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919152

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Liver Cancer
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 improve (a) survival rates and (b) research into liver metastasis.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	151255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority for this Government and survival rates are at a record high. Since 2010 rates of survival from cancer have increased year-on-year. Around 7,000 people are alive today who would not have been had mortality rates stayed the same as in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Department invests £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £137 million in 2016/17. This constitutes the largest investment in a disease area. The NIHR is funding and supporting a range of research relevant to liver metastases. This includes, for example, a £1.76 million trial of liver resection surgery versus thermal ablation for colorectal liver metastases, and early research on specialised magnetic resonance imaging scanning to detect liver metastases in colorectal cancer.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 16:06:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

919155

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: 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 steps he is taking to address NHS workforce shortages in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	151032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p>‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’, sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of staff across all grades and specialties, including an expansion of undergraduate medical school places and expansions of available nursing and midwifery training places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Improvement has launched a programme to improve staff retention in trusts across England and bring down the leaver rates in the NHS by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also announced measures to support staff recruitment and retention, including arrangements to support flexible working to help staff to balance work-life commitments and a 'Homes for Nurses' scheme — which will give 3,000 NHS workers first refusal on affordable housing generated through the sale of surplus NHS land.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 151034 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:18:52 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

919158

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Staff
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 adequacy of the speciality staff workforce in the NHS; and what steps he is taking to ensure that vacancies in that workforce are filled as quickly as possible.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	151034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Locally, responsibility for assessing and managing staffing levels, including specialty staff, rests with individual National Health Service trusts and their boards who are best placed to decide how many staff they need to provide a given service.</p><p> </p><p>‘Facing the Facts – Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’, sets out actions being taken to ensure sufficient supply of staff across all grades and specialties, including an expansion of undergraduate medical school places and expansions of available nursing and midwifery training places.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Improvement has launched a programme to improve staff retention in trusts across England and bring down the leaver rates in the NHS by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also announced measures to support staff recruitment and retention, including arrangements to support flexible working to help staff to balance work-life commitments and a 'Homes for Nurses' scheme — which will give 3,000 NHS workers first refusal on affordable housing generated through the sale of surplus NHS land.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 151032 question first answered 12/06/2018 11:18:52 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

919163

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Migrant Workers
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 effect on the number of overseas doctors coming to work in the NHS of placing new applicants to the Medical Training Initiative on a revised waiting list from countries not considered priority as identified by the Department for International Development.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	151035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The main focus of the Medical Training Initiative (MTI) is to provide training opportunities for doctors from the Department for International Development (DfID) and Lower Income and Lower Middle Income priority countries.</p><p> </p><p>There are 1,000 MTI Certificate of Sponsorships available per year and the majority of these will be allocated to applicants from countries on the DfID approved priority list and Lower Income and Lower Middle Income priority countries.</p><p> </p><p>Applicants from countries not considered DfID priority or Lower Income and Lower Middle Income countries may still apply for the MTI. If there is any remaining capacity at the end of each month having processed all applications from DfID priority and Lower Income and Lower Middle Income countries, other applicants will be awarded a Certificate of Sponsorship taken in order of the receipt of their application.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/06/2018 15:34:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

919206

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 of the calls the breast cancer screening helpline has received were from someone whose screening invitation was not sent and have had a screening appointment offered as a result of that call; and how many such appointments have taken place.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	151183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The screening helpline had handled a total of 50,163 calls and received 26,423 requests for screens as of 10 June 2018. The total number of appointments for mammography offered to 5 June 2018 is 31,508, with younger women being invited directly rather than through the helpline.</p><p> </p><p>The link between calls and mammograms completed is complex and data cannot be compared directly. Therefore the helpline data for women who have subsequently attended for a mammogram will be finalised later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 16:08:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

919207

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
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 contacted any next of kin for women who had their lives shortened as a result of missing their breast cancer screening.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	151184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England has not yet made contact with any next of kin as patient details are under review in order to ensure that correct identification of the affected group takes place.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 11:05:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

919208

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Breast Cancer
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 he is taking to reduce the regional differences in breast cancer (a) rates and (b) outcomes.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	151185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has established 19 Cancer Alliances across the country to bring together influential local decision-makers, reduce variation in the availability of good care and treatment for all people with cancer, including breast cancer, and deliver continuous improvement and reduction in inequality of experience.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has committed to providing Cancer Alliances with £200 million in transformation funding over two years to undertake initiatives to diagnose cancer earlier and improve the lives of people living with cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Public Health England have also set up the Cancer Alliance Data, Evidence and Analysis Service to help drive evidence-based local decisions in the delivery of improved cancer outcomes, using a whole pathway and cross-organisational approach.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 11:06:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

919299

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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: Learning Disability
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 he is taking to ensure the adequacy of the transfer of alerts relating to patients with learning difficulties between different health care providers.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is working in partnership with NHS Digital to develop a reasonable adjustment flag to be added to the medical records of patients with a learning disability.</p><p> </p><p>This will alert clinicians across the health service to an individual’s specific needs, allowing them to make reasonable adjustments, and see what adjustments have already been made, to facilitate a more bespoke approach for the individual to access healthcare more easily.</p><p> </p><p>Reasonable adjustment flags will support the implementation of the Accessible Information Standard, which sets out a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of service users, and which all organisations providing National Health Service care are legally required to follow.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/06/2018 11:40:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

919300

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Influenza
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 flu-confirmed hospital admissions there were in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Data are not collected on the total number of cases from all acute trusts in England.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of hospitalisations for severe influenza over eight influenza seasons in England from 2011/12 (when data was available) to 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The 2017/18 season experienced the highest rate to date with almost 10,000 confirmed cases observed, translating to approximately 90 cases per 100,000 trust catchment population. A similar picture was observed in a number of other European countries. The 2017/18 data for England is being investigated further to understand factors driving this increase.</p><p> </p><p>Number of hospitalisations for severe influenza over eight influenza seasons in England from 2011/12-2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of reporting Trusts</p></td><td><p>Total Number of flu confirmed hospitalised cases (all levels of care)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11*</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>1,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>551</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>906</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>1,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>2,781</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>1,575</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18**</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>9,996</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>*Data for the 2010/11 season was only available up to week 10 of 2011.</p><p> </p><p>**Data for the 2017/18 season is truncated to week 15 to allow for end of season reporting.</p><p> </p><p>Annual data based on final weekly extracts are included in the 2017/18 annual report (see Figure 14), available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-flu-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-flu-reports</a></p><p> </p><p>The final extracts from each season may not necessarily reflect the numbers published in previous annual reports.</p><p> </p><p>The data are based on returns from a core set of sentinel acute National Health Service trusts (approximately 25-30) providing weekly aggregate number on laboratory confirmed influenza admitted to hospital to all levels of care (critical care and other wards).</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 16:09:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

919301

registered interest
date	07/06/2018
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	Endoscopy
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 and what proportion of patients waited more than six weeks for an endoscopy test in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	151173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>Data is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England collects and publishes monthly data on waiting times and activity for diagnostic tests, including endoscopy tests which encompass four tests: colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, cystoscopy and gastroscopy.</p><p> </p><p>Data on how many, and what proportion of patients waited more than six weeks for these tests from 2010-11 to 2017-18 is available in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/06/2018 11:16:34 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay attachment 1 file name Data for 151173 6 weeks plus.xlsx title PQ151173 attached data
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth