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456566

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wheelchairs: West Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will encourage NHS England and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to provide a response to the letter of 24 September 2015 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on wheelchair provision in West Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	29143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Letters to and from<del class="ministerial"> the National Health Service</del> <ins class="ministerial">NHS England </ins>to hon. Members are a matter for NHS England. The Department would expect NHS England<ins class="ministerial">, and indeed clinical commissioning groups,</ins> to respond promptly and courteously to all letters from hon. Members.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:46:35 question first ministerially corrected 11/03/2016 09:51:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 49268 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

456620

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Zika Virus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on the containment of the Zika virus.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly discusses matters across his portfolio with his European counterparts. He continues to monitor this outbreak of the Zika virus closely. In addition, Departmental officials continue to discuss the developing situation, including the measures that can be taken to contain the virus, with European colleagues through a number of channels, including at regular meetings of the European Health Security Committee.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 13:02:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

456355

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wound Dressings:: Supply Chains
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they will take to ensure that the NHS Supply Chain wound dressing generics project takes account of evidence comparing the cost of managing unhealed and healed wounds, and of the total cost of wound care in the NHS currently as compared with previous estimates.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL6589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The review of wound dressings by a dedicated working group resulted in the development of a number of clinical specifications for wound care products.</p><p> </p><p>In order to progress this work, from April 2016 a new NHS Clinical Evaluation Team will be put in place. The Clinical Evaluation Team will assess wound care products through a comprehensive evaluation process, which will have extensive engagement with NHS clinical staff. Included in the process will be tissue viability and infection control nurses, clinical procurement specialists, doctors, nurses and midwives along with medicine management practitioners from community trusts.</p><p> </p><p>The project’s remit is to review clinical products to identify those that enable high quality patient care whilst delivering the best outcomes for the NHS. The secondary consideration will be to identify products that could be procured more effectively through combined NHS buying power, to deliver greater overall value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The Clinical Evaluation Team is made up of practising clinicians.</p><p>The project will therefore undertake assessments of the total costs and benefits of any recommendations to the overall NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/03/2016 15:05:00 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

456354

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wound Dressings: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the light of their review of the cost of wound dressings to the NHS, they will ensure that clinical expertise is a full component part of the process in order to ensure that the outcome is clinically effective as well as cost-effective.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL6588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The review of wound dressings by a dedicated working group resulted in the development of a number of clinical specifications for wound care products.</p><p> </p><p>In order to progress this work, from April 2016 a new NHS Clinical Evaluation Team will be put in place. The Clinical Evaluation Team will assess wound care products through a comprehensive evaluation process, which will have extensive engagement with NHS clinical staff. Included in the process will be tissue viability and infection control nurses, clinical procurement specialists, doctors, nurses and midwives along with medicine management practitioners from community trusts.</p><p> </p><p>The project’s remit is to review clinical products to identify those that enable high quality patient care whilst delivering the best outcomes for the NHS. The secondary consideration will be to identify products that could be procured more effectively through combined NHS buying power, to deliver greater overall value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The Clinical Evaluation Team is made up of practising clinicians.</p><p>The project will therefore undertake assessments of the total costs and benefits of any recommendations to the overall NHS.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/03/2016 15:04:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

456356

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wound Dressings: Procurement
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 4 January (HL4800), whether they are aware of any limitations regarding the data contained in the Nursing Times report in December 2014, in particular its accuracy and relevance to the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL6590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>There were 856 responses to the Royal College of Nursing survey run by Nursing Times in December 2014. The respondents were keen to get involved in the procurement process and recognised opportunities to save money.</p><p> </p><p>The respondents to the survey included a broad spectrum of nursing staff, the breakdown of which was as follows: 35% Staff nurses, 31% Clinical nurse specialists; 16% ward sisters; 10% Senior nurse managers; 4% Healthcare Assistants; 1% Directors of Nursing; and 1% Student nurses. 74% of respondents to the survey saw opportunities to reduce duplication on wound care products.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/03/2016 15:05:56 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

456357

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wound Dressings: Prices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to consider restructuring the NHS Drug Tariff Part IX on wound dressings based on their clinical performance and intended use.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL6591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The scope of the Department’s clinical specifications project is to assess wound care products available via the NHS Supply Chain to secondary care organisations. There are no plans at this time to extend this scope to include wound care products listed in Part IX of the Drug Tariff, which can be prescribed in primary care at National Health Service expense.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/03/2016 14:03:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

456358

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Wound Dressings
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 4 January (HL4800), what evidence they have that suggests that the complexity of choice in wound dressings for nurses and clinicians makes their clinical decisions more difficult and can lead to over-specification and variation in standards of care.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL6592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The NHS Catalogue contained over 600,000 products, many of which had been not used in excess of the last 12 months or were seemingly duplicate items. Given the sheer volume of products, this creates the complexity faced by clinicians and nurses when determining the appropriate products to use, which directly makes their decisions more difficult.</p><p>By undertaking the planned clinical rationalisation of the products available via NHS Supply Chain, the Department aims to reduce this complexity, removing unnecessary products, ensuring that those available to the National Health Service are of an appropriate specification in order to maintain high standards of patient care.</p><p>The clinical rationalisation work is being undertaken by practising clinicians taking into account feedback from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and other relevant programmes, such as ‘ Getting it Right First Time’.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/03/2016 15:21:28 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

456613

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are short-sighted in each of the last five years; and what steps he is taking to ensure such people are properly treated.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on the numbers of people who are short sighted, therefore no such estimate has been made. Information is, however, available on the number of National Health Service sight tests provided and NHS optical vouchers issued. This information is available on the Health and Social Care Information Centre website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=18320&amp;topics=2%2fPrimary+care+services%2fEye+care+services%2fEye+care+services+activity&amp;sort=Relevance&amp;size=10&amp;page=1#top" target="_blank">http://www.hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue?productid=18320&amp;topics=2%2fPrimary+care+services%2fEye+care+services%2fEye+care+services+activity&amp;sort=Relevance&amp;size=10&amp;page=1#top</a></p><p> </p><p>Individuals who are experiencing problems with their vision, possibly due to short sightedness, are encouraged to have a sight test with an optometrist or ophthalmic medical practitioner. Sight tests, whether provided on the NHS or privately, allow the opportunity to review all aspects of eye health, including whether there is a need to correct short sightedness, the main treatment for which is glasses or contact lenses.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 08/03/2016 12:07:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

456611

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Viral Diseases: Memory
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on the connection between memory loss and viral illness.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>No such discussions have taken place.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/03/2016 14:53:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

456615

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Twin-to-twin Transfusion Syndrome
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome there have been in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>We are advised by the Health and Social Care Information Centre that the data requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/03/2016 17:11:15 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon