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1131293

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
	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 companies are licensed to sell cannabis products to the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
	tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
	uin	263171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Any company meeting the standards for the manufacture of unlicensed medicinal products, can supply cannabis-based products for medicinal use.</p><p> </p><p>Cannabis-based products for medicinal use are Schedule 2 controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, which means that manufacturers, importers and distributors of these products must hold valid Home Office and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licences for the relevant activities which will include possession, supply and production of controlled drugs. Where products are sourced from abroad, importers must obtain an import licence from the Home Office and non-objection to import from the MHRA for each individual import of a controlled drug.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 09:39:54 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

1131485

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Pharmacy
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to build on the benefits of the Healthy Living Pharmacy framework and to increase the role of community pharmacies in the prevention of ill-health.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL16279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>Both the NHS Long Term Plan and the Prevention is Better than Cure vision document, published in November 2018, set out an ambition for community pharmacy to take on an expanded role to support the prevention of ill-health. In 2016, Public Health England (PHE) introduced profession-led self-assessment for attainment of Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) level 1 status. This was followed by the introduction of a quality payment for HLP level 1 status attainment within the community pharmacy contractual framework. As a result, there has been an increase in the numbers achieving HLP status. There are now 9,562 community pharmacies in England, meeting standards set out by Public Health England and delivering a wide range of lifestyle and public health interventions. For example, to support national Smile Month. 74,563 pharmacy staff across England have passed an assessment of knowledge on children’s dental health and have taken part in a mandatory campaign to reduce oral health inequalities, to improve oral health in children under five.</p><p>In line with this, the NHS Long Term Plan outlines an aim for voluntary sector partners, community pharmacists and general practitioner practices to work together to facilitate opportunities for the public to check on their health, through tests for high blood pressure and other high-risk conditions. The Department is now developing a Green Paper on Prevention to further work up this ambition and plans for delivering it. This will be published later this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 25/06/2019 14:35:18 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1131255

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Obesity
	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 tackle obesity.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	263150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care (Steve Brine MP) to the hon. Member for Cardiff Central (Jo Stevens MP) on 28 February 2019 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-02-25/225540/" target="_blank">225540</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:17:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1131484

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Pharmacy
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the role of community pharmacies (1) in promoting self care, and (2) as a first point of contact recognised in contractual frameworks.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL16278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>In terms of promoting self-care, community pharmacy contractors are already obliged by the community pharmacy contractual framework to provide advice and support to enable people to derive maximum benefit from caring for themselves or their families. NHS England and Improvement have been running the Help Us to Help You campaigns which educate the public on the ability of community pharmacies to help the public and patients with their needs relating to self-care and minor illness.</p><p>In 2016, Public Health England (PHE) introduced profession-led self-assessment for attainment of healthy living pharmacy (HLP) level 1 status. This was followed by the introduction of a quality payment for HLP level 1 status attainment. As a result, there has been an increase in the numbers achieving HLP status. There are now more than 9,500 community pharmacies already accredited as HLPs, each with qualified health champions promoting health and wellbeing messages, helping to prevent people from becoming ill and maintaining the health of those that are already ill in their communities.</p><p>PHE is developing an HLP framework for commissioners which can be used when commissioning public health services to ensure consistency of delivery across the country, due to be published in spring 2020. These services help to further increase the role of community pharmacy in prevention and improving health.</p><p>In terms of community pharmacies as a first point of contact, the HLP initiative is also relevant.‎ In addition, since December 2017, NHS England and NHS Improvement has been piloting the Digital Minor Illness Referral Service. This is a service that allows referrals from NHS 111 to community pharmacies for advice and support for minor illnesses and health concerns. The outcome for the patient, if they attend the pharmacy for a consultation with the pharmacist, may be either to receive advice alone or advice with access to medicines through a private sale of an over the counter medicine or potentially a medicine supply through a locally commissioned minor ailment scheme. In November 2018, the pilot was expanded to include London, Devon and the East Midlands., in addition to the North East.</p><p>Since 2016, the NHS Medicines Supply Advanced Service has been piloted. This is service manages a referral from NHS 111 to a community pharmacy where a patient has contacted NHS 111 because they need urgent access to a medicine or appliance that they have been previously prescribed on a National Health Service prescription.</p><p>Furthermore, the Department, with NHS England and NHS Improvement, has now begun negotiations with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to determine the new Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019/20 and beyond. These are confidential negotiations and as such we are unable to provide further detail at this time.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Barran question first answered 25/06/2019 14:34:57 answering member 4703 label Biography information for Baroness Barran
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1131292

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: East Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money each Clinical Commissioning Group in the East Midlands allocated to mental health services in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	263241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on how much money each clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocates to specific service area, for example, mental health services, is not collected centrally. It is for individual CCGs to determine budgets for mental health services based on their populations’ needs.</p><p>The Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS) requires CCGs to increase investment in mental health services in line with overall increase in funding.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2019 16:38:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1131201

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Abuse
	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 ensure that (a) residents of care homes and (b) the families of those residents in England are aware of mechanisms for reporting abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Mechanisms are in place for residents of care homes and their families to report abuse.</p><p>Under the Care Act 2014, in any activity that a local authority undertakes, it should ensure that the individual is, and remains, protected against abuse or neglect.</p><p>Section 4 of the Care Act 2014 also places a duty on local authorities to “establish and maintain a service for providing people in its area with information and advice relating to care and support for adults and support for carers.” This service includes information and advice about what to do in cases of neglect or abuse of an adult. Where it is suspected that an individual may be at risk of abuse or neglect, local authorities have a duty to carry out proportionate enquiries.</p><p>Quality Matters includes work to improve access to complaints systems and improve the feedback culture in the sector. In July 2018, as part of the initiative, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman and Healthwatch England published the Single Complaints Statement – a guide for each stage of the complaints process, for adult social care providers and commissioners, people who use services, their families and carers. This sets out what service users, their families and representatives can expect when making a complaint with a simple bulleted guide for each stage of the complaints process. Service providers are encouraged to adopt the single complaints statements into their own complaints policies and highlight them in any information they give to service users, their families and representatives.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:15:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131202

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Care Homes: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Ministers have had with the Care Quality Commission on (a) the care home inspection regime and (b) the potential inadequacies of that regime.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Frith
	uin	263231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Ministers in the Department meet regularly with senior leaders from the Care Quality Commission to discuss a wide range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:16:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1131409

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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 Professions: 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, how many Cuban-trained (a) doctors and (b) nurses are employed by the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	263048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes hospital and community health services workforce statistics for NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England.</p><p>NHS Digital workforce statistics reports on the nationality of doctors and nurses in English NHS trusts and CCGs. As at December 2018 there were 14 members of NHS staff of Cuban nationality (headcount), including a total of six doctors, nurses and health visitors and midwives. Nationality data is self-reported and may reflect cultural heritage rather than country of birth. We do not know whether these workers received their medical training in Cuba or not.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 19/06/2019 15:25:26 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1131323

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Lung Diseases: Medical Equipment
	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 merits for his Department's policies of the recommendation by the Committee on Climate Change in its Net Zero report to switch NHS patients to (a) dry powder and (b) low-global warming inhalers by 2027 to help the NHS meet its carbon targets.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	263022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement is currently reviewing cost and system pressures from changing prescribing practice linked to lower carbon inhalers and potential medication change impacts for patients. The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to a reduction in the carbon impact of inhalers of 4% of the total National Health Service carbon reduction required over the next 10 years to meet the current Climate Change Act targets.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 19/06/2019 14:16:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1131259

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Patients: Safety
	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 support global patient safety.
	tabling member constituency	North Antrim
	tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
	uin	263152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Patient safety in the National Health Service is a key priority for the Government. We also remain committed to building on the momentum we have established to address patient safety challenges globally.</p><p>The United Kingdom-led World Health Assembly Resolution, ‘Global Action on Patient Safety’, was adopted on 28 May 2019. It urges all countries to prioritise safety in the delivery of universal health coverage and establishes an annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 September.</p><p>The Government is committed to maintaining its leadership role on global patient safety.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/06/2019 16:18:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley