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511400

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many regulatory bodies there are in the health sector; and what the direct annual cost to his Department is of running each such body.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	33623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The regulatory bodies in the health sector are listed in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Arm’s Length Body (ALB) /Executive Agency (EA) Regulatory Bodies [1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Care Quality Commission</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Research Authority</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Fertilisation &amp; Embryology Authority</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Tissue Authority</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Improvement [2]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Bodies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Regulatory Bodies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Chiropractic Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Dental Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Medical Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Optical Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Osteopathic Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General Pharmaceutical Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health &amp; Care Professions Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursing &amp; Midwifery Councils</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The funding provided via Parliamentary funding or Grant in Aid for 2013/14 and 2014/15 for the ALB/EA regulatory bodies and the Professional Standards Authority is attached. Data for 2015/16 is not yet available.</p><p>The professional regulatory bodies are independent of government and there is no direct cost to the Government because they are funded through the registrants’ fees.</p><p> </p><p>[1] As defined in the Cabinet Office’s Categories of Public bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/80075/Categories_of_public_bodies_Dec12.pdf</p><p>[2] From 1 April 2016, NHS Improvement is the operational name for an organisation that brings together Monitor and NHS Trust Development Authority.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/04/2016 16:21:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer attachment 1 file name PQ33623 - Government funding table.xlsx title Regulatory bodies in the health sector
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

479187

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to implement an adult hearing screening programme; and if he will recommend to the National Screening Committee that it undertakes a public health campaign on deafness and hearing loss.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee recommended in 2015 that screening for hearing loss in adults should not be offered because:</p><p> </p><p>- although hearing loss in older adults is a serious public health problem the evidence is too limited to establish the type of screening test to be used, the severity of hearing loss to target, the age of the population to be screened and the frequency of screening;</p><p>- uncertainty on the effectiveness of the long term use of hearing aids and on the effectiveness of additional interventions aimed at improving the duration of hearing aid use; and</p><p>- the absence of randomised controlled trials of screening in the general population. Screening has not been shown to provide any hearing related improvement in quality of life in comparison to hearing loss identified in other ways.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans by Public Health England to run an awareness campaign on adult hearing loss.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/03/2016 17:40:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

479188

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department permits GP practices to require patients to have a telephone consultation prior to seeing a GP.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31179 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475744

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has issued guidance to GP practices on waiting times for patients seeking telephone consultation appointments.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31179 31342 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

475750

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on the length of time a patient should expect to wait between a telephone consultation taking place and being given an appointment to see their GP.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no central guidance to general practitioner (GP) practices on waiting times for telephone consultations.</p><p> </p><p>GPs can conduct telephone consultations with patients if they feel it is appropriate to do so. This could remove the need for the patient to go on to have a face to face consultation, however, it is for the GP to use his or her clinical judgement to decide if and when a face to face consultation should take place, and for the patient to decide if they wish to attend.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving access to GP consultations and the Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund encourages practices in the schemes to use innovative methods to provide appointments to patients.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 31166 31342 question first answered 21/03/2016 17:38:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

459416

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidelines are issued to providers of NHS services on marketing of NHS services alongside private services.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	30609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>A code of practice for the promotion of National Health Service-funded services was published in March 2008 and no further guidance has been produced since then. With regard to use of the NHS Trademark (logo) the NHS Identity guidelines:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk" target="_blank">www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>set out how the NHS Trademark can and cannot be used.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 15/03/2016 16:24:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

459417

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Lipreading: Education
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 adequacy of the number of lipreading and managing hearing loss classes available; and if he will ask Public Health England to investigate the availability of such classes.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	30610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills supports lipreading, British Sign Language (BSL) and managing hearing loss provision in England through the Adult Education Budget (AEB). Colleges and training providers have the freedom and flexibility to determine how they use their AEB, working with Local Enterprise Partnerships and local commissioners to determine the appropriate distribution of funding to best meet the needs of their local learners and businesses, this includes both lip reading and BSL qualifications where there is a local need for these.</p><p> </p><p>It is not Public Health England’s role to investigate the availability of lip reading and managing hearing loss classes. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a review of the market for BSL and communication support for people who are deaf, deafblind or have a hearing loss. DWP is currently analysing the feedback received from a consultation on <em>Communications for people who are deaf or have hearing loss: market review</em> which ran from 4 January to 4 March.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/03/2016 16:23:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

456566

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Wheelchairs: West Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage NHS England and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide a response to the letter of 24 September 2015 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on wheelchair provision in West Lancashire.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	29143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Letters to and from<del class="ministerial"> the National Health Service</del> <ins class="ministerial">NHS England </ins>to hon. Members are a matter for NHS England. The Department would expect NHS England<ins class="ministerial">, and indeed clinical commissioning groups,</ins> to respond promptly and courteously to all letters from hon. Members.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 11/03/2016 09:51:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 49268 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

454872

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS 111: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training staff in (a) Lancashire and (b) the North West who handle NHS 111 calls receive other that the mandatory training covered by the NHS 111 Commissioning Standards.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	28247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and is a matter for the local providers and commissioners.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS 111 commissioning standards issued in June 2014 state that all staff involved in handling NHS 111 calls must comply with the Licensing Requirements of the Clinical Decision Support Software used (NHS Pathways). Staff must also undertake training on: how to interact with urgent care services; the use of local Directories of Services; NHS Values; delivering excellent customer services; and safeguarding.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/03/2016 16:29:46 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

449399

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prostate Cancer
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 cost to the NHS of introducing a national prostate cancer screening programme.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	25062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recently examined and consulted upon the international peer reviewed evidence regarding prostate cancer screening. The UK NSC recommended against a systematic population screening programme for prostate cancer. This is because the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is not an accurate enough test for prostate cancer. Additionally, the UK NSC identified that there is still an incomplete understanding of which prostate cancers are aggressive and require treatment and which are safe to actively monitor. There is a significant amount of research activity underway, but currently the evidence suggests that a systematic screening programme would do more harm than good.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 25059 25076 question first answered 04/02/2016 16:47:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper