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1083523

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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	Smoking: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS rollout of lung cancer scanning programmes, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	229719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The evidence is clear that expert face-to-face support from a local stop smoking service, combined with stop smoking aids, is the most effective quitting method. People who get this support are up to four times as likely to stop smoking successfully as those who try to quit unaided. This evidence can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ncsct.co.uk/publication_Stop_smoking_services_impact_on_quitting.php" target="_blank">http://www.ncsct.co.uk/publication_Stop_smoking_services_impact_on_quitting.php</a></p><p> </p><p>Local authorities in England are responsible for commissioning stop smoking services that meet the identified need in their areas and are targeted at the people who need it most.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England published the Standard Protocol for the Targeted Lung Health Check programme which says participants will be asked about their smoking habits when they attend a lung health check, and offered smoking cessation advice and treatment. This programme can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/targeted-screening-for-lung-cancer/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/targeted-screening-for-lung-cancer/</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/03/2019 12:27:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1078546

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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	Fibromyalgia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people with fibromyalgia.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	226750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to making sure people with long term conditions receive the personalised care and support they need.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, NHS England is taking action in range of areas to improve the care treatment and support provided to people with neurological conditions including rolling out the NHS Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care across the country, reaching 2.5 million people by 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/03/2019 16:40:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027251

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	General Practitioners: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of GPs in Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce nationally. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme is available in Nottinghamshire and offers a £20,000 salary supplement to attract doctors to parts of the country where there have been consistent shortages of GP trainees. 12 places were available in 2018 and a further 12 have been made available in 2019 in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.</p><p> </p><p>Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Newark and Sherwood CCG advise that the first wave of their international recruitment has taken place and the first few recruits are in post with further candidates in the pipeline. An increasing number of practices are also now sponsors for International Medical Graduates (on Tier 2 visas) who have trained in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>To address retention, the CCGs advise that they have a wide range of schemes available including a Trainee Transition programme which is providing trainees in their third year of training with flexible working options, a GP mentoring and support scheme, and a Post Certificate of Training (CCT) Fellowship. The CCT Fellowship provides additional support for GPs to extend their skills in leadership, digital working and urgent and emergency care.</p><p> </p><p>In additional to this, the CCGs advise that they are tackling practice workload and generating a wider culture of job satisfaction through engagement in the Releasing Time for Care programme. The programme includes training for administrative staff to reduce the burden on GPs.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/12/2018 14:21:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027252

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Dentistry: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of dentists in Nottinghamshire.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Nationally, the number of dentists remain high. The latest data published in NHS Digital’s annual report on 30 August 2018 shows that 24,308 dentists delivered National Health Service dental services in 2017/18, 30 more than in 2016-17. The data is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2017-18-annual-report" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics/2017-18-annual-report</a></p><p> </p><p>We are aware that the same figures show there has been a small fall in the total numbers of dentists working on NHS contracts. NHS England commissions primary care dental services and is responsible for ensuring there are sufficient dental services to meet local need. NHS England is closely monitoring any local difficulties in recruitment and retention and over the summer held a workshop with various dental stakeholders to identify the causes and potential actions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/12/2018 14:11:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1020406

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	General Practitioners: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP trainees began training in Nottinghamshire in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	199477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>There were 71 general practitioner (GP) trainees that began training in Nottinghamshire in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme is a national incentive scheme which funds a £20,000 salary supplement to attract GP trainees to work in areas of the country where GP training places have been unfilled for a number of years. 144 places were available on the scheme in England in 2017, 11 of which were in Nottinghamshire.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:56:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1017268

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Diabetes: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Nottinghamshire who have diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	197472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:02:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1010780

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Phenylketonuria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help raise awareness of Phenylketonuria.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	193605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The current new-born screening programme in the United Kingdom screens for nine rare but serious conditions including phenylketonuria (PKU). To recognise rare conditions such as PKU, doctors and other healthcare professionals are expected to ensure their clinical knowledge remains up-to-date and to identify their ongoing learning needs as part of their continuing professional development. This activity should include taking account of new research and developments in guidance in relevant specialty areas, such as those produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence or the Royal Colleges, to ensure that they can continue to provide high quality care to all patients.</p><p> </p><p>Steps to increase the awareness of rare diseases such as PKU are being taken through the implementation of the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases. The Strategy includes commitments to improving the lives of all patients affected by rare diseases including in areas of identification/ prevention and diagnosis and early intervention. The Government is committed to implementing the Strategy’s commitments and in January 2018, the Department and NHS England published Implementation Plans setting out their actions for England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/11/2018 17:39:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1007853

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
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	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 progress has been made on creating a system whereby patient evidence can be considered as part of the specialised commissioning relative prioritisation process.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	191991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Patients and the public already have the opportunity to submit peer reviewed, published evidence as part of the clinical commissioning policy and services specification development process and to comment on draft commissioning policies and service specifications during public consultation. An engagement report which summarises the views submitted is considered by the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group as part of their deliberations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/11/2018 15:14:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

997209

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
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	Medical Treatments: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether healthcare charities will be able to submit evidence as part of the specialised commissioning relative prioritisation process later this year.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	185103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2018 answer text <p>Healthcare charities and other interested organisations have the opportunity to submit peer reviewed, published evidence, and to comment on draft clinical commissioning policies and service specifications that are being considered within the relative prioritisation process. They can do this either as a member of the policy working group, during stakeholder testing, or via a public consultation as per NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning Service Development Policy.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/11/2018 15:25:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

995615

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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	Tuberous Sclerosis: 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 steps he is taking to ensure patients with refractory epilepsy related to tuberous sclerosis complex are able to access new medicines.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	184448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>Patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) have access to standard anti-epileptic drugs and whilst not licensed specifically for use in association with TSC, there is evidence that two thirds of patients will respond to treatment. A relatively new option specifically licensed for refractory epilepsy in TSC is everolimus (Votubia) which is due to be considered for prioritisation within the National Health Service in England in December as part of NHS England’s biannual relative prioritisation process for specialised services.</p><p> </p><p>The life sciences sector deal, published last autumn, will ensure that the next wave of breakthrough treatments, innovative medical research and technologies are created in Britain. A key part of the deal was our commitment to improving patient access to innovation through the implementation of the Accelerated Access Review.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/11/2018 15:40:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley