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1127515

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Pathology: 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 steps he is taking to tackle the shortage of pathologists that can carry out post-mortem examinations for coroners.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	256258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Most post-mortem examinations are carried out by pathologists who specialise in histopathology. However, post-mortems are not a requirement of the Certificate of Completion of Training in histopathology, therefore, the number of histopathologists who are qualified to carry out post-mortem examinations for coroners is not held centrally.</p><p>Overall, in January 2019, there were 1,206 full time equivalent (FTE) consultant histopathologists in the National Health Service in England. This represents a 10% (119 FTE) increase compared to January 2010.</p><p>Health Education England has committed to attract and retain more histopathologists by 2021 as part of its Cancer Workforce Plan for England published in December 2017. In 2019, 100% of specialist histopathology training places were filled.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 256259 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:54:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1127539

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Older People: Abuse
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 is taking steps to bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the abuse of older people in social care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	256269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to bring forward legislation to reduce the abuse of older people in social care.</p><p>The Government is committed to preventing and reducing the risk of harm to people in vulnerable situations.</p><p>The Care Act 2014 statutory guidance states that local authorities should ensure that the services they commission are safe, effective and of high quality. Where it is suspected that an individual may be at risk of abuse or neglect local authorities have a duty to carry out proportionate enquiries.</p><p>Regulated providers have a key role in safeguarding adults. All professions are subject to employer checks and controls and employers in the health and care sector must satisfy themselves regarding the skills and competence of their staff and the Care Quality Commission monitors how well providers are doing this.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/05/2019 10:21:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1127593

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	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, how many vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in England.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in 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> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256288 256289 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127595

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	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, how many vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in each region.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in 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> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256289 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127596

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	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, how many vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments by each county in England.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in 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> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256288 256290 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127597

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	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, how many vacancies there are in (a) mammography and (b) breast radiology departments in each parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	256290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes vacancy data for three staff groups; doctors, nurses and ‘other staff’. These vacancy statistics are published for England and at the regional level of North, Midlands and East, London and South.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement does not specifically produce vacancy data for staff working in mammography or breast radiology at national, regional, county, constituency or hospital trust level.</p><p>The latest NHS Improvement report can be found in 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> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256287 256288 256289 256291 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:37:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127642

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Animals and Food: Packaging
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 businesses are prepared to transition from the EC abbreviation health mark on packaging for animal carcasses and foods of animal origin to the GB abbreviation after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	256244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>To ensure that businesses are aware of the necessary changes to the health and identification marks, the Food Standard Agency (FSA) has produced guidance which explains the form of the mark and when the necessary changes will take effect.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA has worked with industry bodies to promote awareness of the guidance amongst members, as well as communicating directly with industry via key representative organisations. The FSA has and continues to attend and organise stakeholder meetings to promote awareness of the guidance.</p><p> </p><p>FSA operational staff and local authorities have also been briefed on the guidance so that they can promote awareness directly with food business operators. The guidance continues to be publicly available on the FSA’s website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/eu-exit-changes-to-health-and-identification-marks" target="_blank">https://www.food.gov.uk/business-guidance/eu-exit-changes-to-health-and-identification-marks</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/05/2019 15:03:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1127095

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Retinoblastoma: Children
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 GPs are trained to identify retinoblastoma in young children.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	255295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Each individual medical school sets its own undergraduate medical curriculum. These have to meet the standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC), who then monitor and check to make sure that these standards are maintained.</p><p>The curricula for postgraduate specialty training is set by individual royal colleges and faculties, and the GMC approves curricula and assessment systems for each training programme. Training curricula for doctors emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients. The Royal College of General Practitioners sets the curriculum for general practitioners (GPs). In order to demonstrate the core competences in the care of children and young people, the curriculum sets out that GPs should be aware of the early presenting symptoms of childhood cancers and possible differentials, such as retinoblastoma.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 255296 question first answered 21/05/2019 16:18:23 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1127100

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Retinoblastoma: Children
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 optometrists are trained to identify retinoblastoma at an early stage in young children.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	255296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Each individual medical school sets its own undergraduate medical curriculum. These have to meet the standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC), who then monitor and check to make sure that these standards are maintained.</p><p>The curricula for postgraduate specialty training is set by individual royal colleges and faculties, and the GMC approves curricula and assessment systems for each training programme. Training curricula for doctors emphasise the skills and approaches that a doctor must develop in order to ensure accurate and timely diagnoses and treatment plans for their patients. The Royal College of General Practitioners sets the curriculum for general practitioners (GPs). In order to demonstrate the core competences in the care of children and young people, the curriculum sets out that GPs should be aware of the early presenting symptoms of childhood cancers and possible differentials, such as retinoblastoma.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 255295 question first answered 21/05/2019 16:18:23 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1127103

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Dementia
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 potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the Alzheimer’s Society’s report entitled, Dementia Fund, published in May 2019.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	255383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to publishing a Green Paper on adult social care at the earliest opportunity, setting out proposals for reform and will bring forward ideas for including an element of risk pooling in the system, which will help to protect people from the highest costs. We are committed to ensuring everyone has access to the care and support they need, based on a principle of shared responsibility.</p><p>One of the important elements of the dementia fund proposal was greater use of Personal Health Budgets (PHBs). PHBs are one way to give people with long-term health conditions and disabilities more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their health and wellbeing needs. We have committed to exploring possible new rights to have PHBs to a further five areas across 2019-20 including dementia.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/05/2019 11:08:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan