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 patients from Cornwall who were able to access a kidney transplant took the option of conservative care 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.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which locations have provided renal dialysis in Cornwall; how many dialysis patients attended each such location; what transport charges were made to patients attending each location 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.
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 respond to the letter sent to him dated 23 February 2015 on prescription charges for people with long-term conditions by the Chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Respiratory Health, Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease, HIV and AIDS, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia and Heart Disease.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Department responded to the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Respiratory Health’s letter of 23 February 2015 on 2 April 2015.
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 prescriptions for Larium GPs issued in each year from 2010 to date; what the cost was of those prescriptions; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The number of prescription items written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community in England and associated net ingredient cost is in the table.
Year | Prescription items 000s | Net ingredient cost £000s |
2010 | 14.5 | 306.9 |
2011 | 15.6 | 317.4 |
2012 | 17.7 | 346.7 |
2013 | 18.0 | 353.8 |
2014 | 17.6 | 367.2 |
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis provided by the Health and Social Care Information Centre
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 attendances at A&E because of (a) urinary tract infections, (b) catheter-related infections and (c) stoma care issues in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This information is not collected.
While the Hospital Episode Statistics accident and emergency (A&E) data set does contain information about the diagnosis of patients attending A&E, it is not possible to identify the conditions requested as the diagnosis system in place is not detailed enough to classify these conditions.
Table 14 in the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s (HSCIC’s) annual publication demonstrates the diagnosis groupings published. Data for 2013/14 can be found at:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16728/acci-emer-atte-eng-2013-14-data.xlsx
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 annual cost of destroyed unused prescribed medication; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by George Freeman
Information is not held centrally on the annual cost or amount of unused or unnecessary medicines in the National Health Service.
The Department commissioned the York Health Economics Consortium and the School of Pharmacy at the University of London to carry out research to determine the scale, causes and costs of waste medicines in England. The report, Evaluation of the Scale, Causes and Costs of Waste Medicines, was published in November 2010 and is available at:
http://eprints.pharmacy.ac.uk/2605/1/Evaluation_of_NHS_Medicines_Waste__web_publication_version.pdf
This found that the gross cost of unused prescription medicines in primary and community care in the NHS in England in 2009 was estimated to be £300 million a year and that up to £150 million of this was avoidable.
A number of initiatives, led by NHS England, are currently underway to optimise the use of medicines in the NHS and better empower patients.
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 continence advisors were employed in the NHS in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Information on the number of continence advisors employed in the National Health Service is not collected by the Department.
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 have been diagnosed with postural tachycardic syndrome; if his Department funds research into that condition; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Information on the number of people diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome is not collected centrally.
The Department funds the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Researchers at the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre have undertaken a study exploring the characteristics of patients with postural tachycardia syndrome in the United Kingdom. The findings were published in the journal BMJ Open in 2014 which is available at:
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/6/e004127.full
The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including diagnosis and treatment of postural tachycardia syndrome. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures are in place to prevent the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) transfering NHS data to Wales for storage; whether the HSCIC definition of overseas includes Wales; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) may arrange with other persons or bodies, including persons or bodies based in Wales, to make provision for the storage of information, provided that the HSCIC has a legal basis to collect and store the information, and provided that the holding of the information by those persons or bodies is lawful. Information can be transferred to Wales if there is a legal basis to do so.
Asked by: Madeleine Moon (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to report on progress on the National Service Framework for long-term conditions; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Norman Lamb
There are no plans to report on the progress on the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions (LTCs), published under the previous administration in 2005.
As you may be aware, since 1 April 2013, NHS England has been responsible for securing high quality outcomes for people with people with LTCs. In our mandate to the National Health Service, we set out ambitions to improve the care and support of patients with long term illnesses, helping them to live healthily and independently, with much better control over the care they receive. In response, NHS England set out a range of actions designed to deliver this, central to which was implementation of the House of Care model, which is designed to support the delivery of person-centred, coordinated care. The House of Care enables individuals to make informed decisions about their treatment and empowers them to self-manage their LTCs in partnership with health and care professionals.