Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve access to NHS dental services in North Tyneside constituency.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
NHS England asked dental practices to return to full delivery of contracted activity from July 2022, including in North Tyneside. In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in North Tyneside.
The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will take steps to support the vaping awareness campaigning entitled VApril in April 2023.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
We continue to support annual marketing campaigns such as Stoptober and the Better Health campaign, which aim to help smokers stop smoking and switch to less harmful alternatives, such as vapes.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the application of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 to include non-nicotine vaping products.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
We are exploring a range of regulatory options to support the ambition for England to be smoke-free by 2030. This includes extending regulations to include non-nicotine vaping products.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps with the Devolved Administrations on developing a consistent approach to vaping regulations as part of her Tobacco Control Plan for England.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
Officials have regular discussions with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations to develop a consistent approach to vaping regulations.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to implement an NHS workforce plan to support Parkinson's care.
Answered by Will Quince
Local health systems are responsible for planning local staffing levels in line with service priorities, including providing care to people living with Parkinson’s disease.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to increase the level of fines for underage sales of vaping products.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There are no current plans to increase the level of fines for underage sales of vaping products any further. Under current regulations, if an individual is found guilty of selling nicotine inhaling products to a young person under 18 years, they may be fined up to £2,500.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential impact of introducing a licencing scheme for the sale of e-cigarettes on (a) the Government's objective for England to be smokefree by 2030 and (b) preventing the underage sale of e-cigarettes; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
There have been no recent discussions.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the impact of regional differences in access to multidisciplinary support on Parkinson's care.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the terms of reference of the internal review of the obesity strategy will be.
Answered by Caroline Johnson
There are no terms of reference as this is a routine internal review.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if it remains her policy to allocate £100 million funding toward for weight management services in 2023 and 2024.
Answered by Caroline Johnson
Funding for weight management services for 2023/24 will be subject to normal annual business planning processes.