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1188329

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	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: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the psychological (a) welfare and (b) resilience of NHS staff during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	37789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The Department asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive emotional, psychological and physical support package for all National Health Service staff, including those working in Nightingale hospitals, during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>This package includes free-to-access self-guided mental health support, confidential helpline and 24 hours a day, seven days a week text service, as well as free-to-download mental health and well-being apps.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are also co-ordinating commercial offers to provide practical support for NHS staff at a local level.</p><p>More information can be found online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://people.nhs.uk/help/" target="_blank">people.nhs.uk/help</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 37790 question first answered 29/04/2020 12:39:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1188330

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Hospitals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure the (a) psychological and (b) physical welfare of NHS staff working in temporary hospitals during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	37790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The Department asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive emotional, psychological and physical support package for all National Health Service staff, including those working in Nightingale hospitals, during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>This package includes free-to-access self-guided mental health support, confidential helpline and 24 hours a day, seven days a week text service, as well as free-to-download mental health and well-being apps.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are also co-ordinating commercial offers to provide practical support for NHS staff at a local level.</p><p>More information can be found online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://people.nhs.uk/help/" target="_blank">people.nhs.uk/help</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 37789 question first answered 29/04/2020 12:39:07 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1188331

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2020
	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: Coronavirus
	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 potential merits of deploying psychological professionals to support the wellbeing of NHS staff during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	37791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The Department asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a comprehensive support package for all National Health Service staff during and after the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>As a part of this support package all NHS staff are now able to call or text a free number staffed by specially trained respondents, to receive support and advice for the pressures they face every day during the global health emergency.</p><p>Anyone who requires further help will be signposted to other services including specialist professional psychological support where this is needed. The phone line will be open between 7am and 11pm every day, while the text service will be 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More details, including the numbers to call, can be found online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://people.nhs.uk/help/" target="_blank">people.nhs.uk/help</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/04/2020 13:00:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1178664

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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	Dementia: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on prioritising best practice in dementia care in the allocation of dementia research funding.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	15012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Under the current Challenge on Dementia 2020 strategy, the Government’s commitment to spending £300 million on dementia research between 2015 and 2020 was met a year early, with £341 million spent by March 2019 via the Departments of Health and Social Care and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. This included a £15 million research initiative announced in January 2019 on dementia prevention, care and technology, co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Funding Council and National Institute for Health Research.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/02/2020 12:48:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1179878

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	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	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what time period will be covered by the forthcoming NHS People Plan.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	19962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>The final NHS People Plan will be published in early 2020 and will set out how the National Health Service will grow and sustain its workforce over the next five years – from 2020/21 to 2024/25. The NHS People Plan will be refreshed on an annual basis to take account of changing patient needs, new models of care and improvements in recruitment, retention, skill mix and ways of working.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/03/2020 12:48:27 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1187048

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2020
	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	Dementia: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish its strategy for the delivery the dementia moonshot.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	33609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2020 answer text <p>There is currently no planned date for publication of a strategy to deliver the dementia moonshot. However, the Government remains strongly committed to supporting research into dementia. We will be setting out our new plans for supporting people with dementia in England for 2020-2025 later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/04/2020 14:42:24 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1187049

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2020
	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	Dementia: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Comprehensive Spending review will include funding for the delivery of the dementia ,moonshot.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	33610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to research into dementia, and to the moonshot. We will be setting out our new plans for supporting people with dementia in England for 2020-2025 later this year. Further details on priorities and timings for the comprehensive spending review will be set out in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/04/2020 14:32:12 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1191163

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Screening
	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 next steps set out on page 14 of his Department's policy paper of 4 April 2020, Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes, what progress has been made on implementing those next steps.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	41069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>Following the publication of the Department’s Testing Strategy, ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes’, there has been significant progress against the objectives set out as next steps, including achieving delivering 100,000 swab tests per day by the end of April.</p><p>The Department has ensured that the National Health Service uses its spare capacity to test its staff and has rolled out a commercial swab testing programme that is now testing hundreds of thousands of people a day.</p><p>We have now delivered over 2.3 million antibody tests to NHS staff and patients and continue to evaluate lateral flow style antibody tests for home use should that be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/11/2020 16:05:48 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1193794

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the long-term effect of the covid-19 lockdown on (a) mental and (b) physical health inequalities among (i) autistic people and (ii) other neurodivergent groups.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	43958
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>We recognise the challenges that autistic people and neurodivergent people and their families face as a result of the response to COVID-19, and it is clear that we need to understand how the response will affect these groups of people in the longer term.</p><p>The Department is currently exploring research opportunities to assess the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response to vulnerable people such as those with learning disabilities and/or autism.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/05/2020 09:32:22 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1194180

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2020
	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	Coronavirus: Disability
	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 tackle the long term effect of the covid-19 lockdown on social isolation amongst disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	45272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that social distancing and self-isolation are likely to increase the risk of loneliness and mental health issues, particularly for disabled people. We continue to monitor the evidence here in the United Kingdom and internationally.</p><p>The Government and NHS England are working closely with mental health trusts to ensure those who need them have access to mental health services, maximising the use of digital and virtual channels to keep delivering support to patients. Numerous community volunteering efforts are now operating nationally and we have also set up NHS Volunteer Responders to help support the 1.5 million people in England who are at most risk from the virus.</p><p>Public Heath England has published guidance on self-isolation and staying at home for everyone in the UK, including for those with mobility issues.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/05/2020 15:44:17 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron