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1049566

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Pregnancy: Mental Illness
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether perinatal mental illnesses are being adequately identified and treated; whether they have made any assessment of the links between (1) perinatal mental illness and emotional and behavioural problems in children, and (2) perinatal mental illness and intergenerational cycles of poverty; whether, as a result of any such assessment, they intend to take steps to tackle any under-identification of perinatal mental illness; and if so, what steps.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL13154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Perinatal mental illness covers a wide range of conditions. Although the Government has made no formal assessment of the links between perinatal mental health and intergenerational poverty, we stated in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health that if left untreated, it can have significant and long-lasting effects not only on the woman but also on the emotional, social and cognitive development of children.</p><p>The Government is committed to improving both the detection and treatment of perinatal mental illness. General practitioners and primary care teams have a crucial role in supporting the identification and treatment of perinatal mental illness, including post-natal depression, and are part of an integrated pathway of services. Support includes monitoring early onset conditions, providing pre-conception counselling and referring women to specialist mental health services, including Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services and specialist perinatal community teams, if necessary.</p><p>To date, NHS England and Health Education England has also funded training for over 3,000 staff and professionals in mental health, maternity services and primary care to better identify and support women with perinatal mental health needs.</p><p>We are investing £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services to ensure that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This investment is designed to improve access to specialist perinatal mental health services across England, resulting in better outcomes for women and their families.</p><p>In addition, the NHS Long Term Plan, includes a commitment for a further 24,000 women to be able to access specialist perinatal mental health care by 2023/24, building on the additional 30,000 women who will access these services each year by 2020/21 under pre-existing plans. Specialist care will also be available from preconception to 24 months after birth, which will provide an extra year of support.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/02/2019 13:47:54 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

1049581

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Liothyronine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that Liothyronine (T3) is purchased at a cost in line with other EU countries.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL13168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>All United Kingdom marketing authorisation holders of liothyronine are obliged to ensure that the product complies with the minimum standard as specified in the updated British Pharmacopoeia monograph for liothyronine tablets. Liothyronine on the market in other European Union Member States may not comply with the updated British Pharmacopoeia monograph and therefore would not be considered therapeutically equivalent.</p><p>Liothyronine is an unbranded generic medicine. The Department encourages competition between suppliers of unbranded generic medicines to keep prices down. This generally works well and has led to some of the lowest prices in Europe. Concerns about anti-competitive behaviour are a matter for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate.</p><p>Liothyronine, marketed by Advanz Pharma (formerly Concordia), is currently the subject of an investigation by the CMA. The CMA has provisionally found that the company abused its dominant position to overcharge the National Health Service by millions of pounds for liothyronine tablets. A provisional decision does not necessarily lead to an infringement decision. Where companies have breached competition law, the Department will seek damages and invest that money back into the NHS.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/02/2019 13:48:58 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1049596

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Contraceptives
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to monitor and record contraceptive use in the UK once the NHS goes paperless in 2020; and if so, whether they will record types of contraceptives being used according to age group.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL13181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>Contraception supplied in sexual and reproductive health services in England is monitored and recorded nationally through the Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity Data Set, which includes data on age, consultation medium and contraception main method. The data is collected from all sexual and reproductive health services, including some general practitioner (GP) services, and will continue after the National Health Service goes paperless. Data by age is not collected where contraception is supplied by general practice under the GP Contract.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/02/2019 13:40:30 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1049597

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Childbirth: Incontinence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of urinary or faecal incontinence as a result of childbirth were recorded in each of the last ten years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Tonge
uin	HL13182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The data requested are not held centrally.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 11/02/2019 13:48:05 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	200 label Biography information for Baroness Tonge

1047813

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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: Crimes of Violence
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many assaults by mental health patients on NHS staff were reported in each of the last five years for which records are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL13091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of assaults by mental health patients on National Health Service staff reported in each of the last five years is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the number of physical assaults where the perpetrator did not know what they were doing, or did not know what they were doing was wrong due to medical illness, mental ill health, severe learning disabilities or treatment administration from 2011/12 to 2015/16.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>52,704</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>51,372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>53,484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>48,469</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>46,265</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Physical assaults data has not been collected centrally since 2015/16. On 31 October 2018, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a new NHS National Violence Reduction strategy which will include a new central physical assaults data collection. These data will help NHS organisations benchmark their progress in protecting their staff against physical assaults and support the spread of good practice.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 17:36:12 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1047826

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice they are providing to (1) UK residents, and (2) medical organisations about how to access medicines from the EU in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
uin	HL13104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>It is a priority of the Department to ensure patients continue to have access to medicines as we leave the European Union, in all exit scenarios.</p><p>While a Withdrawal Agreement has been agreed between Government and the European Commission, as a responsible Government, we continue to prepare proportionately for all scenarios, including the outcome that we leave the European Union without a deal in March 2019.</p><p>The Department has issued guidance on 7 December 2018 to all National Health Service trusts, pharmacies and general practices informing them of our plans for ensuring continuity of supply of medicines and advising them that they can expect to be able to continue accessing medicines through their existing supply routes in the event of a ‘no deal’ EU exit on 29 March 2019. This guidance explained how hospitals, general practitioners and community pharmacies throughout the UK do not need to take any steps to stockpile additional medicines, beyond their business as usual stock levels. There is also no need for clinicians to write longer NHS prescriptions. A copy of the Department’s letter of 7 December to the NHS in England is attached.</p><p>NHS England and the devolved administrations have also communicated similar messages to the front line and patients have also been advised not to stockpile medicines. Unnecessary local stockpiling would increase pressure on the medicines supply chain and could lead to avoidable shortages and subsequent risks to patients.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 14:44:39 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford attachment 1 file name government_preparations_update_for_march_2019.pdf title 7 December letter to the NHS
tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

1047846

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to introduce targets for reducing obesity amongst adults.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL13124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to introduce targets for reducing obesity amongst adults. Many of the measures in both chapters of the childhood obesity plan will have an impact on tackling obesity across all age groups. These include the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and wider calorie reformulation programme, restricting promotions and calorie labelling in restaurants which will improve our eating habits and reduce the amount of sugar we consume.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 30/01/2019 17:47:22 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1047847

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Obesity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are considering taking steps to reduce differences in levels of obesity between more and less deprived areas; and if so, what steps.
tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
uin	HL13125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>In <em>Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2</em>, published in June 2018, we have set a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030. We want to achieve this by ensuring that we are supporting parents, particularly in the most deprived families, to help their children have the best start in life. We have reiterated this ambition in our vision document <em>Prevention is better than cure</em>, published on 5 November 2018, and in the <em>NHS Long Term Plan</em> published on 8 January 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The childhood obesity plan delivers school based interventions including revenue from the soft drinks industry levy being invested in programmes targeted at disadvantaged children including up to £26 million to fund a breakfast club programme between 2017-18 and 2019-20 and £22 million in an Essential Life Skills programme in 12 Opportunity Areas to enable disadvantaged children aged 5-18 to participate in regular extra-curricular activities, including sporting activities, to develop essential life skills.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Healthy Food Schemes, the Government provides a nutritional safety net to those who need it the most. The three schemes that make up this programme, Healthy Start, Nursery Milk and School Fruit and Vegetables, help to support children, babies and women through pregnancy, when they are at home, in childcare and in early years at school.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 14:47:48 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

1047854

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	HIV Infection: Drugs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to extend access to the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis pill.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL13132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>On 30 January, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced that the Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Impact trial would be expanded to 26,000 people. Work is underway with partners to take this forward. The PrEP Oversight Board has requested information on local capacity to make the additional places available, and will review this later in February.</p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 15:52:20 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1047856

registered interest
date	24/01/2019
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	Health Services and Social Services: Migrant Workers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of new workers required to replace workers from other EU countries who may leave the health and social care sector following the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what measures they are putting in place to ensure that sufficient numbers are recruited and trained.
tabling member printed	Lord Stunell
uin	HL13134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s priority is to ensure that the 167,000 European Union staff currently working in the health and social care sectors are not only able to stay, but feel welcomed and encouraged to stay in the United Kingdom.</p><p>As part of this work, the public testing phase of the EU Settlement Scheme opened on 21 January 2019. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on 21 January 2019, from 30 March 2019 onwards, EU nationals will not have to pay a charge to make an application. Any application made before that date, including those that have already been made, will be reimbursed.</p><p>We have also introduced a range of measures to support increased recruitment and retention across the health and care system, including national recruitment campaigns that illustrate the diverse and fulfilling career opportunities available in the National Health Service and social care.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford question first answered 07/02/2019 14:46:45 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	445 label Biography information for Lord Stunell