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1035021

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	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	Mental 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, with reference to the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	205224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 14/01/2019 14:44:48 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

899432

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2018
	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	Health Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps the Government is taking to improve child health outcomes.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	905179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government wants children and young people to get the best start in life, and recognises the lasting impact this has on their health outcomes. We take a `life course’ approach which includes early years support so that children are ready to learn. <br> <br> We have ambitious plans to reduce infant mortality and childhood obesity, improve children and young people’s mental health, and deliver a world-leading immunisation programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 08/05/2018 16:02:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1063847

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	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	Self-harm and Suicide: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to prevent self-harm and suicide among children.
	tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
	tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
	uin	909318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Although suicides among children are relatively rare, I am concerned about increases in suicide and self-harm amongst teenagers. As Suicide Prevention Minister I am personally committed to do whatever we can to prevent suicides in children.</p><p>We have challenged social media companies to step up and protect children from harmful suicidal and self-harm content and cyberbullying.</p><p>The NHS long-term plan commits to increasing funding for children and young people’s mental health services which will ensure children can access the right support, including crisis care provision.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/02/2019 16:51:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton

1105058

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	910041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Protecting the mental health of our hard-working National Health Service staff is very important. That’s why the Workforce Implementation Plan, led by Baroness Harding, will outline proposals for making the NHS ‘the best place to work’. Through this, we will be supporting employers who are responsible for staff mental health by investing in an expanded programme to implement the NHS staff health and wellbeing framework launched last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 26/03/2019 16:31:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1132760

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	911417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 14:50:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

926797

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he has taken to reduce inappropriate out-of-area placements for mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
	tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
	uin	905936
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2018 answer text <p>Inappropriately placing people away from their home area is unacceptable and the Government is committed to eliminating these in non-specialist, acute mental health care by 2020/21. NHS England and NHS Improvement now have a comprehensive national programme supporting reductions in inappropriate placements. Every part of the country now has a clear, realistic plan for ending out of area placements safely by 2021, with many areas having already ended this practice altogether.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2018 15:48:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1132765

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	IVF
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions his Department has had with clinical commissioning groups on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s guidance on fertility treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	911423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population, including fertility services. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Aauthority’s guidance for commissioners is a new tool to help them implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Fertility guidelines and utilise the benchmark price for In Vitro Fertilisation.</p><p>I have written to all CCGs to promote the guidance and benchmark price, and encourage them to fully implement NICE Fertility Guideline recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 15:21:37 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1063846

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	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	Pregnancy: Alcoholic Drinks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on including awareness-raising of the risks of pre-natal exposure to alcohol in the Government's alcohol strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	909317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>Through the NHS Maternity Transformation Programme, Public Health England is leading work to raise awareness of the risks of pre-natal exposure to alcohol. A reduction in the proportion of women drinking alcohol during pregnancy has been identified as a public health priority for the five-year programme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/02/2019 16:51:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1122090

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Gender Dysphoria: North East
	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 adequacy of waiting times to access NHS specialised gender services in the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton South
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Williams
	uin	245989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England has launched an ambitious programme to tackle waiting times, overseen by a Programme Board for Gender Identity Services. NHS England agreed new service specifications for gender dysphoria services in 2018 following a process of extensive stakeholder engagement and public consultation.</p><p>In April 2019 NHS England began a process of national procurement that will determine which organisations are best able to deliver specialist gender services in the future against the new service specifications, and this process is open to new providers. NHS England has also announced plans to establish for evaluation new gender services in primary care settings and other community care settings which if positively evaluated could be rolled out nationally, thereby helping to increase clinical capacity.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/04/2019 16:49:35 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4666 label Biography information for Dr Paul Williams

964572

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	NHS: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what changes have been made to NHS (a) IT systems and (b) cyber security since the cyber attack in May 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
	tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
	uin	169018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is putting in place robust measures to protect IT systems against cyber-attacks. Since May 2017 the Government has invested £60 million to support NHS providers to improve their security position, with a further £150 million pledged up until 2021 to improve the NHS’s resilience against attacks.</p><p><br> The Department published its progress report in February 2018 entitled ‘Securing cyber resilience in health and care: progress update’. The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-cyber-resilience-in-health-and-care-progress-update" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/securing-cyber-resilience-in-health-and-care-progress-update</a></p><p> </p><p>Key actions taken since February 2018 include:</p><p>- signing a Windows 10 licensing agreement with Microsoft which will allow local NHS organisations to save money, reduce potential vulnerabilities and help increase cyber resilience;</p><p>- enhancing the capability of the Cyber Security Operations Centre boosting the national capability to prevent, detect and respond to cyber-attacks through the procurement of IBM as a specialist partner;</p><p>- launching the Data Security and Protection Toolkit which provides an accessible dashboard enabling trusts to track their progress in meeting the 10 Data Security Standards;</p><p>- agreeing plans to implement the recommendations of the Chief Information Officer for Health and Care’s review of the May 2017 WannaCry attack;</p><p>- provided specialist face to face security training (System Security Certified Practitioner - SSCP) for over 100 staff; and</p><p>- in May 2018 the Network and Information Security Regulations came into force which requires operators of essential services (including some NHS healthcare providers) to put appropriate security measures in place and to report significant incidents that occur.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:56:06 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

969199

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	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	Eating Disorders: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children undertook treatment for an eating disorder in each (a) Clinical Commissioning Group area and (b) NHS Trust in each of the last 36 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	171457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The number of children and young people who started treatment for an eating disorder in each clinical commissioning group area and National Health Service provider is collected by NHS England on a quarterly basis since April 2016. This data is provided in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone with an eating disorder has access to timely treatment and have established a waiting time standard to improve access to eating disorders services for children and young people so that, by 2020/21, 95% of children with an eating disorder will receive treatment within one week for urgent cases and within four weeks for routine cases.</p><p> </p><p>Latest available waiting times figures for children and young people with an eating disorder indicate that NHS England is on track to meet that standard by 2020/21 with Quarter 1 (April to June 2018) data showing 74.7% of all patients starting urgent treatment within one week and 81.2%% of patients starting routine treatment within four weeks.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 13/09/2018 11:12:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name PQ171457_Table 1 & 2_CYP ED -Start of Treatment.xlsx title PQ171457 attached document
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1090946

	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	Universal Credit
	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 households' claims for Healthy Start vouchers have ceased upon claiming universal credit; and how many of those households failed to make a new claim.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	233447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/03/2019 12:12:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1041435

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	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	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,whether it is his policy that the responsibility for the delivery of compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal lies with his Department due to that scandal having occurred prior to the establishment of devolved departments of health.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
	uin	208400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Policy on financial support for people infected by HIV and/or hepatitis C after treatment with blood, tissue or blood products from the National Health Service is a devolved matter.</p><p> </p><p>An Infected Blood Payment Scheme for Northern Ireland was established in November 2017. Information on the Department of Health in Northern Ireland’s scheme is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/infected-blood-payment-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/infected-blood-payment-scheme</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 208397 question first answered 23/01/2019 16:45:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

964039

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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	Postnatal Care
	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 increase funding for new mothers' postnatal checks.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	169245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Currently, there are no plans to increase funding for new mothers' postnatal checks. However, Better Births, the report of the National Maternity Review, published in February 2016, outlined that better postnatal care was a key requirement for improved maternity services. It recommended that women should have access to their midwife and obstetrician as they require after having had their baby, as well as the need to ensure a smooth transition to on-going care in the community from their general practitioner and health visitor. Forty-four Local Maternity Systems (LMS) have come together across sustainability and transformation partnership footprints to lead the transformation of local maternity services in England, and are implementing plans to deliver the vision of Better Births, including the recommendations on better postnatal care. Additional national support will be provided to LMS by NHS England, which has convened an Expert Reference Group to advise on further opportunities make improvement in this important time for women and babies.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/09/2018 10:51:02 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1016320

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the transition period set out in the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union, whether the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency will retain its status as a competent authority; and whether existing CE marks assigned under that agency will be valid from 29 March 2019 until the end of that transition period.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	196736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The agreement of an implementation period will ensure that access to medicines and medical devices continues, and patient safety is maintained, in both the United Kingdom and European Union markets.</p><p> </p><p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will continue to be the UK competent authority during this period.</p><p> </p><p>For medical devices, CE marks are assigned by notified bodies (rather than competent authorities such as the MHRA), and during the implementation period UK notified bodies will continue to conduct third-party conformity assessment in the UK, and the results of these tests will continue to be used and recognised for both the UK and EU markets.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/12/2018 18:29:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

904031

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	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	Psychology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the targets set in the Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014, and Health Education England’s Stepping forward to 2020-21: The mental health workforce plan for England, published in July 2017, how many additional psychological therapists are working in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services as of May 2018 compared to September 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	143718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>Information is not currently available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The latest workforce data published by NHS Digital is for January 2018. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/nhs-workforce-statistics---january-2018#Summary" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/nhs-workforce-statistics---january-2018#Summary</a></p><p> </p><p>However, the specific level of detail relating to this aspect of the National Health Service workforce is not currently available.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies census for 2015 can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/adult-iapt-workforce-census-report-15.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2016/09/adult-iapt-workforce-census-report-15.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 17/05/2018 10:34:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1132109

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Mental Health: Economic Situation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study entitled Recession, recovery and suicide in mental health patients in England: time trend analysis, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on 13 June 2019, what assessment he has made of the effect of economic pressures on male adults' mental health; and what steps he is taking to provide support and targeted interventions for patients experiencing financial difficulties.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	264352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the impact that debt and financial difficulty can have on men’s mental health and wellbeing and that men are at a higher risk of suicide.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy highlights groups that need tailored approaches to address their mental health needs to reduce their suicide risk, including men. Every local authority has a suicide prevention plan in place and we are investing £25 million over the next three years to support these local plans. We have worked with NHS England and Public Health England to ensure that this funding is used to test different approaches to reaching men in local communities.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with the local government sector to assess the effectiveness of those plans, and a report will be published shortly that will highlight areas of best practice and areas for improvement. This report will include an analysis of the extent to which local authority plans are addressing high risk groups.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/06/2019 16:40:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 123848 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1132149

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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	Pregabalin: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the study by Oxford University on links between pregabalin and epilepsy, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of the epilepsy drug pregabalin.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	264440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the Commission on Human Medicines and its advisory groups on important new safety issues.</p><p>The MHRA is aware of the study by Molero et al published in the BMJ on 12 June 2019 which suggests that gabapentinoid medicines, pregabalin and gabapentin, are associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdoses, head/body injuries and road traffic incidents and offences.</p><p>Pregabalin is authorised for the treatment of epilepsy, neuropathic pain and generalised anxiety disorder. Pregabalin is recognised to be associated with a range of possible side effects including dizziness, somnolence, loss of consciousness, confusion and mental impairment which could explain the increased risk of injuries and traffic accidents identified in this new study.</p><p>The product information for pregabalin currently contains relevant warnings regarding suicidal ideation and behaviour, possible side effects, as well as the possible effects on driving and operating machinery. The MHRA will carefully consider this new study and whether new advice needs to be issued to healthcare professionals and patients.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/06/2019 10:24:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1105464

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement in the NHS Long Term Plan that four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams including for eating disorders will be tested with selected local areas, what the timetable is for those targets to be introduced; and whether funding will be allocated to areas to support these tests.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	237693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to “test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas”.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Clinically-led Review of NHS Access Standards’ Interim Report, published in March 2019, states that NHS England will test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams with selected local areas. As part of this work, the report states that NHS England will “consider the interfaces with specialist community mental health services, particularly where there is an existing evidence base for rapid direct access, such as adult eating disorder services, or early intervention in psychosis services, for which there is already a national access and waiting time standard in place.”</p><p> </p><p>The interim report sets out the initial proposals for testing changes to access standards in mental health services, cancer care, elective care and urgent and emergency care. The proposals will be field tested at a selection of pilot sites across England, before wider implementation. The information gathered through field testing and engagement will inform final recommendations from this Review, and ahead of full implementation beginning spring 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/04/2019 14:48:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1051315

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	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	Family Planning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the review entitled, Reproductive control by others: means, perpetrators and effects published in the BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health in January 2019, if his Department will commission a review of reproductive coercion.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	214476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Data on the number of abortions declined as a result of a suspicion of coercion is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has no current plans to commission a review of reproductive coercion.</p><p> </p><p>The Department takes this issue very seriously. The Department’s required standard operating procedures (RSOPs) for independent sector abortion providers and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists clinical guideline on the Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion, specify that careful and sensitive enquiry as to the reasons for requesting an abortion should be made, with the opportunity for further discussion, especially where women express any doubts or there may be a suggestion of pressure or coercion. The Care Quality Commission inspects independent sector abortion providers against all of the Department’s RSOPs including looking at the procedures and policies services have in place to ensure that all women and young persons are seeking abortion voluntarily.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 214475 214477 question first answered 06/02/2019 16:33:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

943862

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published in December 2017, what steps (a) NHS Improvement and (b) NHS England have taken to (i) improve and ii) better co-ordinate eating disorder services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165492
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the PHSO report, NHS England have convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England (HEE), the Department and other partners to address the recommendations and take them into account in planning for improvements to eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is reviewing its current education and training offer and will work with subject matter experts to scope existing evidence-based practice to inform any new education and training resources. HEE is also considering how the capacity of the existing workforce may be used more innovatively and is exploring workforce planning interventions that can increase specialism in the field of eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has run a consultation on the quality standard on eating disorders, which included two statements aimed at improving co-ordination of care. The quality standard is currently in its final stages of internal review and is expected to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 165489 165491 question first answered 23/07/2018 16:11:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1019839

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2018, what steps his Department is taking to review the existing (a) quality and (b) availability of adult eating disorder services to achieve parity with child and adolescent services.
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	uin	198822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England commissioned a national review of adult eating disorder services in 2017, which is now complete. Data collected on activity, investment and workforce is being reviewed with stakeholders to inform NHS England’s understanding of current provision and existing levels of parity with eating disorder services for children and young people. The data is informing modelling to understand the finance and workforce gaps to achieving greater levels of parity.</p><p> </p><p>Diagnosing and treating eating disorders is an important area of medical practice. It is included within the curriculum for training all doctors, including for general practitioner (where most eating disorders initially present) and in more depth within training for psychiatry, particularly child and adolescent psychiatrists. This training equips doctors to identify the early potential symptoms of an eating disorder and help patients to discuss difficult issues.</p><p> </p><p>This Government recognises the importance of raising awareness and reducing stigma so that more people feel able to talk about their mental health, including eating disorders, and seek treatment. That is why in January 2017, the Prime Minister committed to having mental health first aid training available to secondary schools, aiming to have trained at least one teacher in every secondary school by 2020 and to all primary schools by 2022. This Government has also provided grant funding to the Time to Change national mental health anti-stigma campaign since 2012. Time to Change works with people with experience of mental health problems, including eating disorders, to challenge stigma and to improve social attitudes towards mental health.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to equip one million people to be better informed to look after their own mental health, so Public Health England is currently leading the development of a £15 million national mental health campaign called ‘Every Mind Matters’.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 198821 question first answered 12/12/2018 11:40:43 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

943861

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2018, what progress NICE has made on including co-ordination of services in its new quality standard for eating disorders.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the PHSO report, NHS England have convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England (HEE), the Department and other partners to address the recommendations and take them into account in planning for improvements to eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is reviewing its current education and training offer and will work with subject matter experts to scope existing evidence-based practice to inform any new education and training resources. HEE is also considering how the capacity of the existing workforce may be used more innovatively and is exploring workforce planning interventions that can increase specialism in the field of eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has run a consultation on the quality standard on eating disorders, which included two statements aimed at improving co-ordination of care. The quality standard is currently in its final stages of internal review and is expected to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 165489 165492 question first answered 23/07/2018 16:11:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

943860

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2018, what progress (a) his Department and (b) NHS England have made on reviewing the existing (i) quality and (ii) availability of adult eating disorder services to achieve parity with child and adolescent services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: “Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients”. NHS England and NHS Improvement are committed to meet the PSHO’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Commencing in March 2018, the National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Professor Tim Kendall was asked by the NHS England Board to establish a working group with other arm’s length bodies named in the PHSO report to help oversee and co-ordinate actions being taken to implement the recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>The national review of adult eating disorder services that NHS England commissioned in 2017 is now complete. Data collected on activity, investment and workforce is being reviewed with stakeholders to inform NHS England’s understanding of current provision and existing levels of parity with eating disorder services for children and young people. The data will inform modelling to understand the finance and workforce gaps to achieving greater levels of parity.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will work with the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Quality Improvement and Accreditation Networks, specifically the Quality Eating Disorder Network, to help embed recommendations in service standards used to review the quality of care delivered in eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has completed an engagement programme to inform a review of the Serious Incident Framework for the National Health Service. Further information about the engagement programme is available on NHS Improvement’s website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working closely with NHS Improvement to analyse responses from the engagement programme and will give particular consideration to how the different parts of the system can be brought together to improve the way incidents that are complex and/or involve multiple providers are investigated.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/07/2018 10:40:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

894902

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2018
	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	Postnatal Depression
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the National Childbirth Trust, The Hidden Half: Bringing postnatal mental illness out of hiding, published in June 2017 and NICE guidance, Postnatal care up to 8 weeks after birth, last updated in February 2015, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all new mothers are asked about their mental health by a GP at six to eights weeks postnatally.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	139547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is investing £365 million to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme with the development of specialist perinatal mental health community services across England with their investment of £63 million between 2016/17 and 2018/19. We want to ensure that more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This includes access to psychological therapies and specialist community or inpatient care. The importance of this is reflected in both the <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/national-maternity-review-report.pdf" target="_blank">NHS England ‘Better Births</a>’ report of the National Maternity Review (2016) and the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.’</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners (GPs) and primary care teams have a role in supporting the identification of perinatal mental illness and treatment, and are part of an integrated pathway of services.</p><p> </p><p>The Better Births report outlined that better postnatal care was a key requirement for improved maternity services. It recommended that women should have access to their midwife and obstetrician as they require after having had their baby, as well as the need to ensure a smooth transition to on-going care in the community from their GP and health visitor.</p><p> </p><p>Forty-four Local Maternity Systems have come together across sustainability and transformation partnership footprints to lead the transformation of local maternity services, and are developing plans to deliver the vision of Better Births, including the recommendations on better postnatal care. Additional national support will be provided through an Expert Reference Group, convened by NHS England, to identify further opportunities to support improvements to postnatal care.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/05/2018 15:40:26 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1131832

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report of the Children's Commissioner for England on early access to mental health support published in April 2019, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the real-term fall in spending on low-level mental health services across 60 percent of local authorities in England.
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
	uin	263904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need to adequately fund mental health services for children and young people and, as indicated in the NHS Long Term Plan, for the first time, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall National Health Service funding and total mental health funding. Mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the NHS budget, with funding growing by at least £2.3 billion a year in real terms by 2023/24.</p><p>The Department has made no assessment of the causes for the variation seen in real-terms funding per child for low-level mental health services as this is a matter for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/06/2019 13:19:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1016473

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Mental Health: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017, published by NHS Digital on 22 November 2018, if he will reissue the Government Green Paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health on the demand for mental health services.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	196890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to reissue the Green Paper, ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health’ following the publication in November 2018 of information about the prevalence of mental health conditions in children and young people in the report ‘Mental Health of Children and Young People, 2017’. The newly published survey shows only a slight rise in prevalence of mental health conditions in children and young people, from 10.1% in 2004 to 11.2% in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We published the Green Paper proposals in December 2017 in response to what we already knew about the significant unmet need which exists and the rising demand for children’s mental health services. We will test, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the core proposals the Green Paper to ensure we learn what works.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/12/2018 18:27:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1122033

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Improving Children and Young People's Mental Health Services, published in October 2018 by the NAO, if he will make it his policy to (a) implement the recommendations in that report and (b) establish quantifiable objectives to monitor progress their implementation.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	245659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>On the basis of the National Audit Office report in October 2018, on 17 December 2018 the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) took evidence and then published a report ‘Mental health services for children and young people’ with recommendations. The Government’s response to the PAC report was published in April 2019 and contains the response to each recommendation, including a commitment to provide annual updates to the Committee until April 2022 on a number of matters.</p><p>The PAC report and the Government’s response is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry12/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry12/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 30/04/2019 14:05:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1017467

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	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	Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, BPAS Merseyside, published by the Care Quality Commission in January 2017, what steps his Department taking to monitor the quality of care provided at British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinics.
	tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
	uin	197592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Information on reports of serious incidents at British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinics and the number of women transferred to National Health Service trusts for emergency care after attending a British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic is not reported to the Department. Serious incident notifications are sent to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which is responsible for ensuring that requirements under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 are met by the providers of termination of pregnancy services including meeting the fundamental standards of quality and safety as set out in Part 3 to the 2014 Regulations, and Regulation 20 of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009, which is specific to independent sector termination of pregnancy providers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has the power to approve independent sector providers to perform termination of pregnancy. All approved clinics must agree to comply with the Secretary of State’s requirements in the form of Required Standard Operating Principles.</p><p> </p><p>The CQC inspection report of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) Merseyside identified a number of areas of concern regarding all areas of operation at the service. These concerns were addressed locally through a joint action plan between BPAS Merseyside, the CQC and Halton Clinical Commissioning Group. The CQC monitors the action plan through ongoing engagement with BPAS Merseyside.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 197590 197591 question first answered 10/12/2018 14:08:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1016361

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Health at a Glance: Europe 2018, published by the OECD on 22 November 2018, whether he plans to respond to the findings on the estimated direct and indirect costs of mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	196659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not plan to respond to the report.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:51:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1001981

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Fair funding for mental health: Putting parity into practice, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research in October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the finding in that report on the additional funding required for mental health care.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	187998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need for additional investment in mental health services and the Institute for Public Policy Research report represents a valuable contribution to the debate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced its long term financial settlement for the National Health Service in June. This will represent an increase of £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023/24. The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and ensure every penny is well spent. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Budget set out some of aspects of what the long term plan will contain, and further details will follow when the plan is published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/11/2018 15:52:45 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

1011423

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled Fair funding for mental health: Putting parity into practice, published by IPPR in October 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the finding in that report that NHS mental health services require an increase in spending of at least (a) five per cent up to 2023-24 and (b) 5.5 per cent by 2030-31 to achieve parity of esteem.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	194122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the need for additional investment in mental health services and the Institute for Public Policy Research report represents a valuable contribution to the debate.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced its long term financial settlement for the National Health Service in June. This will represent an increase of £20.5 billion in real terms by 2023/24 and the chancellor has already announced that at least a further £2 billion of this will go to fund mental health, including expanding crisis services and supporting more people with severe mental illness into employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked the NHS to develop a long term plan which will set out a vision for the health service and ensure every penny is well spent. The Government has been clear that better access to mental health services, to help achieve the Government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health, is one of the principles which must underpin the plan. Further details will follow when the plan is published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/11/2018 14:22:14 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1137022

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	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	Social Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report by the Children's Commissioner entitled vulnerable children: time for action, published in July 2019, what steps his Department is taking to support children’s social care services to meet their statutory duties.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	273350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is determined to improve the way local agencies work together to identify and protect people at risk. We are implementing reforms following the Children and Social Work Act 2017, placing a responsibility on health and other partners to work together to develop effective, multi-agency arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/07/2019 13:22:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1133310

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	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	Abortion: Analgesics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the release of the Abortion Statistics for England and Wales in 2018 that show a 19 per cent increase in abortions at 24 weeks or more for disability, whether the women who had late term abortions were given the option of painkiller for their unborn baby prior to the termination.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	266669
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has considered the issue of fetal pain and awareness in its guidelines on ‘The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion and Fetal Awareness: Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice’. This concluded that “the case for administering analgesia before an invasive procedure (in addition to maternal general anaesthesia) after 24 weeks when the [fetus’] neuroanatomical connections are in place, needs to be considered together with the practicalities and risks of administration of fetal analgesia. Evidence that analgesia confers any benefit on the fetus at any gestation is lacking but should be a focus of future research”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/06/2019 10:59:10 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

943859

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations of the report Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2017, what progress Health Education England has made on tackling the gaps in the provision of (a) education, (b) training and (c) numbers of eating disorder specialists in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the PHSO report, NHS England have convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England (HEE), the Department and other partners to address the recommendations and take them into account in planning for improvements to eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is reviewing its current education and training offer and will work with subject matter experts to scope existing evidence-based practice to inform any new education and training resources. HEE is also considering how the capacity of the existing workforce may be used more innovatively and is exploring workforce planning interventions that can increase specialism in the field of eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has run a consultation on the quality standard on eating disorders, which included two statements aimed at improving co-ordination of care. The quality standard is currently in its final stages of internal review and is expected to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 165491 165492 question first answered 23/07/2018 16:11:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1129159

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	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	Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations made by the Commission on the Future of Surgery, published by the Royal College of Surgeons, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the (a) interoperability and (b) safe data sharing of different data systems.
	tabling member constituency	Ludlow
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Dunne
	uin	259122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2019 answer text <p>On 17 October 2018, NHS Digital published the National Health Service digital, data and technology standards framework setting out key expectations for the use of data, interoperability, security and design standards within the NHS at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work/nhs-digital-data-and-technology-standards/framework#principles" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work/nhs-digital-data-and-technology-standards/framework#principles</a></p><p> </p><p>Specifically, it sets out that all NHS digital, data and technology services should support Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-based application programming interfaces to enable the delivery of seamless care across organisational boundaries.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has also created NHSX - a new unit dedicated to improving the technology experience within the NHS. NHSX has committed to ensure that future IT systems procured or developed by the NHS will adhere to a range of standards covering the content and format of information as well as ensuring any sharing of information meets the highest standards of safety and privacy.</p><p> </p><p>Safe data sharing is vital to the health and care system. We have already put in over £60 million to improve cyber resilience in hospitals and ambulance services and we’re continuing to invest in capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to cyber-attacks in real time. In addition, all organisations that have access to NHS patient data must complete the Data Security and Protection Toolkit which includes a single set of standards to help them improve their cyber security and carry out self-assessments to measure how well they are doing, and how much they still need to do.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/06/2019 16:32:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne

1092131

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2019
	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	Primary Health Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations in the report, No room at the inn: how easy is it for nomadic Gypsies and Travellers to access primary care, published by Friends, Families and Travellers in March 2019, what steps he is taking to improve access to primary care for (a) Gypsies and Travellers, (b) homeless people, (c) vulnerable migrants and (d) people in contact with the criminal justice system; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	234719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Registering with and access to primary medical care services is the same for all patients, whether they are gypsies, travellers, homeless or vulnerable migrants. People do not need to provide proof of address to register with a general practice (GP). NHS England is working with a range of community groups to redesign the patient registration leaflet so that people are aware of this when registering. The free NHS 111 service can assist anyone who has faced difficulty finding a GP or accessing other services in their local area.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is aware the challenges some individuals have faced when trying to register with a GP and is taking steps to address shortcomings with individual practices, working in partnership with the voluntary sector.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of people in touch with the criminal justice system are in the community and therefore their engagement with primary care services will sit within the responsibility of clinical commissioning groups. For the prison population (approx 86,000) there are primary care services commissioned by NHS England which works to the principle of equivalence and are mandated to deliver a comprehensive health assessment and a treatment pathway for the time an individual remains in custody to ensure that their health needs are identified and met quickly and effectively.</p><p> </p><p>There is a very real recognition by health commissioners that the point of release from custody results in the potential for a person to lose any health gains made whilst in custody due to a change in their health care provider and a failure for a natural pathway for a continuity of healthcare post release.</p><p> </p><p>To this end and included in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England Health and Justice commissioners are developing a RECONNECT provision which would support a care pathway being identified for people leaving prison so that the engagement with community health providers are brokered prior to them leaving prison and to support them to access these in the community. This provision is planned to be rolled out across reception and resettlement establishments from 2020.</p><p> </p><p>During the last 12 months NHS England has been undertaking a programme of work into identifying and addressing the health and social care needs of Gypsy, Romany and Travellers (GRT) in the criminal justice system, incorporating lived experience. The primary focus of the work is improving the healthcare of GRT communities who are within the criminal justice system, including access to primary care, addressing long-term health inequalities and exploring issues of exclusion, discrimination and harassment. NHS England is currently developing a range of learning and practice improvement tools for health and other partners and will be followed by learning and improvement events.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/03/2019 17:19:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1122112

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations in the Royal College of Psychiatrists position statement on consultant psychiatrists working across specialities outside normal working hours, what guidance his Department has issued to mental health providers to ensure the adequacy of arrangements for out of hours mental health care for children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	245807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Currently, out of hours mental health care is available at accident and emergency departments, emergency general practitioner appointments, crisis resolution and home treatment services, crisis houses, and by calling NHS 111 or the Samaritans.</p><p> </p><p>The 2019 NHS Planning Guidance states that “CCGs should ensure there is a crisis response that meets the needs of under 18-year olds. These should be staffed by practitioners who are trained and competent in meeting the specific mental health needs of children and young people. CCGs should work towards delivering age-appropriate 24/7 crisis provision for children and young people (CYP) which combine crisis, liaison and intensive community support functions. This should apply whether or not the model selected by the CCG is a dedicated CYPMH service for 24/7 or extended hours, or a blended model that relies on Core24 to support CYP at some point during the 24 hours.”</p><p> </p><p>Setting up 24 hours a day, seven days a week crisis care provision for children, young people and their families is a key priority for the Government in the NHS Long Term Plan. All children and young people experiencing crisis will be able to access crisis care 24 hours a day, seven days a week by 2023/24 via NHS 111.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/04/2019 16:47:19 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

922275

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2018
	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	Health Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendation from the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published on 25 April 2018, what plans he has to develop a national policy for the training and use of chaperones in the treatment of children in healthcare services.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	152779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Interim Report on 25 April. The Report contains a series of recommendations for specific changes, several of which are directed at the Government. The Government welcomes the Report and is now considering the Inquiry’s recommendations very carefully. We will respond fully in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/06/2018 16:06:58 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1023185

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	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	Maternity Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent report entitled Audit of Bereavement Care Provision in UK Neonatal Units 2018, published by Sands and Bliss, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of bereavement care provision in neonatal units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	201219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is currently undertaking a review of its specialised neonatal services in order to improve quality of care and ensure there is sufficient capacity for the future. It will consider the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP), referenced in the ‘Audit of Bereavement Care Provision in UK Neonatal Units 2018’, which sets out a comprehensive framework for bereavement support across five stages of pregnancy and baby loss, including neonatal death.</p><p> </p><p>All bereaved parents, following baby loss, should be offered the same high standard of care and support in an appropriate environment. That is why the Government recently announced over £100,000 of funding for Sands, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death charity, to continue the roll-out of the NBCP for 2018/19. This builds upon £50,000 of start-up funding and is in response to the great strides the project is making.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Toolkit for High Quality Neonatal Services sets out requirements that all staff have bereavement training; that each unit has a bereavement lead; and that parents are given written information about bereavement services where relevant. Additionally, the British Association of Perinatal Medicine Service Standards require that parents whose baby or babies are receiving care in a neonatal intensive care unit should have access to a trained counsellor from the time their baby is admitted.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 14:34:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1133311

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2019
	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	Abortion: Cleft Palate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent release of Abortion Statistics for England and Wales 2018 showing that at least 15 unborn babies were terminated due to a cleft palate or cleft lip, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the advice issued to women with unborn children diagnosed with that condition on the procedure to remedy it.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	266670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>The decision to terminate a pregnancy must rest on the judgement of two doctors, who have to be of one and the same opinion that an abortion meets one of the grounds set out in the Abortion Act 1967, and the woman herself, who must be given enough information and time to help her understand the process so that she can make an informed decision about the options available. When an abnormality is detected or suspected, women and their partners should receive appropriate information and support from a properly trained multidisciplinary team – who must adopt a supportive and non-judgemental approach regardless of whether the decision is to terminate or continue the pregnancy.</p><p>Diagnosis or prognosis does not always tell the whole picture of each individual case. In 1990, when the grounds for abortion where amended, Parliament agreed that doctors were best placed to make these decisions with the woman and her family. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published guidance on ‘Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Abnormality in England, Scotland and Wales’ to assist doctors and other health professionals to support women and their families when a fetal abnormality is diagnosed and to help women to decide, within the bounds of the law, whether or not to have an abortion.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/06/2019 10:28:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1017176

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent Coroner's verdict in the case of Aisha Chithira, whether his Department will take steps to ensure that clinical staff providing abortion services are fully trained in post-operative observations.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	197359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>In line with guidelines published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Care Quality Commission regulations health professionals working within abortion services must be appropriately trained and experienced. Abortion service providers should ensure staff have the right competencies, knowledge, qualifications, skills and experience, including where appropriate in post-operation observations, to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all who use the service. The guidelines and regulations are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination</a></p><p> </p><p>The methods used for legal late term abortions in England are safe when performed by staff with the relevant skills, training and experience in line with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>All independent sector abortion providers must be approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and meet the conditions set by the Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures which are attached. As set out in these procedures, providers are required to have protocols covering the support that should be in place for women following an abortion procedure. Where a pre-existing physical or mental health condition may exist, then the provider must ensure that there are clinical pathways in place for access to appropriate medical back up services, if needed.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 197360 197361 question first answered 07/12/2018 12:48:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name RSOPs May 2018.pdf title PQ197359,360,361 attached document
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1017177

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent Coroner's verdict in the case of Aisha Chithira, if his Department will review the methods used for late-term abortions.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	197360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>In line with guidelines published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Care Quality Commission regulations health professionals working within abortion services must be appropriately trained and experienced. Abortion service providers should ensure staff have the right competencies, knowledge, qualifications, skills and experience, including where appropriate in post-operation observations, to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all who use the service. The guidelines and regulations are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination</a></p><p> </p><p>The methods used for legal late term abortions in England are safe when performed by staff with the relevant skills, training and experience in line with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>All independent sector abortion providers must be approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and meet the conditions set by the Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures which are attached. As set out in these procedures, providers are required to have protocols covering the support that should be in place for women following an abortion procedure. Where a pre-existing physical or mental health condition may exist, then the provider must ensure that there are clinical pathways in place for access to appropriate medical back up services, if needed.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 197359 197361 question first answered 07/12/2018 12:48:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name RSOPs May 2018.pdf title PQ197359,360,361 attached document
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1017178

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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	Abortion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent Coroner's verdict in the case of Aisha Chithira, if he will ensure that all independent abortion providers give appropriate aftercare to women.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	197361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>In line with guidelines published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Care Quality Commission regulations health professionals working within abortion services must be appropriately trained and experienced. Abortion service providers should ensure staff have the right competencies, knowledge, qualifications, skills and experience, including where appropriate in post-operation observations, to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all who use the service. The guidelines and regulations are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/abortion-guideline_web_1.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/regulations-enforcement/regulation-20-requirements-relating-termination</a></p><p> </p><p>The methods used for legal late term abortions in England are safe when performed by staff with the relevant skills, training and experience in line with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>All independent sector abortion providers must be approved by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and meet the conditions set by the Department’s Required Standard Operating Procedures which are attached. As set out in these procedures, providers are required to have protocols covering the support that should be in place for women following an abortion procedure. Where a pre-existing physical or mental health condition may exist, then the provider must ensure that there are clinical pathways in place for access to appropriate medical back up services, if needed.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 197359 197360 question first answered 07/12/2018 12:48:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name RSOPs May 2018.pdf title PQ197359,360,361 attached document
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1126677

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	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	Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the paper entitled, Continuation of Unintended Pregnancy published by the Catholic Medical Association in March 2019, what plans his Department has to develop and improve support for mothers who wish to continue with a pregnancy.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	254178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Women who access healthcare services when pregnant have consultations and conversations with their health care professionals covering their clinical and social history and will be offered tailored advice and support. Care and advice is available to all pregnant women, including those for whom the pregnancy was unintended.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/05/2019 14:19:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1139230

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	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	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of 15 May 2018, Official Report, column 111WH, what progress has been made in discussions with NHS Digital on what data can be made accessible via the mental health dataset waiting times for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	277852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to live healthy, independent lives and to participate in their communities. NHS Digital continues to work with the Department and NHS England on the development of access and waiting times reporting for mental health care pathways. Consideration is being given as to how collection of data on ADHD can be improved on a national level, including improving consistency and comparability of any data currently collected. The Department is also working closely with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and their ADHD Implementation Working Group to look at how the current NICE guidance and quality standard on ADHD are being implemented and to inform discussions about how data can be improved.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/07/2019 16:09:22 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994294

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2018
	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	Health Services: Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 10 July 2018, what visits she has made to prison health services; and (a) when and (b) where those visits took place.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	183513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>I visited HMP Chelmsford earlier this year.</p><p> </p><p>I also met with providers responsible for delivering healthcare services at HMP Liverpool earlier this year.</p><p> </p><p>Further visits have been scheduled for later this year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/10/2018 17:13:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1129634

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter dated 30 April 2019 from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health, Inequalities and Suicide Prevention to Sir Brian Langstaff, Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry, and the reference in that letter to providing greater parity of support across the United Kingdom, what recent discussions his Department has held with the Department of Health for Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
	uin	260104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>As stated in the letter sent to the Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry on 30 April 2019, the Government is committed to working with its counterparts in the devolved administrations to look at the issue of parity of support across the United Kingdom. I have written to Richard Pengelly, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health in Northern Ireland and other counterparts in the other devolved nations inviting them to meet to discuss this issue, and a date is currently being sought for this meeting to take place.</p><p>The recently announced £30 million uplift in payments in England will be coming from existing 2019/20 Department of Health and Social Care’s non-National Health Service budget and is not a new allocation from HM Treasury. There is therefore no Barnett consequential arising from this for the existing Northern Ireland scheme.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 260103 question first answered 12/06/2019 15:49:51 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

943974

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the interim recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review into surgical mesh, if he will clarify the conditions that should be met ahead of the resumption of mesh procedures used to treat stress urinary incontinence.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	165673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The interim recommendations of Baroness Cumberlege’s review require that the following conditions are met:</p><p>- Surgeons should only undertake operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) if they are appropriately trained, and only if they undertake operations regularly;</p><p>- Surgeons report every procedure to a national database;</p><p>- A register of operations is maintained to ensure every procedure is notified and the woman identified who has undergone the surgery;</p><p>- Reporting of complications via the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency is linked to the register;</p><p>- Identification and accreditation of specialist centres for SUI mesh procedures, for removal procedures and other aspects of care for those adversely affected by surgical mesh; and</p><p>- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on the use of mesh for SUI are published.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/07/2018 16:31:58 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1042319

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the four-week waiting time target for adult and older adult community mental health teams on page 69 of the NHS Long Term Plan, what grade of healthcare professional will have responsibility for the (a) assessment and (b) treatment of those people seeking such care.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	209361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to “test four-week waiting times for adult and older adult community mental health teams, with selected local areas”.</p><p> </p><p>This will form part of wider testing of new and integrated models of primary and community mental health care, as set out in the Long Term Plan.</p><p> </p><p>Testing will inform the development and establishment of future standards, and will consider the most clinically appropriate clock start and clock stop points, interventions and responsible professionals. This will take into account access, quality of care, patient experience and outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will then set clear standards for patients requiring access to community mental health treatment and roll them out across the National Health Service over the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 209354 question first answered 24/01/2019 13:35:12 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger