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1132760

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	911417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 14:50:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1132763

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Patients: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure NHS patient safety.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	911420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Patient safety remains a key priority for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement and NHS England are developing a new National Patient Safety Strategy that will sit alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>The strategy will be published this summer and will build on existing work to provide a coherent framework that the whole NHS can recognise and support</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2019 15:03:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1132765

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	IVF
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions his Department has had with clinical commissioning groups on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance on fertility treatment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	911423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population, including fertility services. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aauthority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fertility guidelines and utilise the benchmark price for In Vitro Fertilisation.</p><p>I have written to all CCGs to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and encourage them to fully implement NICE Fertility Guideline recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 15:21:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1132766

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	What steps he is taking to improve social care.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	911424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities have a duty to ensure people receive appropriate care and support. We have given them access to up to £3.9 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care this year, and a further £410 million has been made available for adult and children’s services.</p><p>We will set out our plans to reform the social care system at the earliest opportunity to ensure it is sustainable for the future.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/06/2019 15:02:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1132025

registered interest
date	13/06/2019
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	Cannabis: 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, how and by whom medical cannabis was produced in the UK before its legalisation.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	264425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Prior to the change of the law on 1 November 2018, only cannabis-based products that had been given a marketing authorisation (product licence) by the medicines regulators, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) or European Medicines Agency could be prescribed. Before issuing a marketing authorisation the MHRA accesses all the available evidence on efficacy and safety arising out of pre-clinical research and clinical trials and evidence and information supplied by the manufacturer. The regulators also inspect the factory where the medicine is to be made, to make sure that supplies will be of a uniformly and consistently high standard.</p><p> </p><p>The following cannabis-based products and related products received a marketing authorisation in the United Kingdom/European Union before 1 November 2018:</p><p> </p><p>- Sativex - (produced by GW Pharmaceuticals) containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol - holds a licence for spasticity in multiple sclerosis; and</p><p>- Nabilone - (multiple manufacturers) which contains a synthetic, non-natural cannabinoid which mimics THC, holds a marketing authorisation for nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Epidiolex (also produced by GW Pharmaceuticals from cannabis) for two severe forms of intractable epilepsy (Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome or Dravet Syndrome), is currently being considered for a marketing authorisation by the European Medicines Agency.</p><p> </p><p>The change in the law allows the prescription, by specialist doctors on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register, of cannabis-based products that have not been through this rigorous process but that meet certain quality standards in cases where all licensed products have been considered and discounted and it is in the best interest of the patient. It also makes</p><p>it easier and will incentivise further research into the potential health benefits of cannabis-based products and the development of further licensed products for more routine use in the health service.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:31:54 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

1132037

registered interest
date	13/06/2019
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	Primary Care Networks: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what population exceptions are in place for Primary Care Networks covering large rural and remote areas.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	264408
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has allowed rurality as an exception for meeting the definition of a Primary Care Network (PCN). As set out in the Network Contract Direct Enhanced Service (under paragraph 3.2) commissioners may waiver the 30,000-minimum population “where a PCN serves a natural community which has a low population density across a large rural and remote area”.</p><p>Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/network-contract-des-specification-2019-20-v1.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:30:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1132052

registered interest
date	13/06/2019
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	Homeopathy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether representatives of his Department or Agencies attended the London international conference of the Homeopathic Research Institute on 14 - 17 June 2019; if his Department or agencies will make an assessment of the implications for their policies of papers presented at that conference; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	David Tredinnick
uin	264321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>There was no representation made by the Department at this conference. The Department does not maintain a position on any particular complementary or alternative medicine treatments including homeopathy.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:33:15 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	335 label Biography information for David Tredinnick

1130903

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	Diabetes: 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, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to develop and expand the Diabetes Prevention Programme to offer digital access; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	262384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.</p><p>The Long Term Plan committed to fund a doubling of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme over the next five years, including a new digital option to widen patient choice and target inequality.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:26:50 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1130971

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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	Paralysis: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to make the bionic spine available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	262371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The bionic spine technology is at a very early stage of development. Research has yet to establish whether the bionic spine will be effective and safe for patients. We will, of course, continue to monitor it, along with other promising new treatments, as it develops.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:22:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1130977

registered interest
date	10/06/2019
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of NICE on increasing the capacity for undertaking highly specialised technology evaluations.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	262374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Departmental officials regularly meet with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) officials to discuss issues such as capacity for the development of guidance across all its guidance programmes, including as part of the annual business planning process. NICE does not operate a fixed capacity for the development of highly specialised technologies guidance and any topic that meets the topic selection criteria will be prioritised for guidance development.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 18/06/2019 16:25:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon