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447247

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's press release, Prime Minister pledges a revolution in mental health treatment, published on 11 January 2016, whether the liaison psychiatry services in A&E departments funded by the announced £247 million will be expected to meet the standards of the Core Liaison Psychiatry services model as set out in guidance for commissioners of liaison mental health services to acute hospitals, published by the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health in February 2013.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>As announced by the Prime Minister on 11 January, NHS England will invest £247 million over the next five years to develop acute hospital liaison mental health services so that services in at least half of England's acute hospitals are delivered in line with the 'Core 24' standard, as set out by the NHS South West Strategic Clinical Network. This standard describes services that are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and can be found at the following link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://mentalhealthpartnerships.com/resource/model-service-specifications-for-liaison-psychiatry-services/" target="_blank">http://mentalhealthpartnerships.com/resource/model-service-specifications-for-liaison-psychiatry-services/</a></p><br /><p>In 2015/16, NHS England asked all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to put in place service development and improvement plans for liaison mental health services in acute hospitals, and supported this with £30 million pump prime funding which set out the ambition to move services towards a ‘Core 24’ service standard.</p><br /><p>NHS England continues to work closely with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other stakeholders as this programme progresses.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 28/01/2016 11:45:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

446833

registered interest
date	21/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 21 January 2016 to Question 22946, what action he will take to deal with clinical commissioning groups found not to have arrangements in place to offer mental health patients a choice of provider.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are required, as part of their statutory obligations, to ensure patients can exercise their legal rights to choice for a first elective referral, including for mental health services.</p><br /><p>Choice is an important feature of the Sustainability and Transformation Plans that CCGs have been asked to put in place through the recently-issued NHS Planning Guidance.NHS England is providing guidance and support to help them meet these requirements and will monitor and assure their implementation including through a new Assessment Framework.</p><p><br> If providers or patients have concerns about CCGs ensuring that rights to choice are being appropriately upheld, Monitor as the sector regulator may investigate and specify improvement action by the CCGs, where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 26/01/2016 11:53:09 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

446343

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 11 January 2016, on life chances, how the £400 million funding for community and home mental health teams will be allocated.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>Funding announced by the Prime Minister on 11 January 2016 for mental health crisis response and home treatment teams will be allocated through clinical commissioning group baseline funding. The allocations will be in line with the net cost agreed as part of the spending review process.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/01/2016 16:29:56 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

446345

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech of 11 January 2016, on life chances, how the waiting time target for patients with psychosis will be monitored; and when the first results of that monitoring will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The Early Intervention Psychosis access standard will be monitored via the new Mental Health Service Dataset which is managed and reported against by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><br /><p>As this is a new collection, reporting will be phased starting with basic counts in March 2016 and building in detail as quality is assured. In the meantime NHS England has implemented a bespoke collection to monitor progress against the referral to treatment element of the standard, the first report of which is likely to be available in March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/01/2016 16:27:43 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445963

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning group local transformation plans are available online.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	23217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <p>123 local transformation plans (LTPs) have been produced covering 209 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). All LTPs were required to be published locally by 31 December 2015 and the CCGs have been asked to provide details of where they are published, as part of the continued assurance process. At least 74 of the 123 LTPs are available online and by mid-February a link will be available to all 123.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/01/2016 10:40:14 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445547

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what evaluation has been carried out of commissioning plans to ensure that those plans are implementing choice of mental health provider and team since April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The guidance on patients’ choice in mental health care, published by NHS England in 2014, details the expectation on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in respect of their contracting practices, stating that commissioners are required to secure services that meet the needs of the populations for which they are responsible. In doing so, CCGs must ensure that arrangements are in place for providers, irrespective of whether they are public, independent or third sector organisations, to qualify and secure NHS Standard Contracts for the provision of services.</p><br /><p>When making commissioning decisions, commissioners should regularly review the patterns and trends of patients exercising their legal right to choice, and consider the extent to which they are meeting patients’ needs and preferences and take account of this in their commissioning plans and strategies.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required by the NHS Planning Guidance (2016/17 – 2020/21) to produce five-year Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) and one-year Operational Plans. The STP will include plans for a radical upgrade in patient choice and control, which will significantly improve patient choice by 2020.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required to submit these plans to NHS England for review and assurance. The NHS England choice team are part of this process.</p><br /><p>To support commissioners, referrers and providers, NHS England published guidance on <em>‘implementing patients’ legal rights to choose the provider and team for their mental health care’,</em> in August 2014. The guidance seeks to promote a common understanding of what mental health patients’ legal rights are, where they apply, and what they mean in everyday practice. The guidance should enable consistency in the application of these rights, while also acknowledging the need for clinical judgments and decisions according to the circumstances of individual patients.</p><br /><p>Following the release of the guidance, the NHS England choice team has responded to a number of patient, provider and commissioner queries and concerns regarding choice. Detailed work with local economies and partners such as Monitor, has been undertaken to address concerns, with any resulting learning being shared with the sector to improve the operation of choice in other localities.</p><br /><p>There is also information on the NHS Choices website, which covers all aspects of exercising choice in mental health services. It explains patients’ legal rights, what this will mean in terms of what the process should be, where to find information, helpful checklists and a number of useful links. This information can be found at the following web-link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx</a></p><br /><p>As of April 2015, the NHS Choice Framework includes a patient’s legal right to choice of mental healthcare provider for their first appointment as an outpatient, reflecting the changes to the exemption from choice in mental health services made in April 2015. The Framework provides guidance on where patients can find the information and support they need to help them make their choice and how to complain if they do not feel they have been offered a choice.</p><br /><p>NHS England ran a national survey in 2015, which included 2,700 patients who had been referred for an outpatient appointment (all services) by their general practitioner. It found that 51% of patients were aware of their right to choose where they attended for outpatient appointments and, where they had been offered a choice, most said they had done so with adequate information (89%) and were able to attend their preferred hospital or clinic (92%).</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 22943 22944 22946 question first answered 21/01/2016 14:32:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445548

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements have been made to ensure that existing and new mental health services providers are able to secure contracts to provide services under an NHS Standard Contract since the introduction of patients' legal right to choice in mental health in April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The guidance on patients’ choice in mental health care, published by NHS England in 2014, details the expectation on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in respect of their contracting practices, stating that commissioners are required to secure services that meet the needs of the populations for which they are responsible. In doing so, CCGs must ensure that arrangements are in place for providers, irrespective of whether they are public, independent or third sector organisations, to qualify and secure NHS Standard Contracts for the provision of services.</p><br /><p>When making commissioning decisions, commissioners should regularly review the patterns and trends of patients exercising their legal right to choice, and consider the extent to which they are meeting patients’ needs and preferences and take account of this in their commissioning plans and strategies.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required by the NHS Planning Guidance (2016/17 – 2020/21) to produce five-year Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) and one-year Operational Plans. The STP will include plans for a radical upgrade in patient choice and control, which will significantly improve patient choice by 2020.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required to submit these plans to NHS England for review and assurance. The NHS England choice team are part of this process.</p><br /><p>To support commissioners, referrers and providers, NHS England published guidance on <em>‘implementing patients’ legal rights to choose the provider and team for their mental health care’,</em> in August 2014. The guidance seeks to promote a common understanding of what mental health patients’ legal rights are, where they apply, and what they mean in everyday practice. The guidance should enable consistency in the application of these rights, while also acknowledging the need for clinical judgments and decisions according to the circumstances of individual patients.</p><br /><p>Following the release of the guidance, the NHS England choice team has responded to a number of patient, provider and commissioner queries and concerns regarding choice. Detailed work with local economies and partners such as Monitor, has been undertaken to address concerns, with any resulting learning being shared with the sector to improve the operation of choice in other localities.</p><br /><p>There is also information on the NHS Choices website, which covers all aspects of exercising choice in mental health services. It explains patients’ legal rights, what this will mean in terms of what the process should be, where to find information, helpful checklists and a number of useful links. This information can be found at the following web-link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx</a></p><br /><p>As of April 2015, the NHS Choice Framework includes a patient’s legal right to choice of mental healthcare provider for their first appointment as an outpatient, reflecting the changes to the exemption from choice in mental health services made in April 2015. The Framework provides guidance on where patients can find the information and support they need to help them make their choice and how to complain if they do not feel they have been offered a choice.</p><br /><p>NHS England ran a national survey in 2015, which included 2,700 patients who had been referred for an outpatient appointment (all services) by their general practitioner. It found that 51% of patients were aware of their right to choose where they attended for outpatient appointments and, where they had been offered a choice, most said they had done so with adequate information (89%) and were able to attend their preferred hospital or clinic (92%).</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 22942 22944 22946 question first answered 21/01/2016 14:32:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445549

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
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 (a) publicise patients' rights to choice over their mental health provider, (b) inform patients where they can find information about mental health providers and teams in order to help them make choices and (c) inform patients how they can complain if they feel they have not been offered a choice in their mental health care.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The guidance on patients’ choice in mental health care, published by NHS England in 2014, details the expectation on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in respect of their contracting practices, stating that commissioners are required to secure services that meet the needs of the populations for which they are responsible. In doing so, CCGs must ensure that arrangements are in place for providers, irrespective of whether they are public, independent or third sector organisations, to qualify and secure NHS Standard Contracts for the provision of services.</p><br /><p>When making commissioning decisions, commissioners should regularly review the patterns and trends of patients exercising their legal right to choice, and consider the extent to which they are meeting patients’ needs and preferences and take account of this in their commissioning plans and strategies.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required by the NHS Planning Guidance (2016/17 – 2020/21) to produce five-year Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) and one-year Operational Plans. The STP will include plans for a radical upgrade in patient choice and control, which will significantly improve patient choice by 2020.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required to submit these plans to NHS England for review and assurance. The NHS England choice team are part of this process.</p><br /><p>To support commissioners, referrers and providers, NHS England published guidance on <em>‘implementing patients’ legal rights to choose the provider and team for their mental health care’,</em> in August 2014. The guidance seeks to promote a common understanding of what mental health patients’ legal rights are, where they apply, and what they mean in everyday practice. The guidance should enable consistency in the application of these rights, while also acknowledging the need for clinical judgments and decisions according to the circumstances of individual patients.</p><br /><p>Following the release of the guidance, the NHS England choice team has responded to a number of patient, provider and commissioner queries and concerns regarding choice. Detailed work with local economies and partners such as Monitor, has been undertaken to address concerns, with any resulting learning being shared with the sector to improve the operation of choice in other localities.</p><br /><p>There is also information on the NHS Choices website, which covers all aspects of exercising choice in mental health services. It explains patients’ legal rights, what this will mean in terms of what the process should be, where to find information, helpful checklists and a number of useful links. This information can be found at the following web-link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx</a></p><br /><p>As of April 2015, the NHS Choice Framework includes a patient’s legal right to choice of mental healthcare provider for their first appointment as an outpatient, reflecting the changes to the exemption from choice in mental health services made in April 2015. The Framework provides guidance on where patients can find the information and support they need to help them make their choice and how to complain if they do not feel they have been offered a choice.</p><br /><p>NHS England ran a national survey in 2015, which included 2,700 patients who had been referred for an outpatient appointment (all services) by their general practitioner. It found that 51% of patients were aware of their right to choose where they attended for outpatient appointments and, where they had been offered a choice, most said they had done so with adequate information (89%) and were able to attend their preferred hospital or clinic (92%).</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 22942 22943 22946 question first answered 21/01/2016 14:32:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445551

registered interest
date	18/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number and proportion of clinical commissioning groups that are ensuring patients in their area have a choice of mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The guidance on patients’ choice in mental health care, published by NHS England in 2014, details the expectation on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in respect of their contracting practices, stating that commissioners are required to secure services that meet the needs of the populations for which they are responsible. In doing so, CCGs must ensure that arrangements are in place for providers, irrespective of whether they are public, independent or third sector organisations, to qualify and secure NHS Standard Contracts for the provision of services.</p><br /><p>When making commissioning decisions, commissioners should regularly review the patterns and trends of patients exercising their legal right to choice, and consider the extent to which they are meeting patients’ needs and preferences and take account of this in their commissioning plans and strategies.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required by the NHS Planning Guidance (2016/17 – 2020/21) to produce five-year Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) and one-year Operational Plans. The STP will include plans for a radical upgrade in patient choice and control, which will significantly improve patient choice by 2020.</p><br /><p>CCGs are required to submit these plans to NHS England for review and assurance. The NHS England choice team are part of this process.</p><br /><p>To support commissioners, referrers and providers, NHS England published guidance on <em>‘implementing patients’ legal rights to choose the provider and team for their mental health care’,</em> in August 2014. The guidance seeks to promote a common understanding of what mental health patients’ legal rights are, where they apply, and what they mean in everyday practice. The guidance should enable consistency in the application of these rights, while also acknowledging the need for clinical judgments and decisions according to the circumstances of individual patients.</p><br /><p>Following the release of the guidance, the NHS England choice team has responded to a number of patient, provider and commissioner queries and concerns regarding choice. Detailed work with local economies and partners such as Monitor, has been undertaken to address concerns, with any resulting learning being shared with the sector to improve the operation of choice in other localities.</p><br /><p>There is also information on the NHS Choices website, which covers all aspects of exercising choice in mental health services. It explains patients’ legal rights, what this will mean in terms of what the process should be, where to find information, helpful checklists and a number of useful links. This information can be found at the following web-link:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/choiceintheNHS/Yourchoices/mental-health/Pages/your-legal-right-to-choice.aspx</a></p><br /><p>As of April 2015, the NHS Choice Framework includes a patient’s legal right to choice of mental healthcare provider for their first appointment as an outpatient, reflecting the changes to the exemption from choice in mental health services made in April 2015. The Framework provides guidance on where patients can find the information and support they need to help them make their choice and how to complain if they do not feel they have been offered a choice.</p><br /><p>NHS England ran a national survey in 2015, which included 2,700 patients who had been referred for an outpatient appointment (all services) by their general practitioner. It found that 51% of patients were aware of their right to choose where they attended for outpatient appointments and, where they had been offered a choice, most said they had done so with adequate information (89%) and were able to attend their preferred hospital or clinic (92%).</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 22942 22943 22944 question first answered 21/01/2016 14:32:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

443831

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, how many mental health services he has visited since May 2010; and what the (a) date and (b) location was of each such visit.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	21918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Details of my visits within the United Kingdom are published on the gov.uk website.</p><p>Most recently, on 11 January I visited Family Action in London where I announced £290 million of new investment over the next 5 years to provide mental healthcare for new mums, £247 million to invest in liaison mental health services in emergency departments, over £400 million to enable 24/7 treatment in communities as a safe and effective alternative to hospital and expanded services to help teenagers with eating disorders. This builds on previous government funding commitments for mental health over the last 12 months, including £150 million for young people with eating disorders and £1.25 billion for perinatal and children and young people’s mental health.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Mr David Cameron question first answered 14/01/2016 15:41:50 answering member 1467 label Biography information for Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger