Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

227303

registered interest
date	13/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brain Cancer
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 the effect of a ketogenic diet in treating brain cancer patients.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 20/03/2015 14:15:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

227147

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on the merger of Frimley Park NHS Trust and Heatherwood and Wrexham Park NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trust and Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trust merged on 1 October 2014 to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Progress since the date of the merger is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have written to Mike Aaronson, Chair of the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust informing him of my hon. Friend’s enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/03/2015 16:28:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

227149

registered interest
date	12/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS patients registered for clinical trials in (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	227402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Data is not available on the proportion of National Health Service patients registering interest in participating in clinical trials or the proportion that participate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Recruitment in England to clinical trials hosted by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN), and total recruitment in England to all trials and other well-designed studies hosted by the CRN is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trials</p></td><td><p>49,372</p></td><td><p>56,455</p></td><td><p>60,056</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All trials and studies</p></td><td><p>595,540</p></td><td><p>637,974</p></td><td><p>604,216</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 19/03/2015 16:26:22 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

224467

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brain Cancer: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to improve brain cancer patients' access to cancer drugs.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	225805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that patients have access to effective treatments, including those for brain cancers, on terms that represent value to the National Health Service and the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for providing advice to the NHS on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of health technologies. NICE has recommended the following drugs for brain cancers as treatment options, subject to certain clinical criteria, in its technology appraisal guidance published in June 2007:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- temozolomide (Temodal) for the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM); and</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- carmustine (Gliadel) implants, for the treatment of newly diagnosed high-grade glioma.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS commissioners are legally required to fund treatments recommended by NICE technology appraisal guidance.</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>Where a drug to treat brain cancer is not routinely available on the NHS, patients may be able to access it through the Cancer Drugs Fund. Bevacizumab (Avastin) is available for the third line treatment of low grade paediatric gliomas through the Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also commissioning an external review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology. This review will consider how to speed up access for NHS patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 09/03/2015 12:44:29 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

89677

registered interest
date	29/08/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that foreign nationals pay for healthcare they receive in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	207406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department is working to support the National Health Service to increase the recovery of costs from overseas visitors and migrants. We aim to recover £500 million annually by the middle of the next Parliament, which will be reinvested into the NHS to support the sustainability of NHS frontline services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department published its Implementation Plan on 14 July 2014 at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovering-costs-of-nhs-healthcare-from-visitors-and-migrants</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This sets out how the Department will improve the recovery rates from overseas visitors and migrants over the next year. It announced a number of measures to support these efforts but also laid the foundations for additional areas to be looked at as the programme progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of the programme the Department is starting a programme of financial incentives to support the NHS in identifying chargeable visitors and migrants using the NHS. These incentives recognise the administrative and financial burdens that can face NHS trusts in the recovery process and aim to counter balance these. The implementation plan provides the full detail of these schemes.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 05/09/2014 13:16:37 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie