Results 1-20 of 28 for smoking speaker:Ann Keen

Written Answers — Health: Fractures (24 Jun 2009)

Ann Keen: ...of the wider Prevention Package announced in May 2008, to encourage older people to exercise which helps them to improve bone mass and provide general lifestyle messages, around diet, exercise, reducing smoking and avoiding excessive consumption of alcohol, which are helpful in the prevention of osteoporosis. In addition, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has...

Written Answers — Health: Cardiovascular System: Health Services (15 May 2009)

Ann Keen: ...to identify earlier people at risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease and support them to reduce their risk through the provision of lifestyle advice and interventions, and smoking cessation, and preventative medication such as statins. The programme has significant potential to narrow inequalities and many primary care trusts (PCTs) are using it as a major tool in...

Written Answers — Health: Perinatal Mortality (24 Mar 2009)

Ann Keen: ...in the Library. The Government are committed to improving outcomes for both mothers and babies. We promote a number of interventions to help prevent stillbirths and neonatal deaths, including smoking cessation, eating healthily and tackling obesity, reducing teenage pregnancy and encouraging early booking with maternity services. We also fund the confidential inquiry into maternal and...

Written Answers — Health: Strokes: Health Services (23 Mar 2009)

Ann Keen: ...the risk of patients having a recurrent stroke or TIA. The stroke strategy outlines the need to ensure systems are in place locally for key prevention measures e.g. management of hypertension and smoking cessation to those who have had a stroke or TIA.

Written Answers — Health: Arthritis: Health Services (5 Mar 2009)

Ann Keen: ...an assessment of all immediate and potential future health and social care needs, including housing, transport, benefits, employment, and health promotion issues such as weight management and smoking cessation.

Written Answers — Health: Lung Cancer: North West (3 Mar 2009)

Ann Keen: ...with local authorities, with personalised services offered to meet the specific needs of their local populations. It stated that efforts must be focused on a number of key goals, including reducing smoking rates. Reducing smoking among young people is a priority for the Government. Much has already been achieved in this area, including raising the age of sale of tobacco products and...

Petitions: Coronary Heart Disease (21 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Keen: ...exception reporting as part of QOF assessment and verification. The past 10 years have seen significant and tangible progress in cardiac services nationally, and I am keen for them to continue to improve. Our smoke-free policies have made a huge difference, but it is critical that we start early, with our young children and teenagers, in emphasising the need for a healthy lifestyle. I...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Diseases: Health Services (19 Jan 2009)

Ann Keen: ...may only be reproduced by permission) The rate has dropped steadily over the past 10 years—this is partly as a result of changes in lifestyle factors (such as reductions in the numbers who smoke) and partly as a result of improvement in treatment and services for heart disease, led since 2000 by the programme set out in the National Service Framework (NSF) for CHD. While it is not...

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account, 2009-10 — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: department of Health — Dental Services (16 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Keen: ...Paul Beresford) raised the important issue of oral cancer. I am sure that he would agree that the Government's approach to children and the purchase of tobacco, and the discouragement of cigarette smoking, is important, because reducing smoking is one of the most important elements of addressing oral cancer.

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account, 2009-10 — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: department of Health — Dental Services (16 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Keen: We should consider all aspects of smoking cessation. People's oral health has changed, and dentistry needed to change to reflect that. Dentists themselves recognised that the old contract was a so-called "drill and fill treadmill". Under that contract, dentists themselves chose where to set up in practice, they chose how much NHS work to do, and if they chose to leave the NHS, there was...

Written Answers — Health: Health: Screening (16 Oct 2008)

Ann Keen: ...will include a number of well-evidenced tests for vascular disease and diabetes risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol measurement, and Body Mass Index and questions such as age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, and family history. Each person will be given the results of their tests, which will be an individual assessment of their vascular risk, and advice on how to...

Written Answers — Health: Respiratory System: Durham (26 Jun 2008)

Ann Keen: ...of the clinical domain, the Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) captures the number of patients on the clinical register for each practice. (The other two clinical areas, depression and smoking indicators, are based on subsets of other clinical registers.) The number of patients on the clinical registers can be used to calculate measures of disease prevalence, expressing the...

Written Answers — Health: Cardiovascular System: Screening (23 Apr 2008)

Ann Keen: ...to 2007, we can estimate numbers in that age group in England who have records of the four measures we are proposing should form part of a vascular risk assessment. These measures are cholesterol, smoking status, body mass index and blood pressure. We estimate that in the five years between 2002 and 2007 an average of 620,000 adults per annum will have undergone all four measures. This...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (28 Feb 2008)

Ann Keen: Not only is smoking the leading cause of premature death in the United Kingdom, it can also cause many diseases. Evidence shows that smoking can cause blindness through age-related maculopathy and possibly cataracts. The Department keeps the evidence base around the health effects of smoking under close review, and has recently received submissions from stakeholders elaborating the evidence...

Written Answers — Health: Cardiovascular System: Screening (4 Feb 2008)

Ann Keen: ...for conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease and as such would use an assessment of risk based on a range of known predictive factors including age, gender, smoking status, body mass index, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and glucose, as appropriate. This project will include estimating the amount of preventive work currently carried out by...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments (4 Feb 2008)

Ann Keen: ...to medical and surgical treatments. This means that about 58 per cent. of the decline in mortality was attributable to the change in risk factors, with the largest proportion coming from a fall in smoking prevalence. A copy of the briefing paper has been placed in the Library and is also available at: www.nice.org.uk/niceMedia/documents/CHD_Briefing_ nov_04.pdf

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Screening (30 Jan 2008)

Ann Keen: The Department is currently developing proposals for a screening programme. Any such programme will use an assessment of risk based on a range of known predictive factors including age, gender, smoking status, body mass index, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and glucose, as appropriate. The exact nature of a vascular risk assessment and management programme is still the subject of...

Written Answers — Health: Screening (30 Jan 2008)

Ann Keen: ...for conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease and as such would use an assessment of risk based on a range of known predictive factors including age, gender, smoking status, body mass index, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and glucose, as appropriate.

Written Answers — Health: Screening (15 Jan 2008)

Ann Keen: ..., the Department is currently developing proposals for a screening programme. Any such programme will use an assessment of risk based on a range of known predictive factors including age, gender, smoking status, body mass index, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and glucose, as appropriate. The subject of developmental work at the moment is to make an assessment of the most clinically...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions (18 Dec 2007)

Ann Keen: I thank my hon. Friend for that remark. Falls in cancer rates and the success of cancer treatments are due to a package of measures that the Government and the House have supported, particularly the smoke-free programme and other areas of care in relation to diet. Professor Mike Richards and his team in the Department have led this brilliant cancer plan, which is supported by all the...