Written Question
Tuesday 16th March 2021
Asked by:
Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with healthcare experts on the merits of commissioning therapeutic plasma exchange (PLEX) for neurological conditions.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
Any decision to commission specialised interventions such as therapeutic plasma exchange (PLEX) for neurological conditions is a matter for NHS England. All decisions on treatment are made by clinical experts, informed by a patient's individual clinical needs. Wherever clinically appropriate, use of alternative therapies to immunoglobulin treatment for patients with neurological conditions, including PLEX, is stated in the current commissioning guidance which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PSS9-Immunoglobulin-Commissioning-Guidance-CQUIN-1920.pdf
Written Question
Tuesday 16th March 2021
Asked by:
Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specialised commissioning for therapeutic plasma exchange for neurological conditions.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
Any decision to commission specialised interventions such as therapeutic plasma exchange (PLEX) for neurological conditions is a matter for NHS England. All decisions on treatment are made by clinical experts, informed by a patient's individual clinical needs. Wherever clinically appropriate, use of alternative therapies to immunoglobulin treatment for patients with neurological conditions, including PLEX, is stated in the current commissioning guidance which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PSS9-Immunoglobulin-Commissioning-Guidance-CQUIN-1920.pdf
Written Question
Monday 8th February 2021
Asked by:
Lord Whitehead (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the work of the Wessex Neurological Centre on safely treating patients with covid-19 using advanced centrifugal plasma exchange technology in an outpatient setting is shared across the NHS.
Answered by Jo Churchill
NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that it has not been approached by the Wessex Neurological Centre regarding the treatment of patients with COVID-19 using plasma exchange technology.
NHS England and NHS Improvement will consider any published evidence as an outcome of research completed in line with its published clinical policy process. This is available at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Methods-National-clinical-policies-updated-July-2020.pdf
Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"I beg to move amendment 29, in clause 53, page 32, line 30, leave out “may” and insert “shall”.
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"We start today’s proceedings with the most innocuous amendment imaginable—it is so innocuous that it is in the realms of “barely noticeable”. It is particularly innocuous in terms of the debates the Committee has already had on the use of the word “may” and the words “shall” or “must”. On …..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"I think we can agree that it was brief. Bills would come to Ministers, fresh from the wells of construction and the pushing of pens to get them into good shape. I wonder whether there is a style guide, deep in the bowels of a building somewhere in Whitehall, that …..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If I went to my bank manager, who had called me in about my overdraft, and I said, “I don’t need to say anything other than, ‘I may pay it back,’ but don’t worry, because I will pay it back,” my bank manager might …..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"The Minister has used a bank manager defence. If my bank manager wrote to me to say, “You have an overdraft that you must pay,” and I wrote back and said, “Dear Bank Manager, I may repay my overdraft,” and then the bank manager called me in and said, “What …..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"I wonder whether my hon. Friend might be tempted to use a bank manager comparison here as well. If I was summoned by my bank manager to the bank, and he or she said, “It appears you’re overdrawn,” and I said, “Why do you think I’m overdrawn?” and he or …..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 10 Dec 2020
National Security and Investment Bill (Eleventh sitting)
"I note that the Minister has used precisely the opposite argument that he used for the last clause, relating to the word “must”. In clause 56, the CMA “must” give the Secretary of State information. [Interruption.]..."Lord Whitehead - View Speech
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