The Department has not issued any guidance to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) on implementation of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) quality standards.<\/p>
<\/p>
NHS England has advised that NICE guidance, including quality standards, is built into advice provided to commissioners on specific clinical areas of work as appropriate. For example, the End of Life Commissioning Toolkit, published April 2016, supports delivery of the NICE Quality Standard on end of life care in adults and is published at:<\/p>
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nhsiq-comms-eolc-tlkit-.pdf<\/a><\/p> <\/p> In addition, as part of the current Diabetes Treatment and Care transformation funding bidding process, part of the scoring criteria for bids includes consideration of the degree to which the proposed developments will be compliant with NICE guidance, including relevant quality standards.<\/p> <\/p> NICE has advised that it provides support and resources to help CCGs work with and use quality standards. This includes the development of formal indicators related to quality standards to measure the quality of care at CCG level, visits from the NICE field team of implementation consultants, a forward plan of topics, including likely resource implications, tools to support measurement against the standards and databases of shared learning examples about the experience of others working with quality standards and levels of uptake of these standards.<\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2017-02-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department issues to clinical commissioning groups on implementation of quality statements made by NICE published in Quality Standards.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1438", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Kevan Jones"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683019/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Delays to dental performers being added to the Dental Performers List have affected dental practitioners and their businesses. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Public Health and Innovation (Nicola Blackwood) is working directly with Capita and NHS England to ensure that services for dentistry and other key services are restored to an acceptable and sustainable standard.<\/p>"}
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, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/116", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Sir Nicholas Soames"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683020/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Changes to the business rate system include the recent revaluation and the move to 100% business rates retention.<\/p> <\/p> The Valuation Office Agency is responsible for revaluations and setting rateable values for business rates, from which local authorities calculate the business rates bill.<\/p> <\/p> Each National Health Service organisation is responsible for ensuring their current rating assessments and any recent changes thereto are correct and for challenging them if necessary. As with other ratepayers, NHS bodies may be able to seek transitional relief. The Department has not made a national assessment of the overall impact, and no specific additional funding is being provided beyond the £10 billion of real terms growth by 2020/21.<\/p> <\/p> The Ministerial team has not met with counterparts at the Department for Communities and Local Government to discuss revaluation. The move to business rates was discussed at the time of the Spending Review. Officials are in regular contact to discuss detailed implications, such as the possible inclusion of authority social care and public health functions under the new system.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on changes to the business rates system.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683021/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Changes to the business rate system include the recent revaluation and the move to 100% business rates retention.<\/p> <\/p> The Valuation Office Agency is responsible for revaluations and setting rateable values for business rates, from which local authorities calculate the business rates bill.<\/p> <\/p> Each National Health Service organisation is responsible for ensuring their current rating assessments and any recent changes thereto are correct and for challenging them if necessary. As with other ratepayers, NHS bodies may be able to seek transitional relief. The Department has not made a national assessment of the overall impact, and no specific additional funding is being provided beyond the £10 billion of real terms growth by 2020/21.<\/p> <\/p> The Ministerial team has not met with counterparts at the Department for Communities and Local Government to discuss revaluation. The move to business rates was discussed at the time of the Spending Review. Officials are in regular contact to discuss detailed implications, such as the possible inclusion of authority social care and public health functions under the new system.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will provide the NHS with extra funding to cover any additional costs arising from proposed changes to the business rates system.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"}
], "uin" : "62720"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683022/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " NHS England is responsible for commissioning specialised neurological services, including some services for patients with neuromuscular disorders. NHS England has published a service specification for neurological care that includes an exemplar service specification for neuromuscular conditions that sets out what providers must have in place to offer evidence-based, safe and effective services. The service specification for neurological care can be found at the following link:<\/p> www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/d04-neurosci-spec-neuro.pdf<\/a><\/p> National Health Service providers, working with local area teams, may establish patient access to neuromuscular care advisers if they consider it would benefit service provision and such decisions are a local matter.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that people with muscle-wasting conditions in (a) Coventry and (b) the UK have access to neuromuscular care advice close to their home; and if he will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/308", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jim Cunningham"}
], "uin" : "62729"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683023/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Changes to the business rate system include the recent revaluation and the move to 100% business rates retention.<\/p> <\/p> The Valuation Office Agency is responsible for revaluations and setting rateable values for business rates, from which local authorities calculate the business rates bill.<\/p> <\/p> Each National Health Service organisation is responsible for ensuring their current rating assessments and any recent changes thereto are correct and for challenging them if necessary. As with other ratepayers, NHS bodies may be able to seek transitional relief. The Department has not made a national assessment of the overall impact, and no specific additional funding is being provided beyond the £10 billion of real terms growth by 2020/21.<\/p> <\/p> The Ministerial team has not met with counterparts at the Department for Communities and Local Government to discuss revaluation. The move to business rates was discussed at the time of the Spending Review. Officials are in regular contact to discuss detailed implications, such as the possible inclusion of authority social care and public health functions under the new system.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed changes to business rates on NHS hospital and GP practice services in England.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683024/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " A seven year United Kingdom-wide organ donation and transplantation strategy was jointly published by the four UK health ministers and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in July 2013. The strategy aims to increase consent rates, encourage people to be proud to donate and to make the UK system comparable with the best of the world.<\/p> <\/p> We have invested significantly in more specialist nurses, in better retrieval arrangements and in strengthening referral procedures between intensive care and the transplant programme to help ensure that all potential donors are identified and that families are supported through this very difficult time.<\/p> <\/p> NHSBT run regular awareness raising campaigns and introduced a new Organ Donation Register (ODR) system making it easier for people to record their wishes about donation. NHSBT works collaboratively with a number of partners in the private, public and third sectors to promote organ donation. People can add their name to the ODR via Government owned channels such as applying for a driving licence and paying car tax online.<\/p> <\/p> Our aim is to maximise the number of people who can benefit from a transplant and 2015/16 saw the highest ever deceased donor rate in the UK with 1,364 deceased donors resulting in 3,529 transplants.<\/p> <\/p> Information on the number of people who die while on waiting lists for organ donation is given in the annual NHSBT Transplant Activity Report in Section 1 of the report \u2018Summary of Donor and Transplant Activity\u2019. An archive of these reports can be found at:<\/p> www.odt.nhs.uk/uk-transplant-registry/annual-activity-report/<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/683025/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " A seven year United Kingdom-wide organ donation and transplantation strategy was jointly published by the four UK health ministers and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in July 2013. The strategy aims to increase consent rates, encourage people to be proud to donate and to make the UK system comparable with the best of the world.<\/p> <\/p> We have invested significantly in more specialist nurses, in better retrieval arrangements and in strengthening referral procedures between intensive care and the transplant programme to help ensure that all potential donors are identified and that families are supported through this very difficult time.<\/p> <\/p> NHSBT run regular awareness raising campaigns and introduced a new Organ Donation Register (ODR) system making it easier for people to record their wishes about donation. NHSBT works collaboratively with a number of partners in the private, public and third sectors to promote organ donation. People can add their name to the ODR via Government owned channels such as applying for a driving licence and paying car tax online.<\/p> <\/p> Our aim is to maximise the number of people who can benefit from a transplant and 2015/16 saw the highest ever deceased donor rate in the UK with 1,364 deceased donors resulting in 3,529 transplants.<\/p> <\/p> Information on the number of people who die while on waiting lists for organ donation is given in the annual NHSBT Transplant Activity Report in Section 1 of the report \u2018Summary of Donor and Transplant Activity\u2019. An archive of these reports can be found at:<\/p>