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172902

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date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Re-employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent and (b) fixed-term contract basis since the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 came into force.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	220252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The current redundancy terms for National Health Service staff were laid down in 2006, however this Government is working to improve value for the tax payer by introducing legislation in the form of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill which is due to receive Royal Assent in March 2015. This Bill allows for recovery of contractual redundancy payments when an individual earning over £100,000 returns to the same subsector (eg NHS or local government) within a year of the termination date. This Bill will come into effect in 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of NHS staff made redundant between 1 April 2013 and 30 June 2014 (the latest date for which redundancy data is published), and subsequently reemployed on a permanent contract is 618 and on a fixed term contract is 274. These include only those reemployed up until 30 November 2014. The number made redundant over that period is 5,714.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These estimates are derived from unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse, and so only cover redundancies from, and re-employment to those organisations that use ESR. Two NHS trusts do not use ESR.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The figures above relate to redundancies across the whole of the NHS including those as a result of the Health and Social Care Act reforms. However, the Government’s changes to the NHS mean a huge net gain for the taxpayer. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, issued a written ministerial statement on 22 July 2014; Official Reports, column 119WS setting out the costs and benefits of NHS modernisation. The total costs are expected to be no higher than £1.5billion, which includes £456 million spent on staff redundancies to the end of March 2014. Any costs associated with the recent NHS reforms are one-off and dwarfed by the savings they will make: £6.4 billion during this Parliament and £1.5 billion every year thereafter, for patient care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/01/2015 14:09:30 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter attachment 1 file name NHS Modernisation (Cost and Benefits).docx title NHS Modernisation (Cost and Benefits) WMS
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

172903

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Rheumatoid Arthritis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent research on the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis carried out by Professor Paul-Peter Tak of the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	220305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department is aware of the research undertaken by Professor Paul-Peter Tak examining vagus nerve stimulation to reduce symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The early findings of a small study involving 20 patients with RA have been promising, but further research will be needed in order to properly understand the effectiveness of this intervention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 16/01/2015 13:56:07 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

172904

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices informed NHS England they would (a) reduce their opening hours and (b) not offer face-to-face appointments at any point over the 2014-15 Christmas and New Year period.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	220302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of general practitioner (GP) practices that informed NHS England that they would reduce their opening hours and not offer face-to-face appointments at any point over the 2014-15 Christmas and New Year period is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England wrote to all GP practices in September 2014 giving details of expectations over the Christmas and New Year period, including that:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 24 December 2014 and 31 December 2014 were to be considered normal working days and therefore NHS England expected all practices to be open as normal, along with partner health and social care agencies.</p><p> </p><p>- Each practice was required to detail the practice opening times and provide availability for telephone access and face to face appointments.</p><p> </p><p>- If a patient was not able to speak to the practice’s receptionist during core hours (08.00-18.30hrs Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays) over the holiday period, the practice should confirm what arrangements were in place to deliver their contractual obligations.</p><p> </p><p>- Practices that provided extended hours on 24 or 31 December were reminded that they may wish to move these hours to another day within the week, where it was part of the practice’s broader plans to manage expected demand over that period.</p><p> </p><p>- The practice retained responsibility for ensuring that the care provided during core hours was appropriate to meet the reasonable needs of patients.</p><p> </p><p>- If the practice was not open during core hours, then patients needed to have absolute clarity about how to access essential services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 220303 question first answered 16/01/2015 13:38:00 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

172905

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance NHS England gave GP practices on opening hours during the 2014-15 Christmas and New Year period.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	220303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The number of general practitioner (GP) practices that informed NHS England that they would reduce their opening hours and not offer face-to-face appointments at any point over the 2014-15 Christmas and New Year period is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England wrote to all GP practices in September 2014 giving details of expectations over the Christmas and New Year period, including that:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 24 December 2014 and 31 December 2014 were to be considered normal working days and therefore NHS England expected all practices to be open as normal, along with partner health and social care agencies.</p><p> </p><p>- Each practice was required to detail the practice opening times and provide availability for telephone access and face to face appointments.</p><p> </p><p>- If a patient was not able to speak to the practice’s receptionist during core hours (08.00-18.30hrs Monday to Friday, excluding Bank Holidays) over the holiday period, the practice should confirm what arrangements were in place to deliver their contractual obligations.</p><p> </p><p>- Practices that provided extended hours on 24 or 31 December were reminded that they may wish to move these hours to another day within the week, where it was part of the practice’s broader plans to manage expected demand over that period.</p><p> </p><p>- The practice retained responsibility for ensuring that the care provided during core hours was appropriate to meet the reasonable needs of patients.</p><p> </p><p>- If the practice was not open during core hours, then patients needed to have absolute clarity about how to access essential services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 220302 question first answered 16/01/2015 13:38:00 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

172906

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Complementary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential contribution of regulated complementary and alternative medical practitioners to reducing demands on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	David Tredinnick
uin	220251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Practitioners of complementary and alternative medicines are not subject to statutory regulation. A working group has been established to consider a number of matters relating to the use of herbal and traditional medicines by practitioners. I know my hon. Friend is a member of this working group.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The findings of the working group will be published in due course, once it has finished its work. Until that working group has reported, no assessment can be made of the contribution of such practitioners to reducing demands on the National Health Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/01/2015 14:11:33 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	335 label Biography information for David Tredinnick

172907

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital through A&E with an alcohol-related diagnosis involving people (a) under and (b) over the age of 18 there were in each NHS hospital trust in the East of England in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	220254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format or for the period requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the sum of alcohol attributable fractions of finished admission episodes for hospital providers in the east of England with an admission through accident and emergency departments from 2005-06 to 2012-13 is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 16/01/2015 13:55:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name FAEs - alcohol related - East England table.xlsx title Alcohol attributable FAEs-2005-13- East of England
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley