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1147015

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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: Vaccination
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 that every person whose health makes them more vulnerable to flu is able to receive the winter flu vaccine without delay.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	292089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The flu vaccination is offered to people who are at risk of the serious complications of flu. This includes people over 65, pregnant women, and those in clinical risk groups. In addition, the vaccine is offered to carers, and frontline health and social care workers, who work with vulnerable groups.</p><p>A key objective of the children’s programme is to reduce transmission of flu to the general population and those at risk, in addition to providing individual protection. In 2019/20, all primary school aged children will be offered the vaccine for the first time in England.</p><p> </p><p>Those eligible for flu vaccination can get the vaccine from their general practitioner, and since 2015/16 adult groups can also be vaccinated at their local community pharmacy, thus widening patient access.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 13:22:44 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1147018

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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: Vaccination
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 preparations for the roll-out of the aTIV flu vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	292200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has conducted its annual readiness assessment prior to the flu season. The Department has also had discussions with the supplier of the adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine (aTIV), which is one of the vaccines available for people aged 65 years and older.</p><p>The aTIV is locally procured by general practitioners (GP) and pharmacists who are responsible for ordering supplies of the vaccine they require for their population group. Deliveries of the aTIV commenced early September, and the supplier is on track to meet all orders by GP and pharmacists during October as planned.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 15:05:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1147045

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Insulin: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures are in place to support the import of insulin from Denmark (Nova Nordisk) and Germany (Sanofi) in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	292184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU with a negotiated deal, the Department’s assessment is that during the Implementation Period agreed with the EU, market access to medicines and medical devices won’t change for industry or the NHS.</p><p>We are working closely with partners across the health and care system and industry, to take all appropriate steps to prepare for leaving the European Union. Our robust plans and multi layered approach should help ensure the supply of medicines and medical products, including insulin, remains uninterrupted if we leave without a deal.</p><p>On 26 June, we wrote to suppliers of medicines to the United Kingdom from or via the EU or European Economic Area setting out our continuing multi-layered approach to support continuity of supply of medicines and medical products.</p><p>For commercial reasons, the Government will not be releasing details of contingency plans for individual medicines. We continue to work with individual suppliers directly to assure ourselves of their contingency plans. However, as an example of the preparations being taken by industry, insulin manufacturer Novo Nordisk recently publicly stated that they have 18 weeks' worth of supplies in the UK and had secured alternative ferry capacity to renew supplies.</p><p>Further details can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/10/2019 14:58:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1147062

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Infectious Diseases: Vaccination
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 that people who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated against certain infectious diseases remain protected in society and able to lead a normal life.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	292220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons receive protection from many infectious diseases through ‘herd immunity’, which occurs as a result of high vaccination uptake rates within the wider population.</p><p>It is therefore critical that vaccination rates for all UK programmes remain as high as possible to protect those who cannot be vaccinated, and we are working to increase uptake across all of our vaccination programmes. In order to deliver that, the Department is reviewing all potential options – including the mandation of certain vaccines. This is why we are looking at making some vaccination programmes mandatory.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 13:30:45 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1147066

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 individual Healthy Start vouchers have been used in each of the last 10 years for which data are available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	292110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>A total of around 256 million Healthy Start vouchers have been redeemed within the last 10 complete financial years. A full breakdown of the redemption within each year can be found in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Redeemed Healthy Start Vouchers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>31,632,099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>31,825,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>31,152,563</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>31,322,441</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>29,191,004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>26,105,893</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>22,691,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>19,927,901</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>17,462,707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>14,585,372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>255,896,316</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Healthy Start Reimbursement Unit</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 13:19:24 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1147076

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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: Screening
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 that the full NHS People Plan will tackle shortages in the imaging and diagnostic workforce in order to achieve the ambition in the NHS Long Term Plan to increase cancer screening uptake.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	292198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Following publication of the interim People Plan on 3 June 2019, work is now underway to develop a full five-year NHS People Plan, which will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan. The full People Plan will build on the ambitions in the interim Plan, focusing on education and training, and new routes into the National Health Service, as well as workforce planning and redesign, and workforce productivity (releasing time for care).</p><p>Since publication of the Interim Plan, Health Education England and NHS Improvement and NHS England have been working together to ensure delivery of the immediate actions and have been working with stakeholders including the People Plan advisory group and trade unions, think tanks, academia, and professional bodies to develop the full People Plan. Work is also underway with national clinical programmes, including cancer and diagnostics, to understand their workforce priorities for delivering the Long Term Plan commitments, including addressing key workforce shortages.</p><p>Also, as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England asked Sir Mike Richards to lead a review to improve the delivery of the screening programmes, increase uptake, learn the lessons from the recent issues around breast and cervical screening, and modernise and expand diagnostic capacity. Workforce requirements to support delivery of our national screening programmes are included in scope of Professor Sir Mike Richards review and we expect publication of the report shortly. The review, will make recommendations to the Secretary of State and Board of NHS England about the future commissioning and delivery of screening programmes in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/10/2019 15:50:16 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1147083

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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: Private Sector
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 his Department has to (a) improve standards and (b) ensure patient safety in privately-run mental health units.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	292321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Everybody has the right to receive safe, high-quality care. If care has fallen short of this, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can use its powers to take action against those responsible.</p><p>The CQC has a key responsibility in the overall assurance of safety and quality of health and adult social care services in England and has commissioned two independent reviews to look at what it could have done differently or better in terms of its regulation and inspection of Whorlton Hall and other services of this kind.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 03/10/2019 13:34:21 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1147135

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Dementia
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 that all adult social care workers caring for dementia patients are trained to level Tier 2 of the Dementia Training Standards Framework.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	292137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The national dementia strategy for England, the Challenge on Dementia 2020, set the expectation that all relevant health and care staff would have the appropriate dementia training, with the requisite training needs at different “tiers” set out in the ‘Dementia Training Standards Framework’.</p><p>Good progress has been made to date in training the social care workforce. It is estimated that around half of social care workers considered to need tier 2 dementia training have undertaken training to a level equivalent to it. The Department is currently exploring value for money options for further increasing take up of tier 2 training to everyone who needs it.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/10/2019 13:32:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1147138

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	Ipswich Hospital: Staff
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 clinical staff were employed by Ipswich Hospital in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	292194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the data in the format requested.</p><p>NHS Digital does not record staff data for individual hospitals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/10/2019 15:00:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1147139

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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: Suffolk
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 annual commissioning budget for East Suffolk and Ipswich CCG was in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	292195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Annual allocations for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/allocations/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/allocations/</a></p><p>CCGs were created in 2013, therefore CGG allocation figures date back to 2013/14.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td><td><p>Allocation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£'000)</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><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG</p></td><td><p>392,348</p></td><td><p>403,530</p></td><td><p>433,407</p></td><td><p>458,011</p></td><td><p>468,076</p></td><td><p>483,608</p></td><td><p>510,117</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ccg-allocations.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ccg-allocations.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ccg-allocation-big-table-v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ccg-allocation-big-table-v2.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-all-funding-streams-spreadsheet/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-all-funding-streams-spreadsheet/</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/10/2019 15:12:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter