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1470552

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date	15/06/2022
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	Cancer: Screening
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 his Department has made on introducing DNA tests for the detection of cancers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are exploring a number of promising genetic tests which may support early detection of cancer and continue to monitor the evolution and development of new technologies. NHS England and NHS Improvement have agreed a partnership with GRAIL to test and accelerate its Galleri test into widespread usage across the NHS. The trial is currently in its first stage. If the initial phase of this trial meets specific interim goals identified in advance, the NHS will expand the trial to one million tests in 2024 and 2025. The NHS Cancer Programme’s innovation open call is supporting a small-scale project using the Guardant liquid biopsy to support diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/06/2022 10:51:39 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1470554

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Depressive Illnesses: Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of encouraging people diagnosed with depression to adopt a Mediterranean diet.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>Mental health outcomes are considered in the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition’s risk assessments, depending on the evidence base. The Department has no further plans to assess the impact of any dietary measures to prevent or treat depression as there is currently insufficient evidence to attribute mental health outcomes to any individual dietary pattern.</p><p>The Government promotes a healthy balanced diet, as depicted in the Eatwell Guide, for maintaining general health and wellbeing and for reducing the risk of diet-related diseases. While there is no single Mediterranean diet, such diets tend to include higher intakes of vegetables, fruit, legumes, cereals, fish and monounsaturated fatty acids; lower intakes of saturated fat, dairy products and meat. This dietary pattern broadly aligns with the Eatwell Guide.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 22/06/2022 16:52:28 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1470555

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Cancer: Exercise
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 encourage people diagnosed with cancer to use local exercise facilities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>The National Health Service has published exercise guidelines for cancer patients and patients may access to local exercise facilities through social prescribing measures by their healthcare team. Advice on appropriate exercise and how to stay active during treatment forms part of any personalised care protocol, such as the personalised stratified follow up pathways deployed for a number of cancers.</p><p>Social prescribing link workers in primary care can support cancer patients to connect with local exercise opportunities. The Primary Care Directed Enhanced Services contract states that all Primary Care Networks (PCNs) must have access to social prescribing services. This is usually through the PCN commissioning social prescribing link workers using the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/06/2022 10:49:03 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1470556

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Self-harm and Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussion with the Samaritans on the potential merits of introducing new legislation aimed at tackling suicide and self harm.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>The Department has discussed a range of issues relating to suicide and self-harm with Samaritans, including through the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group. These discussions have related to the Government’s Online Safety Bill to address harmful suicide and self-harm content online and the proposed introduction of a new offence relating to the encouragement or assistance of serious self-harm, as recommended by the Law Commission in its report on modernising communications offences, published in July 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 24/06/2022 10:35:50 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1470564

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Genito-urinary Medicine: Training
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 assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of appropriately trained health advisers within sexual health services, in context of the emergence of the monkeypox virus.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	19009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>While no recent assessment has been made, we are working with commissioners and providers to keep this under review. The UK Health Security Agency has provided guidance to healthcare workers, including those working in sexual health services, on conducting assessments for those presenting with concerns about potential exposure to monkeypox and advice on personal protective equipment. Pre-exposure vaccination for staff working in sexual health services who have been identified as assessing suspected cases is also recommended.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 29/06/2022 13:21:26 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1470572

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Heart Pacemakers: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of setting up a pacemaker donor card scheme in a similar model as the organ donor card scheme.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	18789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/06/2022 16:27:43 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1470574

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Dementia: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June 2022 to Question 8030 on Dementia: Drugs, whether the plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years referred to in that answer will deliver on the Government's manifesto commitment to double dementia research funding.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	18939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The strategy will include ambitions for dementia research and plans to increase research funding for dementia.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 20/06/2022 17:41:02 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 7518 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1470576

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Public Health: Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the total annual cost to public health expenditure of current air pollution levels in (a) England and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	18847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency estimates that between 2017 and 2025, the total cost to the National Health Service and social care from air pollution in England will be £1.60 billion for fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide combined. No recent estimate of the annual cost to public health expenditure of current air pollution levels in the United Kingdom has been made.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 21/06/2022 16:30:42 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 7540 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1470578

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Cystic Fibrosis: Mental 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, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of psychosocial provision for people with Cystic Fibrosis.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	18901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS England’s adult and paediatric cystic fibrosis service specifications set out national standards for cystic fibrosis services, including the importance of access to multidisciplinary teams involving appropriately trained clinical psychologists and social workers. There are regular review meetings between the regional commissioning teams and providers to ensure compliance with service standards. Those with long term conditions such as cystic fibrosis can also access psychological support via Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services.</p><p>Health Education England has supported a 60% expansion in the clinical psychology training intake in the past two years. Trainees can undertake specialist placements and upon qualification take up posts across a wide range of settings, including working with adults and children with cystic fibrosis.</p><p> </p><p>The white paper, ‘People at the Heart of Care’, is supported by at least £500 million to develop and support the adult social care workforce over the next three years. We are also supporting the social care workforce through the development of a post-graduate mental health social work programme, the Education Support Grant and Social Work Bursaries.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 23/06/2022 10:00:05 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1470593

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) scale of, (b) long-term implications of and (c) interventions needed to help tackle mental health issues in (i) young children and (ii) adolescents.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	18951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>In 2021, approximately 17.4% of children aged between six and 16 years old and young people aged 17 to 19 years old had a probable mental health disorder.</p><p>The impact assessment for ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’ published in December 2017, considered the need to increase support to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health conditions and the options for intervention considered. The impact assessment is available at the following link:</p><p>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664442/MHGP_IA.pdf</p><p>An independent evaluation of the initial stages of implementation of the programme will inform future interventions and assess the overall impact and outcomes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 20/06/2022 17:49:47 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 7515 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell