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622622

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS Improvement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are employed in NHS Improvement's Operational Productivity Directorate; what the total salary cost is for employing all such people; and how many employees in that Directorate earn more than £100,000.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	50699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>When at full capacity the directorate will have approximately 140 members of staff. At this time it is not possible to provide a precise figure due to the ongoing recruitment process.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 01/11/2016 16:52:07 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

622632

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Opening Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the number of accident and emergency departments that will reduce their opening hours by 2020; and which accident and emergency departments a decision has been reached on reducing open hours.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	50656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The redesign and delivery of front-line health services is a matter for the local National Health Service – clinically led by front line NHS organisations and clinicians who are closest to the needs of communities and therefore best-placed to make decisions in the interests of their patients.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England leads on reconfiguration policy. There has been no formal assessment of accident and emergency departments that will see a reduction in their opening hours by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 01/11/2016 16:50:55 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

622636

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Circle
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether a formal assessment of the effect of awarding the contract for provision of muscular skeletal services to Circle Health at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts was carried out by (a) Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) NHS England.
	tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
	tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
	uin	50660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The procurement of local health services by means of competitive tendering is a matter for the local National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is accountable for ensuring that the health services which both it and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) commission are of high quality and deliver value for money. The CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework has been designed to provide confidence to internal and external stakeholders and the wider public that CCGs are operating effectively to commission safe, high-quality and sustainable services within their resources.</p><p> </p><p>We are informed by NHS England that Greenwich CCG follows standard NHS procurement procedures and that these procedures were followed for this procurement. We understand that the detailed clinical service specification will be used to hold the provider to account within the format of the NHS national standard contract.</p><p> </p><p>We are further advised that this procurement has been subject to NHS England’s assurance process for this type of contract.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 01/11/2016 17:44:23 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

622619

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Visitors: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many commissioned health visitor student places had been filled by September 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	50708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The number of commissions proposed for health visitor students in the academic year 2016/17 is 817 as detailed in Health Education England’s Workforce Plan for England 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of health visitor student places that have been filled in the academic year 2016/17 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 50709 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:53:16 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

622620

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Visitors: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many commissions for health visitor students there were for the academic year starting September 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	50709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The number of commissions proposed for health visitor students in the academic year 2016/17 is 817 as detailed in Health Education England’s Workforce Plan for England 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of health visitor student places that have been filled in the academic year 2016/17 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 50708 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:53:16 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

622633

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Sick Leave
	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 cost to the NHS of its staff being unable to work because of lack of availability of medical treatment funded by clinical commissioning groups.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	50657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The information needed to make such an estimate is not collected centrally. Employers are responsible for managing sickness absence of their staff and taking action to support their health and wellbeing so they can stay at work and many already provide access to physiotherapy for musculoskeletal problems as well as counselling for mental health and stress.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is leading a £5 million campaign to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of National Health Service staff working with Public Health England, NHS Employers and trusts across the NHS. They are creating capacity to improve help for staff on the major causes of ill health including access to physiotherapy and mental health talking therapies, as well as smoking cessation and weight management services. Subject to evaluation at 10 trusts, these services will be rolled out more widely in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 04/11/2016 09:34:05 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

622602

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October 2016 to Question 49779, whether he has ordered an investigation into whether, at any point since 1 April 2016, any other patient transport services were provided without the required registration with the Care Quality Commission; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	50845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The commissioning of patient transport services is ultimately a matter for the local National Health Service, but the Department is taking urgent action to address any issues that this case raises.</p><p> </p><p>First, in light of information brought to the attention of the Minister of State, following an Adjournment debate on 25 October 2016, the Department has asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate the regulation status of all contractors and sub-contractors of patient transport services commissioned by the High Weald Havens Clinical Commissioning Group from April 2016.</p><p> </p><p>Second, the Department has also asked NHS England to ensure that clinical commissioning groups are assured of the CQC registration status of their local patient transport providers.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 03/11/2016 14:26:46 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

622617

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors commissioned by local authorities since October 2015 are employed in non-NHS organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	50710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Health Visitor Minimum Data set collection, that was established in 2012 to collect statistics on the number of health visitors employed by National Health Service provider organisations as well as those employed by local authorities, or other care providers was approved for the duration of the national programme only and ceased at the end of September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of health visitors are employed in NHS organisations. Health visitors are also employed by other providers including independent sector and local authority in house provision. From statistics published by NHS Digital, as at 30 September 2015, the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) health visitors directly employed in NHS organisations was 10,236 and the number of health visitors (FTE) employed by local authorities and/or other care providers was 518.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2015, NHS Digital began to collect and publish data on staff, including health visitors, in some independent sector healthcare organisations in England. This collection does not represent the entire workforce employed across the whole of the independent sector, nor does this data only show staff providing NHS commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data, published in September 2016, showed, as at 31 March 2016 that there were 924 FTE health visitors in those independent sector organisations which provided data.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 50711 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:52:14 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

622618

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Visitors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent health visitors were in post in September 2015 prior to transfer of commissioning to local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	50711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>The Health Visitor Minimum Data set collection, that was established in 2012 to collect statistics on the number of health visitors employed by National Health Service provider organisations as well as those employed by local authorities, or other care providers was approved for the duration of the national programme only and ceased at the end of September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The vast majority of health visitors are employed in NHS organisations. Health visitors are also employed by other providers including independent sector and local authority in house provision. From statistics published by NHS Digital, as at 30 September 2015, the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) health visitors directly employed in NHS organisations was 10,236 and the number of health visitors (FTE) employed by local authorities and/or other care providers was 518.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2015, NHS Digital began to collect and publish data on staff, including health visitors, in some independent sector healthcare organisations in England. This collection does not represent the entire workforce employed across the whole of the independent sector, nor does this data only show staff providing NHS commissioned services.</p><p> </p><p>The latest available data, published in September 2016, showed, as at 31 March 2016 that there were 924 FTE health visitors in those independent sector organisations which provided data.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 50710 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:52:14 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

622616

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) consultations and (b) inspections took place at Royal Brampton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust prior to that Trust being notified on 30 June 2016 that it did not meet the new standards for congenital heart disease services.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	50741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>NHS England’s proposals for change, to ensure that all providers of congenital heart disease services for adults and children comply with new commissioning standards, are based on written evidence provided by the units themselves. The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust conducted a self-assessment against the nationally agreed standards which NHS England then considered. No inspection was undertaken as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has met with the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust to discuss the impact of their proposals for change. On reviewing the material provided by the Trust, NHS England has asked for further information.</p><p> </p><p>The standards for paediatric co-location are not currently met by the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. NHS England has informed these trusts of its assessment and whether this may involve further consideration of proposals to cease providing those services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has not yet made any commissioning decisions. It will run a service change process, including a public consultation, on its proposals for change.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 50743 50744 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:49:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias