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1599971

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2023
	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	Autism: Children
	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 that adequate mental health care is available for children with autism and those awaiting autism diagnoses.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	155194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The transformation of Children and Young People’s Mental Health services is a priority for the National Health Service. We are increasing access to support for those that need it, including autistic children and children with a learning disability with mental health needs. The NHS Long Term Plan, includes a commitment that an additional 345,000 children and young people aged 0 to 25 years old will have access to NHS-funded mental health support, including in new Mental Health Support Teams in schools and colleges, by 2024.</p><p>For people and families who are waiting to have an autism assessment, we know that this is a challenge. NHS England is currently developing a national framework to support partners in local areas to commission and deliver autism assessment services for children, young people and adults. The aim of this work is to improve access to and the quality of these assessment processes and to reduce the time that people wait for an assessment. The framework will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/03/2023 10:25:32 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1143573

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	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 Cancer: Enfield Southgate
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mental health support is available for people who have been diagnosed with blood cancer in Enfield Southgate constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	284990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Each clinical commissioning group (CCG) is responsible for commissioning local services, including mental health services, on behalf of their local populations taking into account local needs and priorities. For the year 2018/19, overall spend on mental health services in the Enfield CCG area was £64.6 million.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all those who need support with their mental health, whatever their circumstances, are able to access the services they require in a timely manner based on their clinical need.</p><p>To support this, we have increased spending on mental health to a record £12.5 billion in 2018/19. In addition, the NHS Long Term Plan committed at least a further £2.3 billion a year to mental health services by 2023/24. This investment will transform and expand services for people with mental health conditions, building on our current targets.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 09/09/2019 18:04:29 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1552129

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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 Cancer: 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, whether the 10-year cancer plan will include specific plans to support patients with blood cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	111670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>Following the call for evidence for a 10 year cancer plan earlier this year, we received over 5,000 submissions. We are currently reviewing these responses.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/12/2022 15:02:11 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1552130

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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 Cancer: 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, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of delays in diagnosis on the treatment of blood cancers.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	111671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made. The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in cancer services. NHS England is providing additional support for trusts to deliver the commitments for cancer services in the plan.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/12/2022 15:00:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1552131

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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 Cancer: 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, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that blood cancer patients can access mental health support in (a) Enfield, Southgate constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	111672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan states that, where appropriate, every person diagnosed with cancer will have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, an individual care plan and information and support for their health and wellbeing.</p><p>The National Health Service is supporting adults experiencing cancer with access to The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) mental health services, which provides evidence based psychological therapies for people with anxiety disorders and depression.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/12/2022 17:13:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1551641

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	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	Brain Cancer: Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when proton beam therapy will be available in the UK to medulloblastoma patients over 25.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	110783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>NHS England Clinical Commissioning Policy Statement covers proton beam therapy for adult medulloblastoma for craniospinal irradiation. Implementation of the therapy service at the University College London Hospital proton centre is at a stage where there is capacity within the national service for this complex treatment. The use of protons will be determined in line with the assessment of clinical risk and benefit.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 22/12/2022 11:33:37 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1205217

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2020
	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	Breast Cancer: 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 assessment he has made of the effect on people with incurable secondary breast cancer of the changes to cancer treatment during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	61566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>During the COVID-19 crisis, urgent and essential cancer treatments have continued. Some cancer diagnostics and treatments have been rescheduled to protect vulnerable patients from having to attend hospitals. These were all clinical decisions made with the patient and the recovery and restoration of cancer services to pre-pandemic levels is well underway with detailed guidance issued by NHS England and NHS Improvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 21/07/2020 11:33:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 31461 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1228755

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	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	Cancer: Clinical Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of clinical trials involving 13 to 24 year olds with cancer that have been disrupted or abandoned as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	82271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network reports that its portfolio of studies is not consistently coded with specific age ranges, and thus the information requested is not directly available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 14/09/2020 16:13:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179173

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	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	Cancer: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s position is on whether patients who initially privately fund a cancer drug can receive it on the NHS if it is subsequently (a) approved for use by NICE, (b) added to NHS England’s National Cancer Drugs Fund List and (c) if they meet the criteria for the drugs' use.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	18956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement has advised that, following a drug becoming routinely available from the National Health Service, it would expect all eligible patients to be able to access that drug from the NHS.</p><p>This principle would also apply for treatments under the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). A patient previously treated privately would be able to transfer to NHS care and continue treatment available via the CDF, as long as they meet all of the treatment criteria.</p><p>For those patients who have previously received all of their care in the private sector and then transfer to NHS care, NHS England and NHS Improvement has advised that it cannot reimburse for treatments given in the private sector or funded privately prior to the treatment becoming routinely available from the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 02/03/2020 15:37:56 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1179342

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2020
	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	Cancer: 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, what the timetable is for the publication of the Health Education England Cancer Work Force Plan phase 2.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	18997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published phase one of the Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017, which commits to the expansion of capacity and skills across priority professions within the cancer workforce to 2021.</p><p>HEE began work on phase two in early 2018. The work on phase two of the plan was submitted by HEE to NHS England to inform the development of the cancer ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan in July 2018. NHS England established a Cancer Workforce Task and Finish Group in 2019 (including representatives of HEE, the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Macmillan and Cancer 52). The final NHS People Plan, due to be published in early 2020, will also build upon the progress made through the Cancer Workforce Plan, including taking targeted action to ensure the supply of NHS staff who play a vital role in increasing early diagnosis of cancer.</p><p>Ministers and officials regularly meet, both formally and informally, with a wide range of health professionals, patients and charities linked to supporting cancer including CRUK and Macmillan Cancer Support. In October last year Departmental Ministers hosted a cancer workforce roundtable with 25 charities (including patient organisations) and representatives of NHS England and HEE.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 18999 19000 question first answered 02/03/2020 13:21:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous