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1715717

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date	02/05/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what clinical regulation measures are in place to ensure that care and treatments provided by private medical insurers are the most appropriate for a specific patient.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL4346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>Private medical insurers do not provide care or treatment. However, they do purchase services from independent sector providers who are responsible for delivering healthcare. All providers of healthcare undertaking regulated activities, as defined in Schedule 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, are regulated by the Care Quality Commission, and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality, while the health and care regulators are responsible for regulating health and care professionals.</p><p>Regulations 9 and 12 of the 2014 regulations set out the importance of person-centred care, and safe care and treatment. These regulations have the intention of ensuring that people using a service have care or treatment that is personalised specifically for them, preventing people from receiving unsafe care and treatment, and thereby precluding avoidable harm or risk of harm.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 16:40:38 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1715426

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
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	Rare Diseases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to have any discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) about continuing to work with the rare condition community to improve engagement and involvement in decision-making from small organisations.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL4282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>Department officials regularly meet with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to discuss a range of issues. Taking into account the advice and experience of people using services, as well as their carers or advocates, alongside that of health and social care professionals, commissioners, providers, and the public, is a central principle that guides the NICE’s work.</p><p>The NICE is committed to working with people who use health and social care services, their families, carers, and the public, as well as with voluntary and community sector organisations, and all of the NICE’s guidance is developed using a process that takes into account the opinions and views of the people who will be affected by them, to ensure their needs and priorities are reflected. The NICE gathers these perspectives through the membership of its committees, and through public consultations at various stages of guidance development. Stakeholders also have an opportunity to comment on the potential impact of the NICE’s guidance on health inequalities.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 11:30:09 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1715430

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
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	Abortion: Telemedicine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued to medical practitioners dispensing telemedicine abortion pharmaceuticals to patients who are more than ten weeks pregnant.
tabling member printed	Lord Jackson of Peterborough
uin	HL4286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>Whilst no specific guidance has been issued, the 1967 Abortion Act is clear that treatment for termination of pregnancy at gestations over 10 weeks can only be performed in a National Health Service facility or a place approved for this purpose by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 11:42:03 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

1715432

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
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	Social Media: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with social media companies about protecting the mental health of under-16s, especially girls, using their platforms.
tabling member printed	Lord Lebedev
uin	HL4292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department met with TikTok and Meta in December 2022 and January 2023, to discuss the mental health of children and young people, including girls who are under 16 years old.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 11:30:23 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4900 label Biography information for Lord Lebedev

1715441

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
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	HIV Infection: Plastic Surgery
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of individuals contracting HIV from contaminated blood in unregulated cosmetic procedures.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL4302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the risk of individuals contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from contaminated blood in unregulated cosmetic procedures. The Government is developing a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England. This will make it an offence for an individual to carry out non-surgical cosmetic procedures without a licence, and will require people who offer procedures to be suitably trained and qualified, hold appropriate indemnity cover, and operate from premises which meet the scheme’s standards of hygiene, infection control, and cleanliness.</p><p>Following a public consultation on the scope of the scheme in 2023, the Department is working closely with stakeholders to develop detailed proposals for the licensing scheme. The scheme will complement existing legislative safeguards for certain skin piercing activities and other treatments, such as ear piercing, tattooing, acupuncture, and electrolysis. The Local Government Act 2003 and Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 give local authorities the power to register practitioners and premises, and to make and enforce byelaws. Where adopted, these byelaws protect the public by setting standards for the cleanliness and hygiene of premises, practitioners, and equipment, thereby reducing the risk of the transmission of blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis B and C.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 11:31:33 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans

1702355

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	Social Services: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to build on the proposals in the report of Sir Andrew Dilnot’s Commission on Funding of Care and Support, Fairer Care Funding, published in July 2011.
tabling member printed	Lord Swire
uin	HL3966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>As announced in the Autumn Statement 2022, we listened to the concerns of local government and made the decision to delay the rollout of charging reforms from October 2023 to October 2025. These reforms include the introduction of a cap on personal care costs, and a more generous adult social care means test. The Government has been considering what form the rollout of charging reform from October 2025 will take.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 09/05/2024 11:26:28 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire