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683377

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of the GP network.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, announced that investment in General Practice will increase from £9.6 billion in 2015/16 to over £12 billion by 2020/21, a major financial investment to transform primary care.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway to increase the primary care workforce and reduce workload, to improve primary care estates and infrastructure, and to redesign care and spread innovation throughout the country.</p><p> </p><p>It is also becoming increasingly normal for general practices to work together at scale in networks or federation of practices, bringing greater opportunities for practices to work collaboratively to strengthen services and their sustainability.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 09/02/2017 11:26:04 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

683014

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve recruitment of nurses to the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for the forecasting and planning of the future nursing workforce supply needs for the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>HEE has increased nurse training commissions by nearly 15% over the last three years and is forecasting that up to 40,000 additional nurses could be available to the NHS by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the increase in training commissions HEE has also implemented a number of steps to increase nurse numbers within the NHS these include:</p><p> </p><p>- proactively promoting the Return to Practice programme, aimed at encouraging previously qualified nurses that have left the NHS, to update their skills and qualifications and return to practice within the NHS;</p><p>- the provision of flexible routes into nursing for pre-existing support staff; and</p><p>- working closely with universities to improve attrition rates from courses which will further increase the number of nursing students who graduate.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 09/02/2017 13:37:38 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

683015

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
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 effect of better use of pharmacies on the healthcare provision to local communities.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>Pharmacies are an important source of care, providing services such as flu jabs, health checks and of course dispensing vital medicines. We are transforming how pharmacists and their teams operate in the community - making the most of their skills to meet urgent medicine needs, treat minor ailments and ensure patients receive the best care. Healthy Living Pharmacies across the country with qualified health champions are demonstrating innovative models of delivery, reaching out to their local communities and making a real difference to people’s health.</p><p> </p><p>To make even greater use of this important asset, the Murray Review of community pharmacy clinical services recommended that NHS England and its national partners should consider how best to support Sustainability and Transformation Plans in integrating community pharmacy into those plans. Public Health England published a menu of preventative interventions for the Sustainability and Transformation Plans in November 2016, which outlined evidence-based public health and preventative interventions that can help to improve the health of the population and reduce health and care services demand in the short to medium term. That menu specifically identified that pharmacy can make a contribution to:</p><p> </p><p>- Cardiovascular disease secondary prevention;</p><p>- Improving the management of patients with blood pressure;</p><p>- Delivering effective brief advice on physical activity as part of everyday clinical care;</p><p>- Raising public awareness about reducing the risk of dementia;</p><p>- Providing support to stop smoking; and</p><p>- Reducing alcohol consumption and harm through brief advice.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 09/02/2017 11:16:38 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

683016

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the funding that has been allocated to the GP Development Programme remains unspent.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The General Practice Development programme covers a number of initiatives set out in the General Practice Forward View, including: £6 million for practice manager development, which runs over three years; £45 million for reception and clerical training, which runs over five years; £30 million for a national development programme, which runs over three years; and £45 million for online consultations, which will run over three years from 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working to spend up to allocation and final outturn figures will be published later in year in the NHS England accounts for 2016/17 with more detail provided in the Investment in General Practice Report for 2016/17 published by NHS Digital.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 09/02/2017 11:20:48 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

682353

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Capita: Dental Services
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 ensure that Capita improves its performance relating to the processing of dental performer list applications.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is meeting with Capita on a weekly basis to oversee the delivery of its plans for the Dental Performers Lists and other key services and to ensure the right improvements are in place to address the backlogs and delays.</p><p> </p><p>My hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation (Nicola Blackwood), continues to work directly with Capita and NHS England to ensure that services are restored to an acceptable and sustainable standard.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 08/02/2017 16:28:54 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

682363

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what systems his Department plans to put in place to support the recruitment of GPs from abroad.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>The General Practice Forward View (GPFV), published in April 2016, includes a commitment to deliver a major international recruitment drive to attract at least 500 appropriately trained and qualified general practitioners from overseas by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Following publication of the GPFV, NHS England’s general practice workforce team has been engaging with regional and local National Health Service teams, Health Education England, and other stakeholders, including the Royal College of General Practitioners and the British Medical Association, to agree an approach for delivering the commitment. These different stakeholders have agreed that the programme will be locally led and delivered with national oversight, co-ordination and support by the national general practice workforce team.</p><p> </p><p>Each overseas recruitment project will be expected to satisfy a set of national principles; the national principles are set out at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/gpfv/workforce/international-gp-recruitment/national-principles/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/gpfv/workforce/international-gp-recruitment/national-principles/</a></p><p> </p><p>The contracts and support packages for international doctors recruited into general practices will vary across the country, to be tailored to the opportunities and needs of the local health system. A budget of up to £20 million has been identified to support schemes up to 2020.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 08/02/2017 10:11:37 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

682364

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Devon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Government has made on recruiting more GPs in (a) Devon and (b) Plymouth.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>The General Practice Forward View (GPFV), published in April 2016, sets out that the Government is investing an extra £2.4 billion a year nationally for general practice services by 2020/21, with the set aim to have an extra 5,000 doctors working in general practice in England by 2020.</p><p>NHS England’s South West Development Fund is being used to implement the GPFV locally, with a team of change managers – including one in Plymouth – in place to support practices and make them more sustainable and attractive to new doctors. In addition, Health Education England’s south west team has been active in promoting general practice as a career both by working with national incentives and addressing local opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 08/02/2017 10:17:08 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

670266

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy: Negligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to stop pharmacists from facing criminal prosecution for making prescription errors.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	59020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>We remain fully committed to making this change. We have consulted on our proposals to put in place a defence to the criminal sanction for inadvertent dispensing errors and received good support from patients, carers, healthcare professionals, pharmacy organisations and other bodies. We are working through the necessary processes to change the law. We are in the final stages of clearance and hope to lay the Order shortly.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 12/01/2017 11:25:43 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

657125

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Anaemia
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 causes of regional variation in rates of iron deficiency and anaemia.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	57135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has assessed the prevalence of iron deficiency in the United Kingdom as a whole and in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. The results indicate little difference between the UK countries. Numbers are too small to permit a more detailed regional analysis and no further assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>PHE provides public–facing advice on how to achieve the dietary recommendations for iron as part of its general advice on a healthy balanced diet, as set out in the Eatwell Guide.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 57136 question first answered 16/12/2016 12:14:35 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

657126

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Anaemia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to address regional variation in iron deficiency.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	57136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) has assessed the prevalence of iron deficiency in the United Kingdom as a whole and in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. The results indicate little difference between the UK countries. Numbers are too small to permit a more detailed regional analysis and no further assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>PHE provides public–facing advice on how to achieve the dietary recommendations for iron as part of its general advice on a healthy balanced diet, as set out in the Eatwell Guide.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 57135 question first answered 16/12/2016 12:14:36 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile