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date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Buildings: Floods
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they are planning to widen access to specialist care for the 2,500 young people each year who are diagnosed with cancer, in the light of the estimate by the Teenage Cancer Trust that only half those people are currently in receipt of such services.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England, through its Specialised Commissioning team, commissions cancer services for children, teenagers and young people (0-24) on the basis of service specifications. The requirements in the service specification should be delivered by providers to all patients. The service specification outlines the role of different organisations and multidisciplinary teams as follows:</p><p> </p><p>- Patients aged 16 to 18 years should be admitted to a Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) Principal Treatment Centre which should provide age appropriate facilities;</p><p>- Patients aged 19 to 24 years should be offered a choice of access to a TYA Principal Treatment Centre with unhindered access to age- appropriate facilities; or</p><p>- A hospital designated to provide care for young adults within its adult cancer services.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/07/2017 10:48:30 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

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

748862

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to support boxers and footballers with dementia pugilistica who currently rely on financial assistance from various charities.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s (IIAC) 2005 review of Dementia in boxers and footballers concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend an addition to the list of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (available to employed earners) prescribed diseases. In 2014 IIAC sought high quality research evidence about the risks of neurodegenerative diseases in professional sportspersons. The IIAC response in May 2016 concluded that despite the passage of time, epidemiological evidence on risk of dementia pugilistica in boxers relative to other workers remains elusive, and that there was no new important evidence to change the previous appraisal of prescription in respect of soccer players. As in 2005, there remains insufficient evidence to indicate a more than doubled risk of a dementia in boxers.</p><p> </p><p>IIAC has no plans at present to revisit this, but would likely reconsider should new evidence emerge. However the department provides a range of benefits to support with extra costs of disability, which individuals may be entitled to depending on their circumstances.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 18/07/2017 11:13:51 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
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

748865

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 what assessment they have made of the recommendation from the charity Rethink Mental Illness in their Manifesto 2017, that Her Majesty’s Government should appoint a cabinet level ministerial post for mental health with responsibility for ensuring a cross-Government plan to address mental inequalities.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Improving mental health in England is a priority for this Government and my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State, who is part of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet, is committed to ensuring the transformation of mental health through delivery of the mental health commitments in the Five Year Forward View. This includes addressing mental health inequalities. To ensure the delivery of this transformation programme a robust governance structure has been put in place, which includes ministers across Whitehall.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 18/07/2017 10:47:24 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry