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1126022

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date	13/05/2019
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	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
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 expedite the process by which the NICE publishes its decisions.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	253483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government wants patients to be able to benefit from access to effective new treatments as quickly as possible.</p><p>Through its technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies guidance, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes authoritative, evidence-based recommendations on whether medicines and other treatments represent a clinically and cost effective use of National Health Service resources. NHS organisations are legally required to make funding available for NICE recommended treatments, usually within three months of final guidance.</p><p>Wherever possible, NICE currently aims to publish recommendations on new drugs as soon as possible after licensing, with draft guidance on cancer drugs published in advance of licensing. The 2019 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access includes a commitment to faster NICE assessments of new medicines, with timelines for non-cancer drugs to match those for cancer drugs, subject to the evidence base for the product being sufficiently developed.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/05/2019 10:58:38 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1126055

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Alcoholism and Drugs: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding his Department has planned to support the alcohol and drug treatment system.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	253691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is giving local authorities £16 billion over the current five-year spending review to fund public health activities and services. Local authorities shall receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20, ring-fenced exclusively for use on public health. As part of the Public Health Grant conditions, services must have due regard for the uptake, investment and improvement of their local services. Decisions on investment in particular services are a matter for individual local authorities. Future investment will be determined by the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/05/2019 11:00:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

1126132

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Brexit
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 staff in his Department who were transferred or seconded to work (a) in other departments or (b) on other departmental briefs on preparations for the UK to leave the EU, have since returned to his Department.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	253461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The number of individuals who have been transferred or seconded to work in preparations for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in other government departments is not recorded. Though we keep a record of Department of Health and Social Care members of staff who are out on loan or secondment, we do not record whether they are going to work on EU Exit. As of 23 April 2019, the Department has a total of 80 employees who are either out on loan or on secondment.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/05/2019 11:16:04 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1126141

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Maternity Services: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the conduct of maternity investigations into term intrapartum stillbirths will continue to be the responsibility of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch for the next three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	253439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>We have not set a definitive timescale for the duration of the maternity investigations. As we said in our response to the Joint Committee’s report ‘Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill: A new capability for investigation patient safety incidents’, the Department’s view is that the best approach is to allow the current maternity investigations programme to complete its rollout to all healthcare regions in England, which is now complete and will continue for a limited period so that the learning and benefit can be gained from these investigations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2019 11:05:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1126194

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Urinary Tract Infections: 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 he has made of the efficacy of Professor James Malone-Lee's approach to treating urinary tract infections.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	253693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published guidance on recurrent ‘Urinary Tract Infections antimicrobial prescribing’ in October last year. This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for preventing recurrent urinary tract infections in children, young people and adults who do not have a catheter. It aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/05/2019 16:21:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1126223

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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	Fires: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to introduce blood tests for effluents in public health checks after large-scale fires.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	253723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England has no plans to introduce blood tests for effluents in public health checks after large-scale fires.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/05/2019 16:26:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1126282

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
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: Transport
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 funding provided for in the NHS Long Term Plan he plans to allocate to non-emergency patient transport home after hospital attendance.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	253566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The funding of non-emergency patient transport services is a matter for local National Health Service commissioners.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 21/05/2019 10:55:42 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1123962

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Health Services and Social Services: Vacancies
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 workforce vacancies in the health and social care sectors.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	249334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Posts may be vacant, for a variety of reasons including maternity and career breaks. Trusts make decisions based on local needs about how they fill these posts, including looking at short-term options for cover, including bank and agency staff.</p><p>Since April 2017, NHS Improvement collect vacancy rates of National Health Service staff from individual NHS trusts and publish them as part of their ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/documents/4942/Performance_of_the_NHS_provider_sector_for_the_quarter_ended_31_Dec_2018.pdf</a></p><p>As at 31 December there were 100,521 full time equivalent vacancies in NHS trusts, this is an 8.4% vacancy rate. Of these, approximately 80% and 85% of the nursing and medical vacancies are being filled by bank and agency staff.</p><p>Skills for Care estimate that there are approximately 110,000 jobs that are vacant in adult social care, this is an 8% vacancy rate.</p><p>The NHS People Plan sets out the next step in our mission to make the NHS a world class employer and deliver the workforce which the NHS needs.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 07/05/2019 16:08:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh