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Written Answers
6 JUNE 2013
Written Answers
1270W
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Dr Offord: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
whether members of the boards of clinical
commissioning groups have to declare membership of
political parties. [158221]
Anna Soubry: The National Health Service Act 2006,
as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012,
sets out the clear requirements on clinical commissioning
groups (CCGs) in relation to registers of interests and
managing conflicts of interest.
Under section 140 CCGs are responsible for maintaining
registers of interests of the members of its boards.
However, it does not specify that membership of a
political party should be declared on these registers.
CCGs should also make arrangements for managing
conflicts of interest and potential conflicts of interest/to
ensure they do not affect or appear to affect the integrity
of their decision-making process.
NHS England is responsible for supporting CCGs to
manage conflicts of interest, and has produced guidance
setting out the statutory requirements and principles for
managing conflicts of interest. The guidance is available
at:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ccgconflict-int-guide.pdf
Dementia
Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health if he will list the new dementia diagnosis targets
for each Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) showing
the (a) CCG name and code, (b) CCG current diagnosis
rate, (c) CCG diagnosis rate ambition for 2013-14 and
(d) CCG diagnosis rate ambition for 2014-15. [157631]
Norman Lamb: Data on clinical commissioning group
(CCG) ambitions for improving diagnosis rates through
to 2014-15, has been provided by NHS England and,
has been placed in the Library.
The current CCG diagnosis rates, derived from primary
care trust 2011-12 data, are available at:
www.dementiaprevalencecalculator.org.uk
The diagnosis rates are illustrated at CCG level; the
data are not available as a list of CCGs in spreadsheet
format.
NHS England will support CCGs to learn from each
other and to support professional insight into the benefits
of timely diagnosis for dementia sufferers.
NHS England has an ambition to ensure that two-thirds
of people with dementia are identified and given appropriate
support by 2015. Further details are available at:
http://www.england.nhs.uk/2013/05/15/dementia-targets/
Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health when he intends to review the National
Dementia Strategy for England. [157632]
Norman Lamb: The National Dementia Strategy runs
until 2014, and the Prime Minister’s Challenge on
Dementia, which builds on progress made on the strategy,
runs until 2015.
On 15 May 2013, a report on progress in delivering
improvements in dementia care and research was published.
A further report is planned for 2014.
Health Education
Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
what his Department’s policy is on providing advice on
diet and lifestyle with the objective of reducing the
number of hospital admissions. [158319]
Anna Soubry: Government advice on a healthy balanced
diet is encapsulated in the United Kingdom’s national
food guide, ’the eatwell plate’, which is based on long
term epidemiological studies, which show that this type
of diet can help prevent diet related chronic disease.
The Government supports a number of healthy eating
initiatives, which help and encourage people to improve
their health and well being. This includes the Change4life
campaign,5adayscheme, Public Health Responsibility
Deal, Healthy Start scheme and through the NHS
Choices consumer based information website.
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
Mr Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) what the longest waiting time in days for patients in
(a) England and (b) London was for (i) fibreoptic
endoscopic examination of upper gastrointestinal tract
and biopsy of lesion of upper gastrointestinal tract, (ii)
computed tomography of head, (iii) insertion of prosthetic
replacement for lens NEC, (iv) unspecified diagnostic
endoscopic examination of bladder, (v) computerised
tomography NEC, (vi) continuous intravenous infusion
of therapeutic substance NEC, (vii) unspecified diagnostic
fibreoptic endoscopic examination of upper gastrointestinal
tract, (viii) unspecified diagnostic endoscopic examination
of colon, (ix) diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic examination
of colon and biopsy of lesion of colon and (x) unspecified
diagnostic endoscopic examination of lower bowel using
fibreoptic sigmoidoscope in (A) 2010-11, (B) 2011-12
and (C) 2012-13; [158401]
(2) what the (a) number of total finished consultant
episodes, (b) mean waiting time and (c) median waiting
time was for (i) fibreoptic endoscopic examination of
upper gastrointestinal tract and biopsy of lesion of
upper gastrointestinal tract, (ii) computed tomography
of head, (iii) insertion of prosthetic replacement for
lens NEC, (iv) unspecified diagnostic endoscopic
examination of bladder, (v) computerised tomography
NEC, (vi) continuous intravenous infusion of therapeutic
substance NEC, (vii) unspecified diagnostic fibreoptic
endoscopic examination of upper gastrointestinal tract,
(viii) unspecified diagnostic endoscopic examination of
colon, (ix) diagnostic fibreoptic endoscopic examination
of colon and biopsy of lesion of colon and (x) unspecified
diagnostic endoscopic examination of lower bowel using
fibreoptic sigmoidoscope in London in (A) 2010-11, (B)
2011-12 and (C) 2012-13. [158402]
Anna Soubry: The Department does not collect these
data for individual procedures. The information available
for these procedures from the Health and Social Care
Information Centre has been placed in the Library.