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1127749

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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: BioMarin
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the progress of talks on procuring medicines between the NHS and Bio Marin.
	tabling member constituency	Gloucester
	tabling member printed	Richard Graham
	uin	256971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. Discussions about commercial agreements for medicines are rightly held between NHS England as an independent body and the manufacturer concerned. The Department plays no role in such discussions.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/05/2019 10:48:36 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham

1127754

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Blood Diseases: 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 his timescale is for (a) implementing and (b) completing NHS England’s planned restructuring of haemoglobinopathy services; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	256972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>It is anticipated that NHS England’s new model for specialised haemoglobinopathy services will be in place by early 2020. The new model is designed to improve access to specialist advice and care for patients, irrespective of where they live.</p><p>As part of the new service, NHS England is establishing a National Haemoglobinopathy Panel to provide national multidisciplinary oversight. Patients with complex needs, wherever they live, will be able to be referred to the Panel for expert advice on new treatments and approaches to care. The national service specification will also include guidance for the 13 new born bloodspot screening programme laboratories to refer infants found to be positive for sickle cell disease to the 10 new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams. Whilst NHS England commissions the specialised aspect of haemoglobinopathy care, haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres will be encouraged to link with and support community-based services provided through primary care or community teams based within haemoglobinopathy teams.</p><p>The service specifications for the new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams and the haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres are due to be established in the next month and the associated impact assessment will be published as part of the suite of documents. The equality impact assessment indicates that it will advance the promotion of equality and support the reduction of health inequalities. For example, patients with thalassemia and sickle cell conditions will have equitable access to high quality specialist care and support within specialised commissioned centres irrespective of where in the country they live.</p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics data is attached, showing finished admission episodes with a primary and a primary or secondary diagnosis of sickle cell disorders by NHS England region of residence and Index of Multiple Deprivation decile in the year 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256973 256974 257011 question first answered 04/06/2019 16:13:21 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name Data Table for Combined Diana Johnson PQs (257011) formatted.xlsx title FAE sickle cell NHS England table
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1127755

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Sickle Cell Diseases: 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 assessment he has made of the effect of NHS England’s planned restructuring of haemoglobinopathy services on (a) equitable access to services, (b) access to the most effective treatments, (c) access to highly specialised care and (d) quality of care in community-based settings for patients with sickle cell disease.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	256973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>It is anticipated that NHS England’s new model for specialised haemoglobinopathy services will be in place by early 2020. The new model is designed to improve access to specialist advice and care for patients, irrespective of where they live.</p><p>As part of the new service, NHS England is establishing a National Haemoglobinopathy Panel to provide national multidisciplinary oversight. Patients with complex needs, wherever they live, will be able to be referred to the Panel for expert advice on new treatments and approaches to care. The national service specification will also include guidance for the 13 new born bloodspot screening programme laboratories to refer infants found to be positive for sickle cell disease to the 10 new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams. Whilst NHS England commissions the specialised aspect of haemoglobinopathy care, haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres will be encouraged to link with and support community-based services provided through primary care or community teams based within haemoglobinopathy teams.</p><p>The service specifications for the new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams and the haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres are due to be established in the next month and the associated impact assessment will be published as part of the suite of documents. The equality impact assessment indicates that it will advance the promotion of equality and support the reduction of health inequalities. For example, patients with thalassemia and sickle cell conditions will have equitable access to high quality specialist care and support within specialised commissioned centres irrespective of where in the country they live.</p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics data is attached, showing finished admission episodes with a primary and a primary or secondary diagnosis of sickle cell disorders by NHS England region of residence and Index of Multiple Deprivation decile in the year 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256972 256974 257011 question first answered 04/06/2019 16:13:21 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name Data Table for Combined Diana Johnson PQs (257011) formatted.xlsx title FAE sickle cell NHS England table
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1127756

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Sickle Cell Diseases: 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, if he will publish impact assessments of the potential effects of NHS England’s planned restructuring of haemoglobinopathy services on treatment of (a) all haemoglobinopathies and (b) sickle cell disease.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	256974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>It is anticipated that NHS England’s new model for specialised haemoglobinopathy services will be in place by early 2020. The new model is designed to improve access to specialist advice and care for patients, irrespective of where they live.</p><p>As part of the new service, NHS England is establishing a National Haemoglobinopathy Panel to provide national multidisciplinary oversight. Patients with complex needs, wherever they live, will be able to be referred to the Panel for expert advice on new treatments and approaches to care. The national service specification will also include guidance for the 13 new born bloodspot screening programme laboratories to refer infants found to be positive for sickle cell disease to the 10 new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams. Whilst NHS England commissions the specialised aspect of haemoglobinopathy care, haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres will be encouraged to link with and support community-based services provided through primary care or community teams based within haemoglobinopathy teams.</p><p>The service specifications for the new specialised haemoglobinopathy teams and the haemoglobinopathy coordinating centres are due to be established in the next month and the associated impact assessment will be published as part of the suite of documents. The equality impact assessment indicates that it will advance the promotion of equality and support the reduction of health inequalities. For example, patients with thalassemia and sickle cell conditions will have equitable access to high quality specialist care and support within specialised commissioned centres irrespective of where in the country they live.</p><p>Hospital Episode Statistics data is attached, showing finished admission episodes with a primary and a primary or secondary diagnosis of sickle cell disorders by NHS England region of residence and Index of Multiple Deprivation decile in the year 2017-18.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 256972 256973 257011 question first answered 04/06/2019 16:13:21 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name Data Table for Combined Diana Johnson PQs (257011) formatted.xlsx title FAE sickle cell NHS England table
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1127772

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the review of the methods for the NICE Technology Appraisal Programme referred to in the 2019 voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access will include support for earlier patient access to innovative medicines.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Chris Green
	uin	257056
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is in the process of scoping the review of the methods for technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies evaluations. Scoping will involve patient organisations and other relevant stakeholders, including industry. The Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access sets out the Department’s expectation that that any future changes to NICE methods and processes would support faster adoption of the most clinically and cost effective medicines. Additional detail and more information will be made available on the NICE website in due course.</p><p>The 2019 Voluntary Scheme also states that NICE will adopt the principle of appraisal timelines for non-oncology treatments matching the faster timescales for oncology treatments, subject to the evidence base for the product being sufficiently developed to enable a NICE appraisal with the same level of rigour and certainty as would be expected currently.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/05/2019 10:52:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1127781

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Social Prescribing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on social prescribing.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	257061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>‘Prevention is better than cure’, published by the Department in November 2018, highlighted the important role social prescribing can play in reducing people’s isolation and improving levels of activity.</p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England has committed to deliver at least £4.5 billion of new investment in primary medical and community health services over the next five years. Part of this investment will support the recruitment of over 1,000 trained social prescribing link workers - in place by the end of 2020/21 rising further by 2023/24, with the aim that over 900,000 people are able to be referred to social prescribing schemes by then.</p><p>The Prevention document and the Long Term Plan can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevention-is-better-than-cure-our-vision-to-help-you-live-well-for-longer</a></p><p><a href="http://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/" target="_blank">www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-long-term-plan/</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/05/2019 14:58:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1127796

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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
	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 has taken to tackle falling numbers of GPs in England.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	256914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan made a clear commitment to the future of general practice, with primary and community care set to receive at least £4.5 billion more in real terms a year by 2023/24. Spend on these services will grow faster than the rising National Health Service budget. Since the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners (GP) Committee have agreed a five-year GP (General Medical Services) contract framework from 2019/20. The new contract framework will be essential to deliver the ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Plan through strong general practice services. The contract confirmed that NHS England will now extend a number of general practice programmes until 2023/24 to help deliver against the commitment to 5,000 additional doctors in general practice.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the GP workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>Further plans to support delivery will be set out in the final NHS workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:30:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1127797

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of standard 10-minute appointments with GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	256915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>No specific work has been done centrally to assess the effectiveness of the standard 10 minute consultation. However, there is no contractual obligation regarding the length of appointments in general practice.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:30:35 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1127832

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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 and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received from (a) allied health professionals and (b) their representative bodies on the proposed increase in the registration fee for the Health and Care Professions Council.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	257083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 79 items of correspondence received since 24 September 2018 on the proposed increase in registration fees for the Health and Care Professions Council’s registrants. None of these were from organisations known to represent allied health professionals.</p><p>The Department does not routinely record the occupation of correspondents.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/05/2019 11:00:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1127833

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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 and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential financial effect on allied health professionals of the proposed increase in the registration fee for the Health and Care Professions Council.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	257084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessment of the potential financial effect on allied health professionals on the proposed increase in registration fees for the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The HCPC is independent of Government and funded by registrants’ fees on a cost recovery basis.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/05/2019 11:06:33 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy