Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who will represent the Government at the UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases in September; and what the Government's expected outcomes for that meeting are.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is committed to addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A United Kingdom Government delegation is being considered to attend the United Nations high level meeting in September to contribute to the global agenda on NCDs control.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for the UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases in September.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Government is committed to addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A United Kingdom Government delegation is being considered to attend the United Nations high level meeting in September to contribute to the global agenda on NCDs control.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of GPs in identifying and treating perinatal mental health problems in mothers.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home. The importance of this is reflected in both NHS England’s ‘Better Births’ and the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health'.
General practitioners and primary care teams have a role in supporting the identification of perinatal mental illness and treatment, and are part of an integrated pathway of services. This includes monitoring early onset conditions, providing pre-conception counselling and referring women to specialist mental health services, including the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme and specialist perinatal community teams, if necessary.
The Department is investing £365 million to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme with the development of specialist perinatal mental health community services across England with their investment of £63 million between 2016/17 and 2018/19. Local teams work in close partnership with wider system partners including primary care to provide care and treatment to women with perinatal mental illness.
NHS England has also invested in multidisciplinary perinatal mental health clinical networks which include general practitioners, across the country to drive forward change, focusing on collaborative working to develop local, integrated pathways and support early identification of those at risk of mental illness in the perinatal period, to enable better outcomes for women in all communities.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support GPs provide to mothers experiencing perinatal mental health problems.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home. The importance of this is reflected in both NHS England’s ‘Better Births’ and the ‘Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.’
General practitioners and primary care teams have a role in supporting the identification of perinatal mental illness and treatment, and are part of an integrated pathway of services. This includes monitoring early onset conditions, providing pre-conception counselling and referring women to specialist mental health services, including Improving Access to Psychological Therapies and specialist perinatal community teams, if necessary.
The Department is investing £365 million to 2020/21 in perinatal mental health services, and NHS England is leading a transformation programme with the development of specialist perinatal mental health community services across England with their investment of £63 million between 2016/17 and 2018/19. Local teams work in close partnership with wider system partners including primary care to provide care and treatment to women with perinatal mental illness.
NHS England has also invested in multidisciplinary perinatal mental health clinical networks which include general practitioners, across the country to drive forward change, focusing on collaborative working to develop local, integrated pathways and support early identification of those at risk of mental illness in the perinatal period, to enable better outcomes for women in all communities.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the status is of the Health Protection (Ships and Aircraft) Regulations.
Answered by Steve Brine
Port health in England is regulated by the Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations 1979 and Public Health (Ships) Regulations 1979. The Regulations cover measures such as: notification of possible infection or contamination on board a ship/aircraft; risk assessment of people, including medical examination and/or detention and general powers to provide information.
There are no current plans to amend or replace the regulations.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of hours nurses spent on providing evidence for, or advice to, (a) people with multiple sclerosis, (b) neurology patients and (c) all NHS patients seeking to claim benefits in the last 12 months.
Answered by Steve Brine
No estimate has been made.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many licences to conduct trials of cannabis-based medicines have been issued in the UK in the last three years.
Answered by Steve Brine
There have been 12 Clinical Trial Authorisations approved for cannabis-based medicines since January 2014 involving the terms cannabis and cannabidiol.
Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of mental health advice given by health care professionals during the antenatal period.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The Department does not collect data on the effectiveness of mental health advice given by healthcare professionals during the antenatal period.