Asked by: Fiona Mactaggart (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of members of health trust boards are women.
Answered by Philip Dunne
All National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts are subject to the Public Sector Equality Duty and must annually publish evidence of compliance. NHS Improvement is currently undertaking a data collection exercise which will enable it to begin publishing information about the diversity of trust boards later this year.
Asked by: Fiona Mactaggart (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of the significance of the average age at death in assessing the health needs of a community; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
We want everyone to have the same opportunity to have a long and healthy life, whoever they are, wherever they live and whatever their social circumstances.
Local areas are rightly placed to determine the health needs of their local populations and that is why the Government will give £16 billion to local government over the course of this Parliament for public health.
Asked by: Fiona Mactaggart (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has held with medical practitioners on preventing patients from travelling to China for organ transplants.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
There have been no such discussions.
Patients cannot be prevented from travelling to China but should be aware of the risks, including possible prosecution, poor donor care, poorer graft survival, infection and in extreme cases, death.
The Government supports the establishment of lawful and ethical organ donation and transplantation programmes to address the world-wide shortage of organs for transplant and a range of action to discourage organ trafficking, transplant tourism and commercialism. The United Kingdom formally signed the Council of Europe Convention Against Trafficking in Human Organs on 25 March 2015 and has laws and protocols in place to ensure well-regulated practice to prevent organ trafficking in the UK.