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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832877/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>On 25 January 2017, the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust board approved work to examine the case for establishing a wholly owned subsidiary for estates and facilities management. On 20 December 2017, after staff consultation had taken place, the Trust board approved the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary.<\/p><p>NHS Improvement has reviewed key relevant documents including the Trust board paper evidencing informal staff engagement about the proposed changes during October 2017, as well as a formal 30-day staff consultation during November 2017. Following the staff consultation, the Trust made changes to its proposal which benefitted the staff transferring to the new company. The Trust has confirmed to NHS Improvement that it took legal advice in relation to its duty to consult staff on the changes.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Trust did not establish the wholly-owned subsidiary prior to consulting clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). NHS Improvement has seen correspondence from Somerset CCG on 19 December 2017 giving permission for the wholly-owned subsidiary to be a permitted subcontractor. NHS Improvement has seen similar correspondence from NHS England Specialised Commissioners on 22 November 2017 approving the wholly-owned subsidiary as a permitted subcontractor. The Trust board took the decision to approve the formation of the wholly owned subsidiary on 20 December 2017.<\/p><p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has told NHS Improvement that it has not been necessary to spend additional time beyond normal Board business discussing clinical matters as a result of establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary company.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4545", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-01-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 24 January (HL4674), why no staff consultation took place prior to the decision of the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary company.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      ], "uin" : "HL5201"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832879", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832879/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>On 25 January 2017, the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust board approved work to examine the case for establishing a wholly owned subsidiary for estates and facilities management. On 20 December 2017, after staff consultation had taken place, the Trust board approved the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary.<\/p><p>NHS Improvement has reviewed key relevant documents including the Trust board paper evidencing informal staff engagement about the proposed changes during October 2017, as well as a formal 30-day staff consultation during November 2017. Following the staff consultation, the Trust made changes to its proposal which benefitted the staff transferring to the new company. The Trust has confirmed to NHS Improvement that it took legal advice in relation to its duty to consult staff on the changes.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Trust did not establish the wholly-owned subsidiary prior to consulting clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). NHS Improvement has seen correspondence from Somerset CCG on 19 December 2017 giving permission for the wholly-owned subsidiary to be a permitted subcontractor. NHS Improvement has seen similar correspondence from NHS England Specialised Commissioners on 22 November 2017 approving the wholly-owned subsidiary as a permitted subcontractor. The Trust board took the decision to approve the formation of the wholly owned subsidiary on 20 December 2017.<\/p><p>Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has told NHS Improvement that it has not been necessary to spend additional time beyond normal Board business discussing clinical matters as a result of establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary company.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4545", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-01-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate has been made of the additional time spent by the Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board discussing clinical matters as a result of establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary company to run estates and other support services.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      ], "uin" : "HL5202"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456355", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456355/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The review of wound dressings by a dedicated working group resulted in the development of a number of clinical specifications for wound care products.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>In order to progress this work, from April 2016 a new NHS Clinical Evaluation Team will be put in place. The Clinical Evaluation Team will assess wound care products through a comprehensive evaluation process, which will have extensive engagement with NHS clinical staff. Included in the process will be tissue viability and infection control nurses, clinical procurement specialists, doctors, nurses and midwives along with medicine management practitioners from community trusts.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The project\u2019s remit is to review clinical products to identify those that enable high quality patient care whilst delivering the best outcomes for the NHS. The secondary consideration will be to identify products that could be procured more effectively through combined NHS buying power, to deliver greater overall value for money.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Clinical Evaluation Team is made up of practising clinicians.<\/p><p>The project will therefore undertake assessments of the total costs and benefits of any recommendations to the overall NHS.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2016-03-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what action they will take to ensure that the NHS Supply Chain wound dressing generics project takes account of evidence comparing the cost of managing unhealed and healed wounds, and of the total cost of wound care in the NHS currently as compared with previous estimates.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      ], "uin" : "HL6589"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439744", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439744/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The NHS Supply Chain is co-ordinating the production of clinical specifications by a Clinical Specifications Working Group, who are representing their customers in capacity of experts in wound care. This group, the Clinical Specifications Working Group, is independent of the NHS Supply Chain set up by the Clinical Reference Board.<\/p><br /><p>The Clinical Specification Working Group has engaged with various stakeholders, including the Tissue Viability Society, in the process and will ultimately approve the resultant specifications.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what account they will take of the representations by the Wound Care Alliance UK regarding the NHS Supply Chain generic project plans for a national formulary for wound care.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      ], "uin" : "HL4797"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439745", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439745/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Clinical Specification Working Group has academic representation on the group from England and Wales. Patient orientated organisations may be involved, as appropriate, at an evaluation stage though they have not engaged with them at this point.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2016-01-04T14:04:22.89Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Wound Dressings: Procurement"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether educational and patient-orientated organisations were involved in the planning of the NHS Supply Chain generic project plans for a national formulary for wound care.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      ], "uin" : "HL4798"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439746", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439746/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Innovation is welcomed as part of this process and the clinical specifications may support smaller companies who demonstrate their capability to meet the requirements. One advantage of the NHS Supply Chain venture for smaller companies is that it can act as a single point of entry into the National Health Service and lower the \u2018cost of sales\u2019.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Prior of Brampton"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2016-01-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2016-01-04T14:05:09.773Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Wound Dressings: Procurement"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25277", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Lords"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government how they plan to ensure that, in the implementation of the NHS Supply Chain generic project plans for a national formulary for wound care, innovative small companies are not at a disadvantage in bidding for contracts.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439747", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439747/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The wide variety of choice in the current system is leading to duplication of wound care products. This can create more complexity for nurses and clinicians, making their clinical decisions more difficult and potentially leading to over specification and variation in standards of care. Of the 4,796 wound care products available through the NHS Supply Chain, 34% of lines have had no sales in the last 12 months.<\/p><br /><p>Providing an agreed set of National Health Service requirements for wound care products will start to reduce this duplication, complexity and therefore potential risk, helping to improve patient outcomes through less variation in care.<\/p><br /><p>This issue was also highlighted by 74% of respondents to a Royal College of Nursing survey run by Nursing Times (Dec 2014) seeing opportunities to reduce duplication on wound care products, (more than any other type of product).<\/p><br /><p>The project is part of a wider piece of work the Department is working with the NHS Supply Chain on to deliver £300 million of savings by October 2018. Central to this is reducing the number of specifications and variations by category so the NHS can leverage its scale and deliver clinically appropriate solutions that represent \u2018value for money\u2019. Such approaches are common in other countries and help drive savings, improve clinical standards and protect front line nursing.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2016-01-04T14:24:42.177Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Wound Dressings: Procurement"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what assessment they have made of the clinical and ethical justifications for setting the benchmark in the NHS Supply Chain generic project plans for a national formulary for wound care that 80 per cent of patients will be treated using clinically appropriate dressings.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439748", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/439748/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The NHS Supply Chain can provide data analysis on the usage of products procured through their route.<\/p><br /><p>Incidents raised through the use of the products would be monitored by individual NHS trust clinical staff and appropriate investigations would be instigated.<\/p><br />"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2015-12-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government what plans they have to monitor the impact of the introduction of the NHS Supply Chain generic project plans for a national formulary for wound care.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
      ], "uin" : "HL4801"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456354", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456354/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The review of wound dressings by a dedicated working group resulted in the development of a number of clinical specifications for wound care products.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>In order to progress this work, from April 2016 a new NHS Clinical Evaluation Team will be put in place. The Clinical Evaluation Team will assess wound care products through a comprehensive evaluation process, which will have extensive engagement with NHS clinical staff. Included in the process will be tissue viability and infection control nurses, clinical procurement specialists, doctors, nurses and midwives along with medicine management practitioners from community trusts.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The project\u2019s remit is to review clinical products to identify those that enable high quality patient care whilst delivering the best outcomes for the NHS. The secondary consideration will be to identify products that could be procured more effectively through combined NHS buying power, to deliver greater overall value for money.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Clinical Evaluation Team is made up of practising clinicians.<\/p><p>The project will therefore undertake assessments of the total costs and benefits of any recommendations to the overall NHS.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/127", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2016-03-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether, in the light of their review of the cost of wound dressings to the NHS, they will ensure that clinical expertise is a full component part of the process in order to ensure that the outcome is clinically effective as well as cost-effective.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456356", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/456356/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>There were 856 responses to the Royal College of Nursing survey run by Nursing Times in December 2014. The respondents were keen to get involved in the procurement process and recognised opportunities to save money.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The respondents to the survey included a broad spectrum of nursing staff, the breakdown of which was as follows: 35% Staff nurses, 31% Clinical nurse specialists; 16% ward sisters; 10% Senior nurse managers; 4% Healthcare Assistants; 1% Directors of Nursing; and 1% Student nurses. 74% of respondents to the survey saw opportunities to reduce duplication on wound care products.<\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 4 January (HL4800), whether they are aware of any limitations regarding the data contained in the Nursing Times report in December 2014, in particular its accuracy and relevance to the UK.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government whether they plan to consider restructuring the NHS Drug Tariff Part IX on wound dressings based on their clinical performance and intended use.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/2024", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Lord Hunt of Kings Heath"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1059628", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"}
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