Written questions

168 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure hospital trusts routinely collect and submit data on secondary breast cancer.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Cancer: Nurses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancer clinical nurse specialists were working in the NHS in the latest period for which figures are available.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that secondary breast cancer patients have access to a clinical nurse specialist as part of their care.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve his Department's collection of data for secondary breast cancer.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 26002, on NHS: training, when Health Education England will publish the local plans.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2016 to Question 23092, how the figure of 10,000 for the number of additional training places universities will be able to provide by the end of the current Parliament was calc

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in the last three months.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Care Quality Commission has conducted an impact assessment of the proposed changes to the contract of Experts by Experience.

8 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

Allied Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 26014, what the baseline year is for the commitment to train 10,000 more nurses, midwives and other allied health professionals over the course of the current

1 Mar 2016 · Department of Health

NHS Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 25603, on NHS: Finance, how many meetings Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority has had with NHS trusts to agree plans to improve the financial posit

22 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what risk assessment was carried out on his policy to impose a new contract on junior doctors.

22 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the average change in the level of pay for those junior doctors who will be offered pay protection as part of the transition to a new contract.

22 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 11 February 2016, Official Report, column 1763, on junior doctors' contracts, which senior NHS leaders asked him to proceed with the introduction of a new contract for junior doct

8 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2015 to Question 14327, on junior doctors: conditions of employment, whether future junior doctors will receive a salary equivalent in real terms to the salary guaranteed to t

8 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2016 to Question 25603, on NHS: finance, with which seven trusts Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority have met since 15 January 2016.

4 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library copies of each Local Education and Training Board's workforce investment plan for 2016-17.

4 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has set aside for managing the transition from NHS bursaries to student loans for new nursing, midwifery and allied health students from 1 August 2017.

4 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Health Education England spent on clinical placements for (a) nursing, (b) midwifery and (c) allied health students in the latest year for which figures are available.

4 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 January 2016, Official Report, column 18, what the baseline year is for the commitment to train 10,000 more nurses, midwives and other allied health professionals over the co

2 Feb 2016 · Department of Health

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings have taken place between NHS Improvement and NHS trusts to agree plans to improve their financial position since 15 January; which providers have had such meetings with NHS Improvement; and when

25 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Alcoholic Drinks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to support the implementation of the UK Chief Medical Officer's proposed new alcohol guidelines, published in January 2016.

25 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Cancer Drugs Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2015 to Question 20039, on cancer drugs, if he will place in the Library a copy of the draft impact assessment for NHS England's consultation on proposals for a new Cancer Dru

25 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on public health of rising levels of alcohol consumption in England.

25 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of alcohol misuse in each of the last five years.

19 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral contribution of 5 January 2016, Official Report, column 18, what the evidential basis is for the statement that changes to nurses' training will allow for training 10,000 more nurses over the

18 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what dates ACAS conciliation talks between his Department and the BMA on the junior doctors' dispute have taken place; at what time each such meeting started and finished; and for what dates future such meeting

18 Jan 2016 · Department of Health

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the contribution by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 11 January 2016, Official Report, column 238WH, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion o

14 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Cancer Drugs Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library the impact assessment for NHS England's consultation on proposals for a new Cancer Drugs Fund operating model from 1 April 2016 which was published on 19 November 2015.

14 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many falls among people aged 65 and over led to a hospital admission in each year since 2009-10; and what the five most frequent types of such falls resulting in such admissions were.

14 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residents of care homes had an emergency admission to a hospital in 2014-15.

Source: official written-questions record.