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Written Answers — Health: Cancer: Drugs (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: In the context of developing new pricing arrangements for branded medicines, we are exploring ways in which patients can continue to benefit from innovative cancer drugs at a cost that represents value to the national health service. NHS England is involved in this work. NHS England has taken on responsibility for commissioning specialised services, including chemotherapy. Direct...

Written Answers — Health: Care Homes: Abuse (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: The Secretary of State for Health, the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Mr Hunt), has not carried out assessments on the effectiveness of local authorities in dealing with instances of abuse or neglect of older people in residential care. The Health and Social Care Information Centre published the “Abuse of Vulnerable Adults (AVA) Final Data Report 2011-12 (England)”,...

Written Answers — Health: Carers (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: This information is not available centrally. However, the Department funded the National Institute for Health Research School for Social Care Research to undertake a longitudinal analysis of unpaid care and employment in England. Initial results from a scoping study undertaken by the London School of Economics and Political Science found that the estimated public expenditure costs of carers...

Written Answers — Health: Disability Aids: Communication (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: NHS England is responsible for the direct commissioning of specialised assessment and provision of augmentative and assistive communication aids (AAC) for adults, children and young people. Services which do not fall within the definition of specialised AAC are commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups. Given significant historic variation in the commissioning of specialised...

Written Answers — Health: Fractures (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: The information on fracture liaison services linked to every hospital is not held centrally by the Department or NHS England. Local commissioners are primarily responsible for determining what steps are needed to improve the health and care of people with fragility fractures. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents published on 13 June 2013 an on-line handbook ‘Delivering...

Written Answers — Health: Health and Wellbeing Boards (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Health and wellbeing boards are statutory committees of English local authorities. While health and wellbeing boards have no statutory responsibility for holding commissioning budgets, local areas are able to delegate to a health and wellbeing board if they so wish. The boards are however under a duty to encourage integrated working between commissioners of services across health, social...

Written Answers — Health: Medical Records: Disability (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: The Equality Act 2010 requires national health service bodies, and those carrying out public functions on their behalf, to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people which may include providing information in alternative formats. This statutory duty aims to ensure that a disabled person can use a service as close as reasonably possible to the standard usually offered to non-disabled...

Written Answers — Health: Musculoskeletal Disorders (17 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: We are aware of the wide prevalence of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and their impact on an individual's quality of life. Local commissioners are primarily responsible for determining what steps are needed to improve the health of people with MSK conditions. NHS England is responsible for work on MSK conditions. It appointed the first National Clinical Director for MSK conditions,...

Written Answers — Health: Dementia (13 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: In July 2011, the Department published an equalities action plan for the National Dementia Strategy. Local national health service and social care commissioners should consider the needs of their local population when commissioning services for people with dementia. The latest Government dementia campaign, which ran from September 2012 to January 2013, consisted of national television, radio,...

Written Answers — Health: Mental Health Services: Children (13 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Children under 18 have the lowest risk of suicide of any age group. However, the risk is higher among some vulnerable groups of teenagers, including those with depression and those who are bullied, and so we identified children in the suicide strategy, which we launched in September 2012, as a group for which tailored approaches are needed. The implementation framework of the mental health...

Written Answers — Health: Chronic Illnesses and Disability (12 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: This information is not available in the format requested. The Third edition of the Long Term Conditions Compendium of Information, published in 2012 by the Department of Health, suggests that there are over 15 million people in England who are living with one or more long term conditions. A copy has been placed in the Library. The Office for Disability Issues set out in August 2012 that...

Written Answers — Health: Epilepsy (12 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Reducing premature mortality is a priority for this Government. The Department's Mandate and NHS Outcomes Framework sets out the improvements in health and health care outcomes that we envisage the national health service to achieve. The Mandate includes objectives for NHS England to make measurable progress towards reducing unnecessary deaths, including those from epilepsy. A key element to...

Written Answers — Health: General Practitioners (12 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: The Department does not hold records of complaints centrally. General practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors and, as such, the arrangements for appointments are a matter for individual GP practices. However, if a patient is not happy with the arrangements at their practice, they may raise a formal complaint. Under the NHS complaints procedure, patients may raise a complaint either...

Written Answers — Health: Prescriptions (12 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Nurse independent prescribing was first enabled throughout England in 1999 and pharmacist independent prescribing was introduced from 2006. Nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers can currently prescribe any medicine for any medical condition within their competence, while community practitioner nurse prescribers prescribe from a limited formulary of medicines, appliances and dressings....

Written Answers — Health: Health Education: Young People (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Local authority commissioners are working through health and well-being boards to develop a comprehensive analysis of health and social care needs in each local area in joint strategic needs assessments, and to translate these into action through joint health and well-being strategies and their own commissioning plans, including for public health. This will provide an opportunity for needs...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: For the treatment system to be effective it needs to be locally led and locally owned, with local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, working with health and wellbeing boards, to identify the health and social care needs of local areas and developing a strategy for addressing these needs. The role for central Government is carrying out research to develop and publish an evidence...

Written Answers — Health: Hospices (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: In the last week NHS England, with the assistance of Help the Hospices, have been able to confirm all 179 grants to all organisations who were previously notified of their award in March. Funds are being made available as required in line with the conditions of the grant and the needs of each schemes and each recipient is now aware of how to access these funds. The investment of £60...

Written Answers — Health: Multiple Sclerosis (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: The Multiple Sclerosis Risk Sharing Scheme monitors the actual benefits achieved by the four Risk Sharing Scheme medicines over a 10-year period. Benefits are compared every two years and the data for years four and six are currently being analysed prior to publication. The 10-year data collection is due to be complete in 2015. Under the NHS Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning...

Written Answers — Health: Muscular Dystrophy: West Midlands (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: On 1 April 2013 NHS England became responsible for commissioning specialised services, improving standards and national consistency. This is intended to guarantee equitable access to services across the country. This includes diagnostic services for adults and children with rare neuromuscular disorders. NHS England commissions some elements of neurological services through specialist...

Written Answers — Health: Prescriptions: Fees and Charges (11 June 2013)

Norman Lamb: Information is not collected centrally on the number of people claiming free prescriptions. Calculating the costs to the Department of free prescriptions would depend on how individuals might respond if free prescriptions were no longer available, especially if individuals made greater use of the pre-payment certificates. Estimates for the cost to the Department of provision of free...