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1108712

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Skin Diseases: Prescriptions
	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 his Department is taking to ensure that the prescribing practices of Clinical Commissioning Groups follows the appropriate clinical guidelines set by NICE or NHS England on the use of emollients for patients with inflammatory skin conditions.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	239233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England expects clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to take both NHS England and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance into account in formulating local polices, and for prescribers to reflect local policies in their prescribing practice.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2018, CCG guidance was published on conditions for which over the counter items should not be routinely prescribed in primary care. This covers 35 minor conditions, including recommendations on the use of emollients for self-care of mild dry skin. The recommendation in this guidance only applies to those with mild dry skin or mild irritant dermatitis. If CCGs have implemented the guidance as intended, patients with moderate to severe eczema will still be able to receive their emollients on prescription as it is a chronic condition.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also recently run a consultation on ‘Items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care: an update and a consultation on further guidance for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)’. This included proposals around the proscribing of emollient bath and shower preparations (it did not cover all emollients, which come in a range of other formulations).</p><p> </p><p>Variation of prescribing of emollient bath and shower preparations was reviewed and published as part of the consultation undertaken from 28 November 2018 – 28 February 2019. Details of this are available in the consultation document at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed-update/user_uploads/low-priority-prescribing-consultation-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/items-routinely-prescribed-update/user_uploads/low-priority-prescribing-consultation-guidance.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently taking account of all consultation responses and updated CCG guidance is due to be published in the summer of 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238640 question first answered 05/04/2019 11:04:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1107833

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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: 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, how many people with diabetes were prescribed insulin pump therapy through the NHS in (a) 2016-7 (b) 2017-8 and (c) 2018-9 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	238603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital conducts the National Diabetes Insulin Pump Audit as a part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA) Programme. Data from this audit shows that the number of people with diabetes attending specialist diabetes services in England in 2016-17 who were using an insulin pump was 9,735. Data for 2017-8 and 2018-9 is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that disclosure control has been applied to all figures, as per the NDA publication. All numbers are rounded to the nearest five, unless the number is one to seven, in which case it is rounded to five.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/04/2019 11:05:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1107749

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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	Dermatitis: Prescriptions
	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 assessment he has made of the effect on the treatment of eczema of the availability of emollients on prescription.
	tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
	tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
	uin	238641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/04/2019 11:06:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1107819

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	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	Cancer: Health Services
	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 NHS workforce is able meet rising referrals for suspected cases of cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Orpington
	tabling member printed	Joseph Johnson
	uin	238639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2019 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding, working closely with Sir David Behan, to lead a number of programmes to engage with key National Health Service interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce rapidly, including staff working on cancer, consider additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/04/2019 11:07:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone