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795819

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people aged (a) 65 and over, (b) 75 and over and (c) 85 and over who visited an NHS dentist in the 24 months to 30 June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	116157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Information is not held in the format requested. Information is held on the number of adults who have seen a dentist in the last 24 months but this is not broken down further by age.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/12/2017 12:38:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

795820

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Services: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that dependent older people receiving care in your home services or living in care homes can access NHS dental services.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	116158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>NHS England has a legal duty to commission primary care dental services to meet local needs. This includes, if appropriate, domiciliary services. Domiciliary dental services provide primary care dentistry for those who are unable to attend a dental practice or other dental service. Instead the dentistry is provided in the environment in which the patient is resident.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/12/2017 12:39:48 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

795822

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dental Health: Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the next Adult Dental Health Survey.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	116159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>No decisions have been taken yet on the timing of the next Adult Dental Health Survey.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/12/2017 12:37:35 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

795823

registered interest
date	28/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Dementia: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that dental practitioners receive dementia awareness training.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	116160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s Mandate to Health Education England published in April 2013 called for the development in partnership with the relevant stakeholders, of a national roll-out plan for foundation level dementia training for all National Health Service staff. Health Education England is responsible for developing educational frameworks based on care pathways to directly enhance patient care by providing guidance, education and training to dentists, dental care practitioners and dental nurses. The regional Postgraduate Dental Deans have overseen local training in dementia awareness for dental staff, across England, working with local groups and national organisations, such as the Alzheimer’s Society.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/12/2017 13:08:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

637139

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Industrial Health and Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have (a) taken medical severance, (b) taken early retirement on health grounds and (c) been redeployed due to work-related injury or illness in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	53040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The table below shows the number (headcount) of National Health Service staff who have taken ill health retirement in each of the last five years.</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><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retirement – Ill health</p></td><td><p>1,410</p></td><td><p>1,334</p></td><td><p>1,210</p></td><td><p>1,257</p></td><td><p>1,384</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>There is no separate process for “medical severance” in the NHS. Staff only have access to ill health retirement.</p><p> </p><p>Information on NHS staff who have been redeployed due to work-related injury or illness is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/11/2016 10:43:51 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

523977

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Insurance
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 potential effect on GP services of increasing medical indemnity costs for GPs.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	39917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England committed in the recently published General Practice Forward View to review the current arrangements for indemnity cover for general practitioners. To take this review forward, a General Practice Indemnity Steering Group has been established by the Department with NHS England to look at the rising cost of indemnity, and to bring forward proposals for discussion by the end of July 2016.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/06/2016 16:45:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

523514

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Professions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department is taking steps to set a national standard for a maximum number of patients that GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals can reasonably deal with during any working day.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	39604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>It is important that practices are free to meet the needs of individual patients according to clinical need. Therefore there is no requirement for general practitioner practices to offer appointments of a specific length or a specific mix of workforce to meet population need.</p><p>However, in recognition of the increased demands being placed on general practice, NHS England has:</p><p>1. Placed a requirement on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the NHS Planning Guidance for 2016/17 to develop and implement a local plan to address the sustainability and quality of general practice, including workforce and workload issues. This is the first time specific requirements have been placed on local commissioners to support and develop general practice.</p><p>2. Provided advice about specific ways to invest in general practice for National Health Service leaders as they prepare Sustainability and Transformation Plans for the future. In both of these, there is a dual focus on maintaining quality and access to care in existing services, while also supporting the introduction of new ways of working. Areas where support is required include increased funding, growth and diversification in the workforce, development of premises and information technology, and specific help to develop networks and federations with patient benefit at their heart.</p><p>The ‘General Practice Forward View’ released in April 2016, announced a major new programme of development and improvement support for practices over the next three years. This will help groups of practices to redesign care in order to simultaneously release staff time and improve care for patients. As part of the development programme, support and advice will be provided to federations and CCGs on ways to engage patients and voluntary and community sector groups as partners. This will help local people shape priorities, contribute to the co-design of improved services and build assets in the community.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/06/2016 16:43:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

523518

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what decisions his Department has made on the distribution of funding to relieve the immediate pressures in general practice, set out in NHS England's General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	39591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The General Practice Forward View, published by NHS England on 21 April 2016, sets out that an extra £2.4 billion a year will be invested in general practice services by 2020/21, representing a 14% increase in real terms. This means that investment will rise from £9.6 billion a year in 2015/16 to over £12 billion a year by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>There will be a national £508 million five year Sustainability and Transformation package for general practice to help support struggling practices, develop the workforce, stimulate care redesign and tackle workload. This package will include:</p><p>― £56 million, to include a new practice resilience programme starting in 2016/17, and the offer of specialist services to general practitioners suffering from burn out and stress;</p><p>― £206 million for workforce measures to grow the medical and non-medical workforce; and</p><p>― £246 million to support practices in redesigning services, including a requirement on clinical commissioning groups to provide around £171 million of practice transformational support and a new national £30 million development programme for general practice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/06/2016 16:35:35 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

521279

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services and Social Services: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department monitors the progress of organisations providing NHS or adult social care towards conforming to the Accessible Information Standard.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	38155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>NHS England published the Accessible Information Standard in July 2015. Compliance with the Standard is a legal duty and organisations that provide National Health Service care or adult social care are required to implement the Standard in full by 31 July 2016. Compliance with the Standard is also a requirement of the NHS Standard Contract 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not hold information on how many NHS trusts conform to the Standard.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is not proactively monitoring progress of organisations that provide NHS or adult social care towards conforming to the Accessible Information Standard, as the Standard does not establish a new national audit or dataset which requires organisations to report centrally on their adherence. In addition, NHS England as an organisation does not have a monitoring or inspection remit.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Standard includes requirements for organisations to publish or display an accessible communications policy which explains how they will follow the Accessible Information Standard, and an accessible complaints policy. The inclusion of these requirements is intended to support ease of compliance assessment by interested organisations, and to ensure that people with information and communication support needs are able to provide feedback to organisations about their experiences.</p><p> </p><p>The specification for the Standard also makes clear that commissioning organisations must actively support compliance by organisations from which they commission services and must also seek assurance from providers in this regard.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Care Quality Commission will look at evidence of how services implement the Accessible Information Standard as part of their inspection of health services and adult social care services when they make judgements about whether health services are responsive to people’s needs, and adult social care services are responsive to people’s needs and whether they are well led.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 38156 question first answered 06/06/2016 08:43:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

521280

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts conform to the Accessible Information Standard.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	38156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>NHS England published the Accessible Information Standard in July 2015. Compliance with the Standard is a legal duty and organisations that provide National Health Service care or adult social care are required to implement the Standard in full by 31 July 2016. Compliance with the Standard is also a requirement of the NHS Standard Contract 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not hold information on how many NHS trusts conform to the Standard.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is not proactively monitoring progress of organisations that provide NHS or adult social care towards conforming to the Accessible Information Standard, as the Standard does not establish a new national audit or dataset which requires organisations to report centrally on their adherence. In addition, NHS England as an organisation does not have a monitoring or inspection remit.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Standard includes requirements for organisations to publish or display an accessible communications policy which explains how they will follow the Accessible Information Standard, and an accessible complaints policy. The inclusion of these requirements is intended to support ease of compliance assessment by interested organisations, and to ensure that people with information and communication support needs are able to provide feedback to organisations about their experiences.</p><p> </p><p>The specification for the Standard also makes clear that commissioning organisations must actively support compliance by organisations from which they commission services and must also seek assurance from providers in this regard.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Care Quality Commission will look at evidence of how services implement the Accessible Information Standard as part of their inspection of health services and adult social care services when they make judgements about whether health services are responsive to people’s needs, and adult social care services are responsive to people’s needs and whether they are well led.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 38155 question first answered 06/06/2016 08:43:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams