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436273

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish his Department's contingency plans for provider failure in the social care market.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	19153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Local authorities retain responsibility for managing provider failure in the social care market. The Government has worked with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and partners to publish guidance to support local authorities to develop contingency plans for managing the failure of a social care provider in their local area. The guidance can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/" target="_blank">http://www.lgiu.org.uk/report/care-and-continuity-guide/</a></p><br /><p>The Care Act also gave the Care Quality Commission a new function to oversee the finances of care providers which are either large or whose provision is geographically concentrated as their financial failure would make it difficult for local authorities to discharge their statutory responsibilities.</p><br /><p>The oversight function will provide early warning to relevant local authorities in the event that one of these providers is likely to fail and their services cease. This will allow local authorities time to implement contingency plans.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:50:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436281

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services and Social Services: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the integrated health and social care system in Northern Ireland in formulating policy on how to better integrate health and social care.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	19062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Department regularly reviews international evidence in relation to integrated health and social care services. While Northern Ireland has had a structurally integrated health and social care system since 1973, and in more recent years has undergone a restructure in an effort to deliver more coordinated and integrated care, academic evaluation of integration in Northern Ireland has been relatively limited to date. Nonetheless, officials continue to monitor new publications on this subject.</p><br /><p>It is important to note that while there is a growing body of evidence from around the world about what works with regard to integration, no country has successfully delivered integration on a universal scale. Moreover, due to fundamental differences in the design of different health and care systems it is not straightforward to apply lessons learnt elsewhere to the English system.</p><br /><p>More generally, the Government recently reemphasised its ambition to integrate health and social care across England by 2020, and will continue to monitor international evidence as policy is formulated with respect to this programme.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:48:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

435903

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to exempt people with long-term serious conditions from prescription charges for repeated renewals of their medication.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	19034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A person is entitled to apply for a medical exemption certificate exempting them from the prescription charge if they suffer from:</p><br /><p>- a permanent fistula (including caecostomy, colostomy, laryngostomy, or ileostomy) requiring continuous surgical dressing or requires an appliance</p><p>- forms of hypoadrenalism (including Addison's disease) for which specific substitution therapy is essential</p><p>- diabetes insipidus or other forms of hypopituitarism</p><p>- diabetes mellitus (except where treatment of the diabetes is by diet alone)</p><p>- hypoparathyroidism</p><p>- myasthenia gravis</p><p>- myxoedema</p><p>- epilepsy requiring continuous anti-convulsive therapy</p><p>- continuing physical disability which prevents the patient from leaving their residence without the help of another person</p><p>- they are undergoing treatment for cancer, the effects of cancer or the effects of cancer treatment.</p><br /><p>There are no plans to change this list.</p><br /><p>Other extensive exemption arrangements are in place, in England, including those based on income, which support those who cannot afford to pay for their prescriptions. For those who need multiple prescriptions and do not qualify for exemption, Prescription Prepayment Certificates (PPC) can be purchased, which allow someone to claim as many prescriptions as needed. A 12 month PPC costs £104 and benefits anyone who needs 13 or more prescriptions a year.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p><br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:32:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

437173

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received (a) since his appointment as Secretary of State and (b) since the appointment of his predecessor in that post expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	19686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 40 items of correspondence expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><br /><p>In 2014, NHS England initiated action including an investigation of the deaths of all patients of the trust who had been in receipt of mental health or learning disability services since 2011.</p><br /><p>We are advised by NHS England that a first draft of the Mazars report was shared with it and Southern Health Foundation Trust in September 2015. The Department has not received a copy of the report and the report is still to be finalised before publication.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19687 question first answered 15/12/2015 17:48:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

437174

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust first received a copy of the Mazers report on Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Heidi Alexander
	uin	19687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 40 items of correspondence expressing concerns about Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.</p><br /><p>In 2014, NHS England initiated action including an investigation of the deaths of all patients of the trust who had been in receipt of mental health or learning disability services since 2011.</p><br /><p>We are advised by NHS England that a first draft of the Mazars report was shared with it and Southern Health Foundation Trust in September 2015. The Department has not received a copy of the report and the report is still to be finalised before publication.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 19686 question first answered 15/12/2015 17:48:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander

436283

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has had with homecare providers to discuss how to improve recruitment and retention rates in the care sector.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	19064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>I have responsibility for adult social care. I regularly meet with homecare providers to discuss a range of topics including improving recruitment and retention rates in the care sector.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:45:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

437170

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish details of his proposal to introduce Ofsted-style ratings for clinical commissioning groups' mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	19560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced that the new Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) assessment framework being developed by NHS England will contain six key clinical areas, including mental health. The framework will be published in March 2016 and will be operational from 1 April 2016.</p><br /><p>An annual assessment of these clinical areas will be moderated by independent panels of experts. Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of MIND, has been appointed panel chair for mental health.</p><br /><p>A first simple assessment of all CCGs in these six areas will be published in June 2016. The formal annual summative assessment of all CCGs for 2016/17 will happen at the end of that financial year and be published in summer 2017. The annual assessment will be based on a four point scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 12:25:11 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

437175

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on making additional funding available to local authorities to help fund the introduction of the national living wage into social care from April 2016; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	19646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Over the course of the Spending Review there have been a large number of in-depth discussions at both official and Ministerial level to inform the outcome. These discussions and analysis informed the decision to provide a settlement which means local government has access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending in real terms by the end of the Parliament, including:</p><br /><p>- The introduction of a social care precept, which puts money raising powers into the hands of local areas who understand the need in their area and who are best placed to respond. This could raise up to £2 billion by the end of the Parliament; and</p><p>- From 2017/18, additional funds for social care will be made available through the Better Care Fund. This will rise to £1.5 billion by 2019/20.</p><br /><p>Following this additional funding, we expect councils will be able to increase the prices they pay for care in order to cover costs providers are facing such as the national living wage.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 12:29:03 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

437177

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust received for treating people from outside the EU in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	19634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Patients who are not ‘ordinarily resident’ in the United Kingdom and to whom no exemption from charges under the Charging Regulations applies should be directly charged.</p><br /><p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for funding the care of those visitors to the UK who are exempt from charges and those services that are free to all overseas visitors. Data are not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:25:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

436284

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospital Beds
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what formal guidance exists on the role of social care providers in helping to formulate discharge procedures within NHS hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	19065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Care Act 2014 requires the National Health Service to notify local authorities whenever a hospital patient is likely to have care and support needs once they are discharged from hospital. This requirement was part of the wide ranging consultation on the draft regulations and guidance for implementation of the Act. The Care and Support Statutory Guidance sets out these procedures in more detail; they are designed to ensure that local authorities and the NHS work together to ensure that people have the correct support on leaving hospital.</p><br /><p>In addition, NHS England’s guidance on Monthly Delayed Transfer of Care Situation Reports highlights the importance of the role of the multi-disciplinary team, including social workers, in determining patients’ on-going health and social care needs once they leave hospital.</p><br /><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence also recently published its guideline on transition between hospital inpatient settings and community or care homes for adults with social care needs. It aims to improve people’s experience of admission to, and discharge from, hospital by better coordination of health and social care services.</p><br /> <br /> <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 13:46:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie