Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, whether the review will take into account the ongoing Innovation, Health and Wealth refresh.
Answered by George Freeman
I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.
The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.
The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.
The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his announcement on 20 November 2014 of an Innovative Medicines and MedTech Review, how the independent organisation that will run the review will be selected; and what the criteria for the selection will be.
Answered by George Freeman
I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement that I made on 20 November 2014, Official Report, column 14WS. The review of the pathways for the development, assessment, and adoption of innovative medicines and medical technology will consider how to speed up access for National Health Service patients to cost-effective new diagnostics, medicines and devices.
The Government is working to establish the formal terms of reference for the review. These will be published in due course. The exact structure of the review is currently being considered and, as appropriate, procurements will be through standard departmental procurement processes.
The review will set out both short and long-term options for action by Government and relevant bodies — including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England. Officials are already working with these bodies and will continue to do so as the review progresses.
The review will take into account a wide range of evidence to draw up its recommendations. We anticipate an initial report before the autumn.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the results of the Innovation Health and Wealth refresh.
Answered by George Freeman
NHS England has advised that the publication of this review has been superseded by the Five Year Forward View which was published on 23 October 2014 and is available at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/
The Five Year Forward View builds on the progress made through the Innovation Health and Wealth work programme, and signals new initiatives to support innovation, such as ‘test bed’ sites to deploy and test new technologies in a real-world setting.
More broadly, both the Department and NHS England have made good progress in delivering the aims of Innovation Health and Wealth, and remain committed to driving improvements in health through developing, testing and spreading innovation across the health system. For example, ongoing improvements are being made to the Innovation Scorecard, to enhance its effectiveness as a tool to support the identification of unjustified variation in the uptake of new technologies in the NHS.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will meet (a) the hon. Member for Hartlepool and (b) representatives from Hartlepool Borough Council to discuss the issue of transferring hospital services back to the University Hospital of Hartlepool; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jane Ellison
In line with the Government’s commitment to devolve power to communities, decisions about NHS services are essentially a matter for the NHS locally in consultation with the communities they serve.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost has been of the application for a new hospital at Wynyard by the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; and whether the costs will be reimbursed into the local health economy via the clinical commissioning group.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This is a matter for the National Health Service locally.
We have written to Paul Garvin, Chair of the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, informing him of the hon. Member’s enquiry. He will reply shortly and a copy of the letter will be placed in the Library.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2014 to the Urgent Question on Five Year Forward View, Official Report, column 1044, if he will ensure that the University Hospital of Hartlepool is included in the work to create new organisational models for smaller acute hospitals.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The work announced in the Five Year Forward View relating to work to create new organisational models for smaller acute hospitals is now being developed by NHS England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England. Sector involvement will be essential to this future work and more details about how they will be taking this work forward, and who they will be engaging, will be announced by them in due course.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2014 to the Urgent Question on Five Year Forward View, Official Report, column 1044, if he will ensure that the University Hospital of Hartlepool is included in the work conducted by Monitor on (a) the costs of running smaller hospitals, (b) models of medical staffing and (c) other ways of achieving sustainable cost structures.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The work announced in the Five Year Forward View on the costs of running smaller hospitals, models of medical staffing and other ways of achieving sustainable cost structures is now being developed by NHS England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England. Sector involvement will be essential to this future work and more details about how they will be taking this work forward, and who they will be engaging, will be announced by them in due course.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 23 October 2014 to the Urgent Question on Five Year Forward View, Official Report, column 1044, if he will ensure that Hartlepool constituency is a pilot area for the pooling of health and social care budgets between the NHS and the local authority delegated to Multispecialty Community Providers.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The work announced in the Five Year Forward View relating to:
- piloting the introduction of Multispecialty Community Providers and such providers taking over the running of their local hospital;
- piloting the pooling of health and social care budgets between the National Health Service and the local authority delegated to Multispecialty Community Providers;
- piloting the introduction of Primary and Acute Care Services; and
- the process is that will ensure that Foundation Trusts are able to open general practitioner surgeries with registered lists
is now being developed by NHS England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England. Sector involvement will be essential to this future work and more details about how they will be taking this work forward, and who they will be engaging, will be announced by them in due course.
Monitor and NHS England share responsibility for the payment system. As set out in the Five Year Forward View, NHS England and Monitor have committed to working together to consider whether any adjustments are needed to the NHS payment regime to reflect the costs of delivering safe and efficient services for smaller providers relative to larger ones.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Answer of 23 October 2014 to the Urgent Question on Five Year Forward View, Official Report, column 1044, if he will ensure that Hartlepool constituency is a pilot area for the introduction of Primary and Acute Care Services.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The work announced in the Five Year Forward View relating to:
- piloting the introduction of Multispecialty Community Providers and such providers taking over the running of their local hospital;
- piloting the pooling of health and social care budgets between the National Health Service and the local authority delegated to Multispecialty Community Providers;
- piloting the introduction of Primary and Acute Care Services; and
- the process is that will ensure that Foundation Trusts are able to open general practitioner surgeries with registered lists
is now being developed by NHS England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England. Sector involvement will be essential to this future work and more details about how they will be taking this work forward, and who they will be engaging, will be announced by them in due course.
Monitor and NHS England share responsibility for the payment system. As set out in the Five Year Forward View, NHS England and Monitor have committed to working together to consider whether any adjustments are needed to the NHS payment regime to reflect the costs of delivering safe and efficient services for smaller providers relative to larger ones.