Clive Jones MP: written questions
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Palliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the number of people with palliative care needs over the next 10 years.
Answer: We are aware that the Office for National Statistics has projected that, by 2040, approximately 800,000 people a year will die in the United Kingdom. Additionally, current trends point to a growing proportion of people dying from chronic disease, particul...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures to improve the quality of palliative and end of life care will be included in the 10 Year Health Plan.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families receiv...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the colonoscopy capacity that would be required for the wider roll out of NHS England pilot to reduce the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Scre
Answer: NHS England is assessing the potential impact of reducing the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g. This is an ongoing assessment which includes evaluating and learning from early adopt...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of colonoscopy capacity for providing the bowel cancer screening programme.
Answer: NHS England is assessing the potential impact of reducing the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g. This is an ongoing assessment which includes evaluating and learning from early adopt...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46402More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS England pilot of reducing the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g on
Answer: NHS England is assessing the potential impact of reducing the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g. This is an ongoing assessment which includes evaluating and learning from early adopt...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic Centres: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed Integrated Care Board cuts on Community Diagnostic Centres.
Answer: As part of the necessary changes to support the National Health Service to recover, NHS England has indicated that integrated care boards (ICBs) should reduce in size. The Government is supportive of NHS England’s decision and the necessary choices that a...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44798More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Integrated Care Board cuts on the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West ICB.
Answer: NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act as main strategic commissioners of health and care services and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure, to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running cost allo...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43801More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition on 2 April 2025, how 1,000 new GPs were recruited.
Answer: Previously, primary care networks were limited in how they could use their funding, but now they can hire recently qualified doctors through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), a practical solution which is boosting general practitioner (GP)...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 35076 tabled by the hon. Member for Wokingham on 3 March 2025.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 April 2025 to Question 35076.
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for developing the methods and processes that its independent committees use in their evaluations, independently and in consultation with stakeholders. The severity modifier is ba...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier on funding for tr
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for developing the methods and processes that its independent committees use in their evaluations, independently and in consultation with stakeholders. The severity modifier is ba...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to assess the potential impact of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on people with secondary breast cancer.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for developing the methods and processes that its independent committees use in their evaluations, independently and in consultation with stakeholders. The severity modifier is ba...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on the approval of treatments for severe conditions.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for developing the methods and processes that its independent committees use in their evaluations, independently and in consultation with stakeholders. The severity modifier is ba...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Cancer Plan will be funded; and whether the funding will include ring-fenced resources specifically for children's and young people's cancers.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will focus on how we make things better for patients through reforming the cancer sector and improving efficiency, building on the steps announced in the Elective Reform Plan. This will support a more scrupulous and effective use ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on funding for integrated care boards.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, as we undertake the integration of NHS England and the Department, to ensure that the expected savings will be reinveste...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLung CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42164More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 10 of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: Socioeconomic Deprivation, published in February 2025, what steps he is taking to increase the 5-year n
Answer: We welcome Cancer Research UK’s report on socioeconomic deprivation and will consider its findings as we develop a new National Cancer Plan. As part of this, my Department is working closely with individuals, professionals and organisations, including Can...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Cancer52's report entitled, Improving diagnosis: Patient and clinician perspectives on increasing early diagnosis in rare and less common cancers, published in February 2025, if h
Answer: We are committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so that more patients survive, including children, teenagers, and young adults.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has set out deta...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people living in the most deprived areas receive earlier cancer diagnoses.
Answer: We recognise that there are challenges for several different populations, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas of the country, and that this impacts early diagnosis rates. The National Health Service’s wider Core20Plus5 approach to re...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: socioeconomic deprivation, published on 21 February
Answer: We welcome Cancer Research UK’s report on socioeconomic deprivation and will consider its findings as we develop a new National Cancer Plan. As part of this, my Department is working closely with individuals, professionals and organisations, including Can...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absorption of NHS England into his Department on his Department's timetable for the publication of the updated NHS Long Term Workforce Pla
Answer: Sir Jim Mackey will lead the transition team bringing the work of NHS England and the Department together over the next two years. This work will have no impact on the forthcoming publication of the 10-Year Health Plan and the subsequent reconsideration o...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendations made by NICE in the House of Commons Coronavirus: Long Covid Research Briefing, published on 31 October 2024 for future research
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) research recommendations for managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 were made in 2020 and 2021. Since this time, the Government has invested £58 million in research through two specific fu...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025 to Question 32470 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, if he will publish the funding allocation for the investment for replacing older radiotherapy machines.
Answer: NHS England has written to those trusts which have been allocated funding for replacement radiotherapy machines. There remain no plans to publish full details of the funding allocation.
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce accountability mechanisms through the national cancer plan.
Answer: Mechanisms for accountability will be considered as part of the development of the National Cancer Plan.
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps through the national cancer plan to help prepare for innovations in (a) diagnostics and (b) treatments.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will look at how we can maximise our impact through the most up-to-date technology and innovations. The plan will ensure that we continue to maximise the access to and the impact of clinical trials in diagnostics and treatments, b...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the timing of the publication of the NHS 10-year plan.
Answer: We do not envisage that the changes set out by the Prime Minister on 13 March 2025 will affect the publication of the 10-Year Health Plan. We still intend to publish the Plan later in spring 2025.The changes will set the National Health Service up to deli...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
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