Department of Health

written question – answered on 28 April 2016.

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  • Drugs: Side Effects

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Nursing on connections between hayfever, sleeping and allergy tablets and memory, cognitive and...

  • Junior Doctors: Working Hours

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department has received from NHS employers on the number of junior doctors who have worked weekends in the last six months.

  • Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department measures and demonstrates parity of esteem between mental and physical health in the NHS.

  • Haematological Cancer

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that all blood cancer patients have access to a clinical nurse specialist or equivalent point of contact as part of...

  • PrescQIPP

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the role of the PrescQIPP Programme is within his Department.

  • PrescQIPP

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings and discussions he has had with representaives of the PrescQIPP Programme since May 2015.

  • Department of Health: Dairy Products

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of dairy products procured for his Department was sourced from British producers in the last period for which figures are available.

  • National Food Crime Unit

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many incidents of each type were reported to the Food Crime Unit in the last period for which figures are available.

  • Pharmacy: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department allocated to the community pharmacy contractual framework in each of the last five years.

  • Cancer: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to involve stakeholders in developing the operational detail of the new Cancer Drugs Fund.

  • Imports: Radon Gas

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are taken to monitor levels of radon in imported goods.

  • NHS: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons NHS England has not published details of which new specialised services, medicines and interventions it will fund in 2016-17; what...

  • NHS: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will publish a (a) timeline, (b) methodology and (c) work programme for the evaluation and development by NHS England of draft...

  • Social Services: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Better Care Fund funding was allocated to social care in England in the first quarter of 2015-16.

  • Mental Health Services: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's target was for the number of qualified mental health trust inspectors in each year since 2010; and how many such inspectors were...

  • Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Care Quality Commission on the findings of its mock inspection of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust's...

  • General Practitioners: North West

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report, General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, how much of the £2.4 billion increased funding for GP...

  • Mental Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many safeguarding alerts regarding mental health trusts there have been in each year since 2010; and how many and what proportion of those alerts...

  • Mental Health Services: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of reports of Care Quality Commission inspections of mental health trusts have been produced within the Care Quality...

  • Care Quality Commission: Performance Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) baselines and (b) targets are used to measure the performance of the Care Quality Commission.

  • Health Professions: Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the impact assessment of reforms to funding and financial support to nursing, midwifery and AHP bursary students, dated 7 April 2016, considered...

  • Asperger's Syndrome and Autism

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which branch of the NHS has responsibility for funding the diagnosing of (a) autism and (b) Asperger's syndrome.

  • Strokes

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many stroke survivors are in receipt of social care funded by their local authority.

  • Strokes: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he holds on the numbers of clinical commissioning groups in England which have reconfigured acute stroke services since the publication...

  • Mental Health Services: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much of the Government's allocation of £1.4 billion mental health funding for children and young people will be spent in 2016-17; and if he will...

  • Department of Health: Conditions of Employment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many civil servants in his Department are paid through limited companies.

  • NHS: Conditions of Employment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the payment of senior NHS staff through limited companies; and what estimate he has made of the number of senior NHS staff paid...