Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies referrals in Greenwich and Woolwich constituency received an assessment within 28 days in the last 12 months.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The information is not collected in the format requested.
The following attachment, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies contains referrals assessed in 28 and 90 days or less and referrals that waited 28 and 90 days or less to enter treatment, as a proportion of all referrals assessed between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014, for England and NHS Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group.
Data is not published at constituency level.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to publish a detailed implementation plan for the new five-year cancer strategy for the NHS.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS England is currently working with partners across the health system to determine how best to take forward the recommendations of the Independent Cancer Taskforce report and put in place a governance structure for delivery.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women diagnosed with breast cancer under the age of 40 in (a) England and (b) Greenwich and Woolwich constituency were offered a referral to a fertility specialist prior to commencement of their cancer treatment in the last three years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information requested is not collected.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many secondary breast cancer patients in (a) England and (b) Greenwich and Woolwich constituency have access to a dedicated clinical nurse specialist.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information requested is not collected.
Asked by: Matthew Pennycook (Labour - Greenwich and Woolwich)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in London who have died as a result of air pollution in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the forecast number of such deaths in the next 10 years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Estimates of the fraction of mortality in English local authority areas and regions attributable to long-term exposure to particulate air pollution arising from human activities are published by Public Health England as one of the indicators in the Department’s Public Health Outcomes Framework, which is available at:
Long-term exposure to air pollution is understood to be a contributory factor to deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular disease.