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63703

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Packaging
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to publish draft regulations associated with the standardised packaging of tobacco products and smoking in cars with children present in time for the measures to be made law before the end of March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department published draft regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products on 26 June. I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement given on 26 June 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, column 29-30WS.</p><p> </p><p>Regulations for making it an offence to smoke in private vehicles carrying children are being drafted at present.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:54:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

63912

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the (a) mean and (b) median duration to assessment, duration to treatment and duration to departure was in (i) type 1 and (ii) all accident and emergency departments in each month in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The information has been placed in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 16:06:48 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202302 - Lib Doc - Table.xlsx title Library Document
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

63909

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Meningitis: Vaccination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to begin negotiations with Novartis on the procurement of the vaccine for meningitis B as part of the primary infant immunisation schedule.
	tabling member constituency	South Down
	tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
	uin	202342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government is taking the necessary steps to ensure this procurement is properly conducted.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to introducing this vaccine in line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's recommendation, subject to the vaccine being available at a cost-effective price.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 16:46:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

63075

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Abortion
	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 whether all clinical staff working at abortion clinics are trained to level three of the intercollegiate framework; and if he will publish the evidence upon which that assessment is based.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	201626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>All clinical staff are expected to be trained to at least level 3 of the intercollegiate framework <em>Safeguarding Children and Young People: Roles and competences for healthcare staff</em>. The senior manager or director of the clinic should be responsible for ensuring that all clinical staff have their qualifications, knowledge and skills reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that they are kept up to date with current practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Care Quality Commission's (CQC's) inspection approach includes checks on whether abortion providers have at all times sufficient numbers of suitably trained and suitably qualified, skilled and experienced staff to safeguard the safety and welfare of service users. This includes making sure that there is a named safeguarding lead and that the provider has taken account of statutory guidance as set out in the intercollegiate framework. The CQC has begun to roll out a new, stronger methodology. As part of this, the arrangements for safeguarding will always be inspected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:28:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

63688

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nervous System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS hospital trusts are not currently meeting the 18-week target in respect of spinal services.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	202204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times are collected separately for eighteen high volume treatment functions (divisions of clinical work based on main specialty). These treatment functions are listed in the National Health Service Data Dictionary at:</p><p> </p><p>www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/data_field_notes/t/tr/treatment_function_code_(referral_to_treatment_period)_de.asp?shownav=1</p><p> </p><p>Referral to treatment waiting times for all other treatment functions, including spinal surgery services and spinal injuries, are collected under a single other treatment function, and are not separately identifiable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:42:19 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

63910

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ebola
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what contingency plans he has in place to deal with an outbreak of Ebola virus in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Watford
	tabling member printed	Richard Harrington
	uin	202299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The National Health Service has plans in place to deal with patients with infectious diseases as part of its core business. This includes plans to manage patients in line with infection control procedures, and where necessary in highly specialist infectious diseases facilities.A patient with Ebola virus infection would be cared for in the national High Level Isolation Unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. In the unlikely event of an outbreak involving more than two people, specialist staff at this unit are trained and prepared to look after patients safely in an isolation ward, which would be dedicated for this purpose.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK, the procedures outlined in the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens guidelines, “The Management of Hazard Group 4 viral haemorrhagic fevers and similar human infectious diseases of high consequence”, are followed for any suspected case.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has assessed the risk of importation of Ebola in the UK as very low. It is extremely unlikely that an outbreak of Ebola would occur in the UK even if there was to be an imported case, as there are factors operating in West Africa which would not be seen in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:56:16 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford

63297

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were seen by (a) general practitioners and (b) accident and emergency staff in each of the last 15 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
	uin	201963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Information about numbers of patients seen by general practitioners (GPs) is available in Trends in Consultation Rates in General Practice – 1995-2009. This report estimates the number of consultations by GPs, nurses and other primary care clinicians in England using statistical techniques based on a sample. Consultations include visits to surgery, telephone consultations, home visits and consultations at other locations. Information is not available for years after 2008.</p><p> </p><p>Information about numbers of patients seen by accident and emergency (A&amp;E) staff is available from weekly situation reports about A&amp;E activity and waiting times.</p><p> </p><p>Such information as is available for the last 15 years is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><p>Numbers of GP consultations and A&amp;E attendances in England, 1999-2000 to 2013-14<sup>1</sup></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>GP consultations</p></td><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>A&amp;E attendances<sup>2,3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999</p></td><td><p>155,500,000</p></td><td><p>1999-2000</p></td><td><p>14,629,025</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>155,100,000</p></td><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>14,293,307</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>161,900,000</p></td><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>14,044,018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>162,100,000</p></td><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>14,045,575</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>168,900,000</p></td><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>16,516,845</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>170,900,000</p></td><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>17,837,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>175,400,000</p></td><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>18,759,164</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>181,400,000</p></td><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>18,922,275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>185,300,000</p></td><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>19,076,831</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>189,000,000</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>19,588,344</p></td></tr><tr><td><br><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>20,511,908</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>21,380,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>21,481,402</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>21,738,637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>21,778,946</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Trends in Consultation Rates in General Practice - 1995-2009, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>Accident and emergency weekly situation reports, NHS England</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>Information on GP consultations is for calendar years. Information on A&amp;E attendances is for financial years. It is not possible to show both datasets on a consistent calendar or financial year basis.</p><p><sup>2</sup>KH09 data is used from 1987-88 to 2001-02. Quarterly Monitoring of Accident and Emergency data is used from 2002-03 to 2010-11. Weekly situation reports are used from 2011-12 onwards.</p><p><sup>3</sup>Attendance data are for all A&amp;E department types, including major A&amp;Es departments, single speciality departments, and minor injury units. In 2002-03, attendance data was first collected split by type, but not from walk-in centres (WiCs). Data from WiCs was first collected in 2003-04. Hence, data prior to 2003-04 is not comparable.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:29:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

63686

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to improve access to sexual health services.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	202213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Local authorities are mandated to commission comprehensive, open access sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment services, and contraception advice and provision that meet the needs of their local population. The Government's ambitions for sexual health are set out in A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England (March 2013); a copy of which has already been placed in the Library.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:37:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

63690

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Education: Sex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to support FPA Sexual Health Week 2014; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	202214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not directly support the Family Planning Association's (FPA) Sexual Health Week. However, the Department holds a three year contract with the FPA which runs to 31 March 2015 totalling £1.130 million for a sexual health information service. This provides information to the public and healthcare professionals on all aspects of contraception and sexually transmitted infections.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:43:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

63691

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Sexually Transmitted Infections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to tackle sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	202215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Last year the Department published a <em>Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England</em> which highlights the importance of reducing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in men who have sex with men (MSM). The Department also funds the Terrence Higgins Trust for the HIV Prevention England programme which targets MSM and African communities and includes action to support sustained condom use and other behaviours that prevent HIV and other STIs in both communities. Public Health England will launch the initial findings on the work to develop their MSM framework on 27 June and they will finalise and publish the framework in the next couple of months.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/06/2014 15:57:29 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger