Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his officials have had discussions with NHS Digital on the switching of patients nominated pharmacies.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The purpose of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is to allow prescribers to send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy of the patient's choice. A patient can choose to nominate a pharmacy and all prescriptions will be sent to the nominated pharmacy until the patient chooses to change or remove this nomination.
Changes to a patient nomination should only be made with the patient’s consent. Although consent does not have to be provided in writing, there must be an auditable process in place.
Patients can change their current nomination using the National Health Service app or on the NHS website. General practitioners and pharmacies can also change a patient’s nomination but only with the patient’s consent. There are instances where prescriptions can be sent to another pharmacy as a one-off nomination instead of the patient’s nominated pharmacy, but this must be done at the request of the patient.
In the event a pharmacy business changes hands as an on-going concern, NHS England asks the outgoing owners to inform their nominated patients that the pharmacy is being taken over and by whom, and to offer those patients the opportunity, during a time-limited window, to opt out of their nomination being transferred to the new owner.
Additionally, patients can choose not to nominate a pharmacy, in which case patients will receive an EPS token that includes a barcode, allowing any pharmacy with access to the EPS to retrieve the electronic prescription.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure patients nominated pharmacies are not altered without the patient’s permission.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
The purpose of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is to allow prescribers to send prescriptions electronically to a pharmacy of the patient's choice. A patient can choose to nominate a pharmacy and all prescriptions will be sent to the nominated pharmacy until the patient chooses to change or remove this nomination.
Changes to a patient nomination should only be made with the patient’s consent. Although consent does not have to be provided in writing, there must be an auditable process in place.
Patients can change their current nomination using the National Health Service app or on the NHS website. General practitioners and pharmacies can also change a patient’s nomination but only with the patient’s consent. There are instances where prescriptions can be sent to another pharmacy as a one-off nomination instead of the patient’s nominated pharmacy, but this must be done at the request of the patient.
In the event a pharmacy business changes hands as an on-going concern, NHS England asks the outgoing owners to inform their nominated patients that the pharmacy is being taken over and by whom, and to offer those patients the opportunity, during a time-limited window, to opt out of their nomination being transferred to the new owner.
Additionally, patients can choose not to nominate a pharmacy, in which case patients will receive an EPS token that includes a barcode, allowing any pharmacy with access to the EPS to retrieve the electronic prescription.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of children aged between two and 18 years old have received the flu vaccination in each region during the 2022-23 winter period.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
We do not hold the information in the format requested. Data for two and three year old children is not available in the format requested. However, it is available by local authority, grouped by National Health Service region here available at the following link:
Data for eligible at risk 17 and 18 year olds is not available in the format requested.
The following table shows the percentage vaccine uptake, number registered and number vaccinated in NHS region of all eligible school age children aged four to 16 years old.
NHS Region | Percentage vaccine uptake | Number registered | Number vaccinated |
East of England | 48.3 | 942,745 | 455,731 |
London | 33.2 | 1,164,446 | 387,090 |
Midlands | 43.4 | 1,511,057 | 655,318 |
North East and Yorkshire | 47.1 | 1,147,216 | 540,117 |
North West | 43.6 | 964,475 | 420,346 |
South East | 49.3 | 1,304,640 | 643,553 |
South West | 47.8 | 737,216 | 352,082 |
Source: UK Health Security Agency
Note:
Monthly data was published in February 2023 and includes all vaccinations from 1 September 2022 to 31 January 2023.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of healthy life expectancy in Garston and Halewood constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the number of cancelled operations in Garston and Halewood constituency in the past 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of (a) four and (b) 11 were admitted to hospital for a tooth extraction as a result of decay in Garston and Halewood constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Will Quince
This information is not held in the format requested.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of GP appointments in Garston and Halewood conducted face-to-face in the last 12 months; and what that number was in 2013.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
This information is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of GP appointments in Garston and Halewood in the past 12 months; and what that number was in 2013.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
This information is not collected in the format requested.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of malnutrition in Garston and Halewood constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps her Department has taken to help tackle health inequality in Garston and Halewood constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Policy Renewal and Development)
‘Our plan for patients’, published on 22 September, sets out the immediate priorities to support individuals to live healthier lives, including improving access to health and care services in all areas and preventing ill-health. Further information on measures to address health disparities will be available in due course.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities works with local system partners in Garston and Halewood to support programmes to reduce health inequalities, including providing evidence and intelligence.