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	registered interest
	date	07/06/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether the Government is on target to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	39772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The indicator within the Public Health Outcomes Framework brings together the range of information on levels of preventable sight loss in a single place.</p><p>The indicator is made up of four sub-indicators which are measuring the crude rates of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, and of the rate of sight loss certifications per 100,000 population.</p><p>The latest data published by the Public Health Outcomes framework show that there were the following new certifications of visual impairment in 2013/14:</p><p> </p><p>- 11,055 for age related macular degeneration, a decrease of 90 from 2012/13;</p><p>- 3,432 for glaucoma, an increase of 141 from 2012/13;</p><p>- 1,563 for diabetic eye disease, a decrease of 29 from 2012/13; and</p><p>- 22,911 overall new certifications (all causes), an increase of 264 from 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p>Early detection is essential to tackling preventable sight loss. A range of treatment and services are in place in the National Health Service to deal with the key causes of preventable sight loss.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/06/2016 08:33:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

931789

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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	Learning Disability: Nurses
	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 plans to take to ensure the retention and recruitment of Learning Disability Nurses as a result of the findings of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Annual Report 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	158181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving workforce capability in relation to learning disability across the National Health Service and social care and we have committed that there will be a response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review report and its recommendations shortly.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, the Government announced a 25% increase in the number of nurse training places that will be available, starting in September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>On 9 May 2018, my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health (Stephen Barclay) announced £10 million funding for incentives for postgraduate students who go on to work in mental health and learning disability fields, as well as those postgraduates who go on to work in community nursing roles. The Government is considering the most effective way to implement the incentive scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working closely with Health Education England, NHS England, NHS Improvement and Skills for Care on a range of measures to support increased recruitment and improve retention across the health and care system, including the learning disability nursing workforce. These measures include marketing campaigns to raise awareness and interest in careers in the NHS, an NHS Improvement programme to improve staff retention in trusts across England and bring down the leaver rates in the NHS by 2020 and arrangements to support flexible working to help staff to balance work-life commitments.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2018 15:24:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

931790

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	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	Hearing Impairment: Staffordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline on hearing loss in adults, published in June 2018, what assessment he has made of North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s decision to restrict hearing aids for people with mild or moderate hearing loss.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	158182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the provision of hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss to meet the needs of their local population. As with other services CCGs commission, they should take into consideration assessments of local need and any relevant guidance, such as that published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE clinical guidelines are not mandatory, although we expect service commissioners to take them into account alongside local priorities in the design of services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2018 15:29:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1010153

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 177617 on Eating disorders, if he will list the 70 new or extended community services providing specialist community-based care for eating disorders that are open or in development by the local authority in which they are based.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	192754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available by local authority.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2018 17:42:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1016320

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the transition period set out in the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union, whether the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency will retain its status as a competent authority; and whether existing CE marks assigned under that agency will be valid from 29 March 2019 until the end of that transition period.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	196736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The agreement of an implementation period will ensure that access to medicines and medical devices continues, and patient safety is maintained, in both the United Kingdom and European Union markets.</p><p> </p><p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will continue to be the UK competent authority during this period.</p><p> </p><p>For medical devices, CE marks are assigned by notified bodies (rather than competent authorities such as the MHRA), and during the implementation period UK notified bodies will continue to conduct third-party conformity assessment in the UK, and the results of these tests will continue to be used and recognised for both the UK and EU markets.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/12/2018 18:29:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

789068

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bradwell Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask (a) the local clinical commissioning groups and (b) University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust to publish the reasons for (i) closing wards in March 2017 and (ii) re-opening wards from November 2017 at Bradwell community hospital in Newcastle-under-Lyme; and what the cost to the NHS was of such decisions.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	112952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>Commissioning decisions are matters for the local National Health Service and are taken after working with local people and with clinicians to ensure that changes are in the best interests of patients. The financial data requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2017 17:14:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

789099

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bradwell Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse has been of (a) redundancies and (b) the decommissioning of facilities following the closure in March 2017 of wards at Bradwell community hospital in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	112896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Commissioning decisions are taken by the local National Health Service and include working with local people and with clinicians to ensure that changes are in the best interests of patients. Data on redundancies that is centrally held cannot be sufficiently disaggregated to this level.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2017 17:15:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

943859

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations of the report Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2017, what progress Health Education England has made on tackling the gaps in the provision of (a) education, (b) training and (c) numbers of eating disorder specialists in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the PHSO report, NHS England have convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England (HEE), the Department and other partners to address the recommendations and take them into account in planning for improvements to eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is reviewing its current education and training offer and will work with subject matter experts to scope existing evidence-based practice to inform any new education and training resources. HEE is also considering how the capacity of the existing workforce may be used more innovatively and is exploring workforce planning interventions that can increase specialism in the field of eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has run a consultation on the quality standard on eating disorders, which included two statements aimed at improving co-ordination of care. The quality standard is currently in its final stages of internal review and is expected to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 165491 165492 question first answered 23/07/2018 16:11:16 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

943860

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2018, what progress (a) his Department and (b) NHS England have made on reviewing the existing (i) quality and (ii) availability of adult eating disorder services to achieve parity with child and adolescent services.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: “Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients”. NHS England and NHS Improvement are committed to meet the PSHO’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Commencing in March 2018, the National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Professor Tim Kendall was asked by the NHS England Board to establish a working group with other arm’s length bodies named in the PHSO report to help oversee and co-ordinate actions being taken to implement the recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>The national review of adult eating disorder services that NHS England commissioned in 2017 is now complete. Data collected on activity, investment and workforce is being reviewed with stakeholders to inform NHS England’s understanding of current provision and existing levels of parity with eating disorder services for children and young people. The data will inform modelling to understand the finance and workforce gaps to achieving greater levels of parity.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England will work with the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Quality Improvement and Accreditation Networks, specifically the Quality Eating Disorder Network, to help embed recommendations in service standards used to review the quality of care delivered in eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has completed an engagement programme to inform a review of the Serious Incident Framework for the National Health Service. Further information about the engagement programme is available on NHS Improvement’s website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/future-of-patient-safety-investigation/</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working closely with NHS Improvement to analyse responses from the engagement programme and will give particular consideration to how the different parts of the system can be brought together to improve the way incidents that are complex and/or involve multiple providers are investigated.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/07/2018 10:40:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

943861

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2018
	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	Eating Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report, Ignoring the alarms: How NHS eating disorder services are failing patients, published by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in December 2018, what progress NICE has made on including co-ordination of services in its new quality standard for eating disorders.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
	uin	165491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes seriously the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PSHO) report: ‘Ignoring the alarms: how NHS eating disorder services are failing patients’.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the PHSO report, NHS England have convened a working group with NHS Improvement, Health Education England (HEE), the Department and other partners to address the recommendations and take them into account in planning for improvements to eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p>HEE is reviewing its current education and training offer and will work with subject matter experts to scope existing evidence-based practice to inform any new education and training resources. HEE is also considering how the capacity of the existing workforce may be used more innovatively and is exploring workforce planning interventions that can increase specialism in the field of eating disorders.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has run a consultation on the quality standard on eating disorders, which included two statements aimed at improving co-ordination of care. The quality standard is currently in its final stages of internal review and is expected to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 165489 165492 question first answered 23/07/2018 16:11:17 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly