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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Jan 2017
Breast Cancer Drugs

"The NICE framework works very well for mass drugs for the entire population or where a whole vaccination is going to work, but for very small numbers of people, such as the 1,200 women who really need this drug, I do not think it is as effective a process. There …..."
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Written Question
NHS: Motor Vehicles
Thursday 26th January 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vehicles operated by the NHS have been found to be fitted with emissions defeat devices; and how many of those devices have been removed from such vehicles.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The information requested is not held centrally.


Written Question
Bowel Cancer: Screening
Wednesday 25th January 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts offer faecal occult blood testing for suspected bowel cancer.

Answered by David Mowat

All hospital trusts are able to offer Faecal Occult Blood testing (FOBt) for patients if clinically appropriate. New guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence published in June 2015 state that general practitioners should offer FOBt to assess for colorectal cancer in adults without rectal bleeding who are aged 50 and over with unexplained abdominal pain or weight loss. FOBt should also be offered to adults aged under 60 with changes in their bowel habit or iron deficiency anaemia, and to adults aged 60 and over who have anaemia even in the absence of iron deficiency.

The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England offers screening by FOBt to men and women aged 60 to 75, with five laboratories processing the testing kits. NHS England is working with Public Health England to replace FOBt with a new screening test, the Faecal Immunochemical Test for haemoglobin, in 2018. This comes in addition to the introduction of bowel scope screening into the programme for men and women aged 55, which has been commissioned by NHS England since April 2016 with full roll-out across England expected to be completed by 2020-21.


Written Question
Medical Records: West Yorkshire
Wednesday 25th January 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints have been made against Primary Care Support England regarding the transfer of patient records in West Yorkshire, in each month since 1 September 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England has received no complaints concerning Primary Care Services England, which make reference to the transfer of patient records in West Yorkshire, since 1 September 2015.


Written Question
Primary Care Support England: Complaints
Wednesday 18th January 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made against Primary Care Support England about the transfer of patient records in each (a) region of England and (b) month since 1 September 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England has received 103 complaints concerning Primary Care Services England, which make reference to the transfer of patient records, since 1 September 2015. The table below gives a breakdown of the figures by region and month.

Area

Region

Number

February-2016

March-2016

April-2016

May-2016

June-2016

July-2016

August-2016

September-2016

October-2016

November-2016

December-2016

January-2017

London

London

33

1

2

2

2

1

7

7

5

4

2

Total

33

1

2

0

0

2

2

1

7

7

5

4

2

Birmingham

Midlands and East

10

3

1

1

2

3

Derbyshire

Midlands and East

6

1

1

3

1

Arden

Midlands and East

2

2

Herts

Midlands and East

1

1

Leics

Midlands and East

4

1

1

1

1

Shropshire

Midlands and East

2

1

1

East Anglia and Essex

Midlands and East

4

1

3

Total

29

0

0

0

0

2

5

2

1

3

6

7

3

Lancashire

North

5

1

1

2

1

Cumbria

North

4

1

1

1

1

Greater Manchester

North

2

1

1

Cheshire and Merseyside

North

1

1

Durham

North

2

1

1

Total

14

0

0

0

0

1

0

3

2

2

3

2

1

Wessex

South

7

1

1

1

1

3

South Central

South

5

1

1

1

1

1

South West

South

2

1

1

South East

South

13

1

1

1

4

1

5

Total

27

0

0

1

0

1

3

2

2

4

5

4

5

Grand Total

103

1

2

1

0

6

10

8

12

16

19

17

11


Written Question
West Yorkshire Central Services Agency: Complaints
Wednesday 18th January 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made against West Yorkshire Central Services about the transfer of patient records in each month from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015.

Answered by David Mowat

We do not have a record of any complaints, concerning transfer of patient records, made against the West Yorkshire Central Services Agency in this period.


Written Question
Department of Health: Brexit
Wednesday 30th November 2016

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the contribution of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to the Environmental Audit Committee on 25 October 2016, Question 332, what proportion of existing EU legislation within the policy remit of his Department cannot immediately be brought into UK law upon the UK leaving the EU.

Answered by David Mowat

The Government will bring forward legislation in the next session that, when enacted, will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and ensure a functioning statute book on the day we leave the European Union. This ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will end the authority of EU law and return power to the United Kingdom. The Bill will convert existing EU law into domestic law, wherever practical.

The Government will set out the content of the Bill and its implications in due course.


Written Question
Meningitis: Vaccination
Monday 21st November 2016

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the take-up rate has been for Meningococcal ACWY vaccine by each clinical commissioning group in England in each year since 2015.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

Vaccine uptake data by clinical commissioning group (CCG) for Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccination are only available for one of the targeted groups for vaccination. This is the cohort currently aged 18-19 years (born between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1998) who are offered vaccination at general practitioners practices and have been eligible since April 2016.

Cumulative MenACWY vaccine uptake data showing the position at the end August 2016 have been published by Public Health England:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meningococcal-acwy-immunisation-programme-vaccine-coverage-estimates

Vaccine uptake data for other groups offered MenACWY vaccine in schools are not available by CCG.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Jan 2016
NHS and Social Care Commission

"On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In the past hour, we have had the news that the Lord Chancellor has scrapped the Government’s proposed legal aid reforms, which had drawn such huge protests from criminal solicitors across the country, including in my constituency. We had a debate on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 28 Oct 2015
Junior Doctors’ Contracts

"The right hon. Gentleman has prayed in aid the weekend effect and quoted Sir Bruce Keogh, his own NHS medical director. Is he aware that Professor Keogh has also said that

“it is not possible to ascertain the extent to which these excess deaths may be preventable; to assume they …..."

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