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751797

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date	13/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support he is providing to charities which support people with cancer and their families; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	4850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is committed to transforming cancer services and improving outcomes for people with cancer through implementation of the independent Cancer Taskforce strategy; Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A strategy for England 2015-2020. The National Cancer Advisory Group, which is chaired by Sir Harpal Kumar of Cancer Research UK and includes representation from cancer charities, patients and professional groups, provides advice and challenge to the implementation programme. We are also working with charities and patient groups throughout our programme to take forward the recommendations of the Cancer Taskforce.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/07/2017 16:28:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

751806

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP vacancies there are in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) North Kirklees.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	4864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Data published by NHS Digital show that there were 430 full time equivalent general practitioner (GP) vacancies recorded in England over the period April 2016 to September 2016. This figure is based on responses from 866 practices out of a total 7,527 practices in England (11.5%).</p><p> </p><p>Data on GP vacancies are not available for West Yorkshire or for North Kirklees.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/07/2017 16:27:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

748834

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many diagnoses of HIV were made as a result of the admission of a patient to a hospital accident and emergency department in each of the last five for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify HIV in the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) accident and emergency (A&amp;E) Diagnosis scheme. A table showing unpublished data collected through the HIV and AIDS Reporting System with Public Health England, is attached due to the size of the data.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/07/2017 16:07:54 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL497 table formatted.docx title HIV diagnoses in A&E 2011-15
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

748860

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the statement in the Queen's Speech that they will ensure that mental health is prioritised in the National Health Service, what steps they are taking to (1) end health inequalities faced by people with severe mental illness, and (2) ensure that those people have the same life expectancy as the rest of the population.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>This Government was the first to introduce waiting time targets for mental health, has increased funding to £11.6 billion and committed to increasing access to 1 million more people by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England (PHE) is taking action to reduce premature mortality for people with serious mental illness.</p><p> </p><p>PHE has responsibility for Recommendation 20 in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, which focuses on ensuring that people with mental health problems who are at greater risk of poor physical health get access to prevention and screening programmes. This includes primary and secondary prevention through screening and NHS Health Checks, as well as interventions for physical activity, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and access to ‘stop smoking’ services.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/07/2017 16:30:30 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

748863

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how they intend to address findings from the Health Foundation that in the past three years the NHS has failed to meet its target for ambulance response times for those 999 calls where there is an immediate threat to life.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health announced the publication of the University of Sheffield Report on the Ambulance Response Programme and subsequent recommendations by Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, on 13 July 2017. The report evaluates a series of pilots intended to support ambulance services in England to maintain and improve clinical outcomes for patients in the face of unprecedented increases in demand.</p><p> </p><p>Based on the extensive evidence base detailed in the report, NHS England will put in place a new framework of ambulance performance standards and related operational changes that are focused on patients’ clinical needs and will help the service to operate more efficiently. One of the key consquences of the changes is that the ambulance services in England will be able to more consistently and sustainabily be able to provide rapid responds to calls where there is an immediate threat to life.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will now implement the Ambulance Response Programme recommendations in all ambulance services in the England so that patients across the country will benefit from the improvements seen in the pilot ambulance services.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/07/2017 16:07:06 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry