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1694458

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress she has made on delivering the UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	17610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>A cross-Government, United Kingdom-wide delivery board monitors and oversees progress in delivering the National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (NAP AMR) for 2019 to 2024. The majority of the commitments in the NAP AMR have been assessed as either completed, or as on track for delivery.</p><p>Progress against the measurable ambitions in the NAP AMR is collated by the UK Health Security Agency, and reported to the delivery board. Significant progress has been made in further reducing antibiotic use in food producing animals, by 59% since 2014, and in humans, with an 8.8% reduction in overall antibiotic usage from 2014 to 2022. Progress has been slower in other areas, such as reducing the incidence of specific drug-resistant infections, due to the diverse nature of the underlying causes of these infections. Other key achievements from the NAP AMR programme over the past five years include:</p><p>- Piloting innovative ways of evaluating and paying for antibiotics on the National Health Service;</p><p>- Securing antimicrobial resistance commitments on several ministerial tracks during the UK G7 presidency in 2021; and</p><p>- £19.2 million investment into One Health Surveillance through the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and Environment Programme.</p><p>The Department has commissioned the Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to conduct an evaluation of the 2019 to 2024 NAP AMR, to inform future policy development and implementation. Findings from the PIRU evaluation will be published following the peer-review process.</p><p>The forthcoming NAP AMR for 2024 to 2029 is under development, in consultation with a broad range of stakeholders across different sectors, and informed by the findings from the antimicrobial resistance Call for Evidence. This will set us on course for achieving our long-term ambitions, set out in the Government’s 20-year vision to contain, control, and mitigate antimicrobial resistance by 2040.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/03/2024 12:46:45 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1694464

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Dentistry: Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the overseas registration exam for dentists.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government has already made legislative changes that give the General Dental Council (GDC) greater flexibility in expanding the registration routes for international applicants, and improving its international registration processes, including how it operates the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE). This legislation came into force in March 2023, and new rules for the ORE made by the GDC under these reforms come into effect this month.</p><p>We welcomed the GDC’s announcements that sittings of the ORE part one from August 2023 to the end of 2024, will have triple the previous capacity, and that an additional sitting of the ORE part two will be provided in 2024. Together, these steps have created more than 1300 additional places across the two ORE parts.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/03/2024 18:46:11 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 23168 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694465

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Dentistry: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps with the General Dental Council to improve the registration process for dentists who qualified outside the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>To join the General Dental Council’s (GDC) dentists register, a person must hold: a dentistry degree from a recognised United Kingdom dental school; a qualification in dentistry from a European Economic Area country or Switzerland, recognised under the European Union exit standstill arrangements; or a qualification in dentistry obtained before 2001 from one of a limited number of overseas dental schools.</p><p>For dentists with qualifications gained from anywhere else, they must demonstrate to the GDC that they have the required skills and knowledge for full registration. Currently, this means they are required to pass one of the following examinations before they can apply for registration: the Overseas Registration Exam; or the Licence in Dental Surgery exam, offered by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.</p><p>Legislative changes which came into force in March 2023 gave the GDC greater flexibility in expanding the registration routes for international applicants, and improving its international registration processes. On 16 February 2024, the Government launched a consultation on further draft legislation that would give the GDC powers to provisionally register overseas-qualified dentists who have not yet met the GDC’s requirements for full registration.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/03/2024 18:47:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 23169 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694468

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Dental 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 attended an A&E department with a dental issue in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Dentistry Recovery Plan will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients, and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment.</p><p>Our Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in emergency waiting times. This includes bringing down accident and emergency wait times for 76% of patients being admitted, transferred, or discharged, within four hours by March 2024. Data on how many people attended an accident and emergency department with a dental issue is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-accident--emergency-activity" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/hospital-accident--emergency-activity</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/03/2024 18:49:40 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 23170 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694469

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Dental 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 NHS appointments were carried out by dentists in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>National Health Service dentistry activity is measured by the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) commissioned and delivered, and by the number of courses of treatment delivered. Data on the number of UDAs commissioned and delivered is published each month on the NHS Business Services Authority Open Data Portal, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity" target="_blank">https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/english-contractor-monthly-general-dental-activity</a>.</p><p>The portal currently holds data from April to November 2023, and data for previous years will be published shortly. Data on the number of courses of treatment delivered in 2022/23 and in previous years is published by NHS Digital, and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/03/2024 18:51:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 23171 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694470

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	General Practitioners: Dental 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 attended their GP with a dental issue in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	17618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Our plan to recover and reform National Health Service dentistry will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients, and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments, or more than 1.5 million additional courses of dental treatment. The plan sets out a number of actions which will improve access for patients, by helping the sector to recover activity more quickly, addressing underlying issues and setting out the action needed for longer term reform of the system. We do not hold data on how many people attended their general practice with a dental issue.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/03/2024 18:52:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 23172 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1694476

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Domestic Visits
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 domestic overnight visits Ministers within their Department have taken in each of the last three financial years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those visits.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	17619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes the cost of overseas ministerial travel, including the travel ticket costs and other costs like accommodation and meals, on the GOV.UK website. However, as has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 12/03/2024 10:25:09 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1694481

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Maternity Disparities Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the maternity disparities taskforce (a) last met and (b) is next scheduled to meet.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	17624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Maternity Disparities Taskforce brings experts from across the health system, governmental departments, and the voluntary sector to explore and consider evidence-based interventions to tackle maternal disparities. The taskforce last met on 31 January 2024, and is due to meet again in the coming months in spring.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/03/2024 12:44:29 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1694502

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Triamcinolone Hexacetonide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to review the impact categorisation of the supply shortage of triamcinolone hexacetonide injections (intra-articular steroid).
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	17628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>We are aware of a shortage of triamcinolone hexacetonide 20 milligram/1 millilitre suspension for injection ampoules. Details of this shortage were shared with the National Health Service in June 2022. We are working closely with the sole supplier of this product to expedite resupplies, to make this important product is available again as soon as possible. We regularly review the tier, or impact categorisation, assigned to supply issues, and the tier of a supply issue does not affect the options available for management.</p><p>We understand how frustrating and distressing medicine supply issues can be. While we cannot always prevent supply issues from occurring, the Department has a range of well-established processes and tools to manage them when they arise. We work with the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England, the devolved administrations, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and others operating in the supply chain to help prevent shortages, and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when supply issues arise. If any patient is concerned about their treatment, they should discuss this with their clinician at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 17629 question first answered 12/03/2024 15:48:20 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1694503

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Triamcinolone Hexacetonide
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 her Department has made of the adequacy of the supply of triamcinolone hexacetonide injections (intra-articular steroid) for children and young people with rheumatoid arthritis.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	17629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>We are aware of a shortage of triamcinolone hexacetonide 20 milligram/1 millilitre suspension for injection ampoules. Details of this shortage were shared with the National Health Service in June 2022. We are working closely with the sole supplier of this product to expedite resupplies, to make this important product is available again as soon as possible. We regularly review the tier, or impact categorisation, assigned to supply issues, and the tier of a supply issue does not affect the options available for management.</p><p>We understand how frustrating and distressing medicine supply issues can be. While we cannot always prevent supply issues from occurring, the Department has a range of well-established processes and tools to manage them when they arise. We work with the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England, the devolved administrations, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and others operating in the supply chain to help prevent shortages, and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when supply issues arise. If any patient is concerned about their treatment, they should discuss this with their clinician at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 17628 question first answered 12/03/2024 15:48:20 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden