Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of the system-wide cap of £20 million for NICE approved medicines proposed by NHS England with the aims and objectives of the Accelerated Access Review; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government considers that the introduction of the budget impact test in April this year for technologies with an annual budget impact greater than £20 million per year is fully in line with the aims and objectives of the Accelerated Access Review.
Under the budget impact test, £20 million does not represent a cap on what the National Health Service will spend on any individual drug in a given year. The test is simply intended to provide an opportunity for NHS England to enter into commercial negotiations with companies to bring down the price of very high cost medicines. The opportunity for companies to negotiate with NHS England will enable new types of commercial arrangement, which means that ‘win-win’ scenarios are possible for the NHS and industry, a key aim of the Accelerated Access Review.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the use of silver-coated catheters in hospitals on (a) infection rates and (b) costs; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Steve Brine
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has assessed the clinical and cost-effectiveness of silver-based catheters versus hydrophilic and silicone catheters in reducing healthcare-associated urinary tract infections in both primary and secondary settings.
The guidance is available here:
This NICE guidance revealed a gap in the evidence for the effectiveness of indwelling catheters in the long term, with further evidence needed to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of silver-coated catheters.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people with Parkinson's disease have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 with specific conditions is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2016 to Question 52602, whether he plans to publish the third annual report on Preventing suicide in England: A cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives by 1 April 2017; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Third Annual Report of the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy will be published in due course. The Annual Report will strengthen the existing strategy, originally published in 2012, in five key areas.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people who presented to hospital after self-harm were offered a psychosocial assessment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The Department does not hold annual breakdown of the information requested.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the third annual report on Preventing Suicide in England: a cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
We expect to publish the third annual progress report of the cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy in due course.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of kidney transplants in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Northern Ireland in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
The information requested is as follows:
Transplants performed involving kidneys, 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2016: by nation of transplant unit | ||||||
Nation/donor type | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
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Deceased donor | 1,494 | 1,649 | 1,825 | 1,796 | 1,914 |
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Living Donor | 866 | 907 | 941 | 886 | 863 |
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Total | 2,360 | 2,556 | 2,766 | 2,682 | 2,777 |
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Northern Ireland |
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Deceased donor | 27 | 26 | 40 | 44 | 50 |
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Living donor | 50 | 49 | 58 | 54 | 66 |
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Total | 77 | 75 | 98 | 98 | 116 |
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Wales |
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Deceased donor | 108 | 94 | 85 | 60 | 69 |
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Living donor | 38 | 43 | 37 | 36 | 29 |
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Total | 146 | 137 | 122 | 96 | 98 |
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Source: NHS Blood and Transplant | ||||||
Transplants performed involving kidneys, 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2016: by nation of patient residency | ||||||
Nation/donor type | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
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Deceased donor | 1,463 | 1,623 | 1,796 | 1,774 | 1,881 |
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Living Donor | 830 | 877 | 895 | 842 | 822 |
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Total | 2,293 | 2,500 | 2,691 | 2,616 | 2,703 |
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Northern Ireland |
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Deceased donor | 30 | 33 | 42 | 48 | 56 |
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Living donor | 56 | 54 | 61 | 55 | 63 |
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Total | 86 | 87 | 103 | 103 | 119 |
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Deceased donor | 133 | 112 | 108 | 74 | 94 |
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Living donor | 50 | 52 | 49 | 44 | 46 |
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Total | 183 | 164 | 157 | 118 | 140 |
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Source: NHS Blood and Transplant | ||||||
A seven year United Kingdom-wide organ donation and transplantation strategy was jointly published by the four UK health ministers and NHS Blood and Transplant in July 2013. The strategy aims to increase donation and transplantation rates; to make the UK system comparable with the best of the world. 2015/16 saw the highest ever deceased donor rate in the UK with 1,364 deceased donors resulting in 3,529 transplants. We continue to support work to further increase donation and transplantation rates, particularly promoting collaborative working amongst organisations and raising awareness of donation in the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic population.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many kidney transplants took place by region for which the source of the donated kidney was (a) cadaver, (b) a relative and (c) altruism in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is provided in the attached table.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the need to provide additional kidney organ donation surgery as a result of the change to an opt-out system in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Government funding to NHS Blood and Transplant enables the provision of the UK National Organ Retrieval Service and ensures that there are fully staffed retrieval teams constantly available to retrieve donated organs from anywhere across the United Kingdom.
Donated kidneys, from wherever they are donated, are offered to transplant centres across the UK. The funding of transplant services lies with UK commissioners.
Over the last eight years organ donation rates have increased by 68% and transplant rates by some 47% giving many more people the opportunity of a transplant. We are monitoring how legislative change in Wales is affecting donation rates but our efforts remain focussed on encouraging donor registration and discussions within families about donation to increase consent rates.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any patients were sent out of Cornwall for kidney dialysis treatment in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS England advises that the main dialysis unit in Cornwall is at Treliske and satellite units are at Penzance and Bodmin. The information requested on how many dialysis patients attended each such location is not collected centrally. The Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group confirms that it does not charge its patients for transport to renal dialysis and it has no plans to start charging for this.
Information on whether any patients were sent out of Cornwall for kidney dialysis treatment in each of the last five years and how many patients from Cornwall who were able to access a kidney transplant took the option of conservative care in each of the last five years is not held centrally.