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1668043

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his Department's policy that a patient's GP practice be informed if that patient visits different hospitals in the same NHS trust with similar illnesses or injuries.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2023 answer text <p>A patient’s general practice (GP) would usually be informed when they attended hospital, either via a discharge letter, or via a notification on an electronic patient record system. This is dependent on the National Health Service trust knowing the patient’s registered GP. A patient may object to the sharing of their information with their GP when visiting a trust, for example when attending accident and emergency, and the trust will need to follow data protection legislation and guidance to determine whether it is in its best interests to still share this with the patient’s GP.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 10/11/2023 14:32:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1667595

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Dental Services: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of NHS dental appointments in County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2023 answer text <p>In July 2022 we announced a package of reforms to improve access to National Health Service dentistry, which outlined the steps we are taking to meet oral health need and increase access to dental care, including in County Durham. The changes that have been implemented include improvements to ensure dentists are remunerated more fairly for more complex work and the introduction of a minimum Units of Dental Activity value.</p><p>From 1 April 2023, responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to all integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. ICBs are responsible for having local processes in place to identify areas of need and determine the priorities for investment.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. These include a 40% increase to dentistry undergraduate training places by 2031/32.</p><p>But we know we need to do more, and that there are some areas where access is particularly problematic. We are working on our Dentistry Recovery Plan which will address how we continue to improve access, particularly for new patients; and how we make NHS work more attractive to ensure NHS dentists are incentivised to deliver more NHS care.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 10/11/2023 14:30:17 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1667816

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve patient access to GP appointments.
tabling member constituency	Maidstone and The Weald
tabling member printed	Mrs Helen Grant
uin	186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2023 answer text <p>We recognise that despite the hard work of general practice (GP) teams, some patients are still struggling to access care in a timely way. That is why we have published our Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care. The plan has two central ambitions: to tackle the 8am rush and reduce the number of people struggling to contact their practice, and for patients to know on the day they contact their practice how their request will be managed.</p><p>We will achieve this by rolling out new digital tools and telephone systems which can help practices to better match their capacity to patient demand, backed by £240 million in retargeted funding. The plan also includes further measures to empower patients to do more themselves, cut bureaucracy for GPs and build capacity to deliver more appointments; and we are investing at least £1.5 billion to create an additional 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 by increasing and diversifying the workforce.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 10/11/2023 13:42:34 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant

1666733

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Family Practitioner Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) dentists, (b) GPs and (c) pharmacists per 100,000 people in each ICS area; and if he will publish those estimates by Index of Multiple Deprivation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	203900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 11:35:05 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1665344

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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	Dental Services: Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is the Minister taking to increase access to NHS dental services in County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	202956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 11:09:19 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 99513 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1666737

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Dental Services: Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access to dentistry for pregnant women by (a) ICB area and (b) sub-location; and if he will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	203901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>From 1 April 2023 responsibility for commissioning primary care dentistry to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to all integrated care boards (ICBs) across England. ICBs are responsible for undertaking oral health needs assessments to identify areas of need and determine the priorities for investment.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 10:58:16 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1666176

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
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	Dental Services: Havering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the provision of dental spaces for NHS patients in the London Borough of Havering.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	203460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We are currently working on a Dentistry Recovery Plan, to improve access to dental care across England. It will build upon the first package of reforms agreed in July 2022, which included changes to banding and the introduction of a minimum Units of Dental Activity (UDA) value. Our plan will include addressing how we continue to improve access, particularly for new patients; and how we make National Health Service work more attractive to ensure NHS dentists are incentivised to deliver NHS care.</p><p>North East London Integrated Care Board authorised the investment of £3.1 million in respect of additional dental access for its population in August 2023. All practices were offered the opportunity to apply, from which eight practices in Havering took up the offer. As a result an additional 11,800 UDAs have been commissioned.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 10:55:36 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1666719

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Dental Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Dental Recovery Plan will be published.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	203899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We are working on a Dentistry Recovery Plan, which we expect to announce shortly.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 10:52:47 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1666848

registered interest
date	24/10/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make PrEP available (a) online, (b) in pharmacies and (c) in GP surgeries.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Elliot Colburn
uin	204053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The HIV Action Plan Implementation Steering Group (ISG) is developing a roadmap to help guide our efforts to improve equitable access, uptake and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to meet the needs of key populations at significant risk of HIV. This forms part of the group’s work to monitor and drive forward the implementation of the HIV Action Plan.</p><p>HIV PrEP is currently only prescribed at specialist sexual health services, but as we work towards our 2030 ambitions we will explore opportunities for making it available in a variety of settings. The PrEP roadmap considers actions needed to improve HIV PrEP access pathways in settings other than specialist sexual health services, including online, general practitioner services and pharmacies, to enable potential future delivery in other settings. The roadmap is expected to be made available by the ISG by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 09:02:24 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4775 label Biography information for Elliot Colburn

1666512

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Fluoride: Drinking Water
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with regard to the variation agreement of 28 September 2023 on the supply of fluoridated water from the Williamsgate works, what estimate he has made of how many households (a) will be supplied when fluoridation is operational and (b) would have been supplied under the 1968 agreement on 30 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Mark Jenkinson
uin	203945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The number of properties that will be supplied by fluoridated water when Williamsgate is operational, under the varied 1968 agreement, is estimated to be 33,884. The number of properties supplied under the 1968 agreement on 30 June 2022 is estimated to be 33,884.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2023 08:58:19 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4752 label Biography information for Mark Jenkinson