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1457017

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Health Services: Transgender People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Kamall on 28 March (HL7110), given that the TransActual UK Trans lives survey 2021: Enduring the UK's hostile environment was not referring to transition treatments, but to general physical and mental health care, what progress they have made in addressing these issues.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL7793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department is working with the national LGBT health advisor to improve healthcare for transgender people, including the development of improved guidance for general practitioners (GPs). This will assist GPs to improve the understanding and delivery of the transgender populations’ specific healthcare needs.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/04/2022 11:32:01 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1457021

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Diabetes: Health Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of patients who joined the Diabetes Prevention programme between 2018 and 2019 failed to complete the course; and what steps they are taking to improve completion rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe
uin	HL7798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The information is not collected in the format requested as the NHS Diabetes Prevention programme is of nine months’ duration, where patients may commence support at any point during a calendar year. Completion rates are not collected on a yearly basis. However, data is collected for reference periods to identify cohorts of service users who have completed the programme within a specific time.</p><p>Providers of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme are updating session availability to support increased convenience and reduce waiting times. The support available for participants is being amended to encourage continued engagement outside of sessions such as meetings with a health coach and facilitated peer support groups.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 25/04/2022 10:56:45 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3335 label Biography information for Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe

1457029

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Protective Clothing: Carers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to make the PPE that is no longer needed by the NHS available to carers.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL7806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>In England, carers are eligible to receive personal protective equipment (PPE) through the online PPE Portal. Carers can register on the Portal to order free PPE until the end of March 2023 or until the relevant guidance is withdrawn or significantly modified. In addition, some local authorities and Local Resilience Forums also distribute PPE to carers in their local areas.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/04/2022 11:30:53 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1457030

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Health and Social Services: 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 reports that more than a million health and care staff will be needed in order to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
tabling member printed	Lord Hain
uin	HL7807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2022 answer text <p>The Department will support the National Health Service to address the impacts of the pandemic by supporting and increasing the workforce. The monthly workforce statistics for January 2022 show that there are more than 1.2 million full time equivalent staff working in the NHS. Since January 2021, there are over 20,700 more professionally qualified clinical staff working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, including over 4,200 additional doctors and 12,100 nurses. We are currently on schedule to deliver 50,000 more nurses and provide a sustainable long-term supply in future. We have established a programme to improve retention and support return to practice, invest in and diversify the training pipeline and ethically recruit internationally.</p><p> </p><p>We have offered non-repayable grants of at least £5,000 per academic year to eligible students studying pre-registration programmes in nursing and midwifery and allied health professions. A further £3,000 is available to students with child dependents and those studying specialist subjects. At the end of the 2021 recruitment cycle, there are over 57,000 applications for nursing and midwifery courses – an increase of 21% compared to 2020. Over 30,000 nurses and midwives accepted places to study nursing and midwifery in 2021 and there are currently more than 72,000 people training to be nurses, approximately 9,000 midwifery trainees and 30,000 trainees for the allied health professions.</p><p> </p><p>We have also funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students and opened five new medical schools. In response to the pandemic, the Government temporarily lifted the cap on medical and dental school places for students who had completed A levels in 2020 and 2021. We are also investing in workforce skills, wellbeing and career development to help address the barriers to people taking up work in adult social care and make adult social care a more attractive offer. We have committed at least £500 million to develop and support the adult social care workforce, including training places and initiatives to improve wellbeing.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 22/04/2022 09:45:23 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

1457047

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Prescription Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many drugs which have received regulatory approval since January 2019 are only available through the NHS and cannot be prescribed by private physicians.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rawlings
uin	HL7825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2022 answer text <p>All authorised medicines and vaccines regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) can be prescribed by a prescribing clinician as a private prescription. However, the decision to place a medicine or vaccine on the private market is a matter for the individual manufacturer. Information on drugs which have received the MHRA’s approval and solely available through the National Health Service is not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 22/04/2022 09:17:43 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3278 label Biography information for Baroness Rawlings

1457048

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Prescription Drugs: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what contractual arrangements they have, if any, with pharmaceutical companies that prevent the sale of antiviral drugs for COVID-19 by private clinicians.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rawlings
uin	HL7826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals have not made these treatments commercially available to the private health care sector in the United Kingdom. These products have been procured by the Department and are only available through the National Health Service.</p><p>The Department has agreed contracts with MSD and Pfizer to ensure that the UK has sufficient antiviral medication to treat those who are likely to benefit. There is no legislation which sets out the patient cohorts to receive antiviral treatments for COVID-19. Clinically eligible cohorts have been determined by an independent expert group commissioned by the Department and included in a clinical policy agreed by the UK Chief Medical Officers.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall grouped question UIN HL7827 question first answered 20/04/2022 11:31:24 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3278 label Biography information for Baroness Rawlings

1457049

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Prescription Drugs: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what legislation requires Public Health England to provide antiviral treatments for COVID-19 to only those people with particular health conditions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Rawlings
uin	HL7827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals have not made these treatments commercially available to the private health care sector in the United Kingdom. These products have been procured by the Department and are only available through the National Health Service.</p><p>The Department has agreed contracts with MSD and Pfizer to ensure that the UK has sufficient antiviral medication to treat those who are likely to benefit. There is no legislation which sets out the patient cohorts to receive antiviral treatments for COVID-19. Clinically eligible cohorts have been determined by an independent expert group commissioned by the Department and included in a clinical policy agreed by the UK Chief Medical Officers.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall grouped question UIN HL7826 question first answered 20/04/2022 11:31:24 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3278 label Biography information for Baroness Rawlings

1457050

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Coronavirus: Screening
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are stockpiling COVID-19 tests in advance of any new variant becoming prevalent; and if so, whether they will be in a position to reinstate free tests for the public in such circumstances.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL7828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government has retained the ability to reinstate widespread COVID-19 testing in the event of a new, serious variant. This includes a stock of lateral flow device tests and increasing testing capacity in laboratories and delivery channels. A decision on how these contingency arrangements would be used and who would be provided with free tests, would be made in view of the circumstances and the risks posed by the variant.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/04/2022 10:50:03 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

1457064

registered interest
date	07/04/2022
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	Health Services: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of NHS leaders at the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Women's Hospital, and others, (1) criticising, and (2) planning to ignore, the EHRC guidance on transgender women and access to female-only spaces.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL7797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. NHS England’s guidance Delivering same-sex accommodation is currently under review. We are working with NHS England to ensure that the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients is protected. Any updated guidance will adhere to relevant equalities legislation.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 20/04/2022 11:31:41 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1456960

registered interest
date	06/04/2022
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	General Practitioners: Complaints
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how patients can appeal the outcome of complaints against GPs in England.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL7743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2022 answer text <p>The Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009 governs the National Health Service complaints system. Under the Regulations, those who wish to raise a complaint should raise it with the provider or the commissioner of that service. If the complainant is unsatisfied with the response received, they can escalate their complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman who will make a final decision. The Regulations do not describe a role for the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution or for mediation.</p><p>Patients can raise concerns directly with the General Medical Council (GMC) if the complaint relates to a doctor, including general practitioners, rather than the operation of a service such as the practice or another health care professional. The GMC’s online complaint form states which matters it can investigate.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall grouped question UIN HL7744 HL7745 HL7746 question first answered 20/04/2022 10:49:51 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger