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Written Question
Capita: Dental Services
Wednesday 8th February 2017

Asked by: Oliver Colvile (Conservative - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Capita improves its performance relating to the processing of dental performer list applications.

Answered by David Mowat

NHS England is meeting with Capita on a weekly basis to oversee the delivery of its plans for the Dental Performers Lists and other key services and to ensure the right improvements are in place to address the backlogs and delays.

My hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation (Nicola Blackwood), continues to work directly with Capita and NHS England to ensure that services are restored to an acceptable and sustainable standard.

Written Question
Pharmacy: Negligence
Thursday 12th January 2017

Asked by: Oliver Colvile (Conservative - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to stop pharmacists from facing criminal prosecution for making prescription errors.

Answered by David Mowat

We remain fully committed to making this change. We have consulted on our proposals to put in place a defence to the criminal sanction for inadvertent dispensing errors and received good support from patients, carers, healthcare professionals, pharmacy organisations and other bodies. We are working through the necessary processes to change the law. We are in the final stages of clearance and hope to lay the Order shortly.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"Will my hon. Friend recognise that some innovative things are taking place in the west country, especially in my constituency?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"May I say what a pleasure and a delight it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Bailey? I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for St Albans (Mrs Main) on securing the debate. I should warn the House that I am the Government’s pharmacy champion. I have been following …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. He makes a very powerful point. I have thought for some while that we should be trying to put GP surgeries into pharmacies, so that when someone goes to their GP and says, “I have got this ailment and I need some …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"That is a very good example of how the private sector, working in the national health service, can deliver good-quality services...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 11 Jan 2017
Pharmacies and Integrated Healthcare: England

"Is the Minister aware that in Devon about £5 million a year is apparently being wasted on unused medicines? Something needs to happen with that to ensure that the NHS has enough money with which to do things...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 20 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. As my hon. Friend is aware, last week the Murray report was published. When is he likely to consider it, and when will he make a statement?..."
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Written Question
Anaemia
Friday 16th December 2016

Asked by: Oliver Colvile (Conservative - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the accessibility and availability of intravenous iron services to treat patients with iron deficiency before that condition develops into anaemia.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

It is for local National Health Service organisations to develop their own policy to treat patients with iron deficiency or iron deficiency anaemia, based on their clinical needs.