Department of Health and Social Care

written question – answered ar 27 Chwefror 2024.

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  • School Milk

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of changing the provision of the Nursery Milk Scheme to finish at the end of...

  • Pharmacy: Prescriptions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will bring forward legislative proposals that enable pharmacists to amend prescriptions when their stocks dictate their ability to...

  • GP Surgeries

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support GP practices with the costs of recycling medical packaging.

  • Visual Impairment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential economic benefits of reducing the prevalence of sight loss.

  • Dental Services: Contracts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains her policy to continue reforms to the 2006 dental contract.

  • Cardiovascular Diseases

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data her Department holds on the number of cases of (a) vascular and (b) venous disease.

  • Department of Health and Social Care: Equality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department spent on equality, diversity and inclusion (a) events and (b) training in the last 12 months.

  • Cancer: Training

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to train specialist staff in the timely (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of cancer.

  • Liver Diseases: Screening

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter of 7 March 2023 from the then Minister for Social Care to the Chief Executive of the British Liver Trust,...

  • Cancer: Research

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding her Department has provided for research into (a) prevention and (b) the treatment of cancer in each of the last 12 years.

  • Medical Equipment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to replace aging equipment in the NHS.

  • Health Services: Waiting Lists

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients on an NHS elective waiting list are waiting for (a) a diagnostic test, (b) an outpatient...

  • Dementia: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support people with early onset dementia.

  • Department of Health and Social Care: Domicil

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any non-executive directors employed in her Department are non-domiciled.

  • Junior Doctors: Greater London

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase retention levels of junior doctors in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of...

  • Motor Neurone Disease

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to support people living with motor neurone disease.

  • Paramedical Staff: Sexual Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle sexual abuse of female paramedics.

  • Dementia: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the additional £95 million investment in dementia care has been allocated.

  • Cancer: Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans that the 62-day waiting time target for cancer treatment will be met (a) nationally and (b) in York.

  • Liver Cancer: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) community liver health checks, (b) primary care pilots and (c)...

  • Cancer: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning and independent review into the impact of cancer treatment on a...

  • Eating Disorders: Devolution

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing additional funding to the devolved...

  • Mental Health

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of (a) trends in levels of (i) stress and (ii) burnout and (b) the potential impact of these on mental health.

  • Health Services: Payments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her Department plans to publish the responses to the public consultation on the disclosure of industry payments to the healthcare sector.

  • Heart Diseases: Genetics

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to introduce self-referral forms for family members of people with genetic cardiac conditions.

  • NHS: Complaints

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of NHS complaints.

  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.

  • Parkinson's Disease: Drugs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the average licensing approval decision...

  • Health Professions: Emigration

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of UK citizens who worked in the NHS that emigrated in each year since 2010.

  • Drugs: Shortages

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in the total number of medicine shortages recorded by her Department in January (a)...

  • General Medical Council and Health and Care Professions Council: Charter for Families Bereaved through Public Tragedy

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with the (a) General Medical Council and (b) Health and Care Professions Council on signing the...

  • Cancer: Diagnosis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is she taking to help ensure that 75% of stageable cancers are diagnosed at stages 1 and 2.

  • Cancer: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria were used to determine the cancer types selected for the evaluation of treatment and services by the Royal College of...

  • Cannabis: Medical Treatments

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people aged under 18 have been prescribed medicinal cannabis as of 19 February 2024.

  • NHS: Buildings

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the number and proportion of NHS buildings that contain asbestos.

  • Tourette's Syndrome: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that specialist medical services for Tourette's Syndrome are accessible to people outside of London.

  • Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to (a) establish and (b) fund an avoidant restrictive food intake disorder pathway.

  • Health Services: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing NHS patients to seek a second opinion on their (a) condition...

  • Alzheimer's Disease

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the last 10 years.

  • Dementia: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government is on target to double dementia funding by 2024/25.