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750686

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were issued with fines by the NHS Business Authority because those patients (a) were not entitled to free prescriptions and (b) did not renew their exemption certificate; and how many such patients had a long-term medical condition.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	4268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Between September 2014 and April 2017 (latest figures), a total of 1,785,895 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued to patients declaring they were entitled to free National Health Service prescriptions but their exemption could not be validated.</p><p> </p><p>A patient is issued a penalty charge notices when the NHS Business Services Authority exemption checker does not find a valid exemption entitling that patient to free prescriptions. This includes patients that did hold a valid exemption but failed to renew.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 90,525 PCNs were issued for unconfirmed medical exemption certificates. A new process was introduced in spring 2015 whereby someone can submit a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 10:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

708551

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether implementation plans for sustainability and transformation plans are required to outline details of how the primary care estate will change and improve in order to deliver new models of care.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	66623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>Each Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) area is expected to set out how it will deliver key priorities, which include a focus on investment in primary care in line with The General Practice Forward View. All plans will need to deliver NHS Mandate priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The General Practice Forward View sets out over 80 initiatives and increased investment of £2.4 billion a year by 2020/21 to support and transform general practice. Clinical commissioning groups, as partners within each STP, have submitted their plans to ensure the commitments in the General Practice Forward View are delivered. NHS England teams are now in the process of reviewing these plans and will be working with local areas to agree the next steps in their development.</p><p> </p><p>Specific elements within the General Practice Forward View that support primary care estate include:</p><p>- Investment through the multi-million pound Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) to accelerate the development of infrastructure to enable the improvement and expansion of joined-up out of hospital care for patients. Additional capital will also be invested in general practice beyond the ETTF which means that the overall total investment in capital assets up to 2020/21 will be £900 million;</p><p>- Proposals to allow up to 100% reimbursement of premises developments;</p><p>- New offer for practices who are tenants of NHS Property Services for NHS England to include funding Stamp Duty Land Tax for practices until end of October 2017;</p><p>- Direct practice investment in technology to support better online tools and appointment, consultation and workload management systems;</p><p>- Better record sharing to support teamwork across practices; and</p><p>- Wi-Fi services in general practitioner practices for staff and patients. Funding will be made available to cover the hardware, implementation and service costs from April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 66616 question first answered 14/03/2017 11:28:32 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

708568

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	GP Surgeries: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgery buildings currently fail to meet Care Quality Commission minimum requirements for premises.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	66615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has provided the following information:</p><p> </p><p>The CQC is unable to provide the information requested as it is not centrally collated in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC inspects the estate of a provider under the “Safe” key question. This is one of the many areas that the CQC monitors when it conducts an inspection of a service provider. Standards around premises form part of a wide variety of regulatory requirements which deal with patient safety in general.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 14/03/2017 11:21:02 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

708570

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support is available to areas in which sustainability and transformation plans have been adopted on the range of capital sources available to develop the primary care estate.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	66616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>Each Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) area is expected to set out how it will deliver key priorities, which include a focus on investment in primary care in line with The General Practice Forward View. All plans will need to deliver NHS Mandate priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The General Practice Forward View sets out over 80 initiatives and increased investment of £2.4 billion a year by 2020/21 to support and transform general practice. Clinical commissioning groups, as partners within each STP, have submitted their plans to ensure the commitments in the General Practice Forward View are delivered. NHS England teams are now in the process of reviewing these plans and will be working with local areas to agree the next steps in their development.</p><p> </p><p>Specific elements within the General Practice Forward View that support primary care estate include:</p><p>- Investment through the multi-million pound Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) to accelerate the development of infrastructure to enable the improvement and expansion of joined-up out of hospital care for patients. Additional capital will also be invested in general practice beyond the ETTF which means that the overall total investment in capital assets up to 2020/21 will be £900 million;</p><p>- Proposals to allow up to 100% reimbursement of premises developments;</p><p>- New offer for practices who are tenants of NHS Property Services for NHS England to include funding Stamp Duty Land Tax for practices until end of October 2017;</p><p>- Direct practice investment in technology to support better online tools and appointment, consultation and workload management systems;</p><p>- Better record sharing to support teamwork across practices; and</p><p>- Wi-Fi services in general practitioner practices for staff and patients. Funding will be made available to cover the hardware, implementation and service costs from April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 66623 question first answered 14/03/2017 11:28:32 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

