Tag: Luciana Berger

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he or other Ministers of his Department have visited a liver unit since taking office.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Since May 2010 the following visits were undertaken by Ministers in the Department to liver units.

23 November 2010 Anne Milton King’s College Hospital

Tour of our Haematology and Liver Transplantation

departments

13 January 2011 Mr Andrew Lansley King’s College Hospital NHS

Foundation Trust

Tour of Liver Intensive Therapy Unit (LITU) on Cheyne Wing

Since May 2010, the following visits were undertaken by Ministers in the Department to alcohol dependency units that also specialise in liver treatment.

16 December 2010 Anne Milton Hope House in Clapham

(Drugs/alcohol dependency)

21 July 2011 Earl Howe Royal Bolton Hospital

(Alcohol dependency)

1 March 2012 Mr Andrew Lansley The Carpenters Arms

(Rehabilitation charity for alcohol and drugs)

25 October 2012 Anna Soubry Bristol Tranquiliser Project

(Drugs/alcohol dependency)

29 March 2012 Earl Howe Mossley Hill Hospital

(Alcohol dependency treatment centre)

24 January 2013 Anna Soubry Mount Carmel (charity)

(Alcohol Treatment Centre)

6 June 2013 Dr Daniel Poulter Brighton Housing Trust

(Meeting Community Alcohol NHS Team)

13 February 2014 Dr Daniel Poulter The Habour centre, Alcohol and drug service, Plymouth

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many IVF cycles have been provided on the NHS in England in each year since 2010.

Jane Ellison

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has advised that the number of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles that have been provided on the National Health Service in England in each year since 2010 is set out in the table below.

Year	NHS-funded IVF cycles
2010	20,828
2011	21,397
2012	21,242
2013	22,340
2014	22,238

Note: Figures includes cycles in which embryos were created by IVF but not actually transferred to the patient.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the strategy for combating liver disease referred to in the Prime Minister’s message of support for World Hepatitis Day, published on the 10 Downing Street website on 28 July 2011.

Jane Ellison

Responsibility for determining the overall national approach to improving clinical outcomes from healthcare services, including services for people with liver disease, lies with NHS England.

NHS England advises that it is adopting a broad strategy for delivering improvements in relation to premature mortality. It is working with commissioners and Public Health England to support clinical commissioning groups to understand where local challenges lie and to identify the evidence in relation to the priorities for reducing mortality at a national level. NHS England is generally not working within a condition specific framework and has no plans to produce a liver specific strategy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many block contracts are in place for mental health services in England; and what the aggregate value is of those contracts.

Norman Lamb

The information requested is not collected for mental health services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups. In 2014/15, the value of specialised mental health services was £1,757 billion. There were 93 block contracts in specialised mental health services representing 19% of the total value of specialised mental health services.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the costs to the NHS of untreated liver disease in one person.

Jane Ellison

The Department has made no recent assessment of the costs to the National Health Service of untreated liver disease.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of doctors against whom allegations of abuse made by patients have been in each year since 2010.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The information requested is not held centrally by the Department.

The information requested is held by the General Medical Council, an independent body responsible for dealing firmly and fairly with doctors whose fitness to practise is in doubt.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Public Health England has spent on consultancy workers in 2013-14.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England (PHE) has incurred no expenditure with professional consultancy firms of the nature described in the Cabinet Office definition of Consultancy.

However, PHE sought approval under the Department’s Professional Services approvals route for £8.1million of contingent labour where the daily rate of the individuals concerned was more than £220 per day. This involves approval by the Chief Executive of PHE, by the Department’s Procurement and by the Department’s Financial Approvals Panel.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government’s assessment is of the effectiveness of warning labels on alcoholic beverages regarding drinking during pregnancy; and what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of making such labels mandatory.

Jane Ellison

Research in the evidence around the effectiveness of alcohol harm reduction communications and related campaigns suggests that labelling and point of sale information can have an impact on consumption, in conjunction with broader campaigns to raise consumer awareness and education on the health risks linked to alcohol consumption.

As part of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, alcohol retailers and producers have committed to putting an agreed warning or a pregnancy warning logo on 80% of labels on bottles and cans by the end of 2013. An independent market survey is underway to measure compliance. This level of coverage should allow the majority of consumers to see the pregnancy warning and logo.