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1687381

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with NHS England on improving awareness of inequalities in black and Asian maternal health outcomes amongst clinicians.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling and reducing disparities in health outcomes. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State, has not had specific discussions with NHS England about improving clinician awareness. However, the Maternity Disparities Taskforce, of which I am a co-chair, was established in February 2022 to tackle disparities for mothers and babies and reduce maternal and neonatal deaths.</p><p>The taskforce brings together experts from across the health system, governmental departments, and the voluntary sector to explore and consider evidence-based interventions to tackle maternal disparities. One of the key priorities of the taskforce at present is focusing on improving access to effective pre-conception and maternity care for women from ethnic minorities, and those living in the most deprived areas.</p><p>NHS England has also published their Equity and Equality guidance for Local Maternity Systems, supported by a £6.8 million investment, which focuses on actions to reduce disparities for women and babies from ethnic minorities and those living in the most deprived areas.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/02/2024 16:25:20 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 16717 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1687382

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will provide additional funding for research into the development of effective interventions to help tackle disparities in maternal health outcomes for black and Asian women.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department funds research in maternal and neonatal health through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including disparities in maternal health outcomes for black and Asian women.</p><p>In January my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced the first ever NIHR Challenge, backed by £50 million, to task researchers and policymakers with finding new ways to tackle maternity disparities. We expect the funding call to launch in spring 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/02/2024 10:10:46 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1687384

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: Ethnic Groups
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 she is taking to measure progress made by initiatives to tackle health inequalities in maternity care in the black and Asian community.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>NHS England’s three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services outlines an ambition to reduce inequalities for all in access, experience, and outcomes, and provide targeted support where health inequalities exist. As part of this plan, NHS England will utilise several metrics to track the impact on maternity and neonatal outcomes based on ethnicity, to measure progress towards improving equity for mothers and babies. These metrics are of sufficient sensitivity and statistical power to track changes in clinical outcomes for the groups most at risk of adverse outcomes.</p><p>Ethnic coding data completeness has improved year on year since 2019, helping to better understand health outcomes for different ethnic groups. NHS Resolution’s Maternity Incentive Scheme safety action two also sets a data quality standard to improve ethnic coding data completeness.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/02/2024 16:11:05 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1687395

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: 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 discussions she has had with NHS England about improving training for NHS workers on caring for people with dementia.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>We want all relevant staff to have received appropriate training to provide high quality care to people with dementia, whether in hospital or in the community.</p><p>Individual employers are responsible for ensuring their staff are trained and competent to carry out their role, and for investing in the future of their staff through providing continuing professional development (CPD) funding.</p><p>To supplement local employer investment for CPD, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out NHS England’s commitment to continue national CPD funding for nurses and allied health professionals.</p><p>There are a variety of resources available on the NHS England E-learning for Health platform, including a programme on dementia care, designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/02/2024 15:13:18 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1687396

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to encourage the NHS to train volunteers to (a) help dementia patients in hospital with eating and (b) otherwise support them.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>We want all relevant staff and volunteers to have received appropriate training to provide high quality care to people with dementia, whether in hospital or in the community.</p><p>Individual trusts are responsible for ensuring their staff and volunteers are trained to carry out their role. Volunteers supporting the delivery of clinical care receive training when they join and will only engage in activities within their role-specific training and qualifications. They will perform tasks within safeguarding guidelines with clinical staff at hand to support.</p><p>There are a variety of resources available on the NHS England E-learning for Health platform, including a programme on dementia care, designed to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce.</p><p>Guidance on dementia care in hospital is referenced in The Dementia Care Pathway: Full implementation guidance, and signals that commissioners should continue to actively engage in local system leadership. An improvement agenda should be developed jointly with key partners, including healthcare providers, social care, local government, and the voluntary and independent sectors.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/02/2024 15:39:11 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1687043

registered interest
date	02/02/2024
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	General Practitioners: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure that all general practice clinicians have access to training on the (a) risk factors and (b) symptoms of liver (i) disease and (ii) cancer.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	12796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>General practitioners (GP) are responsible for ensuring their own clinical knowledge, including on liver disease and cancer, remains up-to-date and for identifying learning needs as part of their continuing professional development. This activity should include taking account of new research and developments in guidance, such as that produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, to ensure that they can continue to provide high quality care to all patients.</p><p>All doctors registered in the United Kingdom are expected to meet the professional standards set out in the General Medical Council’s (GMC’s) Good Medical Practice. In 2012 the GMC introduced revalidation which supports doctors in regularly reflecting on how they can develop or improve their practice, which gives patients confidence that doctors are up to date with their practice, and promotes improved quality of care by driving improvements in clinical governance. The training curricula for postgraduate trainee doctors is set by the Royal College of General Practitioners and must meet the standards set by the GMC.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/02/2024 13:07:37 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1674671

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
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	Mental Health Services: Chipping Barnet
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 her Department's press release Earlier mental health support announced for thousands nationwide, published on 25 October 2023, how much of the £2.3 billion of additional funding for mental health services in England will be spent on mental health services for residents of Chipping Barnet constituency.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	4831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally or at constituency level. Integrated care boards are expected to continue to meet the Mental Health Investment Standard by increasing their investment in mental health services in line with their overall increase in funding for the year.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/12/2023 12:35:18 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 5840 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1667702

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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: Older People
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 plans to take steps to help women over 40 access IVF treatment.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Funding decisions for health services in England, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), are made by integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population.</p><p>The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for fertility provide the best practice for treatment for National Health Service patients and ICBs should have regard for their recommendations. The guidelines include a recommendation to offer one cycle of IVF for women between the ages of 40 and 42.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/11/2023 09:21:07 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1667703

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on remedies for women who (a) cannot receive and (b) have difficulty receiving NHS IVF treatment because they have reached the age threshold for such treatment during the time taken to get a referral to a fertility (i) specialist and (ii) clinic from their GP.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>Funding decisions for health services in England, including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), are made by integrated care boards (ICBs) and are based on the clinical needs of their local population.</p><p>We recognise that the impact of COVID-19 and industrial action has caused delays for some patients in receiving fertility treatment and we would expect ICBs to take this into account in assessing age-related entitlement to treatment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/11/2023 09:24:55 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1667704

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Ferric Maltol: Chipping Barnet
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 take steps to ensure that Ferric Maltol is available on prescription to people in Chipping Barnet constituency.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2023 answer text <p>Clinicians can prescribe any product on the National Health Service they consider necessary for the treatment of their patient unless it is listed in Schedules 1 or 2 to the NHS (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004. Ferric Maltol is not listed in Schedules 1 or 2; however, NHS guidance is that vitamins and minerals should not be routinely prescribed except for when a patient has a medically diagnosed deficiency. This includes those patients who may have a lifelong or chronic condition or have undergone surgery that results in malabsorption. Ferric Maltol, which may be used to treat iron deficiency, may therefore be prescribed to patients, including those in Chipping Barnet constituency, on that basis.</p><p>It is for the general practitioner or other responsible clinician to work with their patient and decide on the course of treatment, with the provision of the most clinically appropriate care for the individual always being the primary consideration. Clinicians are responsible for making prescribing decisions for their patients, considering best prescribing practice and the local commissioning decisions of their respective integrated care board.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/11/2023 17:57:40 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers