Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board is in alignment with NICE guideline 28, updated in 2022, related to the fair and equitable adoption of continuous glucose monitoring for eligible people with type 2 diabetes.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended that all people living with type 1 diabetes and people living with type 2 diabetes who required insulin therapy should be eligible for real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The guidance recommends that all adults and children with type 1 diabetes are eligible for CGM, and that only certain adult and child populations with type 2 diabetes are eligible for CGM.
NHS England is developing new reporting systems which are designed to support ICBs to monitor the delivery of CGM. Data on CGM for diabetics is now collected as part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA). NHS England plans to routinely publish this data in the NDA Core Quarterly dashboard in 2025/26, which will provide the data insights ICBs require, including data on CGM uptake, variation, and health inequalities.
This information will help in providing ICBs with data about inequalities and diabetes, and will allow them and NHS England to target strategies to ensure uptake of those patients who are clinically eligible for CGM, but where there are wider factors limiting access to support.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure alignment of Integrated Care Boards with NICE guideline 28, updated in 2022, related to the fair and equitable adoption of continuous glucose monitoring for eligible people with type 2 diabetes.
Answered by Andrew Gwynne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended that all people living with type 1 diabetes and people living with type 2 diabetes who required insulin therapy should be eligible for real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The guidance recommends that all adults and children with type 1 diabetes are eligible for CGM, and that only certain adult and child populations with type 2 diabetes are eligible for CGM.
NHS England is developing new reporting systems which are designed to support ICBs to monitor the delivery of CGM. Data on CGM for diabetics is now collected as part of the National Diabetes Audit (NDA). NHS England plans to routinely publish this data in the NDA Core Quarterly dashboard in 2025/26, which will provide the data insights ICBs require, including data on CGM uptake, variation, and health inequalities.
This information will help in providing ICBs with data about inequalities and diabetes, and will allow them and NHS England to target strategies to ensure uptake of those patients who are clinically eligible for CGM, but where there are wider factors limiting access to support.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2024 to Question 10785 on Department of Health and Social Care: Institute for Public Policy Research, whether NHS England has awarded any contracts to the IPPR since the general election.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England has not awarded any contracts to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is using (a) artificial intelligence and (b) a third-party organisation to assess responses to the consultation entitled Change NHS: A health service fit for the future, published on 21 October 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has commissioned an external supplier, Thinks Insight and Strategy, to help run the engagement for the 10-Year Health Plan for England. The portal is hosted via the online platform Go Vocal, who are a contracted supplier of Thinks Insight and Strategy. Go Vocal use a natural language processing tool to moderate content on the platform, in addition to Thinks Insight and Strategy running manual checks.
Yonder Data Solutions will be responsible for thematically analysing and coding anonymised responses to the online portal. Yonder Data Solutions are a contracted supplier of Thinks Insight and Strategy. Anonymised data will be analysed using a mixture of human and artificial intelligence coding, with manual quality checks carried out.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what role (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) Departmental officials had in the awarding of contracts to the organisations running the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public engagement campaign.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The evaluation panel for the tender consisted of four people. Three from within the Department’s policy teams, and one from NHS England. No ministers or special advisers were part of the final award decision.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contracts his Department have awarded to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has not awarded any contracts to the Institute for Public Policy Research since 4 July 2024.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Change NHS online portal, what the total cost to the public purse is of contracts issued to (a) Thinks Insight & Strategy, (b) Kaleidoscope Health and Care and (c) The Institute for Public Policy Research to run the public engagement programme; and if he will publish all (i) contracts, (ii) work programmes and (iii) terms of reference connected to the procurement process.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with the contract number C306779.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total budget is for the Change NHS: A health service fit for the future public engagement campaign; and what time period this funding will cover.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The awarded value of this contract was up to £2,961,595.50. The publication of the details of this award and the redacted contract can be found on contracts finder, with contract number C306779. The current contract start date is 13 September 2024, with an end date of 31 March 2025, and an option to extend by three months.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the procurement process was to award contracts for the Change NHS online portal.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
A procurement mini competition was launched via the RM6126 CCS Research and Insights framework on 2 August 2024, with bids returned by 19 August 2024.
Asked by: Saqib Bhatti (Conservative - Meriden and Solihull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential value for money of including GPs in the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Over a thousand newly qualified GPs will be recruited through changes to the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme, as a result of additional funding to address GP unemployment over 24/25. The change will allow patients to get access to the care they need through increasing appointments.
The change follows extensive engagement and consideration of options to support employment of additional GPs who have been trained and can provide necessary clinical capacity in general practice. No explicit assessment has been made of the potential value for money of the change.