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823103

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what processes his Department has in place to make sure that patients access the correct health services to reduce unnecessary A&E admissions.
	tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Scott Mann
	uin	122786
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’ sets out a plan to better integrate general practitioner (GP), community, mental health and hospital services and work more closely with home care and care homes so that people avoid hospital stays where possible.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is driving forward health service transformation through new care models such as the Primary Care Home, which brings together a range of health and social care professionals to provide enhanced personalised and preventative care for their local community and through the Enhanced Health in Care Homes vanguards which are working with care homes to provide joined up primary, community and secondary care, and social care to residents of care and nursing homes, via a range of in reach services.</p><p> </p><p>The Better Care Fund (BCF) has incentivised local areas to work together better, pooling budgets to join up health and care services. As part of the BCF funding requirements, local areas have to produce data to show that they are reducing the number of unplanned acute admissions to hospital.</p><p> </p><p>By March 2019 the whole of England will be covered by a fully Integrated Urgent Care Service which will improve patient access to services that include evening and weekend appointments with GPs and a clinical advice and treatment service accessed through the NHS 111 telephone number to ensure that patients receive timely treatment advice.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 17:20:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

823182

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust fully consulted with partners in their local Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships over proposals to establish a wholly-owned company to run estates and other support services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust briefed all members of the Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint (Somerset and Taunton Foundation Trust, Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust, Somerset Clinical Comissioning Group and Somerset County Council) about its plans to establish a wholly-owned company to run its estates and other support services. As required by the National NHS Standard Contract, the Trust sought and received permission from Somerset CCG, Dorset CCG and NHS England Specialist Commissioning for some of the estates services previously delivered by the Trust to be delivered by the new wholly-owned subsidiary.</p><p>NHS Improvement has advised that following legal advice sought by the Trust, informal staff consultation took place in October 2017 and that a further formal consultation took place in November 2017.</p><p>National Health Service organisations are responsible for deciding locally the most appropriate structures they need to deliver services to their patients within available resources.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4674 HL4675 question first answered 24/01/2018 16:04:32 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

823183

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust fully consulted with staff over the full details of proposals to establish a wholly-owned company to run estates and other support services.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust briefed all members of the Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint (Somerset and Taunton Foundation Trust, Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust, Somerset Clinical Comissioning Group and Somerset County Council) about its plans to establish a wholly-owned company to run its estates and other support services. As required by the National NHS Standard Contract, the Trust sought and received permission from Somerset CCG, Dorset CCG and NHS England Specialist Commissioning for some of the estates services previously delivered by the Trust to be delivered by the new wholly-owned subsidiary.</p><p>NHS Improvement has advised that following legal advice sought by the Trust, informal staff consultation took place in October 2017 and that a further formal consultation took place in November 2017.</p><p>National Health Service organisations are responsible for deciding locally the most appropriate structures they need to deliver services to their patients within available resources.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4673 HL4675 question first answered 24/01/2018 16:04:32 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

823184

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions, if any, they had with the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust about options for the Trust to make major savings, before the Trust proposed to establish a wholly-owned company to run estates and other support services; and what options were considered.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2018 answer text <p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust briefed all members of the Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprint (Somerset and Taunton Foundation Trust, Somerset Partnership Foundation Trust, Somerset Clinical Comissioning Group and Somerset County Council) about its plans to establish a wholly-owned company to run its estates and other support services. As required by the National NHS Standard Contract, the Trust sought and received permission from Somerset CCG, Dorset CCG and NHS England Specialist Commissioning for some of the estates services previously delivered by the Trust to be delivered by the new wholly-owned subsidiary.</p><p>NHS Improvement has advised that following legal advice sought by the Trust, informal staff consultation took place in October 2017 and that a further formal consultation took place in November 2017.</p><p>National Health Service organisations are responsible for deciding locally the most appropriate structures they need to deliver services to their patients within available resources.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4673 HL4674 question first answered 24/01/2018 16:04:32 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

823078

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Medical Treatments: Innovation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy of the Medical Technology Group’s 2017 report, Keeping Britain Working: how medical technology can help reduce the cost of ill health to the UK economy; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	122761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the argument in the Medical Technology Groups report that more can and should be done to accelerate access to patients those medical technologies that have been evidenced to save money.</p><p> </p><p>Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability, published in November 2017, demonstrates that the Government recognises that new advances in technology offer more opportunities than ever before to improve outcomes for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions and that it is for the Government to help set the direction and stimulate good ideas.</p><p> </p><p>Further, the response to the Accelerated Access Review set out how partners across the health system will work together to ensure innovative technologies, including devices and diagnostics, can reach patients quickly at a price that the National Health Service can afford.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this, a new Accelerated Access Pathway will be introduced, to streamline regulatory and market access decisions, getting breakthrough products that we believe will be truly transformative to patients more quickly. A new Accelerated Access Collaborative chaired by Sir Andrew Witty, will develop and own the Accelerated Access Pathway which will be operational from April 2018. All products including medical technologies, devices and diagnostics will be eligible for selection.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the new Pathway, we are providing funding of up to £86 million for United Kingdom firms to develop and test new technologies in the NHS. This could include innovations such as digital technologies to help patients manage their conditions from home instead of a hospital, or to develop new medicines.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 17:25:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

822999

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Veterinary Medicine: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that slaughterhouse vets who are non-UK EU citizens can continue to work here after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	122682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Veterinarians play a vital role in safeguarding United Kingdom public health, maintaining animal health and welfare and enabling trade. We value their work, and we want to ensure that they can continue to make an important contribution. Ministers in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and officials at the Food Standards Agency have been talking to representatives of the profession to ensure that those who do such an essential job continue to feel valued and to play the important role they do in assuring the public of the very high standards of food hygiene.</p><p> </p><p>The Food Standards Agency are working on a number of contingencies to ensure that we maintain the excellent standards of food safety that the UK currently enjoys, and maintain an effective workforce.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/01/2018 14:07:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

822817

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the rate of early diagnosis of cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	122500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>To raise awareness of cancer symptoms and encourage people with symptoms to go to their doctor without delay, we have run 13 national Be Clear on Cancer awareness campaigns since 2010/11. A national respiratory symptoms campaign ran from April to the end of August 2017, focusing on the symptoms of a persistent cough and inappropriate breathlessness. The campaign covered lung cancer along with other conditions such as heart disease and lung disease.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has developed a pilot on the abdominal symptoms which can be a sign of a number of cancers. This ran in the East and West Midlands in February and March 2017. Working in partnership with Be Clear on Cancer, Cancer Research UK has piloted a campaign in the North West on increasing uptake of bowel cancer screening in January and March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Bowel scope screening has been rolled out to 98% of centres in England and over 300,000 55 year-olds have been screened so far.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended by the UK National Screening Committee and the independent Cancer Taskforce, we are modernising our world renowned cancer screening programmes by introducing Faecal Immunochemical Testing into the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme during 2018/19 and human papillomavirus as the primary test in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme by December 2019.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate (ACE) programme is testing innovative ways of diagnosing cancer earlier, with ACE Wave 2 piloting multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres for patients with vague or non-specific symptoms. The pilots are taking place in London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Oxfordshire and Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven (Yorkshire).</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health Care and Excellence updated referral guidelines for suspected cancer published in June 2015 could save about 5,000 lives a year with general practitioners urged to think of cancer sooner and lower the referral threshold for tests.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/01/2018 11:49:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

823067

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Arrowe Park Hospital: Waiting Lists
	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 elective operations were cancelled at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	122750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested. NHS England publishes quarterly performance data on the number of last minute elective operations cancelled for non-clinical reasons.</p><p> </p><p>This is published at trust level rather than by individual hospital site and can be accessed via NHS England’s statistical work areas webpage at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/cancelled-ops-data/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancelled-elective-operations/cancelled-ops-data/</a></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 23/01/2018 14:42:04 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

823051

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Arrowe Park Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was for A&E at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	122734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested. NHS Digital publishes monthly accident and emergency (A&amp;E) Clinical Quality Indicators (CQIs) that include the ‘Time to treatment of all A&amp;E attendances’ at trust level rather than by individual hospital.</p><p> </p><p>The data for the most recent reporting month, November 2017, is available via the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30186" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB30186</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is also available on the NHS Digital website for months since the A&amp;E CQIs were first published in April 2011.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/01/2018 15:49:41 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

823059

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Arrowe Park Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many and (b) what percentage of ambulances arriving at Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral exceeded the 30-minute wait target in each of the past 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	122742
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested. Data on ambulance handover delays is broken down by National Health Service trust rather than individual hospital and is published online from the end of November 2017 until the end of February 2018 as part of the NHS England winter daily situation reports collection, which can be found at the following address:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/</a></p><p> </p><p>Data on handover delays was not published as part of this collection during winter 2016/17.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 18/01/2018 16:49:16 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle