Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the outcome of the consultation on fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence claims.
Answered by Steve Barclay
In January 2017 the Department launched a consultation on proposals to fix/limit the costs recoverable by claimant lawyers in lower value clinical negligence cases. The Department published a holding response to the consultation on 25 July 2017, so as to allow the Department time to reflect the recommendations made by the Right Honourable Lord Justice Jackson following his review in to fixed costs, published on 31 July.
Lord Justice Jackson’s report includes a recommendation for the Civil Justice Council (CJC) and the Government to set up a working party to develop a new process for clinical negligence initially up to £25,000 alongside a new fixed costs regime.
Departmental ministers have agreed with this recommendation, as referenced in the recent Public Accounts Committee 29 November 2017, and the Department is now preparing the final response to the consultation for publication. The publication dates will be decided according to standard Government processes.
The CJC are independent of the Department and will publish details of the working party as recommended by Lord Justice Jackson in due course.
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the Lord Justice Jackson review on fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence claims.
Answered by Steve Barclay
In January 2017 the Department launched a consultation on proposals to fix/limit the costs recoverable by claimant lawyers in lower value clinical negligence cases. The Department published a holding response to the consultation on 25 July 2017, so as to allow the Department time to reflect the recommendations made by the Right Honourable Lord Justice Jackson following his review in to fixed costs, published on 31 July.
Lord Justice Jackson’s report includes a recommendation for the Civil Justice Council (CJC) and the Government to set up a working party to develop a new process for clinical negligence initially up to £25,000 alongside a new fixed costs regime.
Departmental ministers have agreed with this recommendation, as referenced in the recent Public Accounts Committee 29 November 2017, and the Department is now preparing the final response to the consultation for publication. The publication dates will be decided according to standard Government processes.
The CJC are independent of the Department and will publish details of the working party as recommended by Lord Justice Jackson in due course.
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the commercial agreement announced by NHS England on 9 November 2017, what the timetable is for NICE to issue final guidance on Perjeta (pertuzumab) in combination with Herceptin (trastuzumab) and docetaxel for HER2 positive metastatic or locally recurrent unresectable breast cancer.
Answered by Steve Brine
The timetable for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidance on Perjeta (pertuzumab) in combination with Herceptin (trastuzumab) and docetaxel for HER2 positive metastatic or locally recurrent unresectable breast cancer is still to be confirmed. Perjeta remains available to new and existing National Health Service patients through the Cancer Drugs Fund pending NICE’s final guidance.
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the Cancer Transformation Funding in 2017-18 has been provided to Cancer Alliances; and whether any remaining funding will be rolled over into the budget for 2018-19 in order to ensure that NHS England meets its cancer strategy funding commitments.
Answered by Steve Brine
All Cancer Alliances have a delivery plan in place for the Cancer Taskforce recommendations. £200 million was committed in transformation funding to support Alliances with a particular focus on driving improvements in early diagnosis and quality of life over this and the next financial year. Cancer Alliances are starting to receive Transformation funding in phases over the course of this year based on the readiness of systems to take on the transformation work and the strength of their plans. The full investment in delivering the Cancer Taskforce strategy is set out in the One Year On report, and most recently in the Progress Report for 2016/17 published in October 2017 and is available at the following link:
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs in England have specialised in mental health; and how many mental health workers are attached to GP practices in England.
Answered by David Mowat
This information is not collected centrally.
In the General Practice Forward View, NHS England have committed to invest an extra 3,000 mental health therapists to be working in primary care by 2020 to support localities to expand the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
Asked by: Craig Tracey (Conservative - North Warwickshire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with GP representatives, primary care providers or mental health organisations about the quality of mental health support provided in primary care.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State meets with representatives of primary care providers and mental health organisations on a regular basis to discuss a wide range of topics, including improving care and support for people with mental health problems.