705651

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Community Nurses: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many district nurses there are in (a) Lancashire and (b) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	65767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) Qualified District Nurses employed in the North West Health Education England (HEE) region and employed in Lancashire is shown in the table below. The November data is the most recent data available.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Services: Qualified District Nurses in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in Lancashire and North West Health Education England region, as at 30 November 2016</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North West HEE Region</p></td><td><p>Lancashire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qualified District Nurses</p></td><td><p>1,321</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Lancashire includes data for all organisations which fall within the area of the NHS England Region (Local Office) of NHS England North (Lancashire).</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 02/03/2017 14:16:56 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

705652

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Nurses: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many school nurses there are in (a) Burnley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	65768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The school nurse workforce is relatively small and no formal assessment has been made of recent changes to school nursing numbers by the Department or Public Health England (PHE), who only hold national figures. School nurses can be employed by a range of organisations including health trusts and, more recently, local authorities. Current local data collections do not cover the complete range of these organisations. As a result, it is not possible to provide accurate data on the total size of the school nurse workforce.</p><p>Data is available for National Health Service trust and clinical commissioning group (CCG) area based school nurses for the North West Health Education England (HEE) Region and for Lancashire and is presented in the table below. Parliamentary constituencies do not correspond directly to recognised health geographies, so no data is provided for Burnley constituency.</p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: school nursing staff in NHS trusts and CCGs in Lancashire and North West Health Education England region, as at 30 November 2016</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Full-time equivalent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North West HEE Region</p></td><td><p>Lancashire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All registered nurses working within school nursing teams</p></td><td><p>573</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Lancashire includes data for all organisations which fall within the area of the NHS England Region (Local Office) of NHS England North (Lancashire).</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 02/03/2017 17:05:10 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

693766

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Doctors: EEA Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors from countries in the European Economic Area are working in East Lancashire hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	65336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes data on the nationality of staff working in the National Health Service in England. Nationality is self-reported within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record.</p><p> </p><p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): HCHS Doctors working in East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust by selected nationality group, in NHS Trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, as at 30 November 2016, headcount</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>All nationalities</p></td><td><p>of which European Economic Area (EEA) (including United Kingdom)</p></td><td><p>of which EEA (excluding UK)</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>739</p></td><td><p>567</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The November data is the most recent data available.</p><p> </p><p>EEA nationals include any staff with the following nationalities: Austrian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Icelandic, Liechtenstein, Norwegian and Swiss and UK staff.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 28/02/2017 17:49:32 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

670258

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	Cerebral Palsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what records his Department keeps of the number of children born with cerebral palsy each year in each (a) community care group area, (b) local authority, (c) region and (d) nationally.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	59087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information on the number of children born with cerebral palsy each year in each community care group area, local authority, region and nationally.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 12/01/2017 11:17:43 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

670275

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	Cerebral Palsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what training healthcare workers receive to increase awareness of signs of cerebral palsy in babies and children.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	59088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are responsible for ensuring the programmes they provide allow healthcare students to meet the outcomes set out by the regulators upon graduation. For example the Nursing and Midwifery Council sets the standard for nursing which the HEIs must meet when developing curricula and training programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The medical Royal Colleges, for example the Royal College of General Practitioners, have responsibility for developing postgraduate training curricula for doctor for approval by the General Medical Council (GMC).</p><p> </p><p>Health Education England works with regulatory bodies such as the GMC, and the organisations that design curricula such as the medical Royal Colleges, to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.</p><p> </p><p>Continuing Professional Development is the responsibility of individual practitioners and their employers.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 12/01/2017 11:20:24 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

657146

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	NHS: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will grant existing EU national NHS staff leave to remain in the UK after the UK's decision to leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	56976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister and my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health have made it clear that they wish for European Union citizens, including those working in health and social care, to remain in the United Kingdom once the UK has left the EU and that such a thing would only not be possible if British citizens’ rights in European member states were not protected in return. The Government is working hard to achieve that outcome.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 15/12/2016 13:52:12 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper