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710545

registered interest
date	13/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what cost-benefit assessment he has made of GPs in England providing regular asthma testing for patients.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Mrs Theresa Villiers
uin	67450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The information for this assessment is not held centrally. It is for local clinicians to decide what treatment is most appropriate for their patients.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 21/03/2017 10:26:27 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

652360

registered interest
date	05/12/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to make mepolizumab available on the NHS to treat asthma.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	56209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance on the use of mepolizumab (Nucala) for treating severe refractory eosinophilic asthma. This recommends that adults with severe asthma symptoms, including those who suffer many asthma attacks or those taking regular oral steroids, should have access to the drug. Final guidance is expected to be published in January 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In the absence of NICE guidance, funding decisions for individual treatments should be made by the relevant National Health Service commissioner, based on an assessment of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 08/12/2016 15:35:42 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

523509

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of patients with severe asthma being referred to a specialist by their GP over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	39578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/06/2016 13:33:47 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

519196

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the maximum distance recommended by NHS England is for people with severe asthma to travel to receive day-case treatment.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	37090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37091 37092 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

519197

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist centres for asthma are recognised by NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	37091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37090 37092 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

519198

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what treatments are commissioned by specialist centres for severe asthma.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	37092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>NHS England commissions severe asthma services in line with national specifications to ensure that patient numbers are sufficient to support safe, quality service provision. It is revising the severe asthma service specification which is expected to be published later in 2016.</p><p>Nationally there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services.</p><p>NHS England does not specify travel distances for patients attending treatment for severe asthma.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37090 37091 question first answered 24/05/2016 12:40:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

457758

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many specialist centres for severe asthma there are in England.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	29842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>Services for people with severe asthma are commissioned by NHS England in line with a national specification to ensure patient numbers are sufficient to support safe services. NHS England has no plans to change the way it commissions these services in south west England.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally, there are 27 trusts that have identified themselves as providing severe asthma services. NHS England is revising the national service specification to assist local teams in verifying and redefining the local service model to confirm the severe asthma services within each region.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 29814 question first answered 14/03/2016 11:16:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

456677

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what provisions for increased asthma care are being taken in the implementation of the Five Year Forward View.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
uin	29317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The Five Year Forward View makes clear that supporting people living with long term conditions, such as asthma, is core business for the National Health Service and that this requires a partnership with patients over the long term, rather than providing single, unconnected episodes of care.</p><p> </p><p>In order to achieve this, the NHS is focusing on empowering patients and communities. The 2016/17 NHS Shared Planning Guidance requires local areas to produce five year sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). In developing their STP, local areas are asked to consider how they will:</p><p> </p><p>― achieve a step-change in patient activation and self-care;</p><p>― embed the six principles of engagement and involvement of patients, carers, and communities developed to help deliver the Five Year Forward View; and</p><p>― make real the aspiration to design person-centred coordinated care, including plans to ensure patients have access to named, responsible consultants.</p><p> </p><p>Vanguard sites for the new care models programme, one of the first steps towards delivering the <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/" target="_blank">Five Year Forward View</a>, are focusing on developing new ways of working to improve the care provided to patients and local people. The vanguards will consider the provision of asthma care at a local level as they develop and implement their plans.</p><p><br> More generally, NHS England continues to work with Asthma UK and professional groups in both primary and secondary care to improve outcomes for all those with asthma by, for example, underlining the importance of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s asthma quality standard in commissioning and delivering good quality asthma care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/03/2016 14:54:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

227843

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with asthma have a written asthma action plan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	227756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>We are not able to provide a figure for how many people currently have a written asthma plan. However, the Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2015/16 says that everyone with a long term condition, including asthma, should be offered a personalised care plan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with stakeholders to help ensure that people with long term conditions have a personalised care and support plan, developed collaboratively with healthcare professionals. It has produced a set of handbooks for commissioners and care practitioners to help them in implementing personalised care and support planning, and further support and resources will be developed in conjunction with partners, including support for patients and carers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 16:40:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

227844

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of how healthcare data and digital information could be used to help reduce variations in asthma care across the UK.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	227757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The <em>NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for People with Respiratory Disease, </em>published in 2012 provides information on regional variations in a variety of areas related to asthma including prevalence and hospital admissions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Atlas has been put together by a wide range of organisation including the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care, the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK, and can be downloaded at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/index.php/atlas/respiratorydisease/" target="_blank">http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/index.php/atlas/respiratorydisease/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>This information will allow researchers as well as those planning and commissioning NHS services to understand the impact of unwarranted variation on outcomes and to use the data to drive change locally so that care can be improved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/03/2015 16:27:50 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald