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810471

registered interest
date	21/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they are taking to prevent medicine shortages and disruptions in dealing with public health crises following Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>Maintaining continuity of medicine supply is a key part of ensuring everyone has continued access to the medicines they need on day one of the European Union exit and thereafter. The United Kingdom is fully committed to continuing the close working relationship with our European partners. As part of our ambition for a broad and dynamic co-operation, the UK would like to find a way to continue to collaborate with the EU, in the interests of public health and safety; including to ensure that cross-border trade with the EU is as frictionless as possible. This will be part of the broader negotiations of the UK’s future relations with the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 09/01/2018 15:31:16 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

638268

registered interest
date	17/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that care homes have sufficient facilities to function adequately.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. All providers of regulated activities must register with the CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality.</p><p> </p><p>The fundamental standards describe the basic requirements that care providers, including care homes, should always meet, and set out the outcomes that services users should always expect.</p><p> </p><p>The standards include requirements regarding the facilities and equipment care homes must have. One refers to premises and equipment, and requires that the provider must ensure that all premises and equipment are clean, secure, suitable for the purpose used, properly maintained and appropriately located for the purpose for which they are used.</p><p> </p><p>A further standard refers to safe care and treatment and includes a requirement that equipment used by the provider is safe, used in a safe way and that sufficient quantities are available to ensure the safety of service users and to meet their needs.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC inspects against the standards and has a range of enforcement powers that it can employ if it finds a provider is not following them.</p><p> </p><p>Following inspection, the CQC rates providers on a four point scale - outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. These ratings give patients and the public a fair, balanced and easy to understand assessment of performance and quality. Services rated inadequate receive help to improve, but any that are unable or unwilling to do so face closure.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 23/11/2016 16:13:04 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

598113

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to prevent the late cancellation of operations.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2016 answer text <p>The commitment that ‘all patients who have operations cancelled, on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery), for non-clinical reasons to be offered another binding date within 28 days, or the patient’s treatment to be funded at the time and hospital of the patient’s choice’ is included as a pledge in the Handbook to the NHS Constitution. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Every quarter, NHS England publishes the number of operations cancelled at the ‘last minute’ for non-clinical reasons. A last minute cancellation is defined as ‘when a patient’s operation is cancelled by the hospital on or after the day of admission (including the day of surgery) for non-clinical reasons’. The financial sanction for not meeting the pledge in 2016-17 is non-payment of costs associated with cancellation and non-payment or reimbursement (as applicable) of the re-scheduled episode of care.</p><p> </p><p>Every month, NHS England also publishes data on urgent operations that are cancelled by the trust for non-medical reasons, including those cancelled for a second or subsequent time. This includes all urgent operations cancelled, not just those cancelled at the last minute. Although there is no pledge for cancelled urgent operations, NHS England has set a National Quality Requirement that no urgent operation should be cancelled for a second time, and the NHS Standard Contract provides for a financial sanction of £5,000 per incidence.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 24/10/2016 12:11:56 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name NHS_Constitution_Handbook_v2.pdf title Handbook to NHS Constitution
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

592937

registered interest
date	03/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Food: Labelling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of calls for food manufacturers to be forced to put traffic-light nutrition labels on the front of packs.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>The United Kingdom’s voluntary scheme for colour coded front of pack nutrition labelling has been developed in compliance with Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, but the regulation does not permit national mandatory front of pack labelling.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/10/2016 11:03:30 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

448155

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they have refused to disclose legal advice regarding the impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the NHS.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government considered the information referred to be exempt from release on the basis that it is subject to legal professional privilege.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/02/2016 17:27:38 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

448159

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Illness: Health Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they are supporting and promoting the #itaffectsme campaign, which aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and their prevalence.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>This Government is working to reduce stigma around mental health and supports all campaigns, including #itaffectsme, in this area. Any campaign, such as #itaffectsme, which raises awareness in mental health issues, is welcomed. In his speech announcing almost a billion pounds in investment into mental health services on 11 January, the Prime Minister recognised the need to reduce the stigma around mental illness. He said that, ‘as a country, we need to be far more mature about this. Less hushed tones, less whispering; more frank and open discussion. We need to take away that shame, that embarrassment, let people know that they’re not in this alone’.</p><p><br> We continue to provide financial support to the Time to Change programme which works to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and to encourage people to talk about mental health issues and seek help when needed. We are working with the programme and funders to develop the next stage of the programme.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 09/02/2016 15:51:25 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

388032

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Social Services: Apprentices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they plan to encourage young people to take up social care apprenticeships.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting the social care apprenticeships programme. A recruitment and retention strategy launched by the Department in September 2014 focuses on apprenticeships and other innovative programmes to attract younger people into careers in adult social care. A copy is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These include: the care ambassadors service supporting frontline care staff, to visit schools, colleges and job centres and inspire others; Sector Route-Way and Work Academy which provide experience of working in care, and develops skills; and the Traineeship initiative which is a training programme to provide young people with skills and work experience to find employment or progress onto an apprenticeship.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department’s delivery partner, Skills for Care, has also produced guidance for social care employers on the employment of 16 – 18 year olds and is developing projects with local authorities to encourage recruitment of young people into apprenticeships in social care.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2015 10:44:07 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name recruitment-and-retention-strategy-2014---2017.pdf title Recruitment and Retention Strategy
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

388033

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Research
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the case for a global fund to support research into antibiotics, Ebola and other neglected diseases.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL1159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>The global funding of research and development of new antibiotics is part of the Independent review announced by the Prime Minister in June 2014 and chaired by Lord O’Neill of Gatley. The review is analysing the economics underlying all stages of the research and development of new antimicrobials and will propose concrete actions to tackle these internationally. The final recommendations from the review will be published in summer 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are now 15 vaccines under development for Ebola across the world. The Department for International Development, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council, has supported the Phase 1 clinical trial of a vaccine candidate, and funded a number of other areas of Ebola research, through the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom is also providing over £10 million annually for research into neglected tropical diseases. This is through a range of initiatives, including development of new treatment and diagnostic products, as well as implementation research. Examples of products resulting from the research in recent years include the first ever rapid diagnostic test and the first new, improved treatment option for sleeping sickness.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/07/2015 15:39:50 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

384470

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Eating Disorders
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve NHS treatment for patients with eating disorders.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Autumn Statement 2014, investment of £30 million per year until 2020 was announced to improve services for children and young people with mental health problems in England, placing a particular emphasis on eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To improve access to eating disorder services, NHS England is leading the development of an Access and Waiting Time Standard which is expected to be introduced in April 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 02/07/2015 15:44:57 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

384473

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that patients with asthma receive the right medication.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The NHS mandate for 2015-16 says that every patient with a long-term condition, including asthma and other respiratory conditions, should be offered a personalised care action plan. They and their families or carers should know the right medications to use at the right times and how to use them, and to understand the importance of monitoring their condition and how to do this.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 29/06/2015 14:51:48 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick