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1610480

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Medical Records: Data Processing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Citizens Advice Bureau on the handling of NHS patient data and the new Palantir contract for that service.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	180613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>There have been no specific discussions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/05/2023 10:50:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1602792

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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: Huddersfield
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 his Department is taking to ensure the availability of NHS dentists in Huddersfield constituency.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	162133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population. Many of the dentistry commissioning functions undertaken by NHS England will transfer to integrated care boards from April 2023. NHS England has made available to commissioners an Assurance Framework to provide assurances on commissioning.</p><p>In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’ which sets out how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to National Health Service dental care, including in Huddersfield, whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices.</p><p>These changes have been implemented, including through regulations that came into effect on 25 November 2022. This includes enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted Units of Dental Activities to increase NHS care, fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment within current Band 2 treatments and removing barriers around use of staff skills mix in NHS dentistry. We have also worked with the General Dental Council on legislative proposals to allow the regulator greater flexibility to expand the registration options open to international dentists.</p><p>NHS England is holding further discussions with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders for additional reforms of the NHS Dental System planned to take place this year.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 162134 question first answered 14/03/2023 17:24:49 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1602794

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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: Huddersfield
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 has taken in the last 12 months to improve the capacity of NHS Dental provision in Huddersfield.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	162134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population. Many of the dentistry commissioning functions undertaken by NHS England will transfer to integrated care boards from April 2023. NHS England has made available to commissioners an Assurance Framework to provide assurances on commissioning.</p><p>In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’ which sets out how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to National Health Service dental care, including in Huddersfield, whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices.</p><p>These changes have been implemented, including through regulations that came into effect on 25 November 2022. This includes enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted Units of Dental Activities to increase NHS care, fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment within current Band 2 treatments and removing barriers around use of staff skills mix in NHS dentistry. We have also worked with the General Dental Council on legislative proposals to allow the regulator greater flexibility to expand the registration options open to international dentists.</p><p>NHS England is holding further discussions with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders for additional reforms of the NHS Dental System planned to take place this year.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 162133 question first answered 14/03/2023 17:24:49 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1602795

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of ringfencing NHS Dental funding provisions.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	162135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population. Many of these functions will transfer to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2023.</p><p>We have assessed the merits of ringfencing National Health Service dental funding provisions. NHS England has provided guidance for ICBs that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve NHS dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 14/03/2023 12:15:40 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1602797

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the levels of delivery of Units of Dental Activity by NHS Dentists in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) West Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	162136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) delivered over the past three financial years for Kirklees and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). Data for Kirklees includes data for Huddersfield which is not published separately.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Kirklees Local Authority</p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire ICB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>771,845</p></td><td><p>3,307,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>236,570</p></td><td><p>1,081,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>555,156</p></td><td><p>2,678,102</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The pandemic is likely to have had an impact on the UDAs delivered for 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p>In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’ which sets out how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to National Health Service dental care in England whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices to support the delivery of commissioned dental activity. These changes have been implemented, including through regulations that came into effect on 25 November 2022. This includes enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted UDAs to increase NHS care from December 2022. NHS England is holding further discussions with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders for further reform later this year.</p><p>On 29 March 2021, NHS England published a flexible commissioning toolkit for regional commissioners. Flexible commissioning is an element of existing NHS dental contracts that enables UDA to be better targeted towards priority and high needs groups of patients. NHS England is continuing to monitor the use of the arrangements to meet local needs.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 162137 question first answered 14/03/2023 17:29:24 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1602805

registered interest
date	09/03/2023
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: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase the units of dental activity delivered by NHS dentists in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) West Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	162137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) delivered over the past three financial years for Kirklees and West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). Data for Kirklees includes data for Huddersfield which is not published separately.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Kirklees Local Authority</p></td><td><p>West Yorkshire ICB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>771,845</p></td><td><p>3,307,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>236,570</p></td><td><p>1,081,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>555,156</p></td><td><p>2,678,102</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The pandemic is likely to have had an impact on the UDAs delivered for 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p>In September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’ which sets out how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to National Health Service dental care in England whilst making the NHS dental contract more attractive to dental practices to support the delivery of commissioned dental activity. These changes have been implemented, including through regulations that came into effect on 25 November 2022. This includes enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted UDAs to increase NHS care from December 2022. NHS England is holding further discussions with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders for further reform later this year.</p><p>On 29 March 2021, NHS England published a flexible commissioning toolkit for regional commissioners. Flexible commissioning is an element of existing NHS dental contracts that enables UDA to be better targeted towards priority and high needs groups of patients. NHS England is continuing to monitor the use of the arrangements to meet local needs.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 162136 question first answered 14/03/2023 17:29:24 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589113

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: Surgery
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 his Department is taking to help support people with arthritis who are waiting for elective surgery.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>To support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment, NHS England has worked with Versus Arthritis on their Joint Replacement Support Package, a six point package aimed at local health systems to provide to patients.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has taken steps to assist those waiting for elective treatment and surgery, for instance through patient choice and the My Planned Care platform.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced on 24 January 2023 a Major Conditions Strategy, for which an interim report will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 152192 153860 question first answered 06/03/2023 17:03:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589114

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: 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, what steps his Department is taking to support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>To support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment, NHS England has worked with Versus Arthritis on their Joint Replacement Support Package, a six point package aimed at local health systems to provide to patients.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has taken steps to assist those waiting for elective treatment and surgery, for instance through patient choice and the My Planned Care platform.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced on 24 January 2023 a Major Conditions Strategy, for which an interim report will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 152191 153860 question first answered 06/03/2023 17:03:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589115

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Arthritis: Surgery
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 with arthritis are currently waiting for elective surgery.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The data is not available in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 153862 question first answered 06/03/2023 15:40:35 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1589116

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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	Surgery: Waiting Lists
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 his Department has made of the potential impact of longer waiting times for elective surgery on health inequalities.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	152194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England in its ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’, published in February 2022, set out the principles to minimise the impact of waiting long periods of time for treatment on patients, public, National Health Service staff and health inequalities. This includes a focus on equity of access, experience and outcomes for the most deprived.</p><p>The plan also committed to developing a Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Dashboard, which measures, monitors, and informs actionable insight to make improvements to narrow health inequalities. The dashboard is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/data-and-insight/hi-improvement-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/data-and-insight/hi-improvement-dashboard/</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 153863 question first answered 01/03/2023 18:00:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman