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835963

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Childcare Vouchers
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 employees of his Department make use of the childcare voucher scheme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	126318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>140 employees use the Department’s childcare voucher scheme as of 31 January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2018 16:12:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

835973

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Chronic Illnesses: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the proposals in the Life Sciences Strategy on treatments for people with (a) cystic fibrosis and (b) other long-term conditions.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	126328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. However, the Government is working in collaboration with the sector to realise the vision of the strategy to ensure the United Kingdom remains a top-tier global hub for clinical research and medical innovation, and ensure that the benefits of these innovations will be felt by UK patients. For example, the Government is investing up to £210 million in an early diagnostics challenge that will help patients benefit from earlier, more accurate diagnosis and more effective treatments. We have also published the response to the Accelerated Access Review which includes the introduction of a new Accelerated Access Pathway and £86 million of funding to support medical innovations get to patients faster.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/02/2018 12:08:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

835989

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: Hospital Beds
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 bed capacity is at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust; what estimate he has made of the proportion of beds which were unused at that trust during winter 2017-18; and what the reasons were for those beds being unused.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	126344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS England publishes weekly winter situational reports showing the number of beds available as well as the number and proportion of those that are occupied. This is published at both a national and a trust level. The current reporting period for which data is available is 20 November 2017 to 28 January 2018. Over this period, at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust, there was an average of 397 general and acute beds open per day. Of these, 376 (94.7%) were occupied.</p><p> </p><p>Bed availability and occupancy is managed at a local level. Hospitals have a responsibility in ensuring that they are operating with the necessary beds available to support with patient flow and safety.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/02/2018 14:15:57 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

835990

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: Surgery
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 maximum operating theatre capacity is at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust; for how many hours per day theatres are used at that trust; and for what reasons operations are cancelled whilst theatre time remains unused at that trust.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	126345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust is actively working to minimise the number of operations cancelled on the day as part of a programme of work led by NHS Improvement to support trusts to improve their productivity by reducing late starts and early finishes of scheduled and staffed operating lists.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/02/2018 14:17:08 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

835997

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	GP at Hand
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 28 November 2017 to Question 114583, if he will provide an update on the number of patients who have registered with the GP at Hand service to date.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	126352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>According to NHS England, there have been approximately 14,000 additional patients signed up with the GP at Hand Service since July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:32:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

836007

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Nurses: Training
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 increase funding for continuous professional development funding for nurses in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	126362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Different organisations have a range of responsibilities for training and development. Individual employers have responsibility for supporting staff with courses which are required to fulfil duties to work in their organisation and core employment requirements.</p><p> </p><p>National funding through Health Education England (HEE) has historically been used to support development of the National Health Service workforce. HEE invests up to £300 million per year on supporting individuals in NHS employment achieve registered qualifications and a further £80 million on workforce transformation projects agreed locally, some of which has prioritised training courses for ongoing development.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is considering alternative models for traditional continual professional development funding; for example, exploring routes for apprenticeships for post graduate qualifications that previously may have been funded directly at a national level.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/02/2018 16:58:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

836016

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
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 emergency presentations there were of blood cancer; what proportion of those presentations were of all diagnoses of blood cancer; and what proportion those were of the total of all emergency presentations of cancer in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the latest year for which data are available, the percentage of patients diagnosed after an emergency presentation in England for all blood cancers was 28% (7,626 of 26,869).</p><p> </p><p>There has been a fall in the percentage diagnosed through this emergency presentation route over the last 10 years for some of these cancers: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (26% in 2006 down to 13% in 2015), multiple myeloma (37% down to 31%), and other haematological malignancies (37% down to 25%). The proportion over time in the other groups remained relatively stable.</p><p> </p><p>As a proportion of all emergency diagnoses, the proportion of blood cancers diagnosed as an emergency was 12% in 2011 and 13% in each of 2012-2015.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126372 question first answered 08/02/2018 14:30:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836017

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
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 has made an assessment of trends in the instances of blood cancer being diagnosed after an emergency admission; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the latest year for which data are available, the percentage of patients diagnosed after an emergency presentation in England for all blood cancers was 28% (7,626 of 26,869).</p><p> </p><p>There has been a fall in the percentage diagnosed through this emergency presentation route over the last 10 years for some of these cancers: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (26% in 2006 down to 13% in 2015), multiple myeloma (37% down to 31%), and other haematological malignancies (37% down to 25%). The proportion over time in the other groups remained relatively stable.</p><p> </p><p>As a proportion of all emergency diagnoses, the proportion of blood cancers diagnosed as an emergency was 12% in 2011 and 13% in each of 2012-2015.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 126371 question first answered 08/02/2018 14:30:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836018

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether diagnostic centres established as a result of the Cancer Strategy for England take specific account of blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The wave two of the Accelerate, Coordination and Evaluation (ACE) programme is testing a new multi-disciplinary diagnostic centre approach to diagnosing patients with vague or unclear but concerning symptoms, often characteristic of hard to diagnose cancers like blood cancers. This approach aims to ensure that patients can receive a suite of tests, reducing the risk that patients receive multiple different referrals for the same problem. The ACE programme has established ten pilot Rapid Diagnostic Assessment Centres across five areas of the country.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:33:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

836019

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of people diagnosed with blood cancer have had access to a clinical nurse specialist in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>NHS England does not collect this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:39:50 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith