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Written Question
General Practitioners: Databases
Tuesday 28th March 2017

Asked by: John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to correct the TTP SystmOne clinical IT software error present since 2009 and affecting around 26 million patients.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The Department and National Health Service organisations have been working closely with the Information Commissioner’s Office and the British Medical Association to support TPP to take appropriate action to respond to the TPP SystmOne data sharing issue. This work should be fully implemented by the summer. There is no evidence that records have been lost, mislaid or misused. However, there are already a number of mitigations in place to prevent potential misuse of information:

- Users’ access to records is role based and requires a smart card or password to access the system;

- All record accesses and all registrations are audited and visible to the general practitioner; and

- Patients (via SystmOnline) can now have visibility of when and where their records have been accessed.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 21 Mar 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"21. On the subject of financial liabilities, what assessment has the Department made of the potential effect of changes to the discount rate on the amount of compensation paid out by the NHS Litigation Authority?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"T4. Will the Minister update the House about NHS litigations, which rocketed to £1.4 billion last year? Are they anything like under control?..."
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Written Question
Hypnosis
Friday 20th January 2017

Asked by: John Pugh (Liberal Democrat - Southport)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether use is made of hypnotherapy within the NHS for conditions other than for irritable bowel syndrome.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

This information is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of local National Health Service organisations to make decisions on the commissioning and funding of any health care treatments for NHS patients, taking into account safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness and the availability of suitably qualified/regulated practitioners.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered accident and emergency services in Merseyside and Cheshire.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger, and a pleasure to see the Minister in his place. We spent many a happy hour on the Public Accounts Committee in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"There is also a petition in Southport, and I am sure there will be petitions wherever in the country this sort of thing happens. As the hon. Gentleman suggests, the ownership of the sustainability and transformation reviews is wholly unclear. No one quite knows who writes the plans, or how …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"Precisely. I am going on to some brief analysis of the problems of A&E, but it is certainly the line in the sand that we must defend.

Elderly people are obviously the major clients for A&E, and Southport by any analysis has an enormous number—a very high percentage—of people who …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"I thank the hon. Lady for that clarification and amplification. There really is a problem with integration, and I do not know how that will be better solved by bringing more organisations—particularly untried organisations—into the fray.

We are all exasperated by watching people make a hash of things and create …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"I am not sure whether that is the deliberate intent, but that is certainly a possible result...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Accident and Emergency Services: Merseyside and Cheshire

"The hon. Lady reinforces the point that I was going to make next. No one in the NHS locally is in a position to bang heads together and say, “Hang on, what do the public actually want or expect here?” The CCGs speak to NHS England and the Secretary of …..."
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