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Written Question
Mental Health Services
Tuesday 2nd December 2014

Asked by: Bob Ainsworth (Labour - Coventry North East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the progress made by health agencies in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England to sign up to the principles of the Crisis Care Concordat.

Answered by Norman Lamb

The Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat was published in February 2014. Local health, social care and criminal justice partners throughout England are expected to sign local crisis declarations by the end of December 2014.

In Operational Resilience and Capacity Planning for 2014/15 published by NHS England, NHS Trust Development Authority, Monitor, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in June 2014 it is clear that operational resilience plans must include evidence of sign-up to local Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat arrangements.

Local declarations should be in place throughout England by the end of 2014. Progress towards this can be seen at the following webpage:

http://www.crisiscareconcordat.org.uk/explore-the-map/

There are plans for a single Crisis Care declaration, to cover the entire West Midlands Police Force area including Coventry, to be agreed in early December.

Written Question
Cancer: Drugs
Monday 23rd June 2014

Asked by: Bob Ainsworth (Labour - Coventry North East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people received funding through the Cancer Drugs Fund in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

Answered by Norman Lamb

Prior to April 2013, information on the Cancer Drugs Fund was administered through clinical panels based in each strategic health authority (SHA) and data on the number of patients who received funding in each constituency and city was not collected. Information on the number of patients funded in West Midlands SHA and England in 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 is shown as follows:

Number of patients funded in 2010-11

Number of patients funded in 2011-12

Number of patients funded in 2012-13

Total number of patients funded since Oct 20101

West Midlands SHA

292

1,658

1,534

3,484

England

2,780

11,798

15,456

30,034

1 Some individual patients may be double-counted where a patient has received more than one drug treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund

Source: Information provided to the Department by SHAs

NHS England has had oversight of the Fund since April 2013 and publishes information on patient numbers routinely on its website at:

www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/

In 2013-14, 5,695 patients in the Midlands and East region and 19,282 patients in England received funding through the Fund. In addition, 28 individual cancer drugs fund request applications were approved by the Cancer Drugs Fund panel in the Midlands and East region with 278 applications approved nationally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Nov 2012
NHS Commissioning Board (Mandate)

"My constituent Michael Wade was wrongly refused surgery for a life-threatening condition. What in the mandate improves patients’ rights, or will they have to continue to have to rely on MPs and campaigning local newspapers?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"Thank you very much, Mr Streeter, for presiding over my debate.

In 2008, in response to a consultation, the Department of Health concluded that for some individuals on low incomes and unable to access a fixed line, the use of NHS 084 telephone numbers constituted a significant proportion of their …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"If my hon. Friend can wait, I will try to give way later. A number of Members want to intervene.

The GPs argue that they have entered into contracts that give them enhanced telephony solutions, and that they cannot get out of them. That is the kind of thing that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"If the Minister does not mind, a number of Members want to intervene, and he will have an opportunity to respond in a moment.

The people affected are disproportionately the more deprived members of our community. It is no longer the case that people who use mobile phones are among …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"The GPs will deny that there is any profit and will say that they provide an enhanced service for which the customers pay. But if there is profit in the partnership at the end of the year, it returns to the doctor, so potentially there is a profit, and that …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"That is a good idea. If the Minister communicates with GPs again, he should do so in the strongest of terms, because it is clear that well over 10%—the estimated figure is 13%—of GPs have totally ignored the Department of Health to date. They are determined to continue not to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"The 03 number would give people an opportunity to use the system for no enhanced charge, and the GP should, if they are not prepared to migrate to an 03 number, provide a landline alternative. Since I first raised this issue, most of the people who have contacted me have …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
084 Telephone Numbers (NHS)

"We can do that only if the Department of Health is determined, right up to ministerial level, to enforce the contract. The terms of the contract are clear, as I hope the Minister will say when he responds. No one should pay enhanced charges to access their GP...."
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