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540462

registered interest
date	19/07/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Out-patients
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they are making in ensuring that the NHS collects data on whether return out-patient appointments are being delayed beyond the clinically recommended time due to insufficient capacity or targets for new patients that are prioritised over returns.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2016 answer text <p>There are no plans to collect additional data on out-patient appointments.</p><p> </p><p>Many patients will require further planned stages of treatment after their waiting time clock has stopped. This treatment should be undertaken without undue delay and in line with when it is clinically appropriate and convenient to the patient to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Patients requiring initial or follow-up appointments for clinical assessment, review, monitoring, procedures or treatment must be given a clear expectation of the timeframe for this, as required by best clinical evidence. If the planned procedure is then delayed beyond that timeframe, a new waiting time clock should start and be reported in the waiting time statistics, to ensure that these patients are kept in sight.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 26/07/2016 13:18:09 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

535616

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people are employed by NHS England as (1) audiologists, (2) cardiac physiologists, (3) gastrointestinal physiologists, (4) neurophysiologists, (5) respiratory physiologists, and (6) sleep physiologists.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>NHS England (legally known as the NHS Commissioning Board) does not employ any individuals with the job titles specified.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 14/07/2016 14:58:40 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

524491

registered interest
date	10/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to reduce the number of nurse advisers in the Department of Health.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2016 answer text <p>As part of the DH2020 plan, the Department is making significant changes to the way it works. The underlying principles informing the changes include that the Department should focus on its core and unique functions to improve the health and care system in England to help people to live better for longer.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s approach is to flexibly access professional advice from a wide range of sources, including arms-length bodies, regulators and professional bodies, rather than from fixed standing teams of internal advisers.</p><p>These changes do not affect the role of the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), who as the CNO of the Department already advises, and will continue to advise, all Ministers and the Department on the range of nursing issues.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 20/06/2016 12:23:34 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

523704

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	Curlews: Conservation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total combined overall spending on vaccines procurement and administration (1) nationally, and (2) locally, including awareness campaigns, in each year from 2012–13 to the current financial year.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England were formed on 1 April 2013, therefore spend information can only be provided from 2013/2014 financial year onwards. Total combined spend for 2015/16 is not yet available.</p><p>Overall spend on procurement and the administration of vaccines, including communications spend for campaigns, is split between PHE and NHS England. The total combined overall spend can only be provided at a national level. Local level information is not readily available. Spend information is provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Approximate combined vaccine procurement and vaccine administration spend for England</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>2014/2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vaccine procurement and vaccine administration spend (£ million)</p></td><td><p>578</p></td><td><p>616</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/06/2016 13:36:51 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

523705

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	Bahrain: Technical Assistance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect the final report of the Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurements working group to be published, and whether its recommendations will be subject to public consultation.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government expects to receive the Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurement report shortly and will consider its recommendations once received. Until then, it would not be appropriate to speculate on possible recommendations or the impact they might have. We are committed to publishing their report. We will decide when to publish, and whether to consult, once we have had time to consider the report.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL521 question first answered 15/06/2016 13:35:24 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

523706

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	Bahrain: Prisons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risk that changes to the cost effectiveness threshold for vaccines as proposed by the Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurements working group would lead to England being restricted from paying for some new vaccines when compared to other health economies in Europe, and people in the UK receiving fewer innovative vaccines.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government expects to receive the Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurement report shortly and will consider its recommendations once received. Until then, it would not be appropriate to speculate on possible recommendations or the impact they might have. We are committed to publishing their report. We will decide when to publish, and whether to consult, once we have had time to consider the report.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL520 question first answered 15/06/2016 13:35:24 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

522868

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	South Sudan: Armed Conflict
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the draft recommendation from NICE not to recommend the drug Strensiq for the treatment of hypophosphatasia for critically ill infants who are otherwise likely to die, what other treatment options are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently evaluating Strensiq (asfotase alfa) for the treatment of paediatric-onset hypophosphatasia under its highly specialised technologies programme.</p><p> </p><p>NICE’s draft guidance, published in December 2015 for consultation, did not recommended asfotase alfa. However this is not NICE’s final guidance to the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>NICE’s draft guidance states that there are currently no other treatments available that specifically prevent or delay the progression of hypophosphatasia.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/06/2016 14:42:47 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

522869

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	North Korea: Guided Weapons
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to make Personal Health Budgets available for the provision of wheelchairs; what arrangements they plan to put in place for wheelchair users; and whether the funding stream will be managed centrally and independently from local wheelchair service budgets.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>In May 2016, Simon Stevens announced that NHS England would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs. This work is in the early stages of development.</p><p> </p><p>The intention is to introduce personal wheelchair budgets from April 2017, to cover everyone who accesses the current wheelchair voucher scheme. This includes those with both low level and complex wheelchair requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Personal health budgets are not about new money but about using existing budgets differently. Therefore the budget will continue to be held at a local level.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is working with a number of clinical commissioning group clusters to develop guidance on the delivery model. This work will cover care planning, information support and advice for wheelchair users, budget setting (using learning from the development of the Wheelchair Tariff where appropriate) and review. The guidance will be available in advance of the start of roll out in April 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 15/06/2016 13:18:16 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

522870

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they plan to ensure that NHS England works closely with the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance to produce a positive outcome for the future arrangements for wheelchair users through Wheelchair Services; and what resources will be made available for that process to be completed.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Minister for Community and Social Care (Alistair Burt), together with the Minister for Disabled People (Justin Tomlinson) recently met with Baroness Grey-Thompson, Chair of the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance, and NHS England to discuss what action could be taken to improve wheelchair services. This includes NHS England discussing the focus and content of a model service specification for wheelchairs with the Alliance.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England made available a further £10,000 to the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance for support during 2015/16.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL422 question first answered 15/06/2016 13:33:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

522871

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	European Parliament
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what financial support has been offered to the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance in addition to the support given over the <i>Right Chair, Right Time, Right Now</i> campaign and charter.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>The Minister for Community and Social Care (Alistair Burt), together with the Minister for Disabled People (Justin Tomlinson) recently met with Baroness Grey-Thompson, Chair of the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance, and NHS England to discuss what action could be taken to improve wheelchair services. This includes NHS England discussing the focus and content of a model service specification for wheelchairs with the Alliance.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England made available a further £10,000 to the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance for support during 2015/16.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton grouped question UIN HL421 question first answered 15/06/2016 13:33:33 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath