Tag: Luciana Berger

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the running costs are for each of the academic health science networks.

Norman Lamb

The information requested is not available.

NHS England advise us that individual funding levels and programme costs vary between Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). NHS England budget allocations are not their sole source of income and AHSNs are seeking to supplement this funding through participation in strategic investment programmes and match-funding initiatives. Core running cost are for AHSNs to determine independently and may also be subject to change through the year.

Further information on AHSN work programmes and business plans can be found on their websites:

AHSN	Website
East Midlands	www.emahsn.ac.uk
Eastern	www.eahsn.org.uk
Imperial College Health Partners	www.imperialcollegehealthpartners.com
Greater Manchester	www.gmahsn.org
Kent, Surrey and Sussex	www.kssahsn.net
North East and North Cumbria	www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk
North West Coast	www.nwcahsn.nhs.uk
Oxford	www.oxfordahsn.org
South London	www.kingshealthpartners.org/info/southlondonahsn
South West Peninsula	www.swahsn.com
UCL Partners	www.uclpartners.com
Wessex	www.wessexahsn.org
West Midlands	www.wmahsn.org
West of England	www.weahsn.net
Yorkshire and Humber	www.yhahsn.org.uk

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the importance of psychological support services for patients suffering from cancer of the unknown primary.

Jane Ellison

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance manual: Improving Supportive and Palliative Care for Adults with Cancer (www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/csgspmanual.pdf) provides a framework for the provision of psychological support in people with cancer – including cancer of unknown primary.

The NICE clinical guideline for Depression with a chronic physical health problem (CG91) is also a useful resource.

All patients should have systematic psychological assessment and have access to an appropriate psychological intervention from professionals competent to provide them.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 486W, on health: business, whether he plans to make an assessment of the overall (a) number and (b) proportion of those companies which are meeting all of the pledges they have signed up to.

Jane Ellison

Details of our Responsibility Deal partners, the pledges they have committed to taking action on, their delivery plans and annual updates are all readily available on the Responsibility Deal website at:

https://responsibilitydeal.dh.gov.uk/partners/

This information is published in full and the Department does not therefore publish an assessment of partners’ achievements under the pledges.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many financial bonuses of what amount have been paid to employees of Public Health England since April 2013; and on what criteria such bonuses were awarded.

Jane Ellison

Financial bonuses have been paid to 20 employees of Public Health England since its establishment on 1 April 2013, all of which relate to their performance in predecessor organisations in the 2012-13 reporting year. The criteria used for the performance assessment and subsequent payments for which they were eligible were those of their former employer.

Of these, 18 were to former employees of the Department of Health, all of which were non-consolidated. The number of payments and amounts were as follows:

Number of payments	Amount (£)
1	210
1	250
1	380
1	480
1	630
1	750
1	825
4	900
1	1,000
4	1,200
1	10,000
1	12,500

The remaining two were to former employees of the Health Protection Agency, which were also non-consolidated, and amounted to £10,000 each.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS-funded cosmetic surgeries have been performed in each of the last four years; and what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of those surgeries which were not based on a mental health need.

Dr Daniel Poulter

This information is not available in the format requested.