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1682430

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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	Dementia: Continuing Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to help support people with dementia to complete the NHS continuing healthcare application.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	9839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>People who may be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) should be referred for a screening and assessment process as appropriate by a health or social care professional. The process is undertaken by the integrated care board and should follow a person-centred approach, placing the individual at the centre of the assessment and care-planning process. Someone with specialist knowledge of their condition should also be involved in the assessment process. Eligibility for CHC is not determined by age, diagnosis or condition, or financial means.</p><p>Individuals who are being considered for CHC should be provided with a copy of the public information leaflet along with relevant contact details and information about local processes. NHS England has also commissioned Beacon to provide independent and high-quality support for individuals and their families. A copy of the leaflet is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care-public-information-leaflet/public-information-leaflet-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care-public-information-leaflet/public-information-leaflet-nhs-continuing-healthcare-and-nhs-funded-nursing-care--2</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 19/01/2024 17:46:11 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 12427 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1682431

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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	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, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of dentists that advertise NHS services but are not able to provide them due to (a) levels of staffing and (b) financial reasons.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	9840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England and integrated care boards review data each month on the number of practices open and accepting new patients. There is no data held centrally relating to the reasons why practices are not able to provide services within the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>The Department announced a package of improvements to the NHS dental system in July 2022 and detailed in Our plan for patients. These changes now make it a contractual requirement for dentists to update their information on the NHS website at least every 90 days to improve information available to patients. This will make it easier for patients to find a dentist who can deliver the care they need and for the system to refer patients to practices with available capacity.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 24/01/2024 17:43:07 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 12428 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1656318

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	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	Hospitals: Admissions
	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 impact of patients not being hospitalised at the nearest hospital on their (a) well-being and (b) recovery.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	196265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment on the impact on patients of where they are hospitalised. There are well documented benefits for patients of being treated in specialist centres of excellence, for instance, for stroke care.</p><p>NHS England and integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning and ensuring healthcare needs of local communities are met.</p><p>If a patient is referred to hospital or other National Health Service premises for specialist NHS treatment or diagnostic tests, eligible patients can claim a refund of reasonable travel costs under the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (HTCS).</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 196266 question first answered 07/09/2023 16:37:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 91576 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1656319

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	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	Hospitals: Admissions
	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 impact of patients not being hospitalised at the nearest hospital on the (a) well-being and (b) finances of their families; and whether his Department plans to localise specialist services.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	196266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not made a specific assessment on the impact on patients of where they are hospitalised. There are well documented benefits for patients of being treated in specialist centres of excellence, for instance, for stroke care.</p><p>NHS England and integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning and ensuring healthcare needs of local communities are met.</p><p>If a patient is referred to hospital or other National Health Service premises for specialist NHS treatment or diagnostic tests, eligible patients can claim a refund of reasonable travel costs under the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (HTCS).</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 196265 question first answered 07/09/2023 16:37:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 91577 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1650986

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2023
	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	Psychology: Family Courts
	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 with the Secretary of State for Justice to ensure effective regulation of psychological experts providing evidence in the family courts.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice and the HM Courts and Tribunals Service set any criteria that a professional must satisfy in order to be a psychological expert providing evidence in a family court setting. The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is the independent regulator responsible for regulating practitioner psychologists. HCPC does not regulate practitioner psychologists according to job role, however its legislation protects nine designated psychologist professional titles in law.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/07/2023 16:04:01 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1650987

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2023
	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	Psychology: Family Courts
	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 Health and Care Professions Council on reviewing their definition of psychologists to encompass experts used in the family courts.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	192868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>No discussions with the Health and Care Professions Council have taken place about reviewing their definition of psychologists to encompass experts used in the family courts. The criteria for determining which professionals are able to act as experts in family courts is a matter for the Ministry of Justice and the HM Courts and Tribunals Service.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/07/2023 16:06:26 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1646534

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	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	Travel: Vaccination
	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 increase the availability of NHS travel vaccinations in Barnsley Central constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	190623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2023 answer text <p>The National Health Service provides polio, typhoid, hepatitis A and cholera travel vaccines free of charge, and these are available from general practitioner (GP) surgeries. GPs can also offer appropriate routine immunisation catch-ups ahead of travelling if any have been missed.</p><p>There are record numbers of GPs in training and we are investing at least £1.5 billion to create 50 million more general practice appointments a year by 2024. The Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, published on 9 May, supports practices to address access challenges. Our Modern General Practice Access approach, backed by £240 million of retargeted funding, will simplify online requests, improve digital telephony, strengthen care navigation and continuity, and improve assessment and response times.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 26/06/2023 16:29:22 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1641169

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	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	Skin Moles
	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 merits of widening the criteria for mole removal in the National Health Service.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	187204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment on the potential merits of widening the criteria for mole removal on the National Health Service. People are advised to visit their general practitioner (GP) with new or existing moles that have changed in shape or colour. If the GP suspects a mole is cancerous, a two week suspected cancer referral will be made. Depending on the outcome, the mole may be surgically removed. The NHS does not routinely provide mole removal for cosmetic reasons.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/06/2023 16:08:18 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1607825

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2023
	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	Prosthetics: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding is available to enable children and young people to access bionic prosthetics as of 27 March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	174307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>In October 2022, NHS England published a clinical commissioning policy for multi-grip upper limbs, which can be found at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/clinical-commissioning-policy-multi-grip-prosthetic-hand-all-ages/</p><p>This supports the provision of multi-grip upper limbs for both adults and children, where clinically appropriate. Microprocessor lower limbs are not routinely available for children and young people due to the length of the residual limb and their ability to tolerate the weight of a microprocessor-controlled knee.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 03/04/2023 09:01:51 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 66755 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1603661

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2023
	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	Antibiotics: Shortages
	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 impact of the local shortages of some antibiotics experienced in winter 2022 on the operation of the National Health Service in affected areas.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	163855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. The increased demand for the antibiotics prescribed to treat Strep A in Winter 2022 meant that some pharmacists were unable to supply the medicine shown on the prescription. To make things easier for patients, pharmacists, and general practitoners, we issued serious shortage protocols (SSPs) for penicillin medicines, which allowed pharmacists to supply an alternative medicine without the need for the patient to return to their prescriber.</p><p>At the request of the Pharmaceutical Service Negotiating Committee, we have granted a number of concessionary prices for antibiotics where pharmacies have not been able to purchase products at or below the Drug Tariff NHS reimbursement price. This has helped to ensure overall pharmacy contractors are paid enough for the medicines they dispense.</p><p>We have provided advice to primary and secondary care on the management of supply issues affecting antibiotics for the treatment of Strep A, including direction to supply alternatives, as set out in the SSPs, if necessary.</p><p>We are continuing to work with the UK Health Security Agency and NHS England to coordinate any further communications to healthcare professionals advising on availability of antibiotics, if needed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/03/2023 15:03:04 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis