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1123826

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date	30/04/2019
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	Influenza
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 steps he has taken to reduce the number of people contracting the winter flu virus.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	249289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>Influenza vaccination is offered to those at higher risk from flu, including older people, pregnant women, and those with certain underlying medical conditions. Based on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the range of recommended flu vaccines for different patient groups has been extended for 2019/20 and these should provide better protection.</p><p>Since 2013/14, the flu vaccination to children has been introduced in a phased roll-out. This programme provides protection to the children themselves and reduces flu transmission. In 2019/20 the programme will be extended to Year 6 school children, so for the first time in England all primary school aged children will be offered vaccination, as well as two and three year olds.</p><p>Vaccination is also recommended for frontline health and social care workers to reduce transmission of flu to those they care for.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/05/2019 15:56:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1123827

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Breast Cancer
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 the provision of annual check-ups for women with a history of breast cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	249290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) requirements for breast cancer follow-up include annual mammography to all people with breast cancer until they enter the NHS Breast Screening Programme in England. People diagnosed with breast cancer who are already eligible for screening should have annual mammography for five years.</p><p>NICE requirements also include clinical follow-up for people who have had treatment for breast cancer, which is a written care plan that is agreed with a healthcare professional. These care plans should include details of surveillance mammography and signs and symptoms to look out for and to seek advice on.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/05/2019 15:57:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1123832

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Diabetes: Health Education
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 are being taken to make it easier to ensure that providers of diabetes structured education services are able to (a) upload data and (b) integrate information with NHS systems.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	249295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>Where structured diabetes educational programmes are offered from, or delivered in, general practice (GP), the capability to encode this activity is available in all of the GP principal systems, and this coded data contributes to the National Diabetes audit. While there are currently no systems in place for external providers of diabetes educational services to upload this data to GP systems or any national repository, this type of capability will in future be developed into the GP patient record through interface work which is currently in development.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/05/2019 16:00:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1123833

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
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	Diabetes: Health Education
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 modules are in diabetes structured education courses for patients; and what proportion of patients have (a) enrolled and (b) completed those modules in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	249296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 09/05/2019 16:02:08 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1123838

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to promote (a) information and (b) choice in relation to specialist housing for older people.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	249301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the provision of high quality,impartial, information and advice in England is an important service which older people, and their relatives and carers should have access to in order to make informed choices. The Department of Health and Social Care has set out that one of the key principles that will guide thinking ahead of the Social Care Green Paper is control. This involves ensuring that individuals and families have the ability to direct the support they receive, the autonomy to lead the lives they want, and access to reliable information.</p><p>On 28 March, we announced our plans to implement the majority of the Law Commission’s recommendations to reform event fees in leasehold retirement properties. One of the key requirements of these recommendations is a statutorily backed requirement to ensure consumers have the necessary information to make an informed choice when purchasing their retirement property.( <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-03-28/HCWS1466" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2019-03-28/HCWS1466</a>)</p><p>My Department published the revised National Planning Policy Framework in July 2018 and this specifies that local planning authorities are expected to have planning policies which identify the size, type and tenure of homes needed for different groups in the community including older people. We will shortly be publishing further guidance to help councils put these policies in place. My Department, together with Department of Health and Social Care, also grant funds new supply of supported housing (with 34,000 new units delivered since 2011) including for older vulnerable people. With our announcement last year that funding for housing costs for supported accommodation would continue to be paid through Housing Benefit, we are putting in place the right funding and oversight environment which will give confidence to investors and to the sector, to continue to develop new supply of supported housing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/05/2019 13:24:22 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon