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451586

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality of 9 February 2016, on party of esteem in the NHS constitution, Official Report, column 1430, if he will add the right to psychological therapies to the constitution.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	26517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Constitution right to drugs and treatments reflects the legal funding requirement that applies to interventions recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p><p>NICE has not been asked to undertake a technical appraisal of psychological therapies. If in the future, psychological therapies are recommended by NICE, and are consequently mandated for use in the National Health Service, we will consider consulting on including a right to psychological therapies within the Constitution.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last spending review we invested over £400 million into the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme to ensure access to talking therapies for those who need them and this has contributed to achieving very real improvements in the lives of people with anxiety and depression.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:18:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

451587

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to implement the recommendations for Government of the report, entitled Old Problems, New Solutions: Improving acute psychiatric care for adults in England, published on 9 January 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	26516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>We are currently considering the report’s recommendations and work is already underway to address the issues it raises.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) improvement and assessment framework will require CCGs to monitor and reduce out of area treatments, with reductions from 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, NHS England is planning a significant programme on acute care in 2016/17 for both in-patient and home treatment.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:21:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

451588

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	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 mental health trusts pass information on outpatients in their care to local (a) housing trusts and (b) community police officers where appropriate.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	26513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>It is already standard practice for health professionals to share information, in line with the Data Protection Act 1998, with other agencies to deliver preventative interventions, or where there is concern about the risk of serious harm to either the individual concerned or a third party.</p><p> </p><p>One of the core objectives of the National Informatics Board is to support all National Health Service organisations move away from paper based information to sharing data electronically. NHS England’s work on developing a fully interoperable and paperless NHS includes a key focus on mental health and crisis care.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/02/2016 12:24:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger