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77639

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether officials from his Department consulted their counterparts in the devolved administrations on the contents of the recent publication: Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme - Implementation Plan.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	205559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme officials consulted with representatives of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved administrations during the preparation of the implementation plan.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/07/2014 14:04:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

77640

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the report by the King's Fund of May 2014, entitled The NHS Productivity Challenge and its estimate of a £30 billion finding gap for the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	205509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has increased National Health Service funding in real terms in each year of this parliament investing an additional £12.7 billion over the course of the Parliament. Budgets have not been set beyond 2015-16 but we recognise the challenge posed by the pressures of an aging population and the cost of new investment. The Government is investing in technology, transferring out of hospital care while never compromising on the quality of care. The NHS is on track to make up to £20 billion in efficiency savings to be reinvested in frontline care, over the period 2011-12 to 2014-15.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 17/07/2014 14:27:02 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

77643

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made in achieving a sustained downward trend in excess weight in children by 2020.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	205534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>Data on the prevalence of overweight and obesity are published annually by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The latest data available are from the Health Survey for England for 2012 and from the National Child Measurement Programme for the school year 2012-13, showing that obesity rates in children are levelling off.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to take action through key initiatives such as Change4Life, Change4Life Sports Clubs, the National Child Measurement Programme, School Sports Funding and the School Food Plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/07/2014 14:13:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

77644

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what form the engagement announced by NHS England on 9 May 2014 at the launch of its specialised commissioning taskforce will take.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	205535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that the work of the specialised commissioning task force is not a wholesale review of specialised commissioning. It is best described as work to support financial control in 2014-15 and to plan for 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p>There are aspects of the task force work which will require specific engagement appropriate and proportionate to the nature of the issue or service via the routes relevant to the topic. For example, there is engagement with clinical commissioning groups via the Commissioning Assembly on the future portfolio of specialised services. There is also engagement via the Patient and Public Voice Assurance Group about a range of commissioning issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/07/2014 14:24:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

77647

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's publication, Improving Outcomes: a Strategy for Cancer, what steps (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) clinical commissioning groups plan to take to ensure that all cancer patients are treated with the highest levels of dignity and respect.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	205649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>NHS Improving Quality will be working with the National Clinical Director for Cancer and with provider organisations to continue their service improvement work to improve patient experience and to ensure that patients' views are central to the way services are developed. NHS England is also working with NHS Improving Quality to develop better ways of using the Cancer Patient Experience Survey data within the National Health Service in order to maximise the impact of the survey, to be able to work with successful and struggling organisations to spread best practice for example.</p><p> </p><p>Work on information prescriptions (IPs) has moved to Macmillan Cancer Support, and a report on the use of IPs is currently being considered by NHS England to decide how best this work can be taken forward. Work on quality in nursing was completed in March 2013, with the clinical nurse specialist survey handed over to Macmillan Cancer Support. NHS England is considering how to take forward work on the Multi-disciplinary team – feedback for improving team working programme.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups are currently in the process of finalising measurable levels of ambition to improve patient experience and will be holding providers to account. These are based on NHS England's new measure for poor inpatient experience which includes dignity and respect and communication.</p><p> </p><p>Compassion in Practice, the three year vision and strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff, is also seeking to increase feedback from vulnerable and disadvantaged patient groups, who can have poorer experiences of care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/07/2014 14:28:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

77651

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to reduce the proportion of people with cancer who are diagnosed via an emergency route.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	205648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>It is too early to be able to assess progress against the ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2014-15, to halve the gap between the survival estimates in England and those in the best countries in Europe. However, we do know that cancer survival and mortality rates continue to improve and we are developing proxy measures to assess progress in a more timely manner, particularly in terms of the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages one and two and cancers diagnosed through emergency routes.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service and Public Health Outcomes Framework indicators and the clinical commissioning group (CCG) Outcomes Indicator Set are starting to enable us to assess progress, at national and local level. For example, data on one-year survival from all cancers and one-year survival from breast, lung and colorectal cancer were published as part of the CCG outcomes indicator set for the first time on 19 June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Cancer Outcomes Strategy is backed with more than £750 million over the four year Spending Review period, including over £450 million to achieve early diagnosis. The additional money is funding over 2 million extra tests over four years and gives general practitioners (GPs) access to non-obstetric ultrasound – to support diagnosis of ovarian cancer; flexible sigmoidoscopy– to support the diagnosis of bowel cancer; and brain magnetic resonance imaging scans – to support the diagnosis of brain cancer. NHS England monitors the use of these tests through the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset. On 22 May 2014, NHS England published ‘Provisional Monthly Diagnostic Imaging Dataset Statistics' for the period from January 2013 to January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Over 34.2 million imaging tests were reported in England in the 12 months from February 2013 to January 2014. Over a quarter of all tests that may have been used to diagnose or discount cancer were requested by GPs under direct access arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The Mandate for the NHS for 2014-15 sets out an ambition for England to become one of the most successful countries in Europe at preventing premature deaths.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling premature deaths from cancer will contribute to this. A range of work at national and local level is aimed at improving cancer survival. For example, results from the first national “Be Clear on Cancer” lung cancer campaign in 2012 showed that around 700 extra patients were diagnosed with lung cancer compared to the previous year. Approximately 400 of these patients had their lung cancer diagnosed at an early stage, with around 300 more patients having surgery, giving them a better chance of survival.</p><p> </p><p>Work continues on extending and expanding the bowel, breast and cervical cancer screening programmes, and helping GPs to assess patients more effectively. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is in the process of updating the ‘Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer' (2005) to ensure that it reflects latest evidence and can continue to support GPs to identify patients with symptoms of suspected cancer and urgently refer them as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 205647 question first answered 17/07/2014 14:26:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

77658

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2013, Official Report, column 700W, on cancer, what steps he is taking to analyse progress made in achieving the ambition of preventing 5,000 avoidable premature deaths a year by 2014-15 as set out in Improving Outcomes: a Strategy for Cancer.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	205647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>It is too early to be able to assess progress against the ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2014-15, to halve the gap between the survival estimates in England and those in the best countries in Europe. However, we do know that cancer survival and mortality rates continue to improve and we are developing proxy measures to assess progress in a more timely manner, particularly in terms of the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages one and two and cancers diagnosed through emergency routes.</p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service and Public Health Outcomes Framework indicators and the clinical commissioning group (CCG) Outcomes Indicator Set are starting to enable us to assess progress, at national and local level. For example, data on one-year survival from all cancers and one-year survival from breast, lung and colorectal cancer were published as part of the CCG outcomes indicator set for the first time on 19 June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The Cancer Outcomes Strategy is backed with more than £750 million over the four year Spending Review period, including over £450 million to achieve early diagnosis. The additional money is funding over 2 million extra tests over four years and gives general practitioners (GPs) access to non-obstetric ultrasound – to support diagnosis of ovarian cancer; flexible sigmoidoscopy– to support the diagnosis of bowel cancer; and brain magnetic resonance imaging scans – to support the diagnosis of brain cancer. NHS England monitors the use of these tests through the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset. On 22 May 2014, NHS England published ‘Provisional Monthly Diagnostic Imaging Dataset Statistics' for the period from January 2013 to January 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Over 34.2 million imaging tests were reported in England in the 12 months from February 2013 to January 2014. Over a quarter of all tests that may have been used to diagnose or discount cancer were requested by GPs under direct access arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The Mandate for the NHS for 2014-15 sets out an ambition for England to become one of the most successful countries in Europe at preventing premature deaths.</p><p> </p><p>Tackling premature deaths from cancer will contribute to this. A range of work at national and local level is aimed at improving cancer survival. For example, results from the first national “Be Clear on Cancer” lung cancer campaign in 2012 showed that around 700 extra patients were diagnosed with lung cancer compared to the previous year. Approximately 400 of these patients had their lung cancer diagnosed at an early stage, with around 300 more patients having surgery, giving them a better chance of survival.</p><p> </p><p>Work continues on extending and expanding the bowel, breast and cervical cancer screening programmes, and helping GPs to assess patients more effectively. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is in the process of updating the ‘Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer' (2005) to ensure that it reflects latest evidence and can continue to support GPs to identify patients with symptoms of suspected cancer and urgently refer them as appropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 205648 question first answered 17/07/2014 14:26:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

77662

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many families are awaiting a decision for continuing healthcare funding where it is claimed that the application applies to an unassessed period of care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	205581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect data regarding the number of applications for NHS Continuing Healthcare assessments.</p><p> </p><p>However, following the introduction on 15 March 2012, of deadlines for requests for assessments of eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare for previously unassessed periods of care which occurred during the time 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2012, the Department is aware that there were approximately 60,000 enquiries received by primary care trusts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 17/07/2014 13:29:06 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

77798

registered interest
date	14/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Neurofibromatosis
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what if any financial support they are giving to the Neuro Foundation.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not currently provide any financial support to the Neuro Foundation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/07/2014 12:00:32 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

77147

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of a potential link between nuclear power and the prevalence of cancer; and what estimate he has made of proportion of the NHS budget spent on treating patients suffering from cancer caused by nuclear power generation.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Williams
uin	205246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2014 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>There has been extensive research into the possible links between nuclear power and cancer over a number of years. In particular, the independent expert Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment has published a number of major reports addressing exposure to man-made radiation from major nuclear installation operations and possible links with childhood cancers - www.comare.org.uk . Similarly, the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, based at Imperial College London and part of the MRC-PHE Centre for Environmental and Health, has published reports examining suggested links between local incidence of cancers and radioactive discharges from some nuclear installations.</p><p> </p><p>All of these reports have concluded that public exposures to radiation as a result of nuclear operations is extremely unlikely to have caused discernible health consequences.</p><p> </p><p>All radioactive discharges in the United Kingdom are regulated and monitored by the UK's environmental regulators.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/07/2014 14:07:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1498 label Biography information for Mr Mark Williams