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	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses: Training
	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 cost to the public purse of training a UK citizen as a nurse; and what assessment he has made of how this figure compares with the costs of recruiting nurses from overseas.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	9401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent estimates that the average cost of training a nurse in 2013 was £78,604. This figure reflects the total cost of training and therefore includes costs funded through the public purse, including the NHS bursary, and by the student.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>National Health Service organisations are best placed to decide how many staff they employ and how best to recruit those staff to meet services tailored to the needs of their patients and local communities, to deliver safe care.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 11/09/2015 12:07:22 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

418701

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Pregnancy: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the NHS has made of the potential benefits and disadvantages of the use of Doppler scans in preventing stillbirths.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	10175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) which advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening is currently looking at the evidence for a variety of tests (including doppler scans) and treatments to see if they would be able to help to reduce stillbirths. The UK NSC will evaluate the benefits and risks of each test and treatment against its internationally recognised criteria before making a recommendation on their introduction.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 17/09/2015 14:50:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

420125

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospices: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much central government funding was provided for (a) adult and (b) children's hospices in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	11202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>Adult hospices in England receive National Health Service funding locally for services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups. Central Government funding of £570,951 was provided as part of the Nursing Technology Fund Grant in 2015/16 to three adult hospices in England.</p><p>In addition to NHS funding for locally commissioned services, children’s hospices received £11 million in 2015/16 through the Children’s Hospice and Hospice-at-Home Grant, which is administered by NHS England.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/10/2015 15:28:09 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias

429393

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has taken steps to recover costs to the NHS resulting from the actions of Hungarian journalist Ani Horvath as part of an investigation of fraud in the European Health Insurance Cards scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Dr Tania Mathias
	uin	17013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Department is undertaking a major piece of work to examine and identify areas for improvement in all the administrative systems relating to European Economic Area healthcare payments (incoming and outgoing), including the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) scheme.</p><br /><p>If an EHIC is used fraudulently, the Department will seek to recover the full cost of treatment from the card holder.</p><br /><p>The Department takes any allegations of fraud and abuse seriously and has been working with the NHS on an on-going basis to detect and tackle any suspected fraud and error since the introduction of the online EHIC application system in 2006.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/11/2015 17:42:52 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4404 label Biography information for Dr Tania Mathias