Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that vulnerable children in Somerset are identified and protected from harm.
Answered by Edward Timpson
Ofsted inspected Somerset County Council’s arrangements for the protection of children between 24 June 2013 and 03 July 2013 and published their findings on 05 August 2013. Ofsted judged the authority’s performance as ‘inadequate’.
I take any failure to provide children and young people with the services they deserve very seriously and issued the Council with an Improvement Notice in November 2013. The Improvement Notice requires the Council to institute an Improvement Board headed by an independent chair to drive improvement and hold partners to account.
I am currently considering next steps in relation to this intervention and will inform Somerset County Council of my decision shortly.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213582, what the costs already identified by the Walton Centre NHS Trust are for treating patients (a) surgically and (b) with stereotactic radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery.
Answered by Jane Ellison
This data is not released by NHS England on the grounds of commercial sensitivity.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 43 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, what the evidence is that there are no significant differences between the machines delivering its treatments.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The evidence used by the Clinical Reference Group for Stereotactic Radiosurgery to form their opinions on the effective delivery of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and
Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT) is referenced in their publication ‘Clinical Commissioning Policy: Stereotactic Radiosurgery / Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Cerebral Metastases’ which is attached.
The information on which providers use frames in the provision SRS and SRT is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 41 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, what the supportive literature is verifying the clinical efficiency of all three delivery systems.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The evidence used by the Clinical Reference Group for Stereotactic Radiosurgery to form their opinions on the effective delivery of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and
Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT) is referenced in their publication ‘Clinical Commissioning Policy: Stereotactic Radiosurgery / Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Cerebral Metastases’ which is attached.
The information on which providers use frames in the provision SRS and SRT is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 42 of section 1.5.1 of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and Radiotherapy (SRT) Services Needs Assessment and Service Review, published by NHS England on 3 November 2014, which hospitals deliver SRS and SRT to tumours in the brain without the use of a frame.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The evidence used by the Clinical Reference Group for Stereotactic Radiosurgery to form their opinions on the effective delivery of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and
Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT) is referenced in their publication ‘Clinical Commissioning Policy: Stereotactic Radiosurgery / Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Cerebral Metastases’ which is attached.
The information on which providers use frames in the provision SRS and SRT is not held centrally.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2014 to Question 213582, if he will publish the names of those members who attended each of the two focus groups on behalf of the Radiotherapy Clinical Reference Group (CRG), the Adult Neurosurgery CRG, the Brain and Central Nervous System CRG, the Neurosciences CRG and the Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The proposal of a seven-day service is part of NHS England's consultation on the future configuration of services for stereotactic radiosurgery which closes on 26 January 2015. Providers are encouraged to input into the consultation process through:
http://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/options-for-change
As a result of consultation feedback, NHS England will make the decision whether to procure a seven-day service. At this point providers can consider whether they wish to offer a service on this basis.
Attendees of the stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy focus group meeting who are members of the Clinical Reference Groups (CRG) were as follows:
21 March 2014
Bob Bradford – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Peter Enevoldson – Neurosciences CRG
Paul Grundy – Brain and CNS CRG
Richard Grunewald – Neurosciences CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Catherine McBain – Brain and CNS CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Matt Radatz – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Nick Slevin – Radiotherapy CRG
23 May 2014
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2014 to Question 213584, which clinical trials will run over (a) three and (b) five years; and what estimate he has made of the number of patients who will take part in each such trial.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS England advise that questions about the running of clinical trials should be directed to the trial sponsor. In the case of clinical trials for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy the sponsor is Cancer Research UK.
The current assessment of the number of patients that will be recruited to the trials is a provisional estimate and it is important to note that this will vary dependent on a number of factors, including local recruitment and randomisation to different trial arms.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213358, from which of NHS England's underspent budgets amounts were taken to meet the overspend of £30,539,000; and how much was so taken in each case.
Answered by George Freeman
NHS England has advised that the overspend on the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2013-14
was managed as part of its routine financial management process. The overspend represented less than 0.05% of NHS England’s total budget for that year.
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213360, which of the centres reviewed support the running of a seven-day service.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The proposal of a seven-day service is part of NHS England's consultation on the future configuration of services for stereotactic radiosurgery which closes on 26 January 2015. Providers are encouraged to input into the consultation process through:
http://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/options-for-change
As a result of consultation feedback, NHS England will make the decision whether to procure a seven-day service. At this point providers can consider whether they wish to offer a service on this basis.
Attendees of the stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy focus group meeting who are members of the Clinical Reference Groups (CRG) were as follows:
21 March 2014
Bob Bradford – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Peter Enevoldson – Neurosciences CRG
Paul Grundy – Brain and CNS CRG
Richard Grunewald – Neurosciences CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Catherine McBain – Brain and CNS CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Matt Radatz – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Nick Slevin – Radiotherapy CRG
23 May 2014
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Asked by: Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrat - Wells)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2014 to Question 213582, what costs were identified by the Walton Centre NHS Trust for treating patients (a) surgically and (b) with stereotactic radiotherapy/stereotactic radiosurgery.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The proposal of a seven-day service is part of NHS England's consultation on the future configuration of services for stereotactic radiosurgery which closes on 26 January 2015. Providers are encouraged to input into the consultation process through:
http://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/options-for-change
As a result of consultation feedback, NHS England will make the decision whether to procure a seven-day service. At this point providers can consider whether they wish to offer a service on this basis.
Attendees of the stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy focus group meeting who are members of the Clinical Reference Groups (CRG) were as follows:
21 March 2014
Bob Bradford – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Peter Enevoldson – Neurosciences CRG
Paul Grundy – Brain and CNS CRG
Richard Grunewald – Neurosciences CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Catherine McBain – Brain and CNS CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG
Matt Radatz – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Nick Slevin – Radiotherapy CRG
23 May 2014
Adrian Crellin – Radiotherapy CRG
Neil Kitchen – Stereotactic Radiosurgery CRG
Paul May – Adult Neurosurgery CRG