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1736478

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date	23/10/2024
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	Dementia: Health Education
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 (a) promote brain health and (b) implement targeted interventions among those most at risk of dementia from South Asian communities.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	10807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>NHS England’s Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme led the development of resources to raise awareness of the specific dementia care requirements for people from ethnic minority communities to improve access, experience, and outcomes for people living with dementia from these groups.</p><p>These were released in May 2023 and include an e-learning module to support clinicians and a refresh of the intercultural dementia care guide, which incorporates considerations around language and communication in the provision of culturally appropriate care. Work to update the guide specifically included focus groups with black African, black Caribbean, and South Asian communities as the largest ethnic minority groups in England.</p><p>NHS England’s resource Dementia wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic accompanies the Dementia Well Pathway. Key priorities and actions for dementia diagnosis and post diagnostic support are included for each step. The resource highlights the Advancing Mental Health Equalities Toolkit to help provide support in identifying and addressing mental health inequalities.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 28/10/2024 15:31:53 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1736591

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer Question 6369 tabled by the hon. Member for Richmond Park on 4 October 2024.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	10752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 October 2024 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-10-04/6369" target="_blank">6369</a>.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 28/10/2024 15:25:14 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1736639

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
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	Pancreatic Cancer: Health Services
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 plans to take to improve outcomes for people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	10757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>We will get the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster so more patients survive this horrible set of diseases, and we will improve patients’ experience across the system, including for pancreatic cancer.</p><p>For pancreatic cancer specifically, NHS England is providing a route into pancreatic cancer surveillance for those at inherited high-risk, to identify lesions before they develop into cancer. NHS England is additionally creating pathways to support faster referral routes for people with non-specific symptoms, and is increasing direct access for general practitioners to diagnostic tests.</p><p>NHS England is also funding a new audit into pancreatic cancer, aiming to provide regular and timely evidence to cancer service providers of where patterns of care in England may vary, to increase the consistency of access to treatments and to stimulate improvements in cancer treatment and outcomes for patients.</p><p>On 12 September 2024 the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre published their State of the Nation Report on Pancreatic Cancer, and the NHS cancer programme is currently considering how to take forward the initial recommendations of that audit.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 13:17:39 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1736713

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
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	Sipavibart: Immunosuppression
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Sipavibart can be provided through the NHS to immunosuppressed people.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Jonathan Davies
uin	10928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>Decisions on the routine availability of licensed medicines for National Health Service patients in England are made on the basis of recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE plays an important role in ensuring that medicines represent a clinically and cost-effective use of NHS resources before they are routinely funded. The NHS is legally required to fund medicines recommended by NICE, normally within three months of final guidance.</p><p>NICE aims wherever possible to issue recommendations on new medicines close to the point of licensing and started its appraisal of the medicine sipavibart for preventing COVID-19 ahead of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s decision. NICE’s appraisal process is however currently suspended as the manufacturer, AstraZeneca, has been unable to provide an evidence submission as planned. NICE is currently awaiting notification from AstraZeneca on when it can make a submission and will update stakeholders in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 13:20:35 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5256

1736066

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	Health Services: Shropshire
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 ensure that NHS services can meet additional demand in (a) the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin integrated care board and (b) England in winter 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	10529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has written to integrated care boards (ICBs), trusts, and primary care networks to set out a national approach to 2024/25 winter planning. This builds on the priorities in the National Health Service’s planning guidance, and sets out the key steps to be taken to support the delivery of high-quality care for patients this winter.</p><p>The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB is undertaking an improvement programme that aims to better respond to the pressures of the demand upon the urgent and emergency care services. This is delivering changes to meet needs now, throughout winter, and sustainably for the future. There is a focus on the following areas:</p><ul><li>providing alternatives for patients rather than attending emergency departments;</li><li>faster progress through emergency departments, improving performance against national waiting time standards;</li><li>improving processes in inpatient wards to reduce delays for patients;</li><li>coordinating and enabling more timely discharge, with more patients able to go home, in conjunction with the area’s local authorities; and</li><li>a specific focus upon supporting frail older adults, to keep them well in their place of residence and minimise the time spent in hospital when an admission to hospital is required.</li></ul> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 15:38:52 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1736067

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	Social Services
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 with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that upper tier local authorities can meet additional demand for social care services in (a) Shropshire and (b) England in winter 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	10530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>On 17 September, I wrote to all local authorities, setting out priorities for improving service resilience across social care this winter. The letter emphasises the importance of close partnership working and joint planning between local authorities, the NHS and community partners. Local authorities are expected to have business continuity plans in place for a range of risks, including for localised disruptions caused by adverse winter weather.</p><p>The Department funds Partners in Care and Health, delivered by the Local Government Association, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, and the Social Care Institute for Excellence, to provide a support offer that helps local authorities tackle operational challenges, including during winter.</p><p>Under the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund (MSIF), local authorities must submit an adult social care capacity plan that provides assurance that plans are in place to meet estimated local demand for different types of long-term care services, with a focus on winter. These were submitted to the department in June 2024. The member’s local authority, Shropshire, submitted their 2024/25 capacity plan which is currently undergoing processing and quality assurance.</p><p>MSIF is designed to support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability, and enable local authorities to make improvements to adult social care services. Shropshire has been allocated just over £6 million of MSIF funding in 2024/25 to support these aims.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 28/10/2024 15:21:40 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1736104

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	Darent Valley Hospital: Attendance
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 appointments were (a) cancelled and (b) missed at Darent Valley Hospital on 21 October 2024.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Jim Dickson
uin	10573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2024 answer text <p>The data regarding cancelled and missed appointments at Darent Valley Hospital on 21 October 2024 is not currently available to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 24/10/2024 11:01:59 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	5223

1736108

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	NHS: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the procurement process was to award contracts for the Change NHS online portal.
tabling member constituency	Meriden and Solihull East
tabling member printed	Saqib Bhatti
uin	10502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>A procurement mini competition was launched via the RM6126 CCS Research and Insights framework on 2 August 2024, with bids returned by 19 August 2024.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 13:33:04 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti

1736109

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	NHS: Public Consultation
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 the Change NHS online portal, what the total cost to the public purse is of contracts issued to (a) Thinks Insight & Strategy, (b) Kaleidoscope Health and Care and (c) The Institute for Public Policy Research to run the public engagement programme; and if he will publish all (i) contracts, (ii) work programmes and (iii) terms of reference connected to the procurement process.
tabling member constituency	Meriden and Solihull East
tabling member printed	Saqib Bhatti
uin	10503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with the contract number C306779.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 16:59:11 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti

1736111

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	NHS: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total budget is for the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public engagement campaign; and what time period this funding will cover.
tabling member constituency	Meriden and Solihull East
tabling member printed	Saqib Bhatti
uin	10505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with contract number C306779. The current contract start date is 13 September 2024, with an end date of 31 March 2025, and an option to extend by three months.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 28/10/2024 13:24:36 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti