Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 3 November 2017 to Questions 110464 and 110465, on tomography: leasing, if he will take steps to collate this information centrally; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Philip Dunne
There are no intentions to collect this information centrally.
Decisions are made locally by National Health Service trusts surrounding use of tomography equipment to ensure demand and capacity is effectively managed.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS trust has spent on rental payments for mobile CT scanners in each of the last five years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
This information is not collated centrally.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on rental payments for mobile CT scanners in each of the last five years.
Answered by Philip Dunne
This information is not collated centrally.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on delivering the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health recommendation on building the evidence base for specialist housing support for vulnerable people with mental health problems.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to PQ106931 on 16 October 2017.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve delivery of primary care health services for people with coeliac disease; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Steve Brine
To support primary care services in the diagnosis, treatment, care and support of people with coeliac disease, in September 2015, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the best practice guideline Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management.
The NICE guideline sets out seven recommendations to improve services for coeliac patients. These include implementation advice on the provision of laboratory testing and interpretation of results and access to healthcare professionals trained to give specialist dietetic advice in relation to coeliac disease. The guidance can be found at the following link:
In October 2016, NICE published an accompanying Quality Standard (QS) that sets out the markers of high quality care for people with coeliac disease. The QS can be found at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs134
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to maintain the availability of gluten-free prescriptions on the NHS.
Answered by Steve Brine
Staple gluten-free foods continue to be available on prescription for people with coeliac disease. We are in the process of making a decision on whether or not to make any changes to primary care prescribing of gluten-free foods following the recent public consultation.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to gluten-free food for people with coeliac disease.
Answered by Steve Brine
Staple gluten-free foods continue to be available on prescription for people with coeliac disease. We are in the process of making a decision on whether or not to make any changes to primary care prescribing of gluten-free foods following the recent public consultation.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to maintain gluten-free prescriptions on the NHS.
Answered by Steve Brine
Staple gluten-free foods continue to be available on prescription for people with coeliac disease. We are in the process of making a decision on whether or not to make any changes to primary care prescribing of gluten-free foods following the recent public consultation.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to improve access to gluten-free food for people with coeliac disease.
Answered by Steve Brine
Staple gluten-free foods continue to be available on prescription for people with coeliac disease. We are in the process of making a decision on whether or not to make any changes to primary care prescribing of gluten-free foods following the recent public consultation.
Asked by: Melanie Onn (Labour - Great Grimsby)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department is doing to improve recognition of coeliac disease by primary care health services.
Answered by Steve Brine
To support primary care services in the diagnosis, treatment care and support people with coeliac disease, in September 2015 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published the best practice guideline Coeliac disease: recognition, assessment and management.
The NICE guideline sets out seven recommendations to improve services for coeliac patients and includes implementation advice for the local National Health Service on the provision of the laboratory testing and interpretation of results and access to healthcare professionals trained to give specialist dietetic advice in relation to coeliac disease. The guidance can be found at the following link: