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date	17/05/2022
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	Pregnancy: Alcoholic Drinks
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 inform women about the dangers of drinking alcohol whilst pregnant.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	3732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department is considering future research in this area and how improvements to the data collected can be made. The Department funds and commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including the effect of alcohol on pregnant women and unborn babies. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. The NIHR is currently funding research to improve support for midwifes to discuss harms of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.</p><p>The United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ (CMOs) low risk drinking guidelines provide advice to women not to drink alcohol if they are planning for a pregnancy or are pregnant. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, NHS England and local commissioners continue to raise awareness and education on the dangers of drinking alcohol while pregnant and through midwives and health visitors. The Maternity Transformation Programme works with the Royal Colleges and regulatory bodies to raise the profile of the CMOs’ guidelines and recommend it is included in training. The alcohol calorie consultation will seek views on whether the provision of the UK CMOs’ low risk drinking guidelines, including a pregnancy warning, should be mandatory or continue on a voluntary basis.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 3731 question first answered 24/05/2022 15:58:47 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1151540

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date	22/10/2019
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	Social Prescribing: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 27 of the Government's Loneliness strategy, what progress his Department has made on piloting a new accredited learning programme for social prescribing link workers.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	3732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has supported the development of a Level 3 Certificate in Social Prescribing, which is currently being piloted with a group of link workers across the North of England. An online learning programme has also been created working with Health Education England and partners. The first module is now live and can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/social-prescribing/" target="_blank">www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/social-prescribing/</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/10/2019 17:47:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

384991

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that clinical commissioning groups adhere to the Armed Forces Covenant when responding to Individual Funding Requests for the treatment of ex-servicemen.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	3732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government Mandate to NHS England requires clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to ensure that the health commitments of the Armed Forces Covenant are met. Members of the Armed Forces community (including veterans) should enjoy the same standard of, and access to, healthcare as that received by any other citizen in the area they live.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Covenant guidance provided by NHS England states that Armed Forces veterans should receive priority access to NHS secondary care for any conditions which are related to their service, subject to the clinical needs of all patients.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For veterans as with the general public local CCG Independent Funding Request (IFR) policies and processes will apply. In England local CCGs each have their own commissioning policies that are compliant with both the NHS Mandate and Armed Forces Covenant. When an individual is considered clinically exceptional in the treatment they are seeking, the treating clinician can seek to take the request through the CCGs IFR panel for an exception to their local policy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 29/06/2015 15:52:07 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis