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168659

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what monies have been set aside to fund litigation proceedings launched by independent practitioners in response to the recently acknowledged failings of the Care Quality Commission's Intelligent Monitoring methodology.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	217678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. As the CQC is responsible for developing its own methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements, the CQC would be responsible for any legal proceedings that arose in relation to that methodology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC has advised that it will deal with any legal proceedings that may be brought against it. It has made no specific arrangements, as each case must be reviewed on its merits.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 11/12/2014 16:10:12 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

168661

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Influenza: Warrington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency have received an influenza vaccine in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	217739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of people who received an influenza vaccine is only available for Warrington. The total number of general practitioner registered persons reported to have received influenza vaccine over the past five seasons is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 2009-10 (pandemic influenza) Warrington Primary Care Trust (PCT) – 17,323 people vaccinated;</p><p> </p><p>- 2010-11 Warrington PCT – 34,214 people vaccinated;</p><p> </p><p>- 2011-12 Warrington PCT – 35,961 people vaccinated;</p><p> </p><p>- 2012-13 Warrington PCT – 36,182 people vaccinated; and</p><p> </p><p>- 2013-14 Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group – 39,275 people vaccinated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/12/2014 15:54:28 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

168674

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what qualifications are required for working on, designing or undertaking analytical processing under the heading of Intelligent Monitoring; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	217647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for the recruitment of its own workforce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC has advised that it ensures that all staff appointed have the necessary skills and expertise to fulfil their roles.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Among the skills, qualifications and experience required for the role are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and previous experience of working in an analytical role.</p><p> </p><p>- Experience of interpreting and presenting data sets to a wide range of audiences.</p><p> </p><p>- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with experience of preparing and presenting high-level reports on complex issues.</p><p> </p><p>- Understanding of how intelligence is used in a risk based regulatory model.</p><p> </p><p>- Knowledge and understanding of health and/or social care data sets.</p><p> </p><p>- Experience of using management information systems to ensure an integrated information approach.</p><p> </p><p>- Experience of working with consistent analytic frameworks.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The CQC’s Primary Medical Services Intelligent Monitoring team consists of six analytical staff. The team draws on particular expertise from across the CQC, for example clinical, sector policy and statistical advice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 11/12/2014 15:33:20 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

168285

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Independent Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to issue an oral or written statement on the Government's progress on implementing proposals set out in Hard Truths: the journey to putting patients first.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	217503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Since the publication of Hard Truths: The Journey to Putting Patients First, the Government has taken huge strides to boost safety, transparency, compassion and accountability in the National Health Service. We have legislated to make the Care Quality Commission independent, and a new rigorous inspection regime for hospitals, primary care and adult social care has been introduced, resulting in a clear rating on the quality of care. We have also introduced a robust special measures regime for struggling hospitals, so that poor care is both identified and rectified. In addition, we have legislated to place a new duty of candour on provider organisations and to put in place a fit and proper person requirement for directors of NHS bodies, as well as to create a new offence of wilful neglect and ill treatment. This Government has also placed an unprecedented amount of data on the MyNHS website, so that the public can see how their local services perform.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing an update and summary of this progress in the New Year as part of the Government response to Freedom to Speak Out, the independent review being led by Sir Robert Francis, QC.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/12/2014 17:02:15 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

168287

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2014 to Question 216876, what steps the Government is taking to improve the take-up of substance misuse services by mental health patients who have drug and alcohol dependencies.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	217575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Health and Social Care Act 2012 established Health and Wellbeing Boards as the statutory mechanism for bringing local systems together to understand and address local need through the joint strategic needs assessment, and joint health and wellbeing strategies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Mental Health Implementation Framework – <em>No Health without Mental Health</em>, published in July 2012, highlighted the need to bring together local partnerships to improve mental health and enhance life chances and improve the physical health and wellbeing of people with mental health problems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England is committed to facilitating this approach through the development of updated guidance as part of the Mental Health Crisis Concordat action plan and has convened the national Mental Health Intelligence Network expert reference group (ERG) on Co-existing Substance Misuse and Mental Health Issues, which first met in March. The ERG has proposed to update the existing dual diagnosis guidance and oversee its implementation as a priority. This guidance is due for publication in September 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/12/2014 17:05:58 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

168289

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Autumn Statement 2014, (a) over what timescale, (b) through what mechanism and (c) in what form the £1.2 billion allocated for GP services in that Statement be provided to clinical commissioning groups and primary care commissioned services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	217576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The additional funding announced by the Chancellor in the Autumn Statement will enable the National Health Service to continue to meet rapidly rising demand in the short term while making the investments in new services and facilities to transform care for patients and ensure that the NHS remains sustainable in the longer term.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the additional funding announced, £1 billion will be invested in England over the next four years (2015-16 to 2018-19) in modern infrastructure, technology and facilities in primary and community care settings. NHS England will set out in due course their proposals for how this funding will be used.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/12/2014 16:37:27 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

168305

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Neurology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committe report, Services for people with neurological conditions, published on 16 March 2012; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	217478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>In July 2014, the Treasury published <em>Progress report on the implementation of Government accepted recommendations of the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) - Sessions 2010­-12 and 2012-13</em>. It sets out progress against the four recommendations made by the PAC in its report <em>Services for people with neurological conditions,</em> with which the Department agreed. Two of the recommendations concerned the development of a neurological conditions dataset (recommendation two) and the neurological conditions quality standard (recommendation six) and they are now shown as being fully implemented.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The changes introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, means that the delivery of recommendations three and five, which concern the means to address certain service improvements and changes to the clinical commissioning group outcome indicator set, are no longer within the Department’s remit. The progress report sets out actions taken relevant to these areas and can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329001/9781474108553_WEB.PDF" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329001/9781474108553_WEB.PDF</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/12/2014 17:00:48 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

168313

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of (a) the extent of additional work required from a GP or clinician when prescribing an off-label or unlicensed indication of a drug, (b) the effect of such prescribing on GPs' and clinicians' working hours and (c) whether there is sufficient human resource within the NHS to allow such prescribing to take place routinely.
tabling member constituency	North Somerset
tabling member printed	Dr Liam Fox
uin	217538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>In making prescribing decisions, a clinician should first and foremost consider a patient’s individual clinical needs and choose the medicine best fitted to meet those needs, whether the medicine is licensed, off-label or unlicensed. Prescribing off-label is part and parcel of normal clinical practice and is therefore being delivered within National Health Service resources now.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/12/2014 17:04:21 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	223 label Biography information for Sir Liam Fox

168314

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Carers: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to support carers' wellbeing and mental health.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Iain McKenzie
uin	217580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Carers are central to our reform of care and support and there are significant improvements in the Care Act for carers. The Care Act extends carers rights to an assessment, which is based on the appearance of a need for support and consideration of the impact of caring on the carer and the outcomes they wish to achieve. For the first time, local authorities have a duty to meet carers’ eligible needs for support based on an eligibility framework. The Act creates a well-being principle to underpin the care and support system. This means that the well-being and outcomes that matter to people will be at the heart of every decision that is made – this principle applies equally to carers.</p><p> </p><p>Supporting carers to remain mentally and physically well is one of four key priorities of the coalition Government’s 2010 national carers’ strategy. We have set out our commitments to carers from 2014 – 2016 in the recently updated <em>National Carers Strategy: Second Action Plan </em>which also outlines the main achievements in recognising and supporting carers. The plan retains the four priorities of the 2010 strategy.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing £400 million between 2011 to 2015, to improve National Health Service support for carers and to enable them to take a break from their caring responsibilities. The carers’ breaks funding of £130 million for 2015-16 will be in the Better Care Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Support for carers is integral to the work NHS England is leading to improve the quality of life of people with long term conditions. Its action plan <em>NHS England: Commitment to Carers</em> contains eight priorities and 37 commitments that will help the NHS to deliver the care and support carers have said they need. It includes a specific commitment to “promote and work towards parity of esteem for carers so that mental health and wellbeing is considered and supported alongside physical health needs”.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 10/12/2014 17:08:05 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	4246 label Biography information for Iain McKenzie

168037

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to improve health outcomes for people who identify as (a) Gypsy, Roma or Travellers and (b) being from other ethnic minority background.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	217284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The Inclusion Health programme seeks to improve the way we meet the health needs of some of the most vulnerable groups, including Gypsies, Travellers and Roma. We set up the National Inclusion Health Board, an expert group to provide focus and leadership on the needs of those most vulnerable to poor health outcomes. The board has published guidance on commissioning inclusive health services by ensuring local planning tools – such as the joint strategic needs assessment – are sufficiently comprehensive to take account of the needs of these groups. It has also sought to identify these groups in data collections across the country to provide the intelligence needed to support health and wellbeing strategies for these groups. Other work is in hand, on some of the social circumstances that shape the health outcomes of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, and on the education and training of health professionals for working with these vulnerable groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have introduced an Equality Delivery System toolkit to help National Health Service organisations comply with the public sector equality duty. This toolkit is designed to support NHS commissioners and providers to deliver better outcomes for all patients and communities, including those from ethnic minority groups. It allows NHS organisations to monitor their equality performance jointly with their patients, communities and staff, in regard to each of the nine characteristics given protection under the 2010 Equality Act, including race.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 11/12/2014 16:00:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson