Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

114792

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Heywood and Middleton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time to see a GP is in Heywood and Middleton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	213477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The requested data is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/11/2014 14:59:18 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

114826

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times he has exercised his powers under the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013 to refer an unlicensed indication of a drug for a NICE technology appraisal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	213574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>Since the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Constitution and Functions) and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Functions) Regulations 2013’ came into force on 1 April 2013, the Department has not asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to develop under Regulation 7 any technology appraisal guidance on the use of an unlicensed drug. The Department has, however, under Regulation 5, asked NICE to develop guidance and recommendations on the use of a combination therapy for use in the treatment of ovarian cancer outside the terms of its marketing authorisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/11/2014 12:01:27 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

114831

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Radiotherapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to NHS England's agreement to provide £6 million of funding for Cancer Research UK's Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) clinical trial programme, (a) over what time period that funding will be available, (b) how many patients in total will take part in that trial, (c) how many of those patients will receive SABR and (d) what the cost per patient will be.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
uin	213584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The majority of the trials in the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) clinical trial programme run over three years, although some extend to five.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>CRUK has approved five United Kingdom-wide trials to date, and a sixth is being considered in November 2014. The current assessment of the number of patients that will be recruited to the trials is a provisional estimate and it is important to note that this will vary dependent on a number of factors, including local recruitment and randomisation to different trial arms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The current trial protocols indicate that around two thirds of patients will be allocated to SABR trial arms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is providing a package of support of up to £6 million to trusts that are participating in the CRUK trials. The support package for SABR, for each participating trust will vary dependent on the fractionation used within the trial, but has been developed using the existing tariff structure for external beam radiotherapy as its basis.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/11/2014 16:05:22 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

114832

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women were admitted to mother and baby mental health units in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	213653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/11/2014 11:43:04 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

114834

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women who have been diagnosed with mental health problems have given birth in NHS maternity units in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	213654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>More than 10% of women experience perinatal mental health problems or mental illness (i.e. during pregnancy or in the first postnatal year) and that is why improving diagnosis and services for women with perinatal mental health problems is one of the Department’s key objectives for maternity care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health Education England is working to ensure that pre and post registration training in perinatal mental health is available to enable specialist perinatal mental health staff to be available to every birthing unit by 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table shows a count of delivery episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of mental health problems for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Finished delivery episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>6,723</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>8,304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>12,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>16,696</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>19,841</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The term ’perinatal mental illness’ is not classifiable within the ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) classification system used to identify diagnoses in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database, but codes do exist to classify mental and behavioural disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this is not a count of people as the same person may have had more than one admission episode within the same time period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/11/2014 16:37:18 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

114838

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Vitamin D
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the (a) interim and (b) final report from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition Vitamin D Working Group to be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	213660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition aims to publish its draft review of the dietary reference values for vitamin D for public consultation in spring 2015, and to publish the finalised report by the end of 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/11/2014 16:07:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

114842

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the second interim report on the 2013 data on progress that has been made towards the Public Health Responsibility Deal Alcohol Network pledge to remove one billion units of alcohol from the market by the end of 2015 will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	213662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The publication “Responsibility Deal: Monitoring the number of units of alcohol sold - second interim report, 2013 data” will be published by the Department in December 2014. The exact date will be announced four weeks prior to publication on GOV.UK</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/11/2014 16:06:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

114843

registered interest
date	05/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bladder Cancer: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to ensure that there are adequate supplies of BCG vaccine available for the treatment of bladder cancer.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	213658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The shortage of BCG for bladder instillation, which has arisen due to manufacturing problems, is affecting countries worldwide. The Department is working closely with the suppliers to help ensure that supplies are available for United Kingdom patients. We are also in close contact with the British Association of Urological Surgeons who have issued advice for clinicians.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/11/2014 16:02:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

106310

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Re-employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent and (b) fixed-term contract basis since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	213272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>The number of National Health Service staff estimated to have been made redundant since May 2010 and subsequently, up until July 2014, re-employed by an NHS organisation on a permanent basis is 2,502 and a fixed term contract basis is 1,870.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 07/11/2014 12:11:43 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

106314

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of lives saved and (b) cost savings that could be made through a reduction in prescribing errors.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	213307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>NHS England published a Patient Safety Alert on 20 March 2014 on improving medication error incident reporting and learning. This cited research on medication error rates in medicine, including prescribing error rates of:</p><p> </p><p>- 7% of prescription items in hospitals; and</p><p> </p><p>- 5% of prescriptions in general practice of which 0.18% were severe errors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There is limited research to quantify actual harm arising from prescribing errors, many of which are picked up by pharmacists at the dispensing stage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Significant investment has been made by the Department, Health Education England and NHS Education for Scotland over the last four years in the development of a National Prescribing Safety Assessment. This is a joint initiative by the Medical Schools Council and the British Pharmacological Society involving the United Kingdom’s leading experts in prescribing, clinical pharmacology and medical assessment. It is intended to enhance patient safety by ensuring that all new graduates entering the first year of Foundation training have achieved a basic standard of practice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) role to ensure that nurse and midwife prescribers provide an appropriate level of treatment and care for their patients. The NMC does this by setting standards to ensure that nurses and midwives are competent to prescribe drugs, and by making sure that their knowledge and skills in prescribing remain up-to-date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 213430 question first answered 07/11/2014 14:48:22 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin