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Written Question
Health Services: Domestic Visits
Wednesday 29th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits were made by Government ministers to secondary healthcare providers in each year since May 2015.

Answered by Edward Argar

The information requested prior to 2019 is not held centrally. While information on Ministerial visits from 2019 to date is held, to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Mental Health Services: Domestic Visits
Wednesday 29th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits were made by Government ministers to mental health providers in each year since May 2015.

Answered by Edward Argar

The information requested prior to 2019 is not held centrally. While information on Ministerial visits from 2019 to date is held, to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Health Services: Domestic Visits
Wednesday 29th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits each Government minister has undertaken to primary care providers in each year since May 2015.

Answered by Edward Argar

The information requested prior to 2019 is not held centrally. While information on Ministerial visits from 2019 to date is held, to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Written Question
General Practitioners: Domestic Visits
Wednesday 29th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits each Government minister has undertaken to GP surgeries in each year since May 2015.

Answered by Edward Argar

The information requested prior to 2019 is not held centrally. While information on Ministerial visits from 2019 to date is held, to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 22 Jun 2022
NHS Dentistry in England

"I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. He is right to highlight this national challenge. We have substantial challenges with access to NHS dentistry in Suffolk. Part of that, as our right hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) said, relates to the quality of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 22 Jun 2022
NHS Dentistry in England

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right when he speaks of the challenges that patients face throughout Suffolk in accessing NHS dentistry. Does he agree that there is availability of emergency out-of-hours dentistry, but that some companies are not taking the correct steps to provide it—and that some dentists are not …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 22 Jun 2022
NHS Dentistry in England

"I want to clarify one point. Does my hon. Friend anticipate the new dental contract being a sticking plaster, or does she think that it is here to stay that it will put right these challenges?

There is a real problem with the commissioning of dental services. I am afraid …..."
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Written Question
Brain Cancer: Diagnosis
Thursday 16th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the 10-Year Cancer Plan includes proxy measures for staging data of brain cancer so that it can be (a) included and (b) measured in the early diagnosis (i) target and (ii) ambition.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Solihull (Julian Knight MP) on 10 June 2022 to Question 13750.

Written Question
Cancer: Health Services
Thursday 16th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the 10-Year Cancer Plan includes specific targets on (a) less survivable cancers and (b) brain cancer to ensure that progress is made on survival rates for these cancers.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

Officials are currently analysing the responses received to the call for evidence to develop the 10 Year Cancer Plan. The Plan will address all cancer types, including rarer and less survivable cancers such as brain cancer.

Written Question
Brain Cancer: Nurses
Thursday 16th June 2022

Asked by: Dan Poulter (Labour - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to commit to providing all brain tumour patients with access to a Clinical Nurse Specialist as part of his 10-Year Cancer Plan.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Solihull (Julian Knight MP) on 10 June 2022 to Question 13751.