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1148725

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Out of Area Treatment: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Welsh Assembly Government on waiting times for people living in Wales and receiving healthcare in England.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Jane Dodds
uin	270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Departmental Ministers meet with a variety of members from the devolved administrations on a regular basis, and discuss a range of operational issues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/10/2019 10:44:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4718 label Biography information for Jane Dodds

1148733

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Out of Area Treatment: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients from Welsh postcode areas have been treated at (a) Countess of Chester Hospital, (b) Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and (c) Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Jane Dodds
uin	271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 282 question first answered 17/10/2019 10:47:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4718 label Biography information for Jane Dodds

1148748

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve cooperation between mental health services and the voluntary sector to support victims of domestic abuse with psychiatric health needs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service Mental Health Implementation Plan highlights the essential role the voluntary sector will play in the design and delivery of services, including services which will benefit victims of domestic abuse with psychiatric health needs. It recommends commissioners and providers vary procurement routes to give more opportunity for the voluntary sector to provide services, and encourages commissioners to support and develop local voluntary sector capacity. NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned guidance and tools to support this.</p><p>The Department is overseeing £2 million of Government funding to expand a pathfinder programme developing a model health system response to domestic abuse including in mental health settings, to bridge the gap between the voluntary sector and NHS services, and to harness the strengths of each.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:40:29 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1148784

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Out of Area Treatment: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients from Welsh postcode areas have been treated at Hereford County Hospital in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Jane Dodds
uin	282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 271 question first answered 17/10/2019 10:47:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4718 label Biography information for Jane Dodds

1148792

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken steps in response to the recommendations of the report entitled See the light: Improving capacity in NHS eye care in England, published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health and Visual Impairment in June 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department welcomed the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) report, ‘See the Light: Improving capacity in NHS eye care in England’. We have taken the concerns of the profession and the wider sight loss sector about timeliness of patient access to eye care services very seriously.</p><p>In response to concerns about timely access to care, two key initiatives the Elective Care Transformation Programme led by NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Getting It Right First Time programme have considered, as part of their respective programmes, how we can improve patient outcomes in secondary care eye care services and ensure that patients do not suffer unnecessary delays in follow-up care.</p><p>The Department is currently working with stakeholders to finalise the response to the report, which will be sent to the APPG at the earliest opportunity and following this, published on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/10/2019 15:34:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1148830

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what procedures are in place to record the number of patients offered (a) evening and (b) weekend appointments at GP surgeries.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of patients offered evening and weekend appointments is not collected or held centrally.</p><p>Data on extended access appointments is collated by an internal monitoring survey by quarterly submissions from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). CCGs collect data on the number of appointments available, booked and ‘Did Not Attends’ for each day of the reporting month and what practices offer online consultations. This does not include data on the number of patients offered evening and weekend appointments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 17/10/2019 10:50:03 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1148842

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with the (i) Royal College of Physicians, (ii) Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, (iii) Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and (iv) Faculty of Public Health to discuss their call for the NHS overseas visitors charging regime to be suspended; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Neither my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care nor the Ministers in the Department have had meetings with the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists or the Faculty of Public Health specifically about their call for the suspension of the National Health Service overseas visitors charging regime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/10/2019 10:43:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148843

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS Trusts: Managers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Overseas Visitor Managers are employed by NHS Trusts in (a) England (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Information about the number of Overseas Visitor Managers employed by National Health Service trusts in England is not held by the Department nor by NHS England.</p><p> </p><p>The number of Overseas Visitor Managers employed by NHS trusts in Scotland and Wales is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/10/2019 11:10:50 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1148844

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Psychiatric Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits each Minister in his Department made to inpatient adult mental health facilities in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers have visited a wide range of health and care settings in this period, including inpatient adult mental health services. However, multi-site visits could include those with mental health settings, but they are not always recorded in Ministerial diaries as such.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/10/2019 15:46:08 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

1148858

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 284706, what advice the Government has issued to UK citizens travelling in the EU that require treatments not routinely covered by travel insurance policies after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government has proposed to all Member States that we should maintain existing reciprocal healthcare arrangements until 31 December 2020 if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal. This includes the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) which can support UK residents with long term conditions travelling to the EU who may require needs arising treatment.</p><p>The Government understands the concerns of patients with long term conditions and is working to secure the continuation of reciprocal healthcare arrangements, so UK and EU nationals have access to medical treatment in the same way they do now.</p><p>Guidance for travelling to the EU after EU exit is available on gov.uk, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-residents-visiting-the-eueea-and-switzerland-healthcare" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-residents-visiting-the-eueea-and-switzerland-healthcare</a></p><p>The UK Government is advising people with pre-existing or long term medical conditions to also check the Money and Pensions Advice Service which has information on their website for people about their options for purchasing travel insurance. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/travel-insurance-for-over-65s-and-medical-conditions" target="_blank">www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/travel-insurance-for-over-65s-and-medical-conditions</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/10/2019 09:40:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George