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999130

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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, what representations he has received from local authorities on the funding of adult social care in England.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	186445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets numerous individuals and often receives representations regarding adult social care as part of his ministerial duties over this policy area.</p><p> </p><p>Our records show 27 items of correspondence received from local authorities in the last six months about the funding of adult social care in England. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget announced further funding for adult social care for 2018/19 and 2019/20 which local authorities will benefit from.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/11/2018 16:40:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

999155

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Chronic Illnesses: Life Insurance
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 Chancellor of the Exchequer on life insurance policies for people suffering from (a) long term medical conditions and (b) muscular dystrophy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	186179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets Cabinet colleagues regularly to discuss a number of different issues.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/11/2018 15:39:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

999156

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Patients: Nutrition
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 supply of Nutricia Nutrini Energy Multi Fibre for people requiring percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	186357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working to ensure that the United Kingdom is able to cope with any potential delays at borders that may arise in the short term from the unlikely event of a no-deal outcome to our negotiations on exiting the European Union. Our planning will ensure that from the day the UK leaves the EU, we will have the necessary resources to continue to protect UK consumers from food safety risks and to ensure uninterrupted supplies of the foods they need, including foods for special medical purposes.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 186358 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:53:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

999157

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Patients: Nutrition
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 supply of Nutricia Nutrini Energy Multi Fibre and similar products for those requiring percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding in the event the the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	186358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working to ensure that the United Kingdom is able to cope with any potential delays at borders that may arise in the short term from the unlikely event of a no-deal outcome to our negotiations on exiting the European Union. Our planning will ensure that from the day the UK leaves the EU, we will have the necessary resources to continue to protect UK consumers from food safety risks and to ensure uninterrupted supplies of the foods they need, including foods for special medical purposes.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 186357 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:53:07 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

999208

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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, what additional (a) security and (b) other staff are planned to be recruited to deliver the zero tolerance approach towards violence against NHS employees.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	186330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Employers across the National Health Service in England are responsible for protecting their staff and it is for them to decide locally whether they need any more security or other staff to address and manage challenging behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>The new Violence Reduction Strategy will help NHS organisations support their staff by ensuring they receive appropriate training, for example in de-escalation techniques and what to do if they are attacked or abused, improving the safety of the environments in which they work and ensuring local security management specialists who are appointed by trusts locally maintain their skills and knowledge through continuing professional development.</p><p> </p><p>The use of body cameras is being piloted by a few ambulance trusts to assess their effectiveness in protecting paramedics.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 05/11/2018 15:57:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

999260

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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: Young People
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 process for enabling young people to transition to adult mental health services at the age of 18; whether he plans to put in place a developmental approach to such transition; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	186169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Some young people need ongoing support into young adulthood, after they leave children and young people’s mental health services. This point of transition is an important stage for young people, and it is not always easy.</p><p> </p><p>That is why, in January 2015, NHS England published a Model Specification for Transitions from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, to support better transition planning and delivery by local providers. Transition from children and young people’s mental health services has also been included as one of 13 mandatory national indicators in the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation scheme, 2017/19, which offers financial incentives to local areas to encourage improved transition planning for children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>To address issues of transition, some areas have already adopted a mental health service which supports young people from ages 0-25.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/11/2018 15:48:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

999270

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October to Question 183290 on Rehabilitation, when the review of community performance reporting was commissioned; who is undertaking that review; and what the (a) terms of reference and (b) time frame are for that review.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	186241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>There was no national data collection of the activity and outcomes of healthcare that takes place out of hospital, and so it was agreed via the National Information Board (NIB) and NHS England’s Data Co-ordination Group in 2016 to develop a community services dataset, which has had two distinct phases.</p><p> </p><p>The process that has been followed by NHS England is as follows.</p><p> </p><p>In the first phase, now completed, the Community Services Data Set (CSDS) was developed by removing the age cap from the Children and Young People’s Health Services dataset and has been collecting data since November 2017. NHS England continues to work with NHS Digital to encourage community service providers to complete their statutory obligations to submit data to improve the knowledge and information we have available nationally on services delivered locally.</p><p> </p><p>The CSDS will be further enhanced with a phase two development that will broaden the scope including outcome measures, and work is scheduled to begin on the scope shortly with plans to deliver in the autumn of 2020. Further work is also ongoing in NHS Digital to establish connectivity across national data sets to give longitudinal intelligence to support future planning processes.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/11/2018 15:30:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

999274

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Academic Health Science Networks: Hospitals
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 report entitled, Understanding the performance and potential of specialist hospitals, published by the Innovation Agency and UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership in October 2018 , whether he has plans to encourage a closer working relationship between academic health science networks and specialist hospitals to improve performance in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>As part of their licence, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are required to flexibly address specific local needs and challenges. In practice, this means that AHSNs will continue to build and develop their local and regional networks, strengthening relationships with all National Health Service organisations including specialist hospitals.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/11/2018 16:41:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999275

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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, how many people accessed eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy on the NHS in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186381 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

999278

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department provides to NHS doctors on (a) eye movement desensitisation and (b) reprocessing treatment for cases of post traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	186381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a National Health Service programme that offers a range of interventions for treating people with depression or anxiety.</p><p> </p><p>Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing is one of the therapies that can be given to a patient referred to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals to IAPT services in from 2014-15 to 2016-17, for which at least one appointment included Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Number of referrals with one or more appointments where Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing was given as a treatment, England, 2014-15 to 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>6,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>5,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,922</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Due to a dataset version change, it has not been possible to identify Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing as a therapy type in appointments prior to 1 July 2014. Therefore 2014-15 is only a partial year of data.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Data are derived from annualised IAPT data. 2016-17 is the latest available data and is available at the following link:</li></ol><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports" target="_blank">www.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports</a></p><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>This table presents counts of referrals. A referral is a request for a care service to be provided for a patient. Over time, a patient may have more than one referral to IAPT services and so a count of referrals is not a count of people.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice.</p><p /><p>The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the relevant medical Royal College, and must meet standards set by the GMC. Whilst curricula do not necessarily highlight specific conditions, they instead emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop and maintain in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients.</p><p /><p>The GMC also sets the standards expected at undergraduate level and approves medical school curricula.  In so doing, they set out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate. This is further detailed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp" target="_blank">http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergrad_outcomes.asp</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 186380 question first answered 05/11/2018 15:50:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith