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date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Prisoners: Synthetic Cannabinoids
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what programmes there are in prisons to provide support for prisoners with synthetic cannabis drug dependency.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	280382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>In prison, patients presenting with problematic psychoactive substance use are assessed in the same way as other drug users and offered an appropriate range of psychosocial interventions.</p><p>In April 2018, NHS England and NHS Improvement published its updated service specification on ‘Integrated Substance Misuse Treatment Service in Prisons in England’. This is fully aligned to ‘Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management’, which sets out how clinicians should treat people with drug misuse and drug dependence problems.</p><p>The service specification describes a fully recovery orientated, integrated prison substance misuse treatment service, which covers traditional drugs of abuse, psychoactive substances (including synthetic cannabis), illicit abuse of prescribed and over the counter drugs and alcohol.</p><p>This improved substance misuse service offer is now being commissioned across all prisons and secures integration with mental health services so that growing numbers of people in prisons can access services to support their recovery and wellbeing.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 25/07/2019 16:15:47 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1123105

registered interest
date	25/04/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Autism: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve the diagnosis of autism in women.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	247783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring all adults and children receive a timely autism diagnosis in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan was published on 7 January 2019. The Plan commits to improving autism diagnostic pathways in England and ensuring autistic people have access to high-quality care and support in the community. Over the next three years, autism diagnosis will be included alongside work with children and young people’s mental health services to test and implement the most effective ways to reduce waiting times for specialist services. This will be a step towards achieving timely diagnostic assessments in line with best practice guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is determined to drive up performance on autism diagnosis nationally. To support this NHS Digital began formally collecting autism diagnosis waiting time data, including information on gender, from mental health provider trusts for the first time through the Mental Health Services Data set in April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/05/2019 13:44:47 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

917153

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Chronic Illnesses: Presciptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he make an estimate the merits of making free prescriptions available to all people with lifelong diseases.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	149713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to make such an estimate. In the financial year 2016/17 prescription charge income generated £554.9 million of revenue for the National Health Service which played a key role in contributing to the cost of providing services.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Department of Health Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/06/2018 14:06:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley