We are currently evaluating the Brainomix e-Stroke Suite, a CE-marked set of tools that uses artificial intelligence methods to interpret acute stroke brain scans, and helps doctors make the right choices about treatment and the need for specialist transfer of patients. E-stroke suite is currently deployed in nine stroke networks in the United Kingdom. We are also funding the first real world testing of Qure.ai’s qER, a triage and notification AI tool that prioritises head CT scans with critical abnormalities such as a bleed, fracture, mass effect or midline shift for priority review by a radiologist and Icometrix’s icobrain which uses AI on MRI scans to track the progress of multiple sclerosis.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 12:31:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1639595

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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	Incontinence: Products
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 an assessment of the potential impact of the use of clinically unsuitable absorbent continence products in (a) the NHS and (b) social care on (i) whole system costs and (ii) patient outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>All suppliers and products on the NHS Supply Chain framework must meet industry standards and a quality specification to be awarded onto the framework. Products are categorised using the Rothwell scale which measures the level of absorbency.</p><p>NHS Supply Chain (NHSSC) conducts significant engagement with colleagues across health and social care to ensure that the customer voice is captured, and National Health Service requirements understood. NHSSC engages with suppliers, trade associations, professional bodies and expert reference groups to ensure robust and sustainable frameworks are put in place for the longer term, both commercially and from a supply resilience perspective, whilst meeting the functional and safety needs of customers and patients.</p><p>In addition, the Government's new Medical Technology Strategy, published in February 2023, further commits to developing an environment that supports the understanding and delivery of value for money and affordability across the whole patient pathway, using high-quality data to ensure that prices are reasonable for both the health system and sustainable for suppliers.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2023 15:13:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639649

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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	Immunosuppression: 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 further include people who are immunocompromised in clinical trials for vaccines.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including vaccines and immunosuppression. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made based on the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>The NIHR has recently commissioned the new STRAVINSKY study with £2.8 million of funding which will involve 3000 immunocompromised participants over two years looking at which immunosuppressed people remain at greatest risk of severe COVID-19 infection after vaccinations. The UK Research and Innovation, Vaccines Taskforce and NIHR have also together funded OCTAVE and OCTAVE-DUO which examine the immune response to COVID-19 vaccines and durability of this protection in patients who are immunosuppressed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 186073 question first answered 06/06/2023 15:05:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639215

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Immunosuppression: Vaccination
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 is taking steps to include people who are immunocompromised in clinical trials for vaccines.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	186073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including vaccines and immunosuppression. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made based on the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>The NIHR has recently commissioned the new STRAVINSKY study with £2.8 million of funding which will involve 3000 immunocompromised participants over two years looking at which immunosuppressed people remain at greatest risk of severe COVID-19 infection after vaccinations. The UK Research and Innovation, Vaccines Taskforce and NIHR have also together funded OCTAVE and OCTAVE-DUO which examine the immune response to COVID-19 vaccines and durability of this protection in patients who are immunosuppressed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 186364 question first answered 06/06/2023 15:05:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock