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1667581

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Greater London
	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 estimate he has made of the number of people on waiting lists for GP appointments in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
	uin	571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>General practice does not operate with waiting lists. NHS England publishes monthly data on General Practice Appointments, including the approximate length of time between appointments being booked and taking place, but this is not a proxy for a “waiting list”.</p><p>There are several factors which can influence the timing of appointments, and it is not possible to estimate the time between the patient’s first attempt to contact their surgery and an appointment. For example, routine appointments such as screening tests or regular injections may be booked further in advance.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 649 question first answered 19/12/2023 16:48:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1667739

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	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	General Practitioners: Mid Bedfordshire
	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 estimate he has made of the number of people on waiting lists for GP appointments as of November 2023 in Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Alistair Strathern
	uin	649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>General practice does not operate with waiting lists. NHS England publishes monthly data on General Practice Appointments, including the approximate length of time between appointments being booked and taking place, but this is not a proxy for a “waiting list”.</p><p>There are several factors which can influence the timing of appointments, and it is not possible to estimate the time between the patient’s first attempt to contact their surgery and an appointment. For example, routine appointments such as screening tests or regular injections may be booked further in advance.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 571 question first answered 19/12/2023 16:48:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 1050 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	5000 label Biography information for Alistair Strathern

1671943

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	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	Pharmacy
	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 effectiveness of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 5-year deal at ensuring that community pharmacies are viable; and whether she plans to renew that Framework.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	2915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Community Pharmacy contractors are private businesses offering National Health Service and private services and products, and many factors will affect their viability.</p><p>The five-year deal commits £2.592 billion per year to community pharmacy for providing NHS services and this was topped up by an additional £100 million across this and last financial year. Additional funding will be available for the Pharmacy First service and the expansion of the existing blood pressure check and contraception services.</p><p>To support future discussions on funding, NHS England is commissioning an economic study of the costs of providing pharmaceutical services.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 20/12/2023 09:44:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 3595 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1674121

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	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	Social Prescribing
	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 the economic impact of social prescribing.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	4467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>Social prescribing is a whole population and universal approach that can work particularly well for those managing conditions, which a non-clinical intervention can support.</p><p>Whilst no quantitative evaluation has yet been carried out, the National Academy of Social Prescribing has recently released an evidence summary, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/the-economic-impact-of-social-prescribing/" target="_blank">https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/the-economic-impact-of-social-prescribing/</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department as part of its commitment with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs led Green Social Prescribing Programme commissioned and funded four research studies through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, which has initially shown positive impact on mental health outcomes.</p><p>We do not hold data on social prescribing for patients on clinical waiting lists.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 4468 question first answered 19/12/2023 16:55:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1674123

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	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	Social Prescribing
	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 access whether social prescribing can assist people with (a) physical and (b) mental health optimisation for patients on clinical waiting lists.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	4468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>Social prescribing is a whole population and universal approach that can work particularly well for those managing conditions, which a non-clinical intervention can support.</p><p>Whilst no quantitative evaluation has yet been carried out, the National Academy of Social Prescribing has recently released an evidence summary, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/the-economic-impact-of-social-prescribing/" target="_blank">https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/the-economic-impact-of-social-prescribing/</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department as part of its commitment with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs led Green Social Prescribing Programme commissioned and funded four research studies through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, which has initially shown positive impact on mental health outcomes.</p><p>We do not hold data on social prescribing for patients on clinical waiting lists.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 4467 question first answered 19/12/2023 16:55:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1674472

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2023
	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	Health Services: Staff
	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 her Department's publication entitled Major conditions strategy: case for change and our strategic framework published on 21 August 2023, what steps she is taking to ensure NHS non-clinical staff employed through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme have awareness of the six major health conditions in the strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	4721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The Major Conditions Strategy will focus on tackling the six major conditions groups – cancers, mental ill-health, cardiovascular disease (including stroke and diabetes), dementia, chronic respiratory diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders – that account for around 60% of ill-health and early death in England.</p><p>General practices are self-employed contractors to the National Health Service and it is largely up to employers to determine how best to staff their Primary Care Networks or GPs to best meet the needs of their population. The demands each patient places on their GPs are different and can be affected by many different factors, including rurality and patient demographics.</p><p>Individual employers are responsible for ensuring their staff are trained and competent to carry out their role, and for investing in the future of their staff through providing continuing professional development funding.</p><p>As part of the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, published in May 2023, we will invest in care navigation training to help teams direct patients to the right person.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 19/12/2023 16:52:11 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1675245

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	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	Earwax: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the (a) maximum and (b) minimum cost of an ear wax removal treatment by a private sector provider.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
	uin	5107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>Details of the National Health Service provider costs are included in the National Cost Collection which can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection/</a></p><p>There are also unit prices for the “Clearance of External Auditory Canal (19 years and over)” and the “Clearance of External Auditory Canal (18 years and under)” published in Annex A of the NHS Payment Scheme which can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-25-nhs-payment-scheme/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-25-nhs-payment-scheme/</a></p><p>Where NHS England or Integrated Care Boards commission these services from private sector providers, the unit prices must be used.</p><p>However, the Department does not hold any information on the cost of these services delivered by private providers outside of the NHS, or what they may charge individuals for the service.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 20/12/2023 09:52:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 6706 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

1675615

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	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	Pharmacy: Prescriptions
	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 and what proportion of prescriptions were written by pharmacists in the financial year 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol South
	tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
	uin	5349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The National Health Service does not currently commission prescribing services from community pharmacists but pharmacists working in other NHS settings, including general practices, can prescribe on the NHS.</p><p>The following table shows the total number of items prescribed in England and the number of items prescribed by pharmacists in 2022:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total items prescribed in England</p></td><td><p>Items prescribed by pharmacists</p></td><td><p>Percentage of total items prescribed by pharmacists</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1,162,723,444</p></td><td><p>40,701,768</p></td><td><p>3.50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Business Services Authority</p><p>We are working on increasing the number of pharmacist prescribers and from 2026 all newly graduated pharmacists will have a prescribing qualification. This year NHS England will pilot how NHS prescribing could work in community pharmacy. Pharmacists in other setting including general practice and hospital already prescribe.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/01/2024 15:31:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 6693 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1676037

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2023
	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	Loneliness and Social Prescribing
	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 require healthcare professionals to (a) assess the potential (i) loneliness and (ii) social isolation when interacting with patients who may be vulnerable to those challenges and (b) signpost those patients to (A) social prescribing services and (B) other civil society engagement opportunities.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	5677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>Healthcare professionals have welcomed the support from social prescribers. Social prescribing is a key component of the NHS’s Universal Personalised Care and can work well for those who are lonely or socially isolated. Social prescribing link workers take a holistic approach to health and wellbeing. They connect people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support, such as sports and exercise projects, arts or nature-based activities. Social prescribing activities are commissioned locally, utilising community assets often in the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 19/12/2023 16:56:03 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1676334

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	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	Members: Correspondence
	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 plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for South Shields of 2 November 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	5805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>We replied to this correspondence on 21 December 2023. With apologies, this case was delayed as part of our continued backlog of cases following the pandemic and we are currently working through an urgent recovery plan to resolve this.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/01/2024 12:49:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 7323 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck