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Written Question
Department of Health: Data Protection
Thursday 28th January 2016

Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions his Department has been notified by external consultants or other third parties of breaches by employees or subcontractors of those consultants of document retention or security policies relating to confidential or secure materials in each of the last two years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The Department’s Security and Business Continuity team does not collect this information centrally and therefore does not hold this information.

The Department includes terms and conditions in its contracts that require suppliers to inform us of any such breaches that may have taken place. Any occurrences would have to be reported directly to all local contract owners and to identify these would require trawling across all the Department’s branches that would incur a disproportionate cost.

Written Question
Hospitals: Finance
Tuesday 13th October 2015

Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)

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 hospitals balance their budgets.

Answered by George Freeman

We are investing the additional £8 billion the National Health Service has said it needs to implement its own future plan, on top of the extra £2 billion we have given the service. However, additional spending is not the only answer to these financial challenges. The NHS must now put in place cost-control measures we have introduced, like clamping down on rip-off staffing agencies, while we continue to work with hospitals on ways to improve productivity and reduce waste.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What steps he is taking to reduce the burden of administration on GPs...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Jun 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Let me take this opportunity to welcome my right hon. Friend back to the Front Bench. I know that he will want to spend a lot of time in GP surgeries, and we look forward to welcoming him to Lincolnshire in due course.

I want to ask him about the …..."
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Written Question
Organs: Donors
Wednesday 25th June 2014

Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to work with international counterparts to ensure the sharing of best practice to increase organ donation.

Answered by Jane Ellison

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) - the United Kingdom organ donation organisation responsible for matching and allocating donated organs - actively participates and is involved in European Union initiatives to increase organ donation. This includes two current major European organ donation projects: the ACCORD (Achieving Comprehensive Coordination in Organ Donation) and FOEDUS (Facilitating the Exchange of Organs Donated in EU Member States) projects. NHSBT was also a collaborating partner for the completed ODEQUS (European Organ Donation Quality System) project.

The UK drew heavily on evidence of world-wide success, such as Spain, for the development and implementation of the Organ Donation Taskforce recommendations published in 2008, which saw donor rates rise by 50% in five years. A number of international experts from the Unites States of America, Germany and The Netherlands also contributed to the development of the UK's new strategy published in 2013 Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020. A number of measures will be used to track improvements in performance in organ donation and transplantation to compare with international benchmarks, in order to try and match the best performing programmes in the world.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Mar 2014
Mental Health Care (Older People in Lincolnshire)

"World Health Organisation figures show that mental illness is responsible for the largest proportion of the disease burden, at just over 22%, in the UK. That is greater than that of cardiovascular disease or cancer, each of which stand at about 16%. In our society, mental health simply does not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 27 Mar 2014
Mental Health Care (Older People in Lincolnshire)

"I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an important point. All too often, and not just in this area of public service, as he knows, but in so many others, we get a much worse service in rural communities—particularly, it seems, in Lincolnshire —than many other places. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 May 2013
Health and Social Care

"Does my hon. Friend agree that perhaps one problem with the Queen’s Speech, and one of the issues with which neither Ministers nor shadow Ministers tend to grapple, is that there is a real problem in this country with demand? Unless and until we grapple with that, the national health …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jul 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"14. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that confidentiality agreements do not discourage NHS whistleblowers from coming forward...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Jul 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that answer. She will be aware of the case of my constituent Mr Gary Walker, the former chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, who has been prevented by a confidentiality agreement from raising his concerns about the effect on patient …..."
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