The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were subject to do not resuscitate orders in the last year for which figures are available.
Ben Gummer
This information is not collected centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jeff Smith on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of reductions in the public health grant for local authorities on local smoking cessation services in (a) Manchester, Withington constituency, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) the UK.
Jane Ellison
Local authorities will, over the next five years, receive £16 billion through the public health grant. Local authorities have responsibility for protecting public health and meeting the needs of their local population, including tobacco control.
Public Health England supports local authorities by developing and distributing information and advice for the commissioning of effective regional approaches to tobacco control which maximise value for money at a local level.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will direct the NHS to review its decision on the expansion of access to pre-exposure prophylaxis treatment for people most at risk of contracting HIV.
Jane Ellison
NHS England’s Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) have considered and accepted NHS England’s external legal advice that it does not have the legal power to commission pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, work on PrEP is ongoing and up to £2 million will be invested in a pilot programme to target those at highest risk over the course of two years.
Public Health England is working to identify the most effective locations for the introduction of this pilot. The Department will be discussing future commissioning with stakeholders.
PrEP is a new use of HIV drugs which has shown effectiveness in research trials at preventing HIV in people at high risk of getting HIV such as men who have sex with men and people with HIV-positive partners. The drug used in United Kingdom trials, Truvada, is not yet licenced for use as PrEP. As with any new intervention, PrEP now needs to be properly assessed in relation to clinical and cost effectiveness to see how it could be commissioned in the most sustainable and integrated way and how it compares with other cost-effective approaches.
Our £2.4 million national HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion Programme also gives those at highest risk the best advice to make safer choices about sex.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Heidi Alexander on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2016 to Question 36036, for what reason the awareness campaign on the symptoms of serious infections in children is not being extended to all adults including those who are not parents.
Jane Ellison
Infections can be serious in both adults and children. Public Health England has been commissioned to develop a public awareness campaign for parents and families about serious infections in children, including meningitis, septicaemia and sepsis. Health Education England have been asked to work with National Health Service organisations to develop parallel professional awareness materials for healthcare professionals who work with both children and adults who have serious infections, including sepsis. A range of information materials for the public are also available on the UK Sepsis Trust website and NHS Choices.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has assessed the effect on HIV infection amongst men in sexual contact with unvaccinated women from countries with no or low-uptake HPV vaccination programmes.
Jane Ellison
No such assessment has been made.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37441, what the name is of each of the 27 hospitals supported by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team.
Ben Gummer
The following 27 health systems and the hospitals within these are supported by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team via the Emergency Care Improvement Programme:
– Stoke & Staffordshire: County Hospital; Royal Stoke University Hospital
– Shropshire: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital; Princess Royal Hospital
– North Northamptonshire & Corby: Kettering General Hospital
– Coventry & Rugby: University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
– Worcestershire: Worcestershire Royal Hospital; Alexandra Hospital
– Wirral: Arrowe Park
– Lincolnshire: Lincoln County Hospital; Grantham District Hospital; Pilgrim Hospital
– Hull & East Riding: Hull Royal Hospital; Castle Hill Hospital
– North Cumbria: Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle; West Cumberland Infirmary
– York & Scarborough: York Hospital; Scarborough Hospital
– Wakefield & North Kirklees: Pinderfields Hospital; Pontefract Hospital; Dewsbury and District Hospital
– Kernow: Royal Cornwall Hospital
– Kingston: Kingston Hospital
– Bromley Lambeth & Southwark: King’s College Hospital – Denmark Hill; King’s College Hospital – Princess Grace
– Wandsworth Sutton & Merton: St George’s Hospital; Queen Mary’s Roehampton
– Cambridge & Ely: Addenbrooke’s Hospital
– Portsmouth & South East Hampshire: Queen Alexandra Hospital
– Western Devon: Plymouth Dereford Hospital
– North Somerset & Medway: Weston General Hospital
– Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest & Newham: Royal London Hospital; Whipps Cross Hospital
– Brent & Harrow: Northwick Park Hospital
– Mid Essex: Broomfield Hospital
– Herts Valley & West Herts: Watford General Hospital
– North East Essex: Colchester General Hospital
– Brighton & Hove: Royal Sussex County Hospital
– East Kent: Kent and Canterbury Hospital; William Harvey Hospital; Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital
– Medway: Medway Hospital
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report of the Independent Cancer Taskforce entitled Achieving world-class cancer outcomes: a strategy for England 2015-2020, published in July 2015, what steps Monitor and NHS England have taken to introduce new sanctions for any provider not fully complying with electronic prescribing.
Jane Ellison
The independent Cancer Taskforce recommended that new sanctions should be introduced to encourage e-prescribing. A mechanism to enforce contractual sanctions for non-delivery of adult chemotherapy e-prescribing systems has been created from April 2016, which requires development of an action plan by 30 June 2016 and full implementation by 31 March 2017. For children, teenagers and young adults, providers will be required to produce a robust implementation plan by 30 September 2016 and to achieve full implementation by 30 September 2017.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37441, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the provision of accident and emergency services at each of the eight urgent and emergency care vanguard sites currently provided with expert input by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team.
Ben Gummer
At each of the eight urgent and emergency care vanguard sites, data is recorded on monthly accident and emergency Attendances and Emergency Admissions and this information is published at provider organisation level, from NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts and Independent Sector Organisations.
The below are the eight urgent and emergency care vanguard sites:
Greater Nottingham System Resilience Group
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group
North East Urgent Care Network
Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge System Resilience Group
West Yorkshire Urgent Emergency Care Network
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland System Resilience Group
Solihull Together for Better Lives
South Devon and Torbay System Resilience Group
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) mental and (b) physical health risks to young people of social media and technology.
Alistair Burt
The Department has made no formal assessment of the risks to mental or physical health presented to young people by social media and related technologies. However, the Department, working with Xenzone (a provider of online counselling services) has funded the development of an online risk module for health professionals, designed to give them an understanding of the digital world, so that they can learn to distinguish between ‘normal online behaviour’ and potentially dangerous activity.
The Department has commissioned the Health and Social Care Information Centre to carry out a survey of the mental health of children and young people. Public consultation on the content of that survey called for the inclusion of questions on the impact that social media may be having on the mental health of children and young people. A national report on the findings of the survey will be published in 2018, the first such survey since 2004.
The clearest physical health risk arises from the fact that children and young people who spend long periods online are not exercising during that time. The four Home Country Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) published United Kingdom-wide guidelines for the amount of physical activity required across the life-course (including children and young people) in July 2011. The CMOs also included advice to restrict sedentary behaviour (long periods of sitting) including use of computers, for all age groups.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has plans to encourage mental health providers to use social technology as a part of therapeutic treatments for young people.
Alistair Burt
Future in Mind suggests there is a need to incentivise self-care by designing mental health apps targeted at children and young people to strengthen resilience, support and individual capacity for self-care.
This has been achieved by establishing a children and young people’s category within the new NHS England Innovation fund for mental health to develop apps for cognitive behavioural therapy and self-harm and suicide prevention, amongst others. In conjunction with this work we are also assessing the potential need for quality assurance controls for mental health apps.
The Department is currently considering providing access to both high quality and reliable information and support online through a national branded portal established on NHS Choices.