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418446

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Eyesight: Testing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with (a) a brain tumour and (b) other conditions as a result of symptoms noticed during examinations by opticians in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>Information provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that during 2013/14 there were 159,626 referrals from optometrists to secondary care. It is not possible, however, to identify a diagnosis given the collection of this information is not mandatory.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/09/2015 10:07:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

418449

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Alzheimer's Disease: Dental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a study to investigate potential links between dental treatment and Alzheimer's disease.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to commission a study on the specific risk of transmission of Alzheimer’s disease in dentistry. There is no evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted through any medical procedure. In dentistry, patients are protected from the risk of infection by either mandatory single use instruments, or where instruments are reused, by guidance on strict decontamination procedures as per the Health Technical Memorandum 01-05: Decontamination in primary care dental practices - 2013 edition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/09/2015 16:09:59 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

418938

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescriptions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to monitor the level of prescriptions issued by GPs; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Clinicians are responsible for their own treatment decisions taking any relevant guidance into account. They should always satisfy themselves that the drugs or other substances they consider appropriate for their patients can be safely prescribed, that patients are adequately monitored and that, where necessary, additional support or supervision is available.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Within the General Medical Services (GMS) and Personal Medical Services Regulations and Alternative Provider Medical Services Directions there are clauses in relation to prescribing and dispensing. The GMS Contracts Regulations Schedule 6 Part 3 paragraph 46 says:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>“Excessive prescribing</p><p> </p><p>46 - (1) The contractor shall not prescribe drugs, medicines or appliances whose cost or quantity, in relation to any patient is, by reason of the character of the drug, medicine or appliance in question in excess of that</p><p> </p><p>which was reasonably necessary for the proper treatment of that patient.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(2) In considering whether a contractor has breached its obligations under sub-paragraph (1) NHS England must seek the views of the Local Medical Committee (if any) for the area in which the contractor provides services under the contract.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Practitioners are encouraged to prescribe rationally and to make the best possible use of National Health Service resources.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Professional bodies issue standards and/or guidance for their members on prescribing. An example of this is the General Medical <em>Council’s “Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices”</em>. It provides more detailed advice on how to comply with these principles when prescribing and managing medicines and medical devices, including appliances. If clinicians act outside of this guidance they can be held to account and potentially lose their professional registration, meaning they are unable to practice.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/09/2015 15:37:56 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

418934

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Pregnancy: Paroxetine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on the effect of the consumption of the paxil and seroxat forms of the drug paroxetine on the incidence of depression among pregnant women.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>There have been no recent discussions with the Royal Colleges on the effects of taking the paxil and seroxat forms of paroxetine on the incidence of depression among pregnant women.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Mandate from the Government to NHS England includes an objective for NHS England to work with partner organisations to reduce the incidence and impact of postnatal depression through earlier diagnosis, and better intervention and support.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will provide an additional £75 million over the next five years for services to support women with mental ill health in the perinatal period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The British National Formulary advises that medication should be prescribed only when it is necessary, and in all cases the benefit of administering the medicine should be considered in relation to the risk involved. This is particularly important during pregnancy, when the risk to both mother and fetus must be considered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/09/2015 16:03:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

418945

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Depressive Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in which age bands have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	10268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the requested format. However, the Health and Social Care Information Centre does hold information on the number of finished admission episodes with a primary diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder by age bands for the years 2009-2010 to 2013-2014 and the breakdown is given in the attached table, <em>Count of finished admission episodes (FAEs) with a primary diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder by age band for years 2009-10 to 2013-14. </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/09/2015 16:19:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name Finished admission episodes bipolar affective disorder by age 2009-10 to 2013-14.xlsx title FAEs- Bipolar affective disorder by age 2009-14
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

420748

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cataracts: Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have had cataract operations due to exposure to sunlight in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	11329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify the number of people who have developed a cataract as a result of exposure to sunlight.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/10/2015 16:03:50 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

420736

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Macular Degeneration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in each Office for National Statistics age group were diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	11334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to identify only those diagnosed with age related macular degeneration. The table below shows the number of finished admission episodes, for England, for the last five years, where the primary diagnosis was ‘degeneration of the macular and posterior pole’. This would include age related macular degeneration, as well as other conditions.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age group</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2009/10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2011/12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>19</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>18</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>29</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>43</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>32</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>21</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>52</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>51</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>29</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>33</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>66</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>61</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>42</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>57</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>120</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>95</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>73</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>101</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>182</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>162</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>156</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>162</p></td><td><p>229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>218</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>256</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>254</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>319</p></td><td><p>377</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>432</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>417</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>439</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>477</p></td><td><p>636</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>841</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>980</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>812</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>973</p></td><td><p>1,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,096</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,617</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,589</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,647</p></td><td><p>2,833</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,907</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,740</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,153</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,982</p></td><td><p>6,427</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6,843</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8,685</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8,937</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9,770</p></td><td><p>9,847</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10,697</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>12,998</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>14,051</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15,347</p></td><td><p>14,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80-84</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>12,934</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>16,568</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>17,083</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>18,765</p></td><td><p>17,747</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>85-89</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10,695</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,114</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,960</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15,550</p></td><td><p>14,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90+</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,258</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,382</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6,179</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7,320</p></td><td><p>7,318</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>8</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>52,418</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>66,195</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>69,826</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>77,559</p></td><td><p>75,672</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="13"><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Note: </em></p><p>A finished admission episode is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider.</p><br /><p>Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the same period.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/10/2015 15:54:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

420746

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Macular Degeneration: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of when the iolAMD device for eye conditions will be available on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	11336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>There is no National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on the use of the ioIAMD lens. Where NICE guidance does not exist on a particular treatment, it is for local National Health Service commissioners to make funding decisions based on an assessment of the available evidence and on the basis of an individual patient’s clinical circumstances.</p><br /><p>NHS commissioners are required to have in place clear and transparent arrangements for local decision-making on the funding of treatments and for considering exceptional funding requests.</p><br /><p>If a patient’s local clinical commissioning group, decides, on the basis of rational, proper consideration of the evidence, that a treatment should not be provided which the patient and their doctor have requested, patients must be provided with the reasons for that decision in writing.</p><br /><p>The Government has been clear that restricting access to services on the basis of cost alone is wrong and compromises patient care. Commissioning decisions should be made on the basis of the available evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/10/2015 16:05:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

424308

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Depressive Illnesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 to 24 have been diagnosed with depression in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	13533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/11/2015 17:17:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

424302

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Eyesight: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in what age groups NHS England has treated for squints in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	13560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>Individuals with squints may be treated in either primary care or secondary care.</p><p>It is not possible to identify those provided with glasses in primary care, funded by NHS England, to correct a squint.</p><br /><p>It is possible to identify those who had a Finished Admission Episode in secondary care, funded by clinical commissioning groups, with a diagnosis of squint and received corrective surgery. The table below, provided by the Health and Social Care Information centre, shows the number of these procedures, broken down by age, carried out in England between 2009-10 and 2013-14. This will not capture other patients seen in secondary care on an outpatient basis where surgery was not necessary.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p>200910</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>2,212</p></td><td><p>2,130</p></td><td><p>2,241</p></td><td><p>2,154</p></td><td><p>2,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>2,634</p></td><td><p>2,635</p></td><td><p>2,884</p></td><td><p>2,886</p></td><td><p>3,043</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-14</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>811</p></td><td><p>793</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15-19</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>569</p></td><td><p>608</p></td><td><p>635</p></td><td><p>618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20-24</p></td><td><p>448</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>484</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>419</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25-29</p></td><td><p>454</p></td><td><p>463</p></td><td><p>450</p></td><td><p>421</p></td><td><p>471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30-34</p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>387</p></td><td><p>419</p></td><td><p>405</p></td><td><p>455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>35-39</p></td><td><p>437</p></td><td><p>452</p></td><td><p>415</p></td><td><p>393</p></td><td><p>361</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>40-44</p></td><td><p>438</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>398</p></td><td><p>423</p></td><td><p>420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45-49</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>383</p></td><td><p>371</p></td><td><p>371</p></td><td><p>415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>50-54</p></td><td><p>303</p></td><td><p>298</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55-59</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>289</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>60-64</p></td><td><p>279</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>262</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>65-69</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>238</p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>70-74</p></td><td><p>147</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>217</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>75-79</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>80+</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>10,120</p></td><td><p>10,211</p></td><td><p>10,551</p></td><td><p>10,414</p></td><td><p>10,777</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:</em> Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Note:</em> Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/11/2015 17:20:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon