Clinicians are responsible for making prescribing decisions for their patients, taking into account best prescribing practice and the local commissioning decisions of their respective clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). A General Practitioner (GP) is able to prescribe any product on the National Health Service they consider necessary for the treatment of their patient unless it is listed in Schedules 1 or 2 to the NHS (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004. GPs and other prescribers are ultimately responsible for their own prescribing decisions. Where doctors prescribe products that are available over the counter, we expect that to happen for good clinical reasons and represent value for money to the NHS.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4362", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Edward Argar"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Charnwood"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Edward Argar"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2021-11-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2021-11-15T16:33:02.317Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2021-11-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Analgesics: Prescriptions"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to minimise the financial impact on the NHS of the availability on prescription of paracetamol and other basic painkillers.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Strangford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Shannon"} ], "uin" : "70260"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366334", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366334/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Sotorasib was licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in September 2021 through Project Orbis. It is now being appraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to determine whether it should be routinely funded on the National Health Service in England.<\/p>
In view of the rapid approval of Project Orbis medicines, NHS England and NHS Improvement and NICE have developed an interim process to support patient access to medicines where there is a gap between Project Orbis licensing approval and publication of NICE guidance. Sotorasib is now available to NHS patients in England through an interim access deal agreed with the manufacturer. Decisions on access are a matter for the devolved administrations.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4362", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Edward Argar"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Charnwood"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Edward Argar"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2021-11-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2021-11-15T16:49:58.387Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2021-11-05", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Sotorasib"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when new drug, Sotorasib, will be available on the NHS for lung cancer patients.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Strangford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Shannon"} ], "uin" : "70261"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366335", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366335/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Ministers and officials are in regular discussions with our counterparts in the Northern Ireland Executive to discuss agri-food trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.<\/p>
<\/p>
Our Command Paper, The Northern Ireland Protocol: the way forward<\/em> (CP502) notes that the use of appropriate labelling would be one means of ensuring the destination of agri-food goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland administration on having the Union Jack on labels of food that enters Northern Ireland.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366336/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is supporting the Afghanistan Girls National Football Team to travel to the UK from Pakistan. The Government is committed to supporting the people of Afghanistan and continues to do all it can to ensure safe passage for those who wish to leave. We will continue to work with the international community to use our influence to secure women's and girls' rights to participate in public life.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assistance she will provide to enable the Afghanistan Girls National Football Team to travel to Australia safely to partake in football matches.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366337/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " UK ministers and senior officials regularly raise environmental issues, as well as specific cases of concern, directly with the Colombian Government and in multilateral fora. Most recently, the\u202fUK's Minister\u202ffor the Environment, Lord Goldsmith, discussed our concerns around environmental crime during his visit to Colombia 5-8 October.<\/p> Through the UK's £68m CSSF (Conflict, Stability and Security Fund) programming in support of peace and stabilisation, we continue to support the elements of the peace agreement related to reducing coca production and trafficking. This has included a contribution to a $2 million multi-donor project for crop substitution and food security, as well as funding the provision of technical advisers to the Colombian Government office overseeing this work.<\/p> The British Government is at the forefront of international efforts to protect endangered animals from poaching and illegal trade, and we are committed to supporting Colombia to host the Second High Level Conference of the Americas on Illegal Wildlife Trade. This builds on the ground-breaking conference series, which began in London in 2014, has secured ambitious agreements from governments to take urgent, coordinated action against the illegal wildlife trade.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Colombian counterpart on tackling (a) illegal mining, (b) cocaine production and (c) the trafficking of animals in Colombia.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366338/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " All people with a cancer diagnosis, including those diagnosed with less survivable cancers, are invited to complete the Cancer Quality of Life Survey. This is an initiative aimed specifically at supporting long term survivorship. For cancer patients who sadly do not survive for 18 months from diagnosis other approaches to assessing their experience, such as the Cancer Patient Experience Survey, will be more appropriate.<\/p> The Cancer Patient Experience Survey will capture experiences from people treated for cancer, including people with less survivable cancers. Due to the need for statistical robustness, there is a time lag between the experience of treatment and the survey questionnaires being sent out. This creates an issue for capturing insight about the experience of patients with less survivable cancers.<\/p> The Picker Institute Europe, which carries out the survey on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement, reviewed the survey in 2018 and as a result guidance to trusts was amended to streamline and speed up preparations for the survey.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the new NHS England Quality of Life survey for people diagnosed with a cancer with a poor one year prognosis.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4433", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Thangam Debbonaire"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366339", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366339/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " All people with a cancer diagnosis, including those diagnosed with less survivable cancers, are invited to complete the Cancer Quality of Life Survey. This is an initiative aimed specifically at supporting long term survivorship. For cancer patients who sadly do not survive for 18 months from diagnosis other approaches to assessing their experience, such as the Cancer Patient Experience Survey, will be more appropriate.<\/p> The Cancer Patient Experience Survey will capture experiences from people treated for cancer, including people with less survivable cancers. Due to the need for statistical robustness, there is a time lag between the experience of treatment and the survey questionnaires being sent out. This creates an issue for capturing insight about the experience of patients with less survivable cancers.<\/p> The Picker Institute Europe, which carries out the survey on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement, reviewed the survey in 2018 and as a result guidance to trusts was amended to streamline and speed up preparations for the survey.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure the (a) experiences of and (b) quality of life for people with a cancer with a poor one year prognosis are monitored by national mechanisms so issues in care and support can be identified and addressed.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4433", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366340", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366340/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " On 29 November 2021, we announced updated advice that all individuals aged 18 years old and over will be eligible for a COVID-19 booster vaccination. This includes participants in the AstraZeneca vaccine trials. Trial participants for a COVID-19 vaccine which has since been approved, such as AstraZeneca, can access a booster dose from any vaccine centre when invited to do so.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4447", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Maggie Throup"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to bring forward covid-19 vaccine booster jabs for people who were participants in the AstraZeneca vaccine trials last year.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4433", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1366341", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities"}
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