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Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber (6 June 2013)

Terminations of pregnancy in NHS hospitals which are not compliant with the Abortion Act 1967 – Baroness Knight of Collingtree. Oral Questions; 11:00 am

Upcoming Business – Commons: Select Committee (21 May 2013)

Health: Emergency Services and Emergency Care. 9:30 am; Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Witnesses: Dr Patrick Cadigan, Registrar, Royal College of Physicians, Dr Mike Clancy, President, College of Emergency Medicine and and Mike Farrar, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation

Adoption: Adoption Legislation Committee Reports — Motion to Take Note (16 May 2013)

Baroness King of Bow: ...review the committee’s suggestion of a statutory duty? If the Minister does not think that a statutory duty to co-operate among the different agencies that provide such services—such as the NHS, adolescent mental health services, or whatever—is appropriate, will he agree to review that advice on statutory support, as it is a lifeline to adoptive families? I also welcome...

Mental Health (16 May 2013) See 17 other results from this debate

Paul Burstow: ...services. I welcome what the Minister has said about that today. A number of Members have suggested that this should become an annual debate. Clearly Parliament needs to hold the Government and the NHS Commissioning Board to account on these issues, and it would be good if we could find time every year to see just how much progress has been made. It has been very interesting for those of...

Economy: Growth — Motion to Take Note (16 May 2013)

Lord Bhattacharyya: ...this. Their growth and profits are down, and the outsourcing market is projected to stagnate or even decline. Yet the UK seems to be uninterested in supporting the reshoring of its own money. The NHS spends millions of pounds on offshoring IT and data management. For example, half of the NHS shared business services staff are based in India. If we were to demand that such direct government...

Outdoor Activities — Motion to Take Note (16 May 2013) See 1 other result from this debate

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: ...football ground, as I look at the green spaces that greet you as you go into the city, particularly as a result of the recent development in the city centre. I declare an interest as chair of an NHS foundation trust and as a trainer and consultant with Cumberlege Connections, as we cover health issues. My daughter is a director of policy at the organisation Living Streets, formerly the...

NHS: GP Dispensing — Question (16 May 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Earl Howe: My Lords, the current NHS (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013 continue an agreement reached between representatives of pharmacist and GP contractors setting out the circumstances under which patients living in designated rural areas are eligible to receive dispensing services from their GP. To make any significant change in the regulations would mean reopening...

Business of the House (16 May 2013)

Andrew Lansley: ...the three new providers in the south-west, the south-east and Oxfordshire during its introduction in April. Equally, we could go back much further. For example, 10 areas of the country were running NHS 111 on a pilot basis when I left the Department of Health in September last year, and in many places it is operating successfully. What Members throughout the House need to understand is...

Written Answers — Health: Clinical Commissioning Groups (16 May 2013)

Anna Soubry: ..., to ensure they do not affect or appear to affect the integrity of their decision-making process. CCGs must also comply with the requirements for managing the conflict of interests set out in NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations 2013. NHS England is responsible for supporting CCGs to manage conflicts of interest, and has produced guidance setting out the statutory...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services (16 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Jeremy Lefroy: ...) Healthwatch England, (c) Healthwatch Staffordshire, (d) Independent Complaints Advocacy Service, (e) health and wellbeing boards, (f) quality surveillance groups, (g) Care Quality Commission, (h) NHS England and (i) clinical commissioning groups.

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Berkshire (16 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Adam Afriyie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has recently received representations from NHS Berkshire about (a) the future of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot and (b) the strategic priorities for healthcare services in East Berkshire. [R]

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Foreign Nationals (16 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Barclay: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the value was of invoiced fees owed to the NHS by foreign patients not entitled to free care which were written off in each of the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: Foreign Nationals (16 May 2013)

Anna Soubry: The Department is not able to make a reliable estimate of the cost to the national health service of providing secondary care to foreign nationals who were not entitled to free treatment because the NHS does not currently have robust enough systems in place to identify every foreign national who should pay for hospital treatment. The Department has commissioned a piece of work to better...

Written Answers — Health: Inflation (16 May 2013)

Daniel Poulter: ...measures of inflation for a number of different purposes, including the following: (a) The retail price index (RPI) measure of inflation is used to inform: level of future payments made by the NHS Litigation Authority; Health service cost index (uses both RPI and gross domestic product (GDP) deflators); NHS Pay Review Bodies (consider both RPI and the consumer price index (CPI)); and...

Written Answers — Health: Mental Hospitals (16 May 2013)

Norman Lamb: NHS England informs me that commissioners undertook a Capacity Review that was completed in November 2009 for the period 2011-12 to 2015-16. Ashworth hospital was originally built with 410 bedrooms. Good practice, is to have less than 100% occupancy so that admission and discharge can be arranged to meet clinical need and the requirements of the criminal justice system. The main improvement...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Foundation Trusts (16 May 2013)

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts have not achieved Foundation Trust status; and when he expects all NHS trusts to gain Foundation Trust status.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Whistleblowing (16 May 2013)

Charlotte Leslie: ...his Department received expressing concern about the effects of Government targets on patient care between 2005 and 2010; (2) how many investigations into poor care or malpractice in the NHS were initiated as a result of whistleblowers highlighting these to his Department between 2005 and 2010; (3) how many individual items of correspondence his Department received from whistleblowers...

Written Answers — Health: Offenders: Rehabilitation (16 May 2013)

Norman Lamb: ...for the young persons' secure estate and for immigration removal centres. The cost of rehabilitative health care treatments provided to offenders on probation is not collected centrally. Since April 2013, NHS England has commissioned prison drug treatment services through 10 designated local area teams (LATs). LATs will be able to enter into local agreements with other partners, including...

Written Answers — Health: Skin Cancer (16 May 2013)

Daniel Poulter: ...new role for skin surgery and community cancer care, in ‘Revised guidance and competences for the provision of services using GPs with special interests: Dermatology and skin surgery’ (NHS Primary Care Commissioning, 2011). This guidance for GPs and commissioners of services underpins more effective community care for those with suspected cancer. Furthermore, the National...

Written Answers — Health: Tuberculosis (16 May 2013)

Anna Soubry: Public Health England (PHE) is leading a national oversight group for tuberculosis (TB), which brings together partners from the Department, NHS England, local government, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, British Thoracic Society, academia and TB Alert to develop a strategy to reverse the trend of increasing TB rates in the United Kingdom. The group held its first meeting on...