Department of Health

written question – answered on 2 February 2015.

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  • NHS Direct

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people living in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and Humber and (c) England sought advice from NHS Direct in each of its last five years of operation.

  • Mental Health Services: York

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made by NHS property services, the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group and the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation...

  • NHS Walk-in Centres: York

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when and for what reason the NHS walk-in centre in Monkgate, York has closed; and how many people used that centre in its last year of operation.

  • Cancer: Nottinghamshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients with each type of cancer began first treatment within 62 days of a GP referral at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals...

  • Hospitals: Nottinghamshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of people at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals waited more than 18...

  • Cancer: Nottinghamshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of patients at (a) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Nottingham University Hospitals were seen by a...

  • Health Professions: Nottinghamshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered (a) nurses, (b) midwives, (c) doctors and (d) surgeons have been made redundant at (i) Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...

  • Defibrillators

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research has been undertaken by his Department into the effect that an individual's knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation has on their (a)...

  • Defibrillators

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the instructions provided with automated external defibrillators; and what assessment he has...

  • Social Services: Ashfield

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Ashfield constituency have received social care in each of the last 10 years.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on cancer patients of the delisting of treatments from the Cancer Drugs Fund; and if he will make a statement.

  • Ovarian Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.

  • Homosexuality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which organisations (a) were invited to and (b) attended roundtable discussions with him regarding conversion therapy in early March or late April 2014.

  • NHS: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will clarify the steps taken to ensure that private healthcare providers performing NHS contracts hold sufficient indemnity cover to meet all...

  • NHS: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will require contracts between NHS hospitals and private surgery providers to include a clause preventing the NHS from being sued for libel if it...

  • Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which voluntary registers have applied for accreditation as accredited voluntary registers with the Professional Standards Authority (PSA); and which...

  • Employment Agencies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many recruitment and employment agencies his Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.

  • Hospitals: Hygiene

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of levels of hand hygiene compliance in hospital Trusts.

  • Muscular Dystrophy: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Government plans to commission Translarna during NHS England's public consultations on its principles and approach to decision making on drug...

  • In Vitro Fertilisation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Expert Panel became aware of the 2003 study by John Zhang et al reported in Fertility and...

  • NHS: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial and ethical stringency tests his Department applies to (a) private healthcare providers bidding for NHS contracts and (b) the parent...

  • NHS: Private Sector

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will introduce conditions for outsourced NHS work by the private healthcare providers to waive any right to commercial confidentiality and abide by...

  • Heart Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many discharge episodes there have been with a (a) primary and (b) secondary diagnosis of coronary heart disease in (i) each clinical commissioning...

  • Whittington Hospital

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the performance of the Ambulatory Care Centre at the Whittington Hosital since it opened in 2012.

  • Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to incentivise NHS trusts to reduce levels of healthcare-associated infections.

  • Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the (a) average and (b) total cost to the NHS of healthcare-associated infections.

  • Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Public Health England on targeted campaigns in regions where HPV vaccination rates have fallen below the national...

  • Hospitals: Infectious Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) NICE and (b) the Care Quality Commission about healthcare-associated infections in the last 12 months; and what...

  • Thalidomide

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December 2014 to Question 216805, whether he plans to make representations to the German government over compensation for...

  • NHS: Liability

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance the Government provides to hospitals on how to mitigate the risk of (a) incidents where costs might exceed the £1 million NHS...

  • Diabetes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will launch a public campaign to stem the rise in the number of people with Type 2 diabetes.

  • Diabetes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many diabetes sufferers are not getting the recommended number of annual checks in (a) Lancashire and (b) England.

  • Exercise

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department last reviewed the effectiveness of public health measures designed to increase the uptake of exercise in adults and children in the UK.

  • Influenza

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to reduce influenza infections in the NHS.

  • Diabetes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will re-introduce the NHS Diabetes dedicated improvement service.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what revised estimate he has made of the total Cancer Drugs Fund spend for 2015-16, following the re-evaluation of the Cancer Drugs Fund list in December...

  • Prescriptions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the cost measured by (a) GP appointments and time and (b) cost of product of issuing prescriptions to people who receive help with...

  • Meningitis: Vaccination

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the work of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation concerning the meningitis B vaccine as an NHS treatment;...

  • NHS Trusts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which parliamentary constituencies are (a) completely and (b) partly within the (i) Community Health Trust and (ii) Mental Health Trust coverage area.

  • Doctors

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of practising doctors in the UK in each year since May 2010.

  • Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase his Department's investment in cancer services; whether NHS England plans to provide increased funding to clinical...

  • Mental Health Services: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged 18 and under waited more than (a) one month, (b) two months, (c) three months, (d) six months and (e) one year for mental health...

  • Prisoners: Methadone

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners are on methadone programmes; and how many such prisoners have been on methadone programmes for more than (a) one month, (b) two...

  • Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to measure the effect of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme on access to medicines.

  • Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will conduct a study to determine the effect on access to medicines of the additional allocations made to NHS England as a result of...

  • Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the value of rebate payments from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme was to (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland in each quarter...

  • Hospital Beds: North West

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January 2015 to Question 221512, what the delayed discharges referred to in the Answer by local authority area are.

  • General Practitioners: Vacancies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many practices in (a) Halton and (b) England had vacancies for GPs on 1 January 2015.