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1612241

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2023
	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: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to allow patients to recover the cost of privately funded treatment from the NHS where they were not offered the option of treatment at an independent hospital under the NHS Choice Framework.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	181532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to enable patients to recoup costs from the National Health Service via the Patient Choice Framework for individuals’ use of the independent sector. The NHS Constitution allows patients to be treated by an independent sector provider where available as part of their right to choose. We want to make sure this is offered consistently across the country, which is why we will be working with the independent sector, the NHS and primary care to ensure that referral systems include all appropriate independent sector providers, opening up a full suite of available options for patients.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/04/2023 11:17:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1612785

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2023
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on eliminating waits of more than 18 months for elective care.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	182075
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>Having met our target to virtually eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July 2022, we have now also significantly reduced waits of over 18 months, in line with the targets set out in the elective recovery plan.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the pandemic, the number of patients waiting over 18 months peaked at almost 125,000 in September 2021. Official NHS England statistics show at the end of March 2023 there were 10,737 patients waiting over 18 months, a reduction of over 91% from this peak.</p><p> </p><p>As with the two year target successfully met in July 2022, we have always been clear that there will be valid reasons why a small number of patients may need to wait more than 18 months, and for the patients that are still waiting local NHS services are working hard to schedule their appointments in line with clinical advice as a priority.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/05/2023 14:47:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1660271

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	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	Hospitals: Concrete
	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 guidance his Department has provided to hospitals affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2023 answer text <p>The National Health Service conducts regular surveys of its estate to assess the state of the building fabric. These surveys cover a wide range of structural assessments. With particular reference to reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), the National Health Service has been surveying sites and undertaking RAAC mitigation work since 2019 and has had an active national remediation programme since 2021 to mitigate and monitor the risks posed by RAAC across the NHS estate.</p><p>NHS England has also issued guidance for trusts nationally on how to establish the presence of RAAC in their estate. There is ongoing engagement with trusts on a national and regional level to ensure RAAC is identified across the NHS estate. Where structural surveys identify RAAC in their estate, trusts are inducted into the national remediation programme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/09/2023 13:52:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1088444

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
	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 discussions he has had with representatives of medical training bodies on ensuring that training programs for doctors, nurses and other health professionals include the most up to date guidance on diagnosis and appropriate treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>Ministers at the Department regularly meet with medical training bodies including the General Medical Council, to discuss many issues. However, there have been no recent discussions with medical training bodies to discuss the guidance on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).</p><p> </p><p>In terms of training, the General Medical Council sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that new United Kingdom medical graduates must be able to demonstrate and Royal Medical Colleges, such as the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) set the standards for postgraduate medical education in general practice. General practice is where most patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/ME are likely to be managed, and the condition is identified as a key area of clinical knowledge in the RCGP Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) content guide.</p><p> </p><p>The AKT is a summative assessment of the knowledge base that underpins general practice in the UK within the context of the NHS and is a key part of general practitioners’ qualifying exams.</p><p> </p><p>On 20 September 2017, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announced its decision to undertake a full update of the guideline, ‘Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): Diagnosis and management of CFS/ME in adults and children’, following a review of the latest available evidence on the diagnosis and management of CFS/ME and a public consultation. New guidance is expected in October 2020. More information on this decision can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-to-begin-review-of-its-guidance-on-the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-cfs-me" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-to-begin-review-of-its-guidance-on-the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-cfs-me</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/03/2019 16:16:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

1088450

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on bringing forward the release of the revised NICE guidelines on ME, due to be published in October 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department has had no such discussions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and responsible for developing its guidelines in accordance with its published methods and processes. NICE expects to publish its final updated guideline in October 2020 with a consultation on draft guidance starting in April 2020.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/03/2019 16:20:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

1088452

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NICE on issuing an interim warning on the potential dangers of graded exercise therapy (GET) as a treatment for ME, prior to issuing its revised guideline in October 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department has had no such discussions. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for developing its guidance in accordance with its published methods and processes. NICE takes into account the best available evidence in determining whether to recommend a treatment.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/03/2019 16:19:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

780469

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: CCTV
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on (a) the number and (b) which slaughterhouses do not have comprehensive CCTV installed on their premises.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	110364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>In May 2016 the Food Standards Agency carried out a CCTV survey in all 278 operating slaughterhouses in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The results from this survey showed:</p><p> </p><p>- 102 out of 207 red meat slaughterhouses (49.3%) and 50 out of 71 white meat slaughterhouses (70.4%) had some form of CCTV in use for animal welfare purposes.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of which slaughterhouses do not have comprehensive CCTV installed on its premises, this information is commercially sensitive and cannot be released.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/11/2017 11:53:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

784931

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the take-up of flu vaccination in people with chronic respiratory disease.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	111655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Encouraging take-up of the flu vaccination in people with chronic respiratory disease is primarily a matter for Public Health England (PHE). PHE, in partnership with NHS England, is currently running the national multi-channel campaign ‘Stay Well This Winter’, which encourages people who are most at-risk of preventable emergency admission to hospital to take actions to help them stay well, such as getting a flu vaccination and visiting a pharmacy at the first sign of a winter illness.</p><p> </p><p>Television adverts encourage people with long-term health conditions including breathlessness and lung disease to get the flu vaccine. The radio and social media advertising specifically target people with chronic lung diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, bronchitis and asthma. PHE also works with the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK to help promote flu vaccine take-up to their supporters.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/11/2017 11:53:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

784932

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential relationship between the uptake of the flu vaccination in people with chronic respiratory disease and hospital admission rates for people with that disease.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	111657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for monitoring public health vaccination programmes, including the influenza vaccine programme. It particularly monitors vaccine uptake, effectiveness and safety.</p><p> </p><p>Hospital admissions in persons with chronic respiratory disease are due to a wide range of causes, one of which can be flu. No study has been undertaken on the potential relationship between uptake of the flu vaccine in people with chronic respiratory disease and hospital admissions for people with chronic respiratory disease. However, PHE flu vaccine uptake monitoring has shown that the group 16-65 years of age with chronic respiratory disease had an uptake of 49.1% in 2016/17. There was an estimated flu vaccine effectiveness of 40.6% in this age-group against laboratory confirmed influenza, which would include individuals with chronic respiratory disease.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/11/2017 11:51:51 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

1504530

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	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	Dentistry: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which applications for new dental schools have been approved by Health Education England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
	tabling member printed	James Wild
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	46167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>Health Education England has not approved any applications for new dentals schools over the last five years. It is the responsibility of the General Dental Council to approve any new dental school.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/09/2022 15:33:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild