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1713959

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2024
	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	Naloxone
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to place opioid-overdose reversal Naloxone alongside existing public access defibrillators.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	23721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department is working to expand access to naloxone, and to increase the availability of this life saving medicine. We will shortly update legislation to enable more services and individuals to provide take-home supplies of naloxone without a prescription. This follows a public consultation in which the responses were overwhelmingly supportive of our proposals. The consultation outcome is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposals-to-expand-access-to-take-home-naloxone-supplies" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposals-to-expand-access-to-take-home-naloxone-supplies</a></p><p>These changes mean naloxone can be given to a family member or friend of a person who is known to be using opiates, and to professionals working with people who use these drugs, to save lives in the event of an overdose.</p><p>Whilst the government has no current plans to place naloxone alongside public access defibrillators, we are committed to making naloxone as accessible as possible to those who need it. We are therefore considering the feasibility and potential benefits of a range of options, including making naloxone available in locked boxes in public places.</p><p>We have also launched a £5 million fund to tackle drug deaths across the United Kingdom, which is funding research projects that are considering other innovative ways to make naloxone more readily available. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/5-million-fund-to-tackle-fatal-drug-deaths-across-the-uk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/5-million-fund-to-tackle-fatal-drug-deaths-across-the-uk</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 17/05/2024 14:00:33 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 31581 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1717676

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	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	Defibrillators
	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 the Government is taking to expand (a) access to and (b) provision of public automatic external defibrillators.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
	uin	26007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Department officials met with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and NHS England in November 2023 to discuss access to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and AED cabinets. Officials also attended a workshop co-hosted by the BHF and NHS England in January 2024, on the same issue.</p><p>To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, the Government launched a new £1 million one-off fund that will expand community access to AEDs. The grant was made available from September 2023. We estimated 1,000 new defibrillators would be provided by the fund, with the potential for this to double as most applicants would be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully. To date, the grant has successfully delivered 2,000 AEDs.</p><p>Applications for AEDs are selected in line with criteria to provide AEDs where there is greatest need. The criteria include remote communities with extended ambulance response times, places with high footfall and high population densities, hotspots for cardiac arrest including sporting venues and venues with vulnerable people, and deprived areas.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26008 question first answered 17/05/2024 12:08:16 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1717677

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	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	Heart Diseases
	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 discussions she has had with (a) the British Heart Foundation and (b) other relevant organisations on the survival rate of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside of hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
	tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
	uin	26008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Department officials met with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and NHS England in November 2023 to discuss access to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and AED cabinets. Officials also attended a workshop co-hosted by the BHF and NHS England in January 2024, on the same issue.</p><p>To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, the Government launched a new £1 million one-off fund that will expand community access to AEDs. The grant was made available from September 2023. We estimated 1,000 new defibrillators would be provided by the fund, with the potential for this to double as most applicants would be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully. To date, the grant has successfully delivered 2,000 AEDs.</p><p>Applications for AEDs are selected in line with criteria to provide AEDs where there is greatest need. The criteria include remote communities with extended ambulance response times, places with high footfall and high population densities, hotspots for cardiac arrest including sporting venues and venues with vulnerable people, and deprived areas.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 26007 question first answered 17/05/2024 12:08:16 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1713497

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data sets will flow into the Federated Data Platform; and what her planned timetable is for each of those data sets to be (a) visible and (b) in use on the Federated Data Platform by participating hospital trusts.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Sir David Davis
	uin	23380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Federated Data Platform will deliver measurable improvements for patients. It will allow people to be discharged quicker, and for waiting lists to be shortened, through making better use of data.</p><p>It will securely bring together information already available to trusts, in hospital health records, waiting lists, and theatre and staff rosters, to better manage patient care. Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their instance of the platform. Data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS and is only visible to approved users.</p><p>The NHS Federated Data Platform will provide trusts and integrated care boards, on behalf of local integrated care systems, with a set of core capabilities and nationally developed products, to support five key National Health Service priorities: elective recovery; care-co-ordination; vaccination and immunisation; population health management; and supply chain management.</p><p>A suite of products will sit under each of the use cases. A product is a software solution to address a particular NHS need, for example a patient discharge product which brings together data to help support discharge teams in hospitals in getting patients the right care in the right place. As each product is developed or transitioned to the NHS Federated Data Platform, a privacy notice will be published, setting out the data that will be utilised within the product. These are available at the following link:<a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/privacy-notice/how-we-use-your-information/nhs-federated-data-platform-privacy-notice/fdp-products-and-product-privacy-notices/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/privacy-notice/how-we-use-your-information/nhs-federated-data-platform-privacy-notice/fdp-products-and-product-privacy-notices/</a></p><p>The NHS Federated Data Platform is being implemented in phases, with the first phase, from March to July 2024, being a transition of existing National Data Platform products to the national instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform, and the transition of 44 pilot sites to local instances. The second phase, from May 2024 to March 2027 and following the successful transition phase, is the rollout of instances of the platform to new trusts and integrated care boards. Once trusts and boards have their local instance of the platform, they can choose to use any of the nationally commissioned products, and develop new or additional products locally, to address local issues. This is when the data will become visible to approved users.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/05/2024 12:01:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 31898 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1717019

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	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	Fats
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what current guidance they have issued about the maximum recommended dietary intake of (1) saturated, and (2) unsaturated, fat per day; and on the basis of what scientific evidence they made such a recommendation.
	tabling member printed	Lord McColl of Dulwich
	uin	HL4521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government encourages everyone to have a healthy balanced diet in line with the United Kingdom’s healthy eating model, The Eatwell Guide, which shows that foods high in saturated fat, salt, or sugar should be eaten less often, or in small amounts. The Government’s dietary guidelines are based on recommendations from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and its predecessor, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Nutrition Policy (COMA), and based on comprehensive assessments of the evidence.</p><p>In its 1994 report, Nutritional aspects of cardiovascular disease, the COMA recommended a reduction in the average contribution of total fat to dietary energy in the population to approximately 35%, and that trans fats should provide no more than approximately 2% of dietary energy. In relation to unsaturated fatty acids, the COMA concluded that: monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) had no specific recommendation; for n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), there should be no further increase in average intakes, and the proportion of the population consuming in excess of about 10% energy should not increase; linolenic acid provided at least 1% of total energy; and alpha linolenic acid provided at least 0.2% total energy. The report also included recommendations on saturated fats, which were updated by the SACN in 2019.</p><p>A joint SACN and Committee on Toxicity report, Advice on fish consumption: benefits and risks published in 2004, endorsed the recommendation that the population, including pregnant women, should eat at least two portions of fish per week, one of which should be oily. Two portions of fish per week, one white and one oily, contains approximately 0.45 grams per day of long chain n-3 PUFA. This recommendation represented an increase in the population’s average consumption of long chain n-3 PUFA, from approximately 0.2 grams to approximately 0.45 grams per day.</p><p>The SACN’s 2019 report on saturated fats and health recommended: the dietary reference value for saturated fats remains unchanged, and the population’s average contribution of saturated fatty acids to total dietary energy be reduced to no more than approximately 10%, which also applies to adults and children aged five years and older; and that saturated fats are substituted with unsaturated fats, as it was noted that more evidence is available supporting substitution with PUFA than substitution with MUFA.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/05/2024 11:57:23 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	1892 label Biography information for Lord McColl of Dulwich

1715948

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	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	Obesity: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to undertake a review into levels of childhood obesity and the role that the promotion of meals, snacks and drinks in early years settings can play in combatting this trend.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Goudie
	uin	HL4398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet, for the learning, development, and care of children from birth to five years old. The EYFS requires that where children are provided with meals, snacks, and drinks, they must be healthy, balanced, and nutritious. The EYFS also refers to example menus and guidance, which support parents, carers, and anyone working with children, to provide healthy food options. The Department for Education has also very recently published a range of tools and advice to support childminders, nursery leaders, and pre-school practitioners to improve the food offered in early years settings on the Help for early years providers platform.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/05/2024 11:51:56 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	3575 label Biography information for Baroness Goudie

1714612

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2024
	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	Obesity: Health Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost of treating patients who are obese and overweight; and what are the associated costs of treating (1) type 2 diabetes, (2) cardiovascular disease, (3) cerebrovascular disease, (4) musculoskeletal diseases including joint replacers, (5) cancer, and (6) dementia.
	tabling member printed	Lord McColl of Dulwich
	uin	HL4164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The department has reviewed and uses cost estimates published by Frontier Economics in 2022.</p><p>A study by Frontier Economics estimated that in 2021 obesity related ill-health cost the National Health Service £6.5 billion annually. This estimate includes costs associated with the following obesity related diseases: colorectal cancer; oesophageal cancer; kidney cancer; ovarian cancer; pancreatic cancer; coronary heart disease; stroke; type 2 diabetes; hypertension; knee osteoarthritis; endometrial cancer, and breast cancer.</p><p>The disease costs associated with obesity are calculated from the total annual costs per case, as shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Disease</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost per case per year (2021)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(1) Type 2 diabetes</p></td><td><p>£ 827.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) Cardiovascular disease - Coronary heart disease (CHD)</p></td><td><p>£ 1,557.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) Cardiovascular disease - Stroke</p></td><td><p>£ 247.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(2) Risk of Cardiovascular disease - Hypertension</p></td><td><p>£ 453.91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(4) Musculoskeletal disease - Knee Osteoarthritis</p></td><td><p>£ 27,798.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Colorectal cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 520.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Oesophageal cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 545.06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Kidney cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 1,662.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Ovarian cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 14,990.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Pancreatic cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 7,447.27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Endometrial cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 520.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(5) Cancer - Breast cancer</p></td><td><p>£ 545.06</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The annual costs per case includes direct health-care costs including hospital care (both inpatient and outpatient), primary care, and medication, and they are not exclusively related to obesity associated cases. Indirect and social care costs are not included, which means the exclusion of these costs will probably underestimate total costs of disease events overall.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/05/2024 11:51:29 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	1892 label Biography information for Lord McColl of Dulwich

1715974

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	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	Alcoholic Drinks: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the World Health Organization report A focus on adolescent substance use in Europe, central Asia and Canada, published on 25 April, what plans they have to address the high levels of child alcohol consumption in England.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
	uin	HL4428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>Guidance from England’s Chief Medical Officer for healthcare professionals is clear that an alcohol-free childhood is the healthiest and best option. The Department promotes this through online platforms such as the NHS.UK website, the Talk to FRANK online resource, and the GOV.UK website. Local authorities promote these guidelines as part of their public health duties. As part of the Government’s 10-year drug strategy, the Department has an ambition to support 5,000 more children and young people in receiving treatment than at the start of the strategy in March 2022.</p><p>The Department for Education’s statutory guidance, <em>Relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education</em>, became mandatory in September 2020. Through this, education on drugs, alcohol, and tobacco became compulsory at state-funded primary and secondary schools, teaching children and young people how to manage influences and pressure, and keep themselves healthy and safe. To deter individuals selling alcohol to a person aged under 18 years old, the maximum fine for the offence of persistently selling alcohol to children was increased from £10,000 to £20,000, under section 147A(8) of the 2003 Licensing Act.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 17/05/2024 11:50:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1717158

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2024
	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	Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of adopting the (a) Infection & Orthopaedic Management (INFORM), (b) British Orthopaedic Association and (c) other guidelines for the treatment and management of prosthetic joint infections.
	tabling member constituency	Hayes and Harlington
	tabling member printed	John McDonnell
	uin	25603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency manages a national surveillance programme, the Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Service, which enhances the quality of patient care by providing hospitals with a framework for collection and comparison of their rates of SSI against national benchmarks. This information is used to review and guide clinical practice, to reduce the risk of infection following surgery. Hip and knee replacements are two of the 17 categories of surgery under surveillance by hospitals. Surveillance in at least one orthopaedic surgical category per quarter, per financial year is mandatory for all National Health Service hospitals undertaking orthopaedic surgery, with hip and knee replacements being the most numerous.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/05/2024 11:48:26 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	178 label Biography information for John McDonnell

1716945

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her Department's policy is on the procurement of (a) food and (b) drinks produced in Britain for use in its (i) canteens and (ii) restaurants.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	25412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department follows the Government’s mandatory Buying Standards for the food in its canteens and restaurants. This includes, in respect of the use of fresh produce, menus that are designed to reflect the natural growing or production period for the United Kingdom. In-season produce is highlighted on menus.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/05/2024 11:34:34 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes