Health

written question – answered on 25 February 2013.

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  • Abortion

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure that doctors and licensed abortion clinics do not intentionally misreport the reasons for which abortions are performed.

  • Abortion

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department or the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists require an impartial translator to be present when doctors are consulted...

  • Abortion

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether it would be a decision for his Department or for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to require testing of aborted babies to...

  • Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times the four hour waiting target was missed at each London accident and emergency department in quarter 1 and quarter 2 of 2012-13.

  • Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times ambulances waited more than 15 minutes to discharge their patients at accident and emergency departments at each of the hospitals in London...

  • Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the relationship between (a) cancer patient experience, (b) clinical effectiveness and...

  • Care Quality Commission: Redundancy Pay

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 19 December 2011, Official Report, column 977W, on Care Quality Commission pay, how many special severance payments have...

  • Community Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether cost savings to the NHS resulting from the introduction of supervised community treatment under the Mental Health Act 2007 are on course to reach...

  • Dental Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to collect data on the number of people who register with an NHS dentist each year.

  • Dental Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on the development of a new NHS dentistry contract; and whether he has received feedback from clinical groups on the pilot...

  • Dental Services: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken to improve access to NHS dentistry services for school-age children.

  • Eyesight: Testing

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people applied for free NHS sight test vouchers in each of the last three years; and how many such applications were successful.

  • Food Standards Agency

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to review the role of the Food Standards Agency.

  • Food: Waste

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much surplus food was thrown away by his Department in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012.

  • Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress he has made on the development and implementation of quality dashboards by the clinical reference groups on (a) neonatal critical care, (b)...

  • Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken in response to recent Care Quality Commission inspection reports on (a) the London Ambulance Service, (b) Chase Farm Hospital, (c)...

  • Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the implications of the census results from Islington, Camden and Haringey for the effect of the rising population on...

  • Health Services: Disadvantaged

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the National Commissioning Board's fulfilment of its duty to reduce inequalities between patients with their ability to...

  • Hospitals: Admissions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in England and Wales aged (a) under 11 years, (b) 11 to 16 years, (c) under 18 years and (d) above 18 years were admitted to each hospital...

  • Hyperkinetic Syndrome

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of a link between poor early infant attachment and hyperkinetic syndrome; (2)...

  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will offer special assistance to Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust to help it meet NHS accident and emergency treatment time targets.

  • Maternity Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many pregnant women in receipt of section 95 or section 4 support from the UK Border Agency throughout their pregnancy and birth attended (a) the same...

  • Means-tested Benefits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what cash and non-cash means-tested benefits are provided by his Department; what the rules are in respect of means-testing for each such benefit; and how...

  • Meat: Contamination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has received any representations from the Food Standards Agency regarding the potential contamination of meat products other than beef.

  • Meat: Contamination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his assessment is of the potential contamination of meat products other than beef.

  • Meat: EU Law

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the effect of the ban on desinewed meat on the (a) food chain and (b) contamination of beef products.

  • Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will recommend that individual commissioners implement National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) approved Oesophageal...

  • Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what evaluation (a) his Department, (b) the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and (c) other NHS bodies have made of clinical evidence...

  • Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if his Department will assess the effects of using oesophageal doppler monitoring during surgery on (a) complications, (b) patient outcomes and (c) the...

  • Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the potential saving to the NHS of the oesophageal doppler monitoring uptake programme recommended by his...

  • Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate (a) his Department, (b) the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and (c) the NHS Technology Adoption Centre have made of...

  • Myodil

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people who have physical problems as a result of being injected with Myodil; and if he will make a statement.

  • NHS Direct

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department has conducted a full impact assessment on the decision to move Cumbria's out-of-hours telephone contact to the regional NHS Direct.

  • NHS: Property

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total level of receipts was from the sale of non-trust NHS property in London in (a) each of the last three years and (b) 2013 to date; and if he...

  • NHS: Surveys

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse was of the most recent (a) in-patient, (b) outpatient, (c) accident and emergency, (d) maternity, (e) mental health and...

  • Regulation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what regulations his Department introduced between 1 June 2012 and 31 January 2013; and at what cost to the public purse.

  • Social Services: Kent

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of adults are receiving social care in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Chatham and Aylesford constituency.

  • Social Services: Older People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on social care for the over 65s in each adult social care department in each of the last five years.

  • Social Services: Older People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent annually on care for the elderly (a) resident in residential and nursing care, (b) receiving home care, (c) receiving day care,...

  • Social Work: Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health which Russell Group universities have ended their social work degree courses since May 2010.

  • South London Healthcare NHS Trust

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the oral statement of 31 January 2013, Official Report, columns 1072-75, on South London Healthcare NHS Trust, what clinical evidence Sir...

  • South London Healthcare NHS Trust

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the oral statement of 31 January 2013, Official Report, columns 1072-75, on South London Healthcare NHS Trust, (1) what clinical evidence...

  • Staff

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate his Department's total staffing requirement in full-time equivalent posts for fulfilling its minimum statutory obligations.

  • Surgeons: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on patient care and safety of the withdrawal of the Joint Committee for Higher Surgical...

  • Surgery: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many invited reviews were commissioned from the Royal College of Surgeons by hospital trusts, of which his Department had notification, in each year...

  • Young Offenders: Mental Illness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in the secure youth estate had recognised mental health conditions in each year since May 2010; and how many of those conditions were (a)...