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1717095

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ritlecitinib: Shropshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects Litfulo to be made available to NHS patients in (a) Shropshire, (b) Telford and (c) Wrekin.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	25645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether all new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service, based on an assessment of their costs and benefits.</p><p>On 27 March 2024, NICE published final technology appraisal guidance recommending ritlecitinib (Litfulo) for treating severe alopecia areata in people 12 years old and over. The NHS in England is legally required to fund medicines recommended by NICE within three months of the publication of its final guidance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 14/05/2024 16:53:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1717100

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
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 she has made of the potential impact of trends in the special schools eye care service budget on service delivery.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually for the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. This is a new additional budget for providing sight tests and vouchers in these settings, and so represents a recurrent increased investment in sight testing and the sight testing sector. Service delivery will continue within the proof-of-concept settings, to ensure continuity of service, whilst the required regulatory changes are laid in Parliament to underpin wider rollout during 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 25688 25689 25690 question first answered 17/05/2024 07:32:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1717101

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
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 she is taking to ensure that the Special Schools Eye Care service is fully funded.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually for the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. This is a new additional budget for providing sight tests and vouchers in these settings, and so represents a recurrent increased investment in sight testing and the sight testing sector. Service delivery will continue within the proof-of-concept settings, to ensure continuity of service, whilst the required regulatory changes are laid in Parliament to underpin wider rollout during 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 25687 25689 25690 question first answered 17/05/2024 07:32:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1717102

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
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 to ensure that the budget for the Special Schools Eye Care Service is not reduced so that (a) children with Special Educational Needs can receive free eye care in schools and (b) optometrists can afford to continue providing the service.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually for the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. This is a new additional budget for providing sight tests and vouchers in these settings, and so represents a recurrent increased investment in sight testing and the sight testing sector. Service delivery will continue within the proof-of-concept settings, to ensure continuity of service, whilst the required regulatory changes are laid in Parliament to underpin wider rollout during 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 25687 25688 25690 question first answered 17/05/2024 07:32:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1717103

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services: Special Educational Needs
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 make an assessment of the potential impact of cutting the special schools eye care budget on children with special educational needs.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	25690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has committed to invest up to £12.7 million annually for the provision of sight tests and associated optical vouchers in special educational settings. This represents an approximate 87% increase compared to the current budget. This additional investment has the potential to increase coverage from 4% of special educational settings to 100%. This is a new additional budget for providing sight tests and vouchers in these settings, and so represents a recurrent increased investment in sight testing and the sight testing sector. Service delivery will continue within the proof-of-concept settings, to ensure continuity of service, whilst the required regulatory changes are laid in Parliament to underpin wider rollout during 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 25687 25688 25689 question first answered 17/05/2024 07:32:45 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1717150

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	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 she is taking to ensure that integrated care boards take into account a) clinical, b) patient and c) provider experience when commissioning specialised services.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	25656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>NHS England's delegation agreement with the integrated care boards (ICBs) requires each ICB to establish effective, safe, efficient, and economic arrangements for the commissioning of delegated specialised services, with particular reference to statutory obligations relating to health and care bodies, such as the triple aim.</p><p>The delegation agreement supports these responsibilities, including following all relevant legislation, guidance, and good practice. In commissioning delegation specialised services, ICBs must: consider how they can meet their legal duties to involve patients and the public in shaping the provision of services; work with local communities, under-represented groups, and those with protected characteristics; consider how they can address health inequalities; assist in the development of national standards, including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies; support the development of local clinical leadership and expertise in respect of specialised services; support specialised clinical networks and clinical reference groups, including participating in development and agreement of the annual plan for relevant clinical networks; and work with providers as commissioners of specialised services, including management of contracts and the annual contracting round, financial management, and working with providers on identification and management of any issues relating to quality of services.</p><p>Appropriate oversight and assurance arrangements are in place to assure the commissioning capability and capacity of ICBs, and so that NHS England, as the accountable commissioner, has the right mechanisms where support or intervention is needed, regardless of whether a service is retained by NHS England or falls within scope of delegated commissioning arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/05/2024 16:31:37 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1717151

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	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, whether she has made an assessment of progress in the development of a clinical analytical service for specialised commissioning.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	25657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Commissioners of Specialised Services have access to the analysis of clinical data via their regional business intelligence teams, or the nationally commissioned Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) service provision.</p><p>Routine reporting can be accessed via the National Commissioning Data Repository, and more focused analytics can be performed across commissioning and clinical datasets collected by NHS England. NHS England has developed 181 Specialised Services Quality Dashboards alongside service specifications, which provide additional data to monitor the quality of services and maintain clinical registries ranging from bowel cancer to pulmonary hypertension. The full list is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/clinical-audits-and-registries" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/clinical-audits-and-registries</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/05/2024 16:35:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1717152

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Health Services: Operating Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual running costs were for NHS (a) Arden and GEM, (b) Midlands and Lancashire, (c) North of England and (d) South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	25658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested. Commissioning Support Units (CSUs) form part of one service provided to Clinical Commissioning Groups and integrated care boards by NHS England. CSUs are not separate legal entities, and spending forms part of NHS England’s parent accounts.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/05/2024 08:43:57 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 34275 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1717158

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care
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 has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of adopting the (a) Infection & Orthopaedic Management (INFORM), (b) British Orthopaedic Association and (c) other guidelines for the treatment and management of prosthetic joint infections.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency manages a national surveillance programme, the Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Service, which enhances the quality of patient care by providing hospitals with a framework for collection and comparison of their rates of SSI against national benchmarks. This information is used to review and guide clinical practice, to reduce the risk of infection following surgery. Hip and knee replacements are two of the 17 categories of surgery under surveillance by hospitals. Surveillance in at least one orthopaedic surgical category per quarter, per financial year is mandatory for all National Health Service hospitals undertaking orthopaedic surgery, with hip and knee replacements being the most numerous.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/05/2024 11:48:26 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1717159

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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	Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care
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 her Department is taking to help tackle post-operative infections in the context of (a) an ageing population and (b) trends in the number of joint replacement operations.
tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
tabling member printed	John McDonnell
uin	25604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency manages a national surveillance programme, the Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Service, which enhances the quality of patient care by providing hospitals with a framework for collection and comparison of their rates of SSI against national benchmarks. This information is used to review and guide clinical practice to reduce the risk of infection following surgery. Hip and knee replacements are two of the 17 categories of surgery under surveillance by hospitals. Surveillance in at least one orthopaedic surgical category per quarter, per financial year is mandatory for all National Health Service hospitals undertaking orthopaedic surgery, with hip and knee replacements being the most numerous.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/05/2024 13:55:11 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell