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100023

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ovarian Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase early identification of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	905561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>We are investing £450 million in earlier diagnosis of cancer, including improving direct general practitioner access to non-obstetric ultrasound to support earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England ran a regional Be Clear on Cancer campaign early in 2014 to raise awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer. The findings of the pilot will be evaluated in 2015, and this evidence would inform any decision to move from a regional to national campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/10/2014 15:46:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60934

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Sunderland
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 changes in average waiting times for GP appointments in Sunderland since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	200002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No such estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>The attached table contains results from NHS England's 2013 GP Patients Survey. The survey collected data from January to March and July to September 2013.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 17/06/2014 16:33:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ200002 - Table.docx title Table
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66095

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
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 effectiveness of branded weight loss programmes in achieving healthy and sustainable weight loss.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England (PHE) have not made a direct assessment of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of branded weight management programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and PHE supports theNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guidance on ‘Managing overweight and obesity in adults – lifestyle weight management services', which makes recommendations on the provision of effective multi-component lifestyle weight management services for adults who are overweight or obese. This includes the recommendations that the commissioning of such services is based on the effectiveness of the programme as outlined in the NICE guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 204138 question first answered 14/07/2014 09:45:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66110

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on bariatric surgery in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Information about National Health Service spending on bariatric surgery is not available in the format requested. Information is available from reference costs, which are the average cost to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table are specific to bariatric surgery and were introduced in 2011-12. For previous years, costs data is not available because the costs of bariatric surgery were included in HRGs which also covered other stomach procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not undertaken an assessment of the potential benefits of bariatric surgery or evaluated its efficacy and cost-effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued “Guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children”. This includes recommendations on when to consider bariatric surgery for people who are obese. These recommendations were informed by an evidence review process, conducted by NICE, on the benefits and effectiveness of surgery. NICE is currently consulting on this guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 204133 204134 question first answered 14/07/2014 12:23:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ204132_33_34 - Table.docx title Table
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66111

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
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 role bariatric surgery has in achieving healthy and sustainable weight loss.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Information about National Health Service spending on bariatric surgery is not available in the format requested. Information is available from reference costs, which are the average cost to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table are specific to bariatric surgery and were introduced in 2011-12. For previous years, costs data is not available because the costs of bariatric surgery were included in HRGs which also covered other stomach procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not undertaken an assessment of the potential benefits of bariatric surgery or evaluated its efficacy and cost-effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued “Guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children”. This includes recommendations on when to consider bariatric surgery for people who are obese. These recommendations were informed by an evidence review process, conducted by NICE, on the benefits and effectiveness of surgery. NICE is currently consulting on this guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 204132 204134 question first answered 14/07/2014 12:23:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ204132_33_34 - Table.docx title Table
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66112

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department evaluates the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Information about National Health Service spending on bariatric surgery is not available in the format requested. Information is available from reference costs, which are the average cost to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table are specific to bariatric surgery and were introduced in 2011-12. For previous years, costs data is not available because the costs of bariatric surgery were included in HRGs which also covered other stomach procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not undertaken an assessment of the potential benefits of bariatric surgery or evaluated its efficacy and cost-effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued “Guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children”. This includes recommendations on when to consider bariatric surgery for people who are obese. These recommendations were informed by an evidence review process, conducted by NICE, on the benefits and effectiveness of surgery. NICE is currently consulting on this guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 204132 204133 question first answered 14/07/2014 12:23:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ204132_33_34 - Table.docx title Table
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66113

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on (a) Weight Watchers programmes, (b) Slimming World programmes and (c) any other branded weight loss programme in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England do not hold the financial details on National Health Service expenditure on branded weight loss programmes. The determination as to what lifestyle weight management services are commissioned remains a local consideration.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 14/07/2014 09:43:36 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

66117

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department evaluates the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of branded weight loss programmes.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	204138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department and Public Health England (PHE) have not made a direct assessment of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of branded weight management programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department and PHE supports theNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health guidance on ‘Managing overweight and obesity in adults – lifestyle weight management services', which makes recommendations on the provision of effective multi-component lifestyle weight management services for adults who are overweight or obese. This includes the recommendations that the commissioning of such services is based on the effectiveness of the programme as outlined in the NICE guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 204139 question first answered 14/07/2014 09:45:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson