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825425

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Pharmacy
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 effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council's enforcement of standards for registered pharmacy premises; whether he has made an assessment of the effect of failure to apply such standards to pharmacy owners rather than only pharmacy professionals on the safety of patients; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
uin	123566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123567 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

825426

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Pharmacy
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 whether the failure to apply sanctions for standards for pharmacy premises has resulted in a disproportionate number of individual pharmacist registrants who have been held to account for professional standards which may have been impacted by the working environment created by pharmacy owners; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
uin	123567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123566 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

825447

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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 Services: Weather
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 has had discussions with (a) hospice directors and (b) commissioning bodies on the use and capacity of hospices as part of the NHS Winter Resilience Plan.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	123588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>In July 2017, every local area was asked to develop plans to meet winter pressures. This included working with all local partners to consider issues such as demand and capacity, effective discharge and planning for peaks in demand. This local planning may have included consideration on the use and capacity of hospices depending on local circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 14:36:13 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

825448

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	NHS: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many healthcare staff have been physically attacked or assaulted at (a) University Hospital Coventry and (b) other healthcare provider settings in Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	123589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the number of staff physically attacked or assaulted at:</p><p>- University Hospital Coventry was 194 involving medical factors<sup>1</sup> and 59 not involving medical factors; and</p><p>- In other healthcare provider settings in Coventry<sup>2</sup>, the number was 3,355 involving medical factors and 277 not involving medical factors.</p><p> </p><p>Employers from across the National Health Service will collect data on physical assaults, and working alongside local police are responsible for protecting their staff. The Department is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement on new arrangements to support NHS and primary care employers to “…take vigorous and immediate action against those who abuse or attack the people who work for and make our NHS”.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup>Assaults involving medical factors are the number of physical assaults where the perpetrator did not know what they were doing, or did not know what they were doing was wrong due to medical illness, mental ill health, severe learning disability or treatment administered.</p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup>The data, extracted from NHS Protect’s “Reported Physical Assaults data for 2015/16 for healthcare settings in Coventry includes University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust and West Midlands Ambulance Trust. Some of the trusts geographical areas cover more than just Coventry.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 14:31:17 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

825454

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Carillion: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the value is of NHS contracts with Carillion in (a) West Midlands and (b) Coventry.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	123595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Carillion is part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) consortium currently contracted by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust to undertake the £342 million building project for the new acute hospital on the Queen Elizabeth site in Birmingham and community facilities. NHS Improvement and the Department are working closely with Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and their private sector partners to minimise the impact of the Carillion liquidation and any resulting delay to completion.</p><p> </p><p>There are processes in place in the event of the administration or liquidation of a contractor part way through a build and the PFI companies and their lenders are now in active engagement. There is planning in place to ensure the delay is as minimal as possible.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the NHS Trust, Carillion provide maintenance services to three NHS LIFT Companies in the region (LIFT Birmingham and Solihull; LIFT Sandwell; and LIFT Dudley) which provide a total of 20 primary care centres and facilities. The NHS LIFT Companies have their own contingency plans in place to source these maintenance services from other companies.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 14:40:36 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

825534

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 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, in the most recent quarter for which data is available, what proportion of patients at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's accident and emergency department were seen within four hours.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	123672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This data is available via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2017-18/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/ae-attendances-and-emergency-admissions-2017-18/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 15:49:50 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

825589

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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	Children: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has conducted on the effect of social media on anxiety among under-16s.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted research on the effect of social media on anxiety among under 16s.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2018 14:27:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825605

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
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 Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Department will be responsible for producing the Government Green Paper on social care.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	123733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has taken responsibility for producing the Government Green Paper on social care.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/01/2018 13:58:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

822819

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Doctors: Stress
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 reduce workload-related strain on doctors in hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>It is in the first instance for employers to ensure that the workloads and working patterns of all staff are appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is supporting the National Health Service in reducing workload related strain on all staff including doctors in hospitals through its mandate with NHS England which has a “Commissioning for Quality and Innovation” (CQUIN) incentive programme<sup>1</sup> to improve staff health and wellbeing, and publishes the annual NHS Staff Survey.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s CQUIN programme should encourage trusts to, where appropriate, introduce new services for employees to give them the support they need including quicker access to mental health and musculoskeletal services.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Staff Survey<sup>2</sup> asks staff a range of questions about their health and wellbeing which helps trusts benchmark against their peers to help inform local improvement plans.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also commissions NHS Employers<sup>3</sup>, who are working with NHS England, NHS Improvement and Public Health England to help the Service tackle the causes of workload related strain including reducing the likelihood and impact of resultant illnesses through advice, guidance and good practice as well as tools and resources for trusts to use.</p><p> </p><p>National terms and conditions for hospital doctors include provisions on managing work: through job plans for consultants, associate specialists and specialty doctors; and work schedules for doctors and dentists in training. There are limits on working hours in legislation; there are stronger contractual limits in the 2016 contract for doctors and dentists in training and all trusts were required to review and, where needed, redesign rotas to ensure compliance with those limits. There are strong safeguards in place for doctors and dentists in training through a system of exception reporting, with oversight by Guardians of Safe Working Hours and Directors of Medical Education reporting to trust boards. Trusts must provide annual reports on rota gaps, and plans for addressing them, to external bodies including regulatory bodies.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-staff-health-wellbeing-commissioning-for-quality-and-innovation-cquin-2017-19-indicator-1-implementation-support/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-staff-health-wellbeing-commissioning-for-quality-and-innovation-cquin-2017-19-indicator-1-implementation-support/</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup><a href="http://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/Page/1006/Latest-Results/2016-Results/" target="_blank">http://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/Page/1006/Latest-Results/2016-Results/</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>3</sup><a href="http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing" target="_blank">http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 17:18:32 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

822827

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Hepatitis: Drugs
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 discuss with the pharmaceutical industry steps to ensure that all patients who suffer from Hepatitis C have access to the full range of available medicines.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Currently, patients with chronic hepatitis C have access to all National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved hepatitis C treatments where clinically appropriate in line with current NICE guidance. Procurement of hepatitis C drugs is already undertaken every six months and this process involves discussion with industry regarding improving the cost to the National Health Service of these treatments. NHS England is continuing its work with industry on the prospects for a different approach to procurement which would further improve cost of these treatments.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 14:11:09 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon