Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1020631

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Social 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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the potential merits of a care sector deal.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	199870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets regularly with his Cabinet colleagues, discussing a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/12/2018 13:32:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

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

1056691

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	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	Multiple Sclerosis: Stem Cells
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason Ms Helen Townsend’s Stem Cell treatment for MS was halted part way through as a result of NHS England's decision that GPs can longer refer people for the treatment and that patients must now be referred by a MS Neurology Specialist.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	218237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>NHS England first published its commissioning policy in 2013, revised in 2015, which permits access to autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) as a clinical option for some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The commissioning policy is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/b04-haematp-stem-cll-transplt.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/b04-haematp-stem-cll-transplt.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>As with any HSCT there are risks to the procedure and when considering this treatment for patients with MS the balance of risk and benefit must be carefully assessed for each patient. Neurologists and transplant doctors in the United Kingdom are guided by the recommendations of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, published in 2012, and the guidance of the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation when considering the suitability of transplant. These criteria restrict the use of autologous HSCT to a small group of MS patients with high levels of inflammatory activity despite one or more approved disease modifying therapies and very rare patients with 'malignant' forms of MS. Patients should be assessed by both MS and transplant specialists.</p><p> </p><p>Neurologist and transplant doctors should be guided by these recommendations and decisions related to a patient’s care are a matter for clinicians.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 218236 218238 question first answered 12/02/2019 16:26:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1083720

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	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	Nurses: Care Homes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons registered nurses employed by nursing and care homes are not able to administer medication by injection or change dressings for patients who are self-funding where continuing healthcare funding is not in place; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	229702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>We are not aware of any reason under the National Framework for Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, or as part of the professional regulation of registered nurses, why appropriately trained registered nurses employed by care homes would not be able to administer medication by injection, or change dressings, for self-funded residents.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/03/2019 10:52:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1086763

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	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	Genomics: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his goal to sequence five million genomes will be realised; and what steps his Department will take to ensure that participants reflect the demographic make-up of the population.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Chris Green
	uin	230839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>Our bold aspiration is to sequence five million genomes in the United Kingdom over the next five years. Through UK Biobank and NHS England, we already have commitments to sequence at least one million whole genomes. We will set develop our plans for the remaining four million as part of the National Genomic Healthcare Strategy, announced on 27 February 2019. We anticipate working with partners in the devolved administrations, research institutions, charities and industry to realise this ambition.</p><p> </p><p>The whole genome sequencing of the UK Biobank participants will reflect the diverse volunteer population. The whole genome sequencing through the NHS Genomic Medicine Service will be done for those eligible under the National Genomic Test Directory in order to provide consistent and equitable access to genomic medicine and sequencing. We will fully consider diversity issues as part of the delivery of the wider five million ambition.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/03/2019 14:11:43 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1104693

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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 Professions
	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 (a) nurses and (b) doctors are specifically employed within the oncology speciality.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Digital workforce statistics show that as at 30 December 2018 there are 1,317 doctors with a speciality in clinical oncology and 985 doctors with a speciality in medical oncology. The figures include all doctors working in the specialty of oncology such as consultants, associate specialists, specialty doctors, doctors in training etc.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Digital workforce statistics show that as at 30 December 2018 there are 2,093 nurses who work in an area of ‘clinical oncology’ and 1,237 nurses who work in an area of ‘medical oncology’. This data represents nurses who are working in services related to oncology, rather than nurses with specialist training in oncology.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 11:43:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1104696

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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: Medical Treatments
	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 IT systems are used within oncological treatment in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	236369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England holds data in relation to the number of people starting definitive cancer treatment in each year from 2010. This includes people who have received their first cancer treatment in that year, which includes all types of cancer treatment and not just oncological treatments (chemotherapy and radiotherapy).</p><p> </p><p>The number of people receiving their first treatment for cancer each year has risen significantly each year since 2010. It should be noted that the 2018 data is published but includes three months of provisional data, so could be subject to slight adjustment.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Patients receiving first treatment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>242,396</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>252,483</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>259,853</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>264,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>271,662</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>279,887</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>285,894</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>295,133</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>308,058</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2,459,803</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>NHS England holds data in relation to specialised commissioning spend that will contribute to the overall spend, from 2013/14 onwards. The financial values have been consolidated through the use of NPoC (National Programme of Care) codes and are taken from our annual spend analysis exercise. This exercise uses Provider Aggregate Contract Monitoring as the basis for the data; where this data is incomplete hubs will apportion / estimate any missing values. The costs for chemotherapy and specialised cancer surgery have been combined for 2013/14 and 2014/15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NPoC</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B01 - Radiotherapy</p></td><td><p>340.2</p></td><td><p>315.2</p></td><td><p>368.5</p></td><td><p>425.0</p></td><td><p>390.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B02 - Chemotherapy</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>1,730.8</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>2,305.9</p></td><td><p>1,417.1</p></td><td><p>1,858.3</p></td><td><p>2,014.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B03 - Specialised cancer surgery</p></td><td><p>1,071.3</p></td><td><p>806.3</p></td><td><p>1,240.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B04 - Specialised cancer diagnostics</p></td><td><p>56.3</p></td><td><p>66.3</p></td><td><p>78.3</p></td><td><p>78.1</p></td><td><p>98.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>B05 - Children and young adult cancer services</p></td><td><p>79.9</p></td><td><p>94.0</p></td><td><p>121.9</p></td><td><p>124.1</p></td><td><p>178.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2,207.2</p></td><td><p>2,781.4</p></td><td><p>3,057.1</p></td><td><p>3,291.8</p></td><td><p>3,923.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Additionally, as a further indication toward total spend, NHS Improvement estimates the total cost to National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing oncological treatment as follows.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Estimated total cost (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1,801</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£2,051</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£2,259</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£2,457</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£2,706</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£2,864</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£2,955</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£3,224</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The data source for the table is from reference costs, which are the average unit costs to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Cost data provided includes:</p><p>- Those that relate to the following treatment function code (TFC):</p><p>- 260 - Paediatric medical oncology</p><p>- 370 - Medical oncology</p><p>- 503 - Gynaecological oncology</p><p>- 800 - Clinical oncology (previously radiotherapy);</p><p> </p><p>- Cancer multi-disciplinary team meetings;</p><p>- Chemotherapy and radiotherapy services; and</p><p>- Cancer related community health services.</p><p>This may not cover all costs associated with oncology. There are areas related to oncology where the costs cannot be identified. These would include:</p><p>- Homecare drugs;</p><p>- Diagnostic imaging; and</p><p>- Other cancer related health resource groups (HRGs) in other TFCs.</p><p> </p><p>There are no primary care costs included within the data.</p><p>Data on the number of IT systems used within oncology treatment in the NHS is not available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 236365 236367 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:24:27 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1046800

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Hospitals: Malnutrition
	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 NHS patients died of starvation in NHS hospitals in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	211772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Information relating to death by starvation is National Health Service hospitals is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>There is no statutory definition of “starvation” in the Health and Social Care Act 2008, or subordinate legislation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/01/2019 17:22:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1046880

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2019
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Sikhs
	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 Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	211855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>As of 24 January 2018, eight civil servants in the Department were recorded as being Sikh, as a religious group.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/01/2019 14:52:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1091074

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2019
	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	NHS Low Income Scheme
	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 applications were (a) made and (b) successful to the NHS Low Income Scheme in (i) NHS North Lincolnshire CCG and (ii) England in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	233529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority, which administer the NHS Low Income Scheme, do not hold information broken down into clinical commissioning group (CCG) areas.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of applications received from English addresses in the last four years for the NHS Low Income Scheme and the outcomes. The NHS Business Services Authority does not hold information before this date.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>2017/2018</p></td><td><p>2018/2019</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HC1 Claims Received</p></td><td><p>345,845</p></td><td><p>344,329</p></td><td><p>330,007</p></td><td><p>286,151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HC2 Decisions – assessment outcome is for full help with health costs.</p></td><td><p>203,042</p></td><td><p>196,418</p></td><td><p>191,181</p></td><td><p>157,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HC3 Decisions – assessment outcome is for partial help with health costs.</p></td><td><p>99,984</p></td><td><p>90,487</p></td><td><p>83,635</p></td><td><p>66,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No Help Decisions – assessment outcome is for no help with health costs due to being over capital limit.</p></td><td><p>1,472</p></td><td><p>1,318</p></td><td><p>1,256</p></td><td><p>1,023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Passport Benefit Decisions – applicant already has full entitlement to help with health cost via a qualifying benefit.</p></td><td><p>10,795</p></td><td><p>11,281</p></td><td><p>11,568</p></td><td><p>13,222</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tax Credit Decisions – applicant already has full entitlement to help with health cost via qualifying tax credits.</p></td><td><p>1,987</p></td><td><p>2,092</p></td><td><p>2,126</p></td><td><p>1,405</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>The figures for 2018/2019 do not include figures for March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/03/2019 16:17:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin