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1010550

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date	20/11/2018
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	Allied Healthcare
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 his Department has made of the potential effect on patient health and service provision in the event that Allied Healthcare cease operations.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	193422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The interruption of care services can affect the wellbeing of users and their loved ones. Local authorities have a statutory duty, under the Care Act 2014, to temporarily meet the needs of individuals when their care provider is no longer able to carry on.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Government Association has said that councils have robust contingency plans in place to ensure people are safeguarded during the Allied Healthcare sale. As joint Government and sector guidance makes clear, these contingency plans should include giving people as much time as possible to make informed choices and transition to any new services in an orderly and calm way.</p><p> </p><p>Cross-Government contingency plans have been enacted, and officials are working closely with Allied Healthcare, local authorities and clinical commissioning groups to ensure as smooth a transition as possible.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:01:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1010551

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in light of the Government's commitment that three in four of all cancers be diagnosed at Stage I or II by 2028, what estimate he has made of the proportion of cancer diagnoses for which staging data is currently available; and whether this includes all cancer diagnoses including rare and less common cancers.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
uin	193386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 81.9% of cancers registered by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service had a complete stage at diagnosis recorded. This percentage includes all invasive cancers including rare and less common cancers, but excludes non-melanoma skin cancer.</p><p> </p><p>These data, along with data for other United Kingdom countries are published in the United Kingdom and Ireland Association of Cancer Registries (UKIACR). UKIACR Performance Indicators and can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ukiacr.org/kpis" target="_blank">http://www.ukiacr.org/kpis</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/11/2018 14:14:59 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

1010555

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Prostate 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 assessment he has made of changes in the rate of prostate cancer detection since publication of the report of the Prostate Cancer Audit in November 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	193388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>There has been no significant change in prostate cancer diagnosis rates between 2014 and 2016 (for which the latest data are available).</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/11/2018 14:16:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1010613

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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: Finance
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 made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the November 2018 analysis by the County Councils Network entitled A Fair Future for Counties; and whether his Department has discussed that analysis with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Funding for social care beyond 2019-20 will be considered in the round at the Spending Review next year. The Department has not yet made any specific assessment of the County Councils Network’s analysis. However, we will work closely with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government to consider all available evidence as part of the Spending Review process.</p><p> </p><p>The Green Paper will put forward our proposals for reforming the social care system to make it more sustainable.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has given councils access to almost £10 billion more adult social care funding from 2017-18 to 2019-20 to address the immediate pressures councils are facing.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:12:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010614

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to ensure that NHS England works with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to develop the Mental Health Dashboard further to include operational data for people treated in secondary and community care under a mental health trust.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard brings together key data from across mental health services to measure the performance of the National Health Service in delivering our plans as set out in the Mental Health Five Year Forward View. Indicators within the dashboard are intended to provide a high level overview of how the NHS is performing, alongside detail on how mental health services are funded and delivered.</p><p> </p><p>The content of the dashboard was recently reviewed to ensure that the measures within the dashboard are sufficiently robust to provide an accurate picture of mental health delivery across services and regions. NHS England is working with NHS Improvement and NHS Digital to improve operational data for people treated in secondary and community care and these measures will be included in the dashboard as soon as data quality demonstrates that it is appropriate to do so.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:10:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010615

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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 Prescribing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to spend the £4.5 billion announced on 23 July 2018 for social prescribing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>On 23 July 2018 the Department announced funding of £4.5 million for 23 social prescribing schemes across England. Social prescribing involves helping patients to improve their health, wellbeing and social welfare by connecting them to community services. Examples include befriending services, art classes and exercise classes, which might be run by the council or a local charity.</p><p> </p><p>This money is being used to either expand existing schemes or establish new ones. These schemes will aim to reduce health inequalities by building the evidence base around good practice in social prescribing, sharing lessons and widening adoption of practices that are proven to work.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of all 23 schemes can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-schemes-to-be-funded-by-the-health-and-wellbeing-fund-2018" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-schemes-to-be-funded-by-the-health-and-wellbeing-fund-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/11/2018 14:08:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010616

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the November 2018 report by Rethink entitled Right treatment, right time, whether he is taking steps to lower the average 14-week wait for assessment and 19-week wait for treatment for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, eating disorders and other severe mental illnesses.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	193434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>Right treatment, right time, by Rethink Mental Illness, highlights challenges in mental health services. The Government recognises that we need to go further in improving mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health contains specific steps for reducing waiting times for psychosis and eating disorders. By 2020/21, at least 60% of people with first episode psychosis should start treatment with a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-recommended package of care, via a specialist Early Intervention in Psychosis service, within two weeks of referral. For eating disorders, we have targets for ensuring that 95% of children in need receive treatment within one week for urgent cases, and four weeks for routine cases. Figures published on the Five Year Forward View dashboard show that these targets have been met or are on track to be met by the end of 2020/21. The dashboard is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:15:23 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1010638

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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 Visitors: Resignations
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 health visitors (a) resigned and (b) otherwise left their posts in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	193546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of leavers from the health visitor staff group in England, partitioned into reasons for leaving of resignation and other reason for leaving, as at 31 July in each specified year from 2013, headcount:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All reasons for leaving</p></td><td><p>1,441</p></td><td><p>1,331</p></td><td><p>2,052</p></td><td><p>2,203</p></td><td><p>1,672</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>of which:</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reason for leaving of resignation</p></td><td><p>386</p></td><td><p>461</p></td><td><p>603</p></td><td><p>694</p></td><td><p>454</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other reason for leaving</p></td><td><p>485</p></td><td><p>373</p></td><td><p>837</p></td><td><p>781</p></td><td><p>588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknowns</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>498</p></td><td><p>614</p></td><td><p>732</p></td><td><p>633</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics</p><p> </p><p>As health visitors are employed by a range of organisations, including National Health Service trusts, CCGs, local authorities and private providers, current data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. Consequently, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total number of leavers from the whole health visitor workforce.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/11/2018 11:09:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1010642

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Air Pollution: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the costs incurred by the NHS in treating conditions caused by air pollution arising from different forms of transport.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	193372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets with the Secretary of State for Transport regularly to discuss a variety of Government issues.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/11/2018 14:13:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1010674

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he has issued to local authorities on social care charges for vulnerable people receiving benefits; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	193381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>To help local authorities design reasonable and fair policies, the Department has issued the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014 and statutory guidance in the Care and Support Statutory (CASS) Guidance. The CASS Guidance is issued under section 78 of the Care Act and local authorities must have regard to it.</p><p> </p><p>The Regulations and Guidance do not require local authorities to charge. They seek to ensure that, where local authorities do charge, this will be based on fairer, well-designed charging policies and ensure in particular that service users on low incomes are protected from charging and that any charges levied on disability benefits are subject to an assessment of disability costs, to ensure their reasonableness.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 193382 question first answered 23/11/2018 14:02:57 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker