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1716954

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	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	Infectious Diseases
	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 make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Mahon, M.B. et al. entitled A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease, published in Nature on 8 May 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	25520
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>In December 2023 the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) published the Health Effects of Climate Change report, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-health-effects-in-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/climate-change-health-effects-in-the-uk</a></p><p>This report details the potential risks and impacts of climate change on human health. The UKHSA will continue to work closely with other departments and agencies, to assess emerging evidence on drivers of infectious diseases, to inform future health policies.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 15/05/2024 10:04:41 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1715607

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2024
	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	Carbamazepine
	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 had recent discussions with Novartis on the adequacy of supply of the epilepsy medication Tegretol.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department has been working intensively to address issues with the supply of some epilepsy medications, and as a result we have helped to resolve issues with Tegretol 200 milligram and 400 milligram prolonged release tablets, and Tegretol 100 milligram immediate release tablets. We are aware of a shortage of Tegretol 100 milligram/5 millilitre liquid, but have been advised that resupplies are expected this month. We are continuing to work closely with manufacturers, including Novartis, to help ensure the continued supply of these medicines for patients in the United Kingdom, for example by asking suppliers to expedite deliveries.</p><p>Whilst we can’t always prevent supply issues, we have a range of well-established tools and processes to mitigate risks to patients. These include close and regular engagement with suppliers, use of alternative strengths or forms of a medicine to allow patients to remain on the same product, expediting regulatory procedures, sourcing unlicensed imports from abroad, adding products to the restricted exports and hoarding list, use of Serious Shortage Protocols, and issuing National Health Service communications to provide management advice and information on the issue to healthcare professionals, so they can advise and support their patients.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 09/05/2024 13:04:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1715632

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2024
	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	Phramacy: Drugs
	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 help tackle shortages of medicines in pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department has a responsibility to work with United Kingdom medicine license holders, to help ensure continuity of supply. We monitor and manage medicine supply at a national level, so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. There are approximately 14,000 medicines licensed for supply in the UK, and the overwhelming majority are in good supply. The medicine supply chain is complex, global, and highly regulated, and supply issues can be caused by a range of factors. For example, suppliers can encounter manufacturing problems, difficulty accessing raw materials, and surges in demand. These are commonly cited as the drivers of recent supply issues, which have affected many countries, not just the UK.</p><p>Whilst we can’t always prevent supply issues, we have a range of well-established tools and processes to mitigate risks to patients at a national level. These include close and regular engagement with suppliers, use of alternative strengths or forms of a medicine to allow patients to remain on the same product, expediting regulatory procedures, sourcing unlicensed imports from abroad, adding products to the restricted exports and hoarding list, use of Serious Shortage Protocols, and issuing National Health Service communications to provide management advice and information on the issue to healthcare professionals including pharmacists, so they can advise and support their patients.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 09/05/2024 12:56:25 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1715242

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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	Breastfeeding
	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 increase breastfeeding rates.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government’s vision, set out in The Best Start for Life: A Vision for the 1,001 Critical Days, is that every parent and carer has access to high quality infant feeding services in their local area.</p><p>Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme, we are investing £50 million into infant feeding services. This is enabling participating local authorities, including Haringey, to design and deliver a blended offer to ensure all mothers can meet their breastfeeding goals. The investment is being used to increase the range of advice and support available, including peer support. Local authorities are working with the voluntary sector to deliver services.</p><p>We are also using programme investment to increase the capacity of the National Breastfeeding Helpline, managed by the Breastfeeding Network. In March 2024, we launched a trial of extended helpline opening hours, so that support and advice is available at any time of the day or night, every day of the year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 24504 question first answered 08/05/2024 14:18:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1715243

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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	Breastfeeding
	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 had recent discussions with representatives of Unicef on (a) its Baby Friendly initiative and (b) trends in breastfeeding rates in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>I met with representatives from UNICEF in March 2024 to discuss the Start for Life agenda. Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme, we are investing £50 million into infant feeding services. This is enabling participating local authorities to design and deliver a blended offer to ensure all mothers can meet their breastfeeding goals. The investment is being used to increase the range of advice and support available, including peer support.</p><p>We are also investing to increase the capacity of the National Breastfeeding Helpline. In March 2024, we launched a trial of extended helpline opening hours, so that support and advice is available at any time of the day or night, every day of the year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/05/2024 10:05:49 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1715244

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2024
	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	Breastfeeding: Hornsey and Wood Green
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department takes steps to support breastfeeding (a) support groups and (b) charities in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government’s vision, set out in The Best Start for Life: A Vision for the 1,001 Critical Days, is that every parent and carer has access to high quality infant feeding services in their local area.</p><p>Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme, we are investing £50 million into infant feeding services. This is enabling participating local authorities, including Haringey, to design and deliver a blended offer to ensure all mothers can meet their breastfeeding goals. The investment is being used to increase the range of advice and support available, including peer support. Local authorities are working with the voluntary sector to deliver services.</p><p>We are also using programme investment to increase the capacity of the National Breastfeeding Helpline, managed by the Breastfeeding Network. In March 2024, we launched a trial of extended helpline opening hours, so that support and advice is available at any time of the day or night, every day of the year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 24502 question first answered 08/05/2024 14:18:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1714687

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Migrants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to NHS A&E departments to ensure staff are aware that A&E services are free of charge regardless of immigration status.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	24089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department issues guidance to the National Health Service on charging overseas visitors for some NHS services. This guidance is reviewed regularly and makes it clear that some services, including accident and emergency, are free at the point of delivery for everyone. NHS England works with Overseas Visitor Managers in NHS trusts to operationalise this guidance effectively.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 01/05/2024 15:23:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1701884

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	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	Dental Services: Hornsey and Wood Green
	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 help increase the availability of NHS dentistry in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	22349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>In 2022/23, 954 dentists in the North Central London Integrated Care Board performed some National Health Service work, the equivalent to 62.5 dentists per 100,000 people. This is higher than the figure in 2021/22, when 891 dentists performed some NHS work, the equivalent to 58.4 dentists per 100,000 people.</p><p> </p><p>Our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry will make dental services faster, simpler, and fairer for patients, and will fund approximately 2.5 million additional appointments. The plan sets out a number of actions which will improve access for patients, by helping the sector to recover activity more quickly, addressing underlying issues, and setting out the action needed for longer term reform of the system.</p><p> </p><p>A new patient premium will support dentists in taking on new patients, and a new marketing campaign will help people locate an NHS dentist as needed. New dental vans will bring dental care to our most isolated communities, and Golden Hello incentives will encourage dentists into under-served areas. We will further support dentists by raising the minimum Units of Dental Activity rate to £28 this year, making NHS work more attractive and sustainable.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/04/2024 10:36:33 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1701512

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	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	Bereavement Counselling: Perinatal Mortality
	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 26 March 2024 to Question 19417 on Mental Health Services: Parents, what steps her Department is taking to provide community mental health services to bereaved (a) fathers and (b) partners following pregnancy or baby loss.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	22093
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are committed to expanding and transforming mental health services in England so that more people, including bereaved fathers and partners following pregnancy or baby loss, can get the help and support that they need.</p><p>As part of this, we are expanding access to psychological and talking therapies within specialist perinatal mental health services. Specialist community perinatal mental health services have now been rolled out in every part of England, and should work closely with maternal mental health services, which are also being rolled out, with 39 maternal mental health services currently available across England. Fathers and other partners of women accessing specialist community care should be able to access an evidence-based assessment for their mental health and signposting to support as required. Individuals can also access psychological support by referring themselves to NHS Talking Therapies. Details of local services are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhs.uk%2Fmental-health%2Ftalking-therapies-medicine-treatments%2Ftalking-therapies-and-counselling%2Fnhs-talking-therapies%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CShirley.Tobin%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Ce6500e59a66841a1ebcd08dc62a66b56%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638493714110311963%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=lddD4%2FLKGyf8BVY6qu7kVeKGM8dk7bLKhU7wODPYDKo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/talking-therapies-medicine-treatments/talking-therapies-and-counselling/nhs-talking-therapies/</a></p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/04/2024 12:24:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1697523

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	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	Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
	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 support people with postural tachycardia syndrome.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	19656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>Services for postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) are locally commissioned and, as such, it is the responsibility of the local commissioning teams within integrated care boards to ensure that their locally commissioned services meet the needs of their local population.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has produced a clinical knowledge summary, last revised in November 2023, which outlines the method healthcare professionals should follow for diagnosing PoTS. This summary is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/blackouts-syncope/diagnosis/assessment/" target="_blank">https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/blackouts-syncope/diagnosis/assessment/</a></p><p>Clinical knowledge summaries are evidence-based summaries designed to support healthcare professionals in primary care, by providing them with a readily accessible summary of the current evidence base and practical advice on best practice.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/03/2024 10:11:12 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West