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91857

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have figures to support the statement made by the Chief Executive of NHS England in July that the National Health Service needs to tackle obesity among its employees.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold current data on the number of National Health Service staff who are obese. In 2009, the Department estimated in ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: One Year On’ that of 1.2 million staff in the NHS, 700,000 were likely to be obese or overweight.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England plan to publish their Five Year Forward View later this month. Proposals for the plan include incentives to ensure the NHS as an employer sets a national example in the support it offers its own 1.3 million staff to stay healthy, and serve as “health ambassadors” in their local communities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1918 question first answered 13/10/2014 13:11:25 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

91858

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to National Health Service publication <i>Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: one year on,</i> whether there are any internal surveys on obesity among National Health Service employees.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department is not aware of any internal surveys on obesity among National Health Service employees.</p><p> </p><p>In their audit, <em>Implementing NICE public health guidance for the workplace: a national organisational audit of NHS trusts in England</em>, published this year and repeated from 2011, the Royal College of Physicians reviewed the progress that employers’ across the NHS were making which included tackling obesity. This showed that the percentage of trusts with obesity plans in place rose from 13 in 2010 to 28.</p><p> </p><p>NHS trusts are responsible for the health and wellbeing of their staff. The Department’s supports the NHS to improve staff health and wellbeing by commissioning NHS Employers to help NHS trusts implement five high impact actions: developing local evidence based improvement plans; with strong visible leadership; supported by improved management capability; with access to better, local, high quality accredited occupational health services; and where staff are encouraged and enabled to take more responsibility for their health.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 13/10/2014 13:12:42 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

91859

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the receptiveness of the public to health advice from medical staff whom they believe to be unhealthy; and on what evidence any such assessment is based.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not carried out an assessment of the public’s receptiveness to advice from medical staff they believe to be unhealthy.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 13/10/2014 13:11:51 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

91860

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the announcement by the Chief Executive of NHS England on 17 September proposing a plan to tackle obesity among National Health Service employees, whether they will publish the plan in full.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold current data on the number of National Health Service staff who are obese. In 2009, the Department estimated in ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: One Year On’ that of 1.2 million staff in the NHS, 700,000 were likely to be obese or overweight.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England plan to publish their Five Year Forward View later this month. Proposals for the plan include incentives to ensure the NHS as an employer sets a national example in the support it offers its own 1.3 million staff to stay healthy, and serve as “health ambassadors” in their local communities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL1915 question first answered 13/10/2014 13:11:25 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

91861

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report by Dr Steven Boorman<i> NHS Health and well-being</i>, which concluded that there was a relationship between employee health and well-being and performance on issues such as patient satisfaction, annual health check ratings and MRSA rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government acknowledges Dr Boorman’s conclusions and, each year since 2010, has commissioned support for NHS trusts to improve their staff health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>Progress is being made. This year, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) concluded in its audit, <em>Implementing NICE public health guidance for the workplace: a national organisational audit of NHS trusts in England</em>, that “National Health Service trusts are beginning to prioritise staff health and wellbeing” saying “employers that implement the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) workplace guidance tend to have a healthier and more productive workforce and better patient outcomes”. The NICE workplace guidance focuses on board and staff engagement; physical activity; tackling obesity; promoting mental wellbeing; smoking cessation and the management of long term sickness absence.</p><p>This year’s audit by the RCP was a repeat from 2011 following Boorman and while it showed progress, there is no room for complacency although NHS staff sickness absence (4.06%)<sup>1</sup> is the lowest since Boorman and all NHS staff have access to occupational health services.</p><p>The Department’s support for the NHS, which it provides via NHS Employers, is based on five high impact actions: developing local evidence based improvement plans; with strong visible leadership; supported by improved management capability; with access to better, local, high quality accredited occupational health services; and where staff are encouraged and enabled to take more responsibility for their health.</p><p> </p><p>[1] This is the latest full year percentage figure for NHS staff sickness absence calculated as a rolling average annual percentage rate and based on figures published in July by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 13/10/2014 13:13:58 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

89896

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government on what basis the Department of Health reimburses small independent chemists for NHS prescription drugs; whether they reimburse the full wholesale amount to chemists; and, if the full cost is not reimbursed, on what basis the payment is made.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2014 answer text <p>The National Health Service pays community pharmacies that provide NHS pharmaceutical services a combination of fees and allowances for services provided and reimbursement for the products supplied as laid out in the Drug Tariff. The Drug Tariff is a compilation of determinations made by the Secretary of State and NHS England.</p><p> </p><p>The reimbursement prices for products supplied are set in a number of different ways depending, for example, on whether the product is prescribed as a brand or a generic. For example, reimbursement prices for the most commonly prescribed generic products are set out in Part VIIIA of the Drug Tariff and are placed in categories A, C and M. The reimbursement price is established differently depending on the category in which the product is placed. For example, Category M prices are set using volume and sales data from suppliers.</p><p> </p><p>The total of the reimbursement prices of products supplied by a pharmacy is subjected to a deduction as set out in Part V of the Drug Tariff. The size of the deduction is dependent on the value of the total of the reimbursement prices for that pharmacy. The larger the total, the larger the deduction. Each pharmacy providing NHS services, whether independent or part of a larger company, is paid in this way.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 15/09/2014 11:22:53 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

79792

registered interest
date	30/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have on the numbers of National Health Service staff who are (1) obese grade I, (2) obese grade II (severe obesity), and (3) obese grade III (morbid obesity).
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/08/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of National Health Service staff classified as obese.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 18/08/2014 10:05:28 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra