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822859

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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: Parking
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 hospital trusts in England have considered installing a pay on exit or similar scheme since the publication of his Department's guidance on NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles, last updated on 29 October 2015; and how many hospital trusts (a) are planning to install such a scheme in 2018 and (b) have decided against installing such a scheme.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	122542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This data is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service organisations are responsible locally for their own policy on internal travel arrangements and car parking, taking into account operational circumstances and community interests.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles (first published in August 2014 and then updated in October 2015), set out a nationally consistent approach to determining car parking policies, making clear the rules which NHS trusts should follow when making decisions about car parking. However, the provision of parking spaces for patients, staff, contractors, and other visitors to the site and the level of any charges that are made to use them are matters for individual NHS trusts.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 122543 122544 122545 122546 question first answered 23/01/2018 14:45:09 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

822867

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Postnatal Depression
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 are taking to improve post-natal mental health care provision.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	122550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme to ensure that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This includes access to psychological therapies and specialist community or inpatient care.</p><p> </p><p>A key element of the programme is to increase awareness and skills across the workforce, supporting better identification of perinatal mental illness, early intervention and consequently improved recovery rates. In addition, there are over 570 perinatal mental health visitor champions. Their role is to support health visitors with the identification and management of anxiety, mild to moderate depression and other perinatal mental disorders, and know when to refer on.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/01/2018 11:54:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822999

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Veterinary Medicine: Migrant Workers
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 help ensure that slaughterhouse vets who are non-UK EU citizens can continue to work here after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	122682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Veterinarians play a vital role in safeguarding United Kingdom public health, maintaining animal health and welfare and enabling trade. We value their work, and we want to ensure that they can continue to make an important contribution. Ministers in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and officials at the Food Standards Agency have been talking to representatives of the profession to ensure that those who do such an essential job continue to feel valued and to play the important role they do in assuring the public of the very high standards of food hygiene.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency are working on a number of contingencies to ensure that we maintain the excellent standards of food safety that the UK currently enjoys, and maintain an effective workforce.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 14:07:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

823050

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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: Ancillary 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 recent estimate he has made of the number of non-clinical, non-patient facing staff who are employed in the NHS; and what proportion of those staff were employed in the NHS in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	122733
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and we have defined non-clinical, non-patient facing staff as those working in National Health Service Infrastructure support. As of September 2017 there are 164,584 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) infrastructure support staff working in the NHS in England. This is 2,848 more than in September 2016. As of September 2017 there are 1,285 FTE infrastructure support staff working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in Gloucestershire. This is 55 more than in September 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 17:31:43 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

823078

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
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 make an assessment of the implications for his policy of the Medical Technology Group’s 2017 report, Keeping Britain Working: how medical technology can help reduce the cost of ill health to the UK economy; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	122761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the argument in the Medical Technology Groups report that more can and should be done to accelerate access to patients those medical technologies that have been evidenced to save money.</p><p> </p><p>Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability, published in November 2017, demonstrates that the Government recognises that new advances in technology offer more opportunities than ever before to improve outcomes for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions and that it is for the Government to help set the direction and stimulate good ideas.</p><p> </p><p>Further, the response to the Accelerated Access Review set out how partners across the health system will work together to ensure innovative technologies, including devices and diagnostics, can reach patients quickly at a price that the National Health Service can afford.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, a new Accelerated Access Pathway will be introduced, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. A new Accelerated Access Collaborative chaired by Sir Andrew Witty, will develop and own the Accelerated Access Pathway which will be operational from April 2018. All products including medical technologies, devices and diagnostics will be eligible for selection.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the new Pathway, we are providing funding of up to £86 million for United Kingdom firms to develop and test new technologies in the NHS. This could include innovations such as digital technologies to help patients manage their conditions from home instead of a hospital, or to develop new medicines.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 17:25:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

823104

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Medical Records: Databases
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 make an assessment of the effect of the use of blockchain technology on strengthening security for patient information and medical files.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	122787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department is currently assessing the potential benefits of Blockchain, which include offering patients more direct control over access to their medical records.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2018 15:52:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

820898

registered interest
date	11/01/2018
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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
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 number of people with cystic fibrosis who would be eligible for treatment with the drug Orkambi if it were available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	122316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The number of patients aged 12 and over with cystic fibrosis homozygous for the F508del mutation, in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidance, that might be eligible for treatment with Orkambi (lumacaftor-ivacaftor) under its marketing authorisation was estimated to be approximately 4,000 during the topic selection considerations that led to the referral of Orkambi to NICE.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 11:37:15 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

819799

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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department uses artificial intelligence to spot breast Cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	121871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>We are aware of a study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in diagnosing breast cancer in women. Modern digital pathology techniques have created the opportunity to produce AI-based algorithms that could provide grading of tumours and prognostic insights that are not currently available through conventional methodology. However, the future availability of any new or novel tests on the National Health Service would be subject to large scale clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the diagnostic approach and subsequent assessments of its cost effectiveness for routine use. Through its technology appraisal programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the NHS on whether drugs and other treatments represent an effective use of NHS resources. NHS commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended by NICE within three months of final guidance.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/01/2018 14:04:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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

819984

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	NHS: Directors
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 his answer of 4 December 2017 to Question 115611 on NHS: Directors, when he plans to publish the information for 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	122056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>Information on above inflation salary increases or bonus schemes for National Health Service Directors in NHS ambulance trusts and NHS community trusts in 2016/17 will be published in the trusts’ annual accounts as part of information on board remuneration.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement collects information on salary increases or bonus schemes for NHS Directors in ambulance trusts and NHS community trusts and returns received to date for 2016/17 are set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS Body</p></td><td><p>Number of Bonuses</p></td><td><p>Total £</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Ambulance Trusts</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>£8,545</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Community Trusts</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>£7,698</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 16/01/2018 15:06:39 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders