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600658

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date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the number of organ donors.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	48299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We are supporting a number of initiatives to raise awareness and to encourage more people to consent to organ donation. Donation and transplant rates have increased steadily since 2007/08 and 2015/16 saw the highest ever deceased donor rate in the United Kingdom with 1,364 deceased donors resulting in 3,529 transplants.</p><p>We continue to encourage people to support donation by adding their name to the organ donor register, to tell their family they want to be a donor and by ensuring that we continue to strengthen the donation programme to identify all potential donors and optimise transplantation.</p><p>NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) launched a new UK–wide organ donation and transplantation strategy in July 2013. <em>Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020</em> identifies the action being taken to increase organ donation and transplantation rates to match world class standards over the next few years.</p><p>In July 2015 we launched a modern Organ Donation Register (ODR) system which enables people to make their wishes about donation much clearer and also links with social media and donation partners to make registration easier. NHSBT works collaboratively with a number of partners in the private, public and third sectors to promote organ donation, such as the Boots Advantage Card. People can also add their name to the ODR via Government owned channels such as applying for a driving licence and paying car tax online.</p><p>National Organ Donation Week in September focused on encouraging people to start a conversation about organ donation - with their families, friends or colleagues – to make sure those closest to them know they want to be a donor. There are also a number of specific initiatives to raise awareness in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities to become donors. Less than 5% of deceased organ donors are BAME, yet patients from BAME communities represent around a quarter of people waiting for a transplant.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 17/10/2016 16:55:43 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

600659

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	European Medicines Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on the implications of possible relocation of the European Medicines Agency outside the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	48279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking work to understand in full the implications of withdrawing from the European Union including on public health. There have not yet been any discussions about the future location of the European Medicines Agency with my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 15:32:06 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

600661

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many foreign-born EU nationals are employed in the NHS in (a) the UK, (b) England and (c) London both in gross terms and as a proportion of the total NHS workforce.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	48264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. This is a self-reported field within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record (ESR).</p><p> </p><p>The nationality information entered by an individual employee onto ESR may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth. As such, these figures should be treated with caution. Data is not available for the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Workforce in trusts, clinical commissioning groups, support organisations and central bodies as at 30 June 2016</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td><td><p>Full-time equivalent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>1,201,236</p></td><td><p>1,059,577</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which European Union nationals</p></td><td><p>59,769</p></td><td><p>55,787</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion (England)</p></td><td><p>5.0%</p></td><td><p>5.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>185,633</p></td><td><p>171,607</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which EU nationals</p></td><td><p>19,266</p></td><td><p>18,263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion (London)</p></td><td><p>10.4%</p></td><td><p>10.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:54:19 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

600665

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Northamptonshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 12 October 2016, Official Report, column 300, when he expects the relative per capita underfunding for (a) Nene Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and (b) Corby CCG against the national picture to have been corrected.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	48260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for making decisions on how to distribute available resources between commissioning organisations.</p><p>We are advised by NHS England that it is working to move clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) towards their target fair share of funding, but has to take a finely balanced decision between making quick progress on pace of change, and at the same time maintaining stability in the system.</p><p>We understand that NHS England has targeted those CCGs that were more than 5% above or below their target funding. Nene and Corby CCGs have therefore received a cash increase of 5.21% and 9.4% respectively in 2016/17, compared to 2015/16 – above the England average in terms of overall CCG growth, and bringing them both within 5% of their target allocation.</p><p>Allocations over the next few years will continue to move the CCGs closer towards their funding target.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:12:03 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

600667

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Northamptonshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 12 October 2016, Official Report, column 300, if he will set out the annual funding for (a) Nene Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and (b) Corby CCG in each of the last five years and for each future year where forecasts of funding have been made.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	48261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested. Information from NHS England on clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations for Nene CCG and Corby CCG, since 2013/14 (when CCGs came in to existence), and indicative allocations until 2020/21, is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Corby CCG £'000</p></td><td><p>Nene CCG £'000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>73,851</p></td><td><p>636,496</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>78,013</p></td><td><p>663,376</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>84,009</p></td><td><p>709,177</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>93,236</p></td><td><p>757,879</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>96,178</p></td><td><p>777,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>99,674</p></td><td><p>796,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>103,394</p></td><td><p>816,491</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>108,771</p></td><td><p>851,131</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:10:58 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

600670

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Childbirth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to reduce the number of babies born in the back of an ambulance in England.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	48258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p><em>Better Births</em>, the National Maternity Review, sets out our vision for maternity services across England to become safer, more personalised, kinder, professional and more family friendly; where every woman has access to information to enable her to make decisions about her care; and where she and her baby can access support that is centred around their individual needs and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The National Maternity Transformation Programme, which seeks to advance the vision set out in <em>Better Births</em>, aims to ensure professionals work together across organisational boundaries to provide access to the right care in the right place at the right time within local maternity systems.</p><p> </p><p>This will include work that will help to personalise women’s care and reduce unplanned events during pregnancy and labour.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 15:58:13 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

600673

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of pharmacies located in pharmacy clusters are within each decile of deprivation in the English indices of deprivation for 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	48257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We will be publishing an impact assessment in due course.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 16:06:54 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

600674

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure improvement in cancer treatment in those areas identified in the Macmillan Cancer Support survey, published in October 2016, as requiring such improvement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	48256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The independent Cancer Taskforce published its report, Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A strategy for England 2015-2020, in July 2015 and its implementation plan in May 2016 to represent the consensus views of the whole cancer community.</p><p>The Government has accepted all 96 recommendations in the strategy, which will address the concerns raised in Macmillan Cancer Support’s survey around funding, prevention, diagnostics, workforce and support after treatment when implemented. Implementation is being led by NHS England’s National Cancer Transformation Board, which will publish its first annual progress report shortly.</p><p>In line with the recommendations to improve prevention, the Government has published a national childhood obesity strategy and new low risk drinking guidelines. We have also announced funding of up to £300 million a year by 2020 to increase diagnostic capacity to meet the new target that patients will be given a definitive cancer diagnosis, or the all clear, within 28 days of being referred by a general practitioner.</p><p>To meet the workforce challenges of the future, Health Education England (HEE), supported by Cancer Research UK and Macmillan Cancer Support, has been leading on the independent Cancer Taskforce recommendation that it should develop a vision for the future shape and skills mix of the workforce required to deliver a modern, holistic patient-centred cancer service. HEE has completed an initial cancer workforce baseline review that has been shared and discussed with key stakeholders.</p><p>In September 2015, we also announced that by 2020, the 280,000 people diagnosed with cancer every year will benefit from a tailored recovery package. The packages will be individually designed to help each person live well beyond cancer. In April 2016, we published guidance for commissioners on commissioning and implementing the recovery package effectively.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 16:15:00 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

600676

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total financial deficit for the NHS in England was at the end of June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	48376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Health Service consists of providers (NHS trusts and foundation trusts), NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).</p><p> </p><p>The provider sector reported a year-to-date deficit of £461 million at Q1 2016/17, £5 million ahead of plan. The reported sector position represented an improvement compared to the same period last year, which saw an aggregate sector deficit of £930 million.</p><p> </p><p>The link below gives NHS Improvement Quarterly performance of the provider sector as at 30 June 2016:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Q1_201617_provider_sector_performance_report_-_FINAL25082016.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Q1_201617_provider_sector_performance_report_-_FINAL25082016.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England reported a year-to-date deficit of £24 million at Q1 2016-17. Details can be found via the link below to the NHS England Board Report as at 30 June 2016:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/item8-28-07-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/item8-28-07-16.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The CCGs reported a year-to-date deficit of £57.4 million at Q1 2016-17. Details of the individual CCG surplus/deficits can be found via the link below to the CCG Financial Performance Report as at 30 June 2016:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fin-info-1st-qrt-16-17-v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fin-info-1st-qrt-16-17-v2.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 16:13:25 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

600693

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pharmacies are now clustered.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	48436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>We know that 40% of pharmacies are in clusters of three or more meaning that two-fifths of pharmacies are within 10 minutes’ walk of two or more other pharmacies.</p><p>But we also know that in many places there are far more than this. For example, on Loughborough Road in Leicester there are 12 pharmacies, all within 10 minutes’ walk of each other. Similarly on Clodeshall Road in Birmingham, there are 11 pharmacies within 10 minutes’ walk. There are many more examples of clusters of pharmacies throughout England, with one cluster in London of 18 pharmacies within 10 minutes of each other. The median average pharmacy currently receives £220,000 per year in National Health Service funding. This includes a fixed payment of £25,000 per year for almost all pharmacies, regardless of their size or quality. This represents an inefficient allocation of NHS funds.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/10/2016 15:45:41 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies