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date	15/01/2019
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	NHS: Members' Constituency Work
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 issue instruction to NHS England that signed authority from a patient is not required for the NHS to progress an inquiry from an hon. Member pursuing a case on behalf of a constituent; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	208761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>There has been no change in policy with regards to obtaining consent of a patient for the purposes of an inquiry or investigation and therefore Ministers have not been consulted.</p><p> </p><p>If a National Health Service body is to disclose patient information held by it in order to progress an inquiry from a hon. Member<ins class="ministerial"> on behalf of a constituent</ins>, <ins class="ministerial">there are circumstances in which the body may provide patient information to a Member of Parliament without the Member evidencing the explicit consent of the patient, so long as that information is provided in accordance with the requirements set out in paragraph 24 of Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 2018</ins><del class="ministerial">it must obtain the consent of the patient before doing so</del>. An inquiry or an investigation will almost certainly require the disclosure by the NHS body of information relating to the constituent as patient.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS body must be content that there is a legal basis under the General Data Protection Regulation/Data Protection Act for processing patient information (i.e. disclosing and sharing it for the purposes of the investigation). This is easier to satisfy if it is clear the patient has consented to the hon. Member making investigations on their behalf.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/01/2019 15:10:03 question first ministerially corrected 12/02/2019 12:32:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 96339 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

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date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	208761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>This information in not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the following table, we have provided information concerning the number of finished admission episodes (FAEs)<sup>1</sup> with a primary diagnosis<sup>2</sup> of carpal tunnel syndrome<sup>3</sup> for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13<sup>4</sup>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>FAEs with primary diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>58,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>54,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>51,619</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Activity in English NHS Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of inpatient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of inpatients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</li><li>The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 20 (14 from 2002-03 to 2006-07 and 7 prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was admitted to hospital.</li><li>The Code used to classify carpal tunnel syndrome is “Carpal tunnel syndrome”.</li><li>HES figures are available from 1989-90 onwards. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage (particularly in earlier years), improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice. For example, changes in activity may be due to changes in the provision of care.</li><li>The Health and Social Care Information Centre have advised that they are unable to identify new diagnosis of a disease and are only able to report on hospital treatment for a disease or condition.</li></ol><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 13/10/2014 15:04:40 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon