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date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to identify children with familial hypercholesterolemia.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	111225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>Public Health England, NHS England, the British Heart Foundation, HEART UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) are working in partnership to aid the implementation of recently updated NICE guidance on familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).</p><p> </p><p>A cholesterol test is included as part of an NHS Health Check. This provides a key opportunity to identify the first case of FH within a family and, in line with NICE guidance, the subsequent testing of family members including children.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommended against a population screening programme in 2016. The UK NSC will review the evidence for FH again in 2018/19 as part of its three-yearly cycle.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/11/2017 17:42:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

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