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1127181

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	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	Prisons: 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 recent assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the assessment and treatment of prisoner mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	255324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is working with partners across the criminal justice and immigration removal system to improve services for offenders and detainees with mental health difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service England specialised commissioners and NHS England health and justice (H&amp;J) Commissioners have also been working collaboratively alongside the mental health team in NHS England to develop work to improve mental health of prisoners and to develop and improve the system for transfers and remissions of adult prisoners to mental health hospitals</p><p> </p><p>Mental health summits are being delivered regionally to develop the whole offender mental health pathway, identifying local anomalies, and gaps as well as good practice, and producing locally owned action plans to improve services.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, new service specifications have been published for both low and medium secure hospitals as well as prison mental health services. The prison mental health specification embeds the ‘Standards for Prison Mental Health Services’, developed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to ensure high quality care for all.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/05/2019 12:46:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1127186

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	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	Mental 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, what steps have been taken to tackle delays in transferring people with mental health problems from prison to hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	255327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is the commissioning body responsible for ensuring high quality low, medium and high secure hospital accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this role, NHS England has developed a national approach to ensuring close partnership working with local NHS England health and justice teams to review patients’ needs and expedite access to secure mental health beds. This also includes a more detailed understanding of challenges in the system in relation to remissions from hospital to prison, so that access, progress and throughput is improved.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England commissioned a repeat of the 2017 National Health Service benchmarking audit on transfers and remissions in early 2019, and a full analysis of this data is currently taking place. This information will help to ensure that challenges and delays in the system are addressed to ensure timely and appropriate transfers of care.</p><p> </p><p>The current ‘Prison Transfer and Remission Best Practice Guidance’, published by the Department in 2011, is being reviewed and two separate documents are being developed to replace it: one for immigration removal centres and another for prisons.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 21/05/2019 16:31:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1027210

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	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	Dental Services: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential health benefits to elderly people of increasing the availability of (a) dental implants, (b) veneers and (c) crowns on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	202721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>All treatment that is cost effective and clinically necessary to protect and maintain good oral health is available on the National Health Service. Dentists providing care under the NHS exercise clinical judgement in deciding what treatment is clinically required. This includes crowns and if clinically required veneers and, exceptionally, implants. The dentist’s clinical judgement covers what is required clinically and what is needed for cosmetic reasons. As in other areas of the NHS cosmetic treatment is not usually available.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/12/2018 13:00:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1020630

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Dental 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 his Department has made a comparative assessment of dental treatments available through the NHS and private dentists.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	199869
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Dental treatment that is clinically necessary to protect and maintain good oral health is available on the National Health Service. As in other areas, cosmetic treatments are not usually made available through the NHS. Dentists providing care under the NHS exercise clinical judgement in deciding what treatment is clinically required.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/12/2018 16:48:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1020631

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Social 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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the potential merits of a care sector deal.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	199870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets regularly with his Cabinet colleagues, discussing a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/12/2018 13:32:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

993779

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	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	Rehabilitation Centres: Location
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued to (a) NHS Trusts and (b) Care Commissioning Groups on consulting local communities on the location of drug and alcohol recovery and treatment centres.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	182767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to determine the location of drug and alcohol recovery and treatment centres based on specific local needs. This requires that local communities are consulted on as part of an application for a new drug and alcohol treatment service. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Planning Portal is the home for all current guidance, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.planningportal.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.planningportal.co.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Public Health England provides annual needs assessment data and information on evidence-based interventions for local authority commissioners to use when planning new drug and alcohol treatment services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 26/10/2018 12:27:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

944860

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	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	Pharmacy: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to allow pharmacy payment processes to include internet-only dispensing models.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	166162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>Through the community pharmacy contractual framework all pharmacies, including distance selling or online pharmacies, are funded to provide the same essential services. Some also elect to provide advanced services and locally commissioned enhanced services, if they meet relevant criteria. Funding is linked to the services a pharmacy provides, not the business model it operates.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/07/2018 15:07:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

944861

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	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	Pharmacy: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential savings from digital-first pharmacy services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	166163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of the potential savings from digital-first pharmacy services.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/07/2018 14:57:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

944863

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2018
	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	Pharmacy: Digital Technology
	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 potential effect on (a) medicines adherence and (b) error rates in repeat prescription dispensing of digital-first pharmacy services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	166164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of the potential effect on medicines adherence or error rates in repeat prescription dispensing of digital-first pharmacy services. However, early indications suggest that automation in the dispensing process can lead to fewer errors.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 24/07/2018 14:58:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

943172

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	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	Pharmacy: Digital Technology
	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 prepare the pharmacy sector for (a) digital first pharmacy services and (b) other technological change.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	165012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The community pharmacy IT infrastructure is being modernised, enabling the integration of community pharmacies within the wider National Health Service. In 2016 the Quality Payments Scheme was introduced to align an element of payment to quality and to support integration. The scheme has led to a number of improvements including the roll out of NHS Mail to 11,411 pharmacies across England, enabling digital communication of patient information. Continued integration will support the delivery of digital services in future.</p><p> </p><p>We have also made good progress to enhance the tools pharmacy professionals have at their disposal through programmes such as the Electronic Prescription Service and access to the Summary Care Record, which is now accessible in over 95% of pharmacies.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/07/2018 15:02:54 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah