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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

435886

	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	Mental Health Services: Parents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all parents with a child admitted to a neonatal unit have access to psychological and bereavement support.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	18858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The NHS locally is expected to ensure that appropriate facilities and services are in place to support parents following the illness or death of a newborn baby. NHS England’s Neonatal Critical Care Service Specification states that “the service will deliver the aim to improve both life expectancy and quality of life for newborn babies by:</p><p>- Delivering care in a family-centred way that seeks to minimise the physical and psychological impact of neonatal care on the baby and their family, for example by improving psychological outcomes and breastfeeding rates</p><p>- Providing an environment where parents are enabled to make informed decisions about treatment and become involved in the care of their baby / babies, thereby minimising the psychological trauma of premature or sick term babies.”</p><p>The MBRRACE-UK report on the confidential enquiry into term antepartum stillbirths, published on 19 November 2015, found a good standard of bereavement care documented as being given to parents immediately following birth. However, several areas for improvement were identified including the finding that there was wide variation in the availability of a specialist bereavement midwife, with only one third of case notes showing evidence of their involvement.</p><br /><p>Following that report, and following a debate in the House of Commons on 2 November, (<em>Official Report</em>, columns 844-852) the Department is looking at the number of bereavement suites around the country and will engage with the NHS to reaffirm the importance of putting into practice existing guidance on bereavement including through mandated accountability processes.</p><p>Health Education England is working with partners to ensure that pre and post registration training in perinatal mental health is available to enable specialist staff to be available to every birthing unit by 2017.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 14:04:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

435880

	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	Mental Health Task Force
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the change in the publication date of the Mental Health Taskforce report to January 2016.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	18843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The independent Mental Health Taskforce has committed to delivering a costed five year mental health strategy for the NHS. Following the important announcement in the Spending Review that the Government is investing an additional £600m in mental health during this period, in line with the priorities identified in the strategy, the Taskforce is now finalising its recommendations and supporting analysis to ensure these are robust. Their report is due to be ready for publication by NHS England in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 15/12/2015 15:48:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb