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167088

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Asthma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will work with NHS England to ensure that a national clinical audit is carried out into services for people with asthma.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	216563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>A number of potential areas are being considered for new national clinical audits, including asthma. However, no final decision has yet been taken.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/12/2014 15:09:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

166019

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS provides fair access for all to life-extending drugs; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	215834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that patients have access to new and effective treatments, including those which may extend life, on terms that represent value to the National Health Service and the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for providing advice to the NHS on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of health technologies. NHS commissioners are legally required to fund treatments recommended by NICE technology appraisal guidance, ensuring consistent access to clinically and cost effective drugs across England. NICE has introduced greater flexibility in the appraisal of effective drugs for patients at the end of their lives, which has helped to secure patient access to a number of potentially life-extending drugs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are commissioning an external review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology. This review will consider how to speed up access for NHS patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 02/12/2014 14:07:57 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

147556

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Neuromuscular Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cough assist machines clinical commissioning groups have funded for patients with muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular conditions in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	213953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold figures on the number of cough assist machines clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have funded for patients with muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular conditions in the last 12 months. Funding for cough assist machines is a matter for individual CCGs taking into account the individual circumstances of each patient.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 19/11/2014 15:16:47 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

100735

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 to Question 210389, which groups who previously accessed free inoculations now no longer do so.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	211765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Under the national seasonal flu vaccination programme, the following people continue to be offered the seasonal flu vaccination.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- those aged 65 years and over;</p><p> </p><p>- those aged six months to under 65 in clinical risk groups;</p><p> </p><p>- pregnant women;</p><p> </p><p>- residents in long-stay care homes;</p><p> </p><p>- carers; and</p><p> </p><p>- health and social care workers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have not withdrawn the seasonal flu vaccination from any patient group who was previously offered the vaccination.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As outlined in my reply to the hon. Member I gave on 21 October 2014 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-10-14/210389/" target="_blank">210389</a> the Government has commenced a programme to extend the seasonal flu vaccination to children aged two to less than 17 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 30/10/2014 17:04:39 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson