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1277340

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the number of independent pharmacies that are able to offer COVID-19 vaccination on-site; and what steps they are taking to ensure that such pharmacies (1) receive delivery of, and (2) can administer, COVID-19 vaccinations, promptly.
tabling member printed	Baroness Brady
uin	HL12193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>Since 14 January 2021, over 100 community pharmacies, including some independent pharmacies, have started to offer the COVID-19 vaccination service, with more pharmacies joining over the coming months.</p><p>Community pharmacies in England, who are or will be providing the COVID-19 vaccination service are required to deliver 1,000 vaccines per week and to achieve this they are supported in the form of training, funding for the service and non-monetary support, including delivery of vaccines, consumables, personal protective equipment and other equipment to operate the site.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with all the national pharmacy organisations on plans to ensure that community pharmacies, including independent pharmacies, are used to optimal effect in the COVID-19 vaccination programme, starting with the sites that can do this at scale.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 24/02/2021 16:05:22 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4339 label Biography information for Baroness Brady

1277351

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Prisoners
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many prisoners aged 80 years old and over received the COVID-19 vaccination by, and including, 15 January.
tabling member printed	Lord German
uin	HL12206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2021 answer text <p>The information is not currently held centrally in the format requested.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 06/04/2021 12:34:29 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

1277359

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support and advise NHS Trusts on ‘ready to use’ medicines which (1) improve patient safety through reduced drug administration errors, (2) save nursing time, and (3) relieve pressure on pharmacy teams.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL12227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>The noble Lord Carter of Coles published a report last year on the provision of aseptic medicines, including some critical care medicines, in England. Recommendations included setting up a network of hub and spoke facilities to prepare ready to administer medicines, providing guidance on standard injectable medicines, and training for aseptic pharmacy staff. NHS England and NHS Improvement are setting up a National Health Service aseptic services transformation implementation board to co-ordinate the implementation of these recommendations.</p><p>The recommended changes will improve patient safety by reducing errors in compounding and administering these medicines. Errors in these medicines are not currently specifically tracked but the report recommends that the NHS begins tracking and reducing them.</p><p>The creation of regional hub and spoke services could release the equivalent of over 4,000 whole time equivalent nurses each year. This is based on the time taken for nurses to prepare the 14 most commonly used aseptic medicines. The development of a hub and spoke system will offer opportunities for production at scale, relieving pressure on hospital pharmacies.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 01/02/2021 12:39:37 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1277360

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide an at-home COVID-19 vaccination service for (1) people with severe mobility issues, and (2) other people who cannot access their local vaccination site.
tabling member printed	Baroness Masham of Ilton
uin	HL12228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2021 answer text <p>Local vaccination services coordinate and deliver vaccinations to people who are unable to attend a vaccination site. This includes visiting care homes, the homes of housebound individuals and other settings such as residential facilities for people with learning disabilities or autism and prisons and to reach vulnerable groups such as those who are experiencing homelessness.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 02/02/2021 14:11:47 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	1850 label Biography information for Baroness Masham of Ilton

1277362

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Take-away Food
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that deliveries of takeaway food to homes adhere to sufficient hygiene measures for the (1) preparation, and (2) delivery, of such food during the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL12232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2021 answer text <p>In response to these COVID-19 challenges, in August 2020 the Food Standards Agency launched the ‘Here to Help’ campaign to provide tailored guidance for small food businesses such as restaurants, takeaways and coffee shops, to outline changes to hygiene processes and requirements they must follow as they develop new ways of working. The Here to Help campaign aims to support businesses in getting this right, to ensure consumers continue to have access to food that is safe. Assessing whether food takeaway businesses comply with food law is the responsibility of local authorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 02/02/2021 13:46:49 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

1277363

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that elderly recipients of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine do not have to travel excessive distances to receive such a vaccine.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL12233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2021 answer text <p>In England, more than 98% of the population are currently within 10 miles of a vaccine service. In a small number of highly rural areas, the vaccination centre will be a mobile unit. Local vaccination services can also coordinate and deliver vaccination to people who are unable to attend a vaccination site, including visiting care homes, residential facilities for people with learning disabilities or autism, prisons, the homes of housebound individuals, and to reach vulnerable groups such as those who are experiencing homelessness. In England, the latest data from 2 April shows that a total of 1,791 vaccination sites have now been established.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 14/04/2021 11:04:52 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

1277375

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the implications of the emergence of variants of COVID-19, and (2) the potential for future mutations of that virus; and what plans they have made for the rapid acquisition of any re-purposed vaccine that may be needed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Sheehan
uin	HL12250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2021 answer text <p>There is currently no evidence that the vaccines do not work against the new strains but our experts are examining this closely. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is in discussion with vaccine manufacturers on potential modifications to current vaccines that may improve their effectiveness against new virus variants, if required. The MHRA will continue to process any application rapidly and rigorously, seeking advice from its independent expert committee, the Commission on Human Medicines and authorise any new variant vaccine as soon as data on safety, quality and efficacy are satisfactory.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 02/02/2021 14:08:17 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	4548 label Biography information for Baroness Sheehan

1277390

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the final report of the NHS People Plan will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradley
uin	HL12190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2021 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan is not a single document but a shared programme of work to grow the workforce, support new ways of working and develop a compassionate and inclusive workplace culture in order to deliver the NHS Long Term Plan. The NHS People Plan 2020-21, published last summer, is focused on supporting National Health Service staff to manage the COVID-19 response and winter pressures, with a strong focus on looking after the health and wellbeing of staff.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with NHS England and NHS Improvement, Health Education England and with systems and employers to determine our workforce and people priorities beyond April 2021 to support the recovery of NHS staff and of services. This will include building on many of the positive ways of working that have emerged through the pandemic whilst continuing to support the wellbeing of NHS staff.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 02/02/2021 14:06:41 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	452 label Biography information for Lord Bradley

1277405

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Coronavirus: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether employers can insist that employees have a COVID-19 vaccine; what actions an employer can take in respect of (1) employees who refuse to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and (2) employees who refuse to work with employees who have refused the vaccine other than on medical grounds; and, in such circumstances, what are employers' health and safety obligations to their employees (a) individually, and (b) collectively.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL12221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2021 answer text <p>The United Kingdom operates a system of informed consent for vaccinations. Employers are bound by a range of legal obligations to their staff including under employment, equalities, data protection and health and safety law and they will need to ensure that any vaccination policy is consistent with those legal duties.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 26/03/2021 12:25:55 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

1277447

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
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	Epilepsy: Pregnancy
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 healthcare professionals are aware of the findings of the safety review of epilepsy medicines in pregnancy, published by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency on 7 January 2021.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	138944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2021 answer text <p>The conclusions of the Commission on Human Medicines’ safety review were communicated to healthcare professional via the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Drug Safety Update bulletin and an accompanying public assessment report. A news release and social media accompanied the publication alongside email alerts that targeted relevant healthcare professionals, prescribing publications and professional organisations. The MHRA is also working with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Association of British Neurologists to update relevant clinical guidance to reflect the findings of the review. The impact of this review and the uptake of communications will be monitored and consideration be given to the need for further communications to healthcare professionals.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 29/01/2021 15:22:04 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 76085 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz