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710866

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medway Maritime Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that Medway Maritime Hospital has capacity to meet the needs of the local population.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	67730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>Capacity planning is a matter for NHS England. Medway Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is the lead commissioner for Medway Maritime Hospital and we are advised that local health and care leaders are working through the Kent and Medway Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) to ensure that capacity across the STP footprint will meet future need.</p><p> </p><p>The CCG advises that there are currently no commissioning plans, as part of the STP, to reduce capacity at Medway Maritime Hospital.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 24/03/2017 11:34:12 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

709005

registered interest
date	07/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Midwives: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what level of indemnity insurance for midwives is classified as adequate by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	66911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>Whether or not a midwife’s indemnity cover is appropriate is a decision for the Nursing and Midwifery Council as the independent regulatory body responsible for the regulation of midwives in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>The Government supports choice in maternity services, but this has to be a safe choice. It is therefore right that registered midwives are required to have appropriate indemnity insurance to cover their scope of practice.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 15/03/2017 14:31:45 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

678077

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Royal Brompton Hospital: Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost of the proposed closure of congenital heart disease services at Royal Brompton Hospital; and what the cost would be of (a) expanding provision elsewhere and (b) transferring staff and services as a result of that proposed closure.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	61419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>No decision has been made to close the congenital heart disease service at the Royal Brompton &amp; Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. NHS England will make a decision on its proposals for changes to adult and children’s congenital heart services in England following a consultation. It has worked, and will continue to work, with providers and other stakeholders to assess the impact of these proposals. NHS England intends to publish an impact assessment and other relevant information in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 01/02/2017 14:41:08 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

647181

registered interest
date	28/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Royal Brompton Hospital: Paediatrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions there were to the paediatric intensive care unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital in the last 12 months for which figures are available; what proportion of those admissions were cardiac cases; and what plans his Department has to replace elsewhere in London (a) paediatric intensive care beds and (b) the specialist children's lung disease service which will close at the Royal Brompton Hospital as a result of NHS proposals to decommission congenital heart disease services at that hospital.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	55163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>The numbers of admissions to the paediatric intensive care unit at the London site of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, which took place during 2015 – the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available - and the proportion of those admissions that were cardiac cases, are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Cardiovascular</p></td><td><p>Respiratory</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>Cardiac cases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>581</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>87%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source</em>: Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has not yet made any decisions following its review of congenital heart disease services. It will run a service change process, including a public consultation, on the proposals for change which it announced in July 2016. In the meantime, NHS England is working with the hospital trusts that may be affected to assess the impact of implementing the proposals.</p><p> </p><p>This will include consideration of the impact on paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) services. Should the proposals proceed to implementation, NHS England would expect those hospitals accepting additional congenital heart disease patients to expand their PICU capacity accordingly. Any wider regional implications for PICU services will be considered by NHS England's paediatric critical care review, which is currently underway.</p><p> </p><p>There are alternative providers of specialist paediatric respiratory services in London. NHS England will work with those providers and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust to consider how those services might be affected and how the potential implementation of changes could best be managed.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 06/12/2016 14:31:33 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

519193

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the current scheme of discretionary top-up payments provided by the Macfarlane Trust to its beneficiaries will be removed as a result of the Government's proposed changes to its scheme of support for people affected by contaminated blood.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	37036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2016 answer text <p>The consultation on reforming the current payment schemes for those affected by HIV and/or hepatitis C through National Health Service-supplied blood/blood products closed on 15 April. The analyses of responses are still being considered by Ministers and no decisions on changes to the schemes have been taken. An announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 27/05/2016 12:18:20 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

418941

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Psychiatry: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the contribution made by Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	10240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment of the effectiveness of the contribution made by Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists to the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists form part of the wider workforce on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing and can provide support in a range of settings. Health Education England commissions training for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy as part of a four year doctorate. The training and practice is accredited by the Association of Child Psychotherapists.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Building the capacity, capability and confidence of both the specialist and wider workforce is a key part of the Government’s approach to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, sustained through a culture of continuous evidence-based service improvement, delivered by a workforce with the right mix of skills, competencies and experience.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is transforming existing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to ensure they are providing evidence based therapies coupled with session by session outcome monitoring. The programme is being expanded to cover additional areas of clinical practice, so that all children and young people’s mental health services are able to deliver high quality evidence-based care by 2018.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/09/2015 16:02:16 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

167061

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cervical Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to make smear tests for cervical cancer available to all women over the age of 16 who are sexually active; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	216687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening policy and supports implementation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2012 the UK NSC recommended that the age of first invitation for cervical screening should be age 25 on the basis that there is evidence of a large number of women screened and treated with relatively little benefit below this age. Cervical cancer in women under the age of 25 is very rare. Younger women often undergo natural and harmless changes in the cervix that screening would identify as cervical abnormalities, and in most cases these abnormalities resolve themselves without any need for treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Cervical cancer is linked to a persistent infection with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a very common sexually transmitted infection. Since 2008, girls aged 12 and 13 have been offered the HPV vaccination, which immunises them against the most high risk strains of HPV. To start with, girls up to 18 were also vaccinated so the first girls to be vaccinated will be coming into the cervical screening programme next year as they are 23 and 24 now. This vaccine will reduce the already low rates of cervical cancer in these young women and mean they will be protected for many years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/12/2014 15:08:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

89679

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS staff were employed on administrative tasks in (a) 2010 and (b) 2014; and what proportion of the total NHS wage bill they represented in each year.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	207369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The provisional monthly National Health Service hospital and community health service workforce statistics, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show that in May 2010 the proportion of NHS staff in England employed on administrative tasks was 24.0% and in May 2014 the proportion was 22.2%. The majority of NHS staff will perform some administrative tasks but these figures are based on administrative and clerical staff working in central functions; hotel, property and estates; scientific, therapeutic and technical support; clinical support and some ambulance service support staff; as well as managers and senior managers. It includes clerical staff such as those working as medical secretaries and medical records clerks but excludes those who deal directly with patients, such as ward receptionists.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The HSCIC publishes data only on NHS earnings, not on the NHS pay bill. The answer is based on earnings rather than the total pay bill.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In May 2010 the proportion of NHS administrative staff earnings to all NHS staff earnings was 20.0% and in May 2014 the proportion was 18.8%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 04/09/2014 13:46:09 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

58196

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genetically Modified Organisms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that food labels include details of any genetically modified ingredients used in a product's manufacture; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	198896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency advises that <em>EC Regulation 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed </em>requires that food derived from genetically modified (GM) sources must be labelled, regardless of the presence of detectable GM material in the final product or of the quantity of intentionally used GM ingredients. This Regulation applies to all food that is marketed in the United Kingdom and in other member states.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/06/2014 16:01:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson