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1173748

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the NHS capital estate.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Laura Trott
uin	900441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>In September 2019, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care unveiled the Health Infrastructure Plan: a long-term startegic investment programme in the future of our National Health Service.</p><p>This included the biggest hospital building programme in a generation: £2.8 billion funding for 40 new hospitals over the next ten years, with six in the first wave (HIP 1), on top of the 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 17:05:18 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott

1173749

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the recruitment of dentists in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Cherilyn Mackrory
uin	900442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>We do recognise the recruitment and retention of dentists, particularly in rural areas, is challenging.</p><p>I have met with the Chief Dental Officer this week and we are actively looking at how we can increase the number of dentists and improve services access and reach.</p><p>This includes our ambitions for the dental workforce in the interim NHS People Plan, which proposes more flexible innovative dental training pathways, and new skill-mix models to increase access to dentistry, particularly in rural areas.</p><p>If you want to meet with me please let my office know.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/01/2020 16:08:54 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4758 label Biography information for Cherilyn Mackrory

1173750

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of waiting times for cancer treatment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Tahir Ali
uin	900443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority for the Government.</p><p>While survival rates are at a record high, we are committed to going further. We get there through earlier diagnosis, and raising awareness so that more patients are referred quicker for treatment if necessary.</p><p>Our dedicated National Health Service workforce diagnosed 31% more cancers, and ensured that 1.5 million more people with suspected cancer were seen by a specialist last year compared to 2010.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/01/2020 16:05:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4747 label Biography information for Tahir Ali

1173751

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	Air Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to help reduce the financial cost to the NHS of treating patients affected by high levels of air pollution.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	900444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The best way to reduce National Health Service costs and improve health is by tackling the sources of air pollution, so that less pollution is emitted in the first place. The actions set out in our Clean Air Strategy are targeted at a range of sources and pollutants and will result in the number of people who live in areas where particulate matter is above the World Health Organization’s guidelines being halved by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 28/01/2020 16:40:16 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1173752

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve access to mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	900447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>No one should face a long wait to access mental health support.</p><p>We committed to investing an extra £2.3 billion a year in mental health services by 2023/24. This will give 380,000 more adults access to psychological therapies and 345,000 more children and young people greater support. We have introduced the first ever access and waiting time standards for mental health, and will be testing and rolling out comprehensive waiting time standards for adults and children.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 28/01/2020 16:38:28 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1173753

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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	NHS: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the NHS capital estate.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes North
tabling member printed	Ben Everitt
uin	900449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>In September 2019, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care unveiled the Health Infrastructure Plan: a long-term startegic investment programme in the future of our National Health Service.</p><p>This included the biggest hospital building programme in a generation: £2.8 billion funding for 40 new hospitals over the next ten years, with six in the first wave (HIP 1), on top of the 20 hospital upgrades announced by the Prime Minister in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/01/2020 17:05:58 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4836 label Biography information for Ben Everitt

1173314

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Pharmacy
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 improve services provided by community pharmacists.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	900450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Through our ‘pharmacy first’ approach, we want to unlock the potential of community pharmacy.</p><p>Our landmark five-year contractual framework sets out an expanded role for community pharmacy to help people stay well closer to home.</p><p>This winter, more than 114,000 people with minor illnesses or medication needs have received same-day consultations with their highly skilled local community pharmacist following a new referral service from NHS 111.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/01/2020 16:09:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1173398

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Ophthalmic 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 plans his Department has to increase capacity in NHS eyesight services and ensure all patients are seen within a safe time frame.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning secondary care ophthalmology services to meet local need. We would expect services to be commissioned in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance where it is available or best available evidence and for patients to receive treatment, in line with their clinical priority, without any undue delay at any stage of their referral, diagnosis or treatment.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service patients have a right in the NHS Constitution to drugs and treatments recommended by the NICE, where the patient's clinician considers it appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the goal of the outpatients transformation programme is to avoid 30 million face-to-face outpatients appointments and reduce face-to-face visits to hospital outpatients by up to a third by 2023/24. NHS England and NHS Improvement estimate that this could save up to £1 billion in expenditure. If the programme achieves its goals, it will mean the successful creation of a digital-first outpatients service, which gives all appropriate patients the option for a virtual outpatients appointment. NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that ophthalmology has been identified as the first priority speciality for the National Outpatient Transformation Programme.</p><p>Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national clinical improvement programme, working with frontline clinicians to identify and reduce unwarranted variations in service delivery and clinical practice. NHS England advise the GIRFT report into ophthalmology shared with providers in December 2019, identifies a number of recommendations for service improvement to help to free up capacity and help to address the issue of delays to follow-up appointments.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/01/2020 11:32:42 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173399

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Visual Impairment
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 patients have suffered severe or permanent loss of sight whilst awaiting treatment; and what the cost to the NHS has been in compensation claims for sight loss due to delays in receiving treatment in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Data is not collected in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/01/2020 11:39:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173456

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Surrogacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals on surrogacy before the planned report on the issue by the Law Commission in 2021; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	8438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Law Commissions of England and Wales, and Scotland, are undertaking an independent review of United Kingdom surrogacy legislation, funded by the Government. I am intending to meet with the Law Commissions’ team in the spring to discuss their analysis of the consultation responses and the policy implications.</p><p>The Government has no plans to publish any draft legislative about surrogacy of its own.</p><p>The Government does not provide a formal Government response to the Commissions’ independent consultations. Under the Government’s Protocol with the Commissions we commit to providing an interim response to the recommendations within six months of publication of the report, and a full response within one year. The Law Commissions intend to publish a report, which will consider the responses received to their consultation and set out their recommendations for reform of the law, in 2021. This will be accompanied by a draft Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 8439 question first answered 30/01/2020 11:35:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin