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786780

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) trainee general practitioners and (b) other medical and administrative staff in the NHS have their pay administered by outsourced firms; and what the total value is of contracts for such pay administration with outsourced firms.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>General practitioner (GP) registrars are employed, and therefore paid, either by a lead employer or directly by a training GP practice. Information about which GP practices outsource administration of their payroll, and the total value of these contracts, is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The number of other medical and administrative staff in the National Health Service who have their pay administered by outsourced firms, and the total value of these contracts, is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:23:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

786830

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners
	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 increase capacity in general practice in (a) Crawley constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>In April 2016, the General Practice Forward View set out a package of investment in general practice. This included a number of reforms which will increase capacity in general practice through recruitment and retention of general practitioners (GPs) and the wider workforce, and investment in extended access to GP services and the Time for Care programme.</p><p> </p><p>By 2020 the Government has committed to 5,000 additional GPs and 5,000 other staff in general practice; and by March 2019 everyone having access to GP services, including sufficient routine appointments at evenings and weekends to meet locally determined demand.</p><p> </p><p>The Time for Care programme will spread awareness of innovations that will help release capacity in general practice and facilitate local change programmes to implement them. Examples of these innovations include active signposting and developing the team. It is estimated that most practices can expect to release about 10% of GP time. The Time for Care programme provides support for groups of practices to implement their choice of the actions. To date, this has covered 115 clinical commissioning groups, available to 3,974 practices.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17 £2,000,000 of funding was awarded to NHS Crawley Clinical Commissioning Group to improve local GP practice resilience and sustainability and improve access to local GP services for patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:25:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

786845

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to increase GP training to improve the detection of bowel cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The standard of medical training is the responsibility of the General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent statutory body. The GMC has the general function of promoting high standards of education and co-ordinating all stages of education to ensure that medical students and newly qualified doctors are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for professional practice. Continuing professional and personal development for registered professionals employed in the National Health Service is a matter for employers and those individuals.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:26:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

786846

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bowel Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to monitor adherence to waiting-time standards for suspected bowel cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Maintaining and improving patient access standards, including the eight cancer waiting times standards is a key objective of the Mandate to NHS England in 2017/18. NHS England has set out their approach to meeting and improving patient access standards in the ‘Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’ which was produced in partnership with organisations including NHS Improvement.</p><p> </p><p>The Department uses performance data published on a monthly basis by NHS England to monitor compliance with the cancer waiting times standards and there are robust processes in place to hold NHS England and NHS Improvement to account for performance and ensure compliance with the cancer standard is discussed in the course of this process.</p><p> </p><p>The latest data for September 2017 showed that the National Health Service is meeting seven out of the eight cancer waiting times standards. The data can be accessed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:31:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

786906

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish a cancer workforce strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Health Education England has been working closely with Macmillan Cancer and Cancer Research UK to produce a cancer workforce plan which it expects to publish by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:28:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

786978

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Bubonic Plague: Madagascar
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the NHS is planning to take any steps in response to the outbreak of plague in Madagascar; and what assessment his Department has made of potential risks to public health in the UK related to that outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>At the start of the outbreak Public Health England undertook a comprehensive assessment of the risk to the United Kingdom, which it considered to be very low. The assessment was shared with the National Health Service who is monitoring the situation. The report is available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654174/Plague_in_Madagascar_Risk_Assessment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654174/Plague_in_Madagascar_Risk_Assessment.pdf</a></p><p>The UK Government deployed the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) to Madagascar in the early stages of the outbreak. The UK-PHRST provided expertise in epidemiological surveillance (case identification, contact tracing), organisation of case management, and infection prevention and control measures. The team have now returned as the outbreak has tailed off and the response has moved from acute outbreak to more steady state.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:32:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

786983

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	GP at Hand
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assistance his Department plans to give to users of the GP at Hand service who need to visit a GP face-to-face.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>GP at Hand is a practice that holds a standard General Medical Services (GMS) contract. The contract requires contract holders to specify the address of each of the premises to be used by the contractor or any sub-contractor for the provision of such services. As such, patients should be able to make an appointment for a face to face consultation.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:35:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

786984

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	GP at Hand
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of whether there is greater potential for misdiagnosis of patients using the GP at Hand service than there is in a face-to-face appointment; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Online or telephone consultations are used currently by many practices. However, patients should also be able to make an appointment for a face to face consultation with GP at Hand if they prefer.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:34:11 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

786985

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	GP at Hand
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of the GP at Hand service.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	112428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>GP at Hand is a practice that holds a standard General Medical Services (GMS) contract. As such, they will receive reimbursement on the same basis as other GMS practices based on the nationally negotiated Statement of Financial Entitlements.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:36:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

789102

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many pieces of correspondence his Department has received from (a) hon. Members, (b) members of the House of Lords, (c) external organisations and (d) members of the public relating to patient transport to and from NHS appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	113022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>A search of the Department’s ministerial correspondence database has identified 98 items of correspondence received since 1 May 2017 about patient transport to and from National Health Service appointments. Of these, 84 were from hon. Members, none were from members of the House of Lords, one was from an external organisation and 13 were from members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s ministerial correspondence unit only.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/11/2017 12:40:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran