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540047

registered interest
date	19/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to respond to its consultation on changes to the statutory scheme to control the prices of branded health service medicines.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	43392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department is developing its response to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 21/07/2016 14:37:45 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

539579

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the failures identified by the Care Quality Commission in the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust were first drawn to his Department's attention.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	43025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s attention was first drawn to issues in relation to South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAMB) NHS Foundation Trust’s NHS 111 service in autumn 2015.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, NHS England convened a risk summit meeting involving all partners following the suspension by SECAMB of their unofficial call-handling project. NHS England commissioned an external investigation which was published on 5 November 2015, while an initial report was shared with families involved with the SECAMB’s project in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Monitor, the then independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (now part of NHS Improvement), announced on 28 October 2015 that it was taking action against SECAMB. Monitor’s requirements included the development of three reviews. The first; a forensic review of the project itself undertaken by Deloitte was published on 15 March 2016. Second, the Trust has commissioned an independent expert to lead a patient impact review following the call-handling project, which will be finalised shortly. Third, the Trust is required to undertake a full governance review and this will take place once the substantive board is in place.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime NHS Improvement are working closely with the Trust to support it in addressing known governance, operational and quality issues.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has no plans to set up an inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 43026 question first answered 21/07/2016 07:52:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

539580

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instigate an inquiry into the past management of the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	43026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s attention was first drawn to issues in relation to South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAMB) NHS Foundation Trust’s NHS 111 service in autumn 2015.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2015, NHS England convened a risk summit meeting involving all partners following the suspension by SECAMB of their unofficial call-handling project. NHS England commissioned an external investigation which was published on 5 November 2015, while an initial report was shared with families involved with the SECAMB’s project in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Monitor, the then independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts (now part of NHS Improvement), announced on 28 October 2015 that it was taking action against SECAMB. Monitor’s requirements included the development of three reviews. The first; a forensic review of the project itself undertaken by Deloitte was published on 15 March 2016. Second, the Trust has commissioned an independent expert to lead a patient impact review following the call-handling project, which will be finalised shortly. Third, the Trust is required to undertake a full governance review and this will take place once the substantive board is in place.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime NHS Improvement are working closely with the Trust to support it in addressing known governance, operational and quality issues.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has no plans to set up an inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 43025 question first answered 21/07/2016 07:52:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

539585

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, House of Lords, 9 July 2015, Official Report, column 286, what his policy is on part funding of the NHS through insurance and co-payments.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	43034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>There is no plan to change the way that the National Health Service is funded nor any consideration of changes. The Government remains committed to the principles of the NHS, enshrined in the NHS Constitution, that access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not the ability to pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also committed to working with the NHS in implementing its own plan for the future of the NHS – the Five Year Forward View – backed up by the commitment made in the Spending Review to provide an additional £10 billion in real terms by 2020-21 compared to 2014-15. This fully funds the plan.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 43154 question first answered 21/07/2016 14:39:16 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

539588

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Autism
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 evaluation of the autism awareness project, what measures his Department plans to use to demonstrate (a) how many more people understand autism as a result of that project and (b) its overall value for money.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	43004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>After a public tendering process, the Autism Alliance UK were successful in receiving funding from the Department for their Connect to Autism project. This project has focused on improving awareness and understanding of autism in the general population by working with local and national providers of services in the private, public and voluntary sectors. A tendering process to evaluate the project will be undertaken shortly, with the evaluation aiming to identify, amongst other outcomes, how many people the awareness project has reached and its overall value for money.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 21/07/2016 07:55:05 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

539589

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS requires organisations bidding for out of area contracts to have been inspected and rated by the Care Quality Commission before bidding.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	43008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>Non-primary care services must be commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) or NHS England using the NHS Standard Contract. The NHS Standard Contract requires any provider to comply with the registration requirements of Care Quality Commission (CQC) where applicable. When this is the case the production of evidence of registration with the CQC will be a precondition of the commencement of service delivery.</p><p> </p><p>We would expect commissioners to require evidence of registration (if legally required) with the CQC as part of the tendering process for a new contract. In the case of delivery of services from a new premises or a newly-established provider, registration may not be in place at time the provider submits its bid, but should be before services commence.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 21/07/2016 07:54:08 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

539590

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how (a) residents, (b) patients, (c) clinical commissioning groups and (d) NHS England can assess the standard and quality of care offered by an NHS body that has not yet received a Care Quality Commission inspection rating.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	43009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. All providers of regulated activities, including National Health Service and independent providers, have to register with the CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality below which care should never fall. The CQC monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards. This gives patients and the public a fair, balanced and easy to understand assessment of the performance of a provider.</p><p>During 2014, the CQC progressively introduced a new inspection regime for all providers. Since the CQC introduced its new inspection regime in 2014 it has issued ratings for the majority of providers. All remaining NHS hospitals and general practitioner providers will be inspected by March 2017.</p><p>Some of the providers that do not have ratings have already been inspected within the new inspection regime but at a time when ratings were not completed. For all providers that were inspected in this way, the CQC has published an assessment of care quality that has been designed to be helpful to patients and the public.</p><p>Other sources of information on care quality include the MyNHS website, NHS Choices, quality accounts, specialised services dashboards published by NHS England, and the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/07/2016 15:18:22 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

539591

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how NHS England assesses bids for contracts where some of the bidding organisations have not provided a similar service previously or have not provided a similar service which has been subject to NHS quality measures or inspection.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	43010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>As commissioners, clinical commissioning groups and NHS England use predetermined questions to establish the credentials and capabilities of potential providers. This includes the assessment of evidence of delivery that providers are required to submit as part of the tender exercise. If evidence of ability to provide such a service is not assessed as sufficient, then the potential provider may be disqualified from the process following further clarifications and lack of additional reassurance to meet the service specification requirements.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England only assesses bids for contracts for services which NHS England itself commissions in accordance with its statutory functions and which are put out to tender.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 21/07/2016 07:57:16 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

539592

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Nurses
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 effect of the timing of the announcement on the rate for NHS-funded nursing care for residents of care homes in 2016-17 on the management of those care homes.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	42955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department appreciates the importance of timely communication of the rate of National Health Service-funded Nursing Care for care homes.</p><p> </p><p>The new rate will be paid on an interim basis whilst further work is done to review the element of the rate for agency nursing staff (which could lead to a reduction to the rate from 1 January 2017) and to consult on introducing regional variation from April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The rate for 2017/18 will be published following completion of work which is being done by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 42956 question first answered 21/07/2016 07:56:26 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

539593

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Nurses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to announce the rate for NHS-funded nursing care for residents of care homes for 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	42956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department appreciates the importance of timely communication of the rate of National Health Service-funded Nursing Care for care homes.</p><p> </p><p>The new rate will be paid on an interim basis whilst further work is done to review the element of the rate for agency nursing staff (which could lead to a reduction to the rate from 1 January 2017) and to consult on introducing regional variation from April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The rate for 2017/18 will be published following completion of work which is being done by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 42955 question first answered 21/07/2016 07:56:26 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes