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	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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: Bullying and Harassment
	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 he is taking to tackle allegations of bullying and harassment of staff in the NHS and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	187299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting National Health Service organisations in their responsibility for tackling allegations of bullying and harassment of staff in the NHS, having committed to this in its manifesto.</p><p> </p><p>The national Social Partnership Forum (SPF) chaired by Departmental ministers, has been leading a ‘Collective Call to Action’ campaign aimed at achieving leadership and cultural change to tackle bullying; supporting staff to respectfully challenge problem behaviours; and encouraging organisations to publish their plans and progress so staff, patients and the public can hold them to account.</p><p> </p><p>This will build on the wide range of advice, guidance and good practice available to employers which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/tackling-bullying-in-the-nhs" target="_blank">https://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/tackling-bullying-in-the-nhs</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 12/11/2018 17:17:59 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

818999

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost of changing the name of his Department to the Department of Health and Social Care.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	121676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 121678 121742 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:12:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

819001

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of renaming his Department including signage, stationery, website, business cards and any other associated costs.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	121678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 121676 121742 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:12:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

819019

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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: Streptococcus
	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 take steps to ensure the provision of routine Strep B testing for all pregnant women in the UK; and if he will make representations to the National Screening Committee to assess the adequacy of its guidelines on screening.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	121696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>Following the United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC’s) meeting in February 2017, the Department accepted the UK NSC’s recommendation that a population-based screening programme for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) carriage should not be offered. This is because there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that the benefits to be gained from screening would outweigh the harms. Guidance on early onset neonatal GBS and other neonatal disease is provided by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/guidelines/gtg36/" target="_blank">https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/guidelines/gtg36/</a></p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg149/chapter/4-research-recommendations" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg149/chapter/4-research-recommendations</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 17/01/2018 14:48:03 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

819065

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the renaming of his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	121742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 121676 121678 question first answered 15/01/2018 17:12:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

819092

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Ambulance Services: Road Traffic Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 December 2017 to Question 120444, on Ambulance Services: Road Traffic Offences, if he will take steps to begin the centralised collection of data referred to in the question.
	tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
	tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
	uin	121769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that there are no plans to collect this information centrally. Such issues are operational matters for National Health Service ambulance trusts.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/01/2018 15:04:37 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti

819105

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Reorganisation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of changing his Department's name.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	121782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The costs of changing the name ‘Department of Health’ to ‘Department of Health and Social Care’ will be kept to an absolute minimum. The current estimate for costs associated to the name change will be no more than £1,000.</p><p> </p><p>Stationery, such as business cards and headed paper, will only be changed when stock is used up.</p><p> </p><p>Signage in the Department’s London headquarters is digital only. Physical signage in the Leeds headquarters will only be changed later in 2018, as part of a planned refurbishment of the building.</p><p> </p><p>Amends to the website and intranet have not incurred additional costs.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 17/01/2018 14:11:56 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

819178

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	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 Walk-in Centres: Closures
	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 walk-in centres have closed in England since 2010; and in which locations those centres closed.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	121855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/01/2018 15:54:42 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

819800

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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	Hospitals: Staff
	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 the Government is taking to ensure sufficient staff in hospitals during statutory holiday periods.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	121872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>In the autumn Budget the Government allocated £337 million available immediately, to allow trusts to improve resilience this winter. The package includes more hospital beds, community services, mental health services and urgent general practitioner appointments to manage the expected rise in demand.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects National Health Service trusts to ensure they have the right staff, with the right skills in place at the right time including during statutory holiday periods. The National Quality Board for England has issued guidance to support trusts as they discharge this responsibility through their own local processes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement issued rostering guidance in 2016, identifying best practice in this area. The document is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Rostering_Good_Practice_Guidance_Final_v2.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Rostering_Good_Practice_Guidance_Final_v2.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In many cases, the Christmas holidays are the most challenging and trusts often have additional policy to ensure that during this period additional leave is not agreed.</p><p> </p><p>Appropriate staffing levels are a core element of the Care Quality Commission’s registration regime and the Chief Inspector of Hospitals can also take action if hospitals are found to be compromising patient care by not having the right number or mix of staff on wards.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/01/2018 15:03:18 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

819898

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	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: Oxfordshire
	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 tackle the causes of absence of NHS staff in Oxfordshire due to (a) stress and (b) mental health-related illnesses.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	121970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>Employers across the National Health Service including those in Oxfordshire are responsible for tackling the causes of absence of their staff including stress and mental health related illnesses.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is supporting the NHS in tackling these causes of absence through its mandate with NHS England which has a Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) incentive programme<sup>1</sup> to improve staff health and wellbeing, and publishes the annual NHS Staff Survey.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s CQUIN programme should encourage trusts to, where appropriate, introduce new services for employees to give them the support they need including quicker access to mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Staff Survey<sup>2</sup> helps trusts benchmark the percentage of staff feeling unwell due to work related stress in the last 12 months against their peers which should inform local improvement plans.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also commissions NHS Employers3, which is working with NHS England, NHS Improvement and Public Health England to help the NHS tackle the causes of absence due to stress and mental health related illness through advice, guidance and good practice as well as tools and resources such as their emotional wellbeing toolkit “How are you feeling NHS”.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><sup>1</sup><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-staff-health-wellbeing-commissioning-for-quality-and-innovation-cquin-2017-19-indicator-1-implementation-support/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-staff-health-wellbeing-commissioning-for-quality-and-innovation-cquin-2017-19-indicator-1-implementation-support/</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>2</sup><a href="http://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/Page/1006/Latest-Results/2016-Results/" target="_blank">http://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/Page/1006/Latest-Results/2016-Results/</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>3</sup><a href="http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing" target="_blank">http://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/retain-and-improve/staff-experience/health-work-and-wellbeing</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/01/2018 15:53:08 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran