Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which health and care services will be included in the Primary Care Recovery Plan.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Primary Care Recovery Plan is currently being drafted and will be published in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which health and care organisations were consulted as part of his development of the Primary Care Recovery Plan.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Primary Care Recovery Plan is currently being drafted and will be published in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential level of additional funding for health and care services required to enable those groups to deliver the Primary Care Recovery Plan effectively.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Primary Care Recovery Plan is currently being drafted and will be published in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the use of community pharmacies will be incorporated into implementation of the Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services, published on 30 January 2023.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2019-24 five-year deal sets out how community pharmacy will become more integrated into the NHS, deliver more clinical services and become the first port of call for minor illnesses.
Through the deal, we introduced the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS), whereby NHS111 can refer patients to community pharmacies for urgent medicines supply and advice and treatment for minor illnesses. General practitioners can also refer patients for advice and treatment for minor illnesses.
In September 2022 we announced the agreement for the remaining two years of the deal. As part of this, the CPCS will be expanded this spring to enable urgent and emergency care settings to refer patients to a community pharmacist for minor illness consultation or for urgent medicine supply.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of incorporating education on female presentation of symptoms into the training of healthcare professionals.
Answered by Will Quince
No specific assessment has been made. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides authoritative, evidence based guidelines for healthcare professionals on best practice. In areas where there is evidence of sex based differences in symptoms, diagnosis or treatment, these are reflected in NICE guidelines.
The Women’s Health Strategy for England sets out our ambitions to improve healthcare professional education and training on women’s health. Alongside the Women's Health Ambassador, we will work with education institutions, professional bodies and other stakeholders to improve education and training.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure that the National HIV action plan includes targeted work to ensure migrants and asylum seekers living with HIV can access HIV care and treatment.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
As part of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) action plan, the Department is currently reviewing the model sexual health service specification, which takes account of people who may face additional barriers to services such as migrants and asylum seekers. Publication of the service specification is due in 2023. Under the oversight of the HIV Clinical Reference Group, NHS England are also currently reviewing the national service specification for adult HIV services, which sets out the standards of care that HIV providers are expected to meet.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to require the UK Health Security Agency to produce more granular data on (a) HIV, (b) ethnicity, (c) age, (d) gender and (e) migration status.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) data by ethnicity, age and country of birth is published annually online. In addition to national summaries, there are specific tables for regional levels and for key populations.
As part of the HIV Action Plan, published in 2021, the UK Health Security Agency has published a monitoring and evaluation framework. This contains key prevention indicators to track progress towards the aims of the Action Plan. A first iteration of the monitoring and evaluation framework was published 1 December 2022 and is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hiv-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework
This framework outlines the commitment to make more granular data using an interactive patient pathway available for local areas and a commitment to produce the indicators by key demographics, including age, ethnicity, gender country of birth and more later in 2023.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
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 embed HIV prevention messaging in community support settings, including (a) women’s health groups, (b) GP surgeries and (c) non-health settings visited regularly by people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
Local Authorities have primary responsibility for commissioning human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention interventions based on the needs of their local population, including HIV prevention messaging in community support settings such as women’s health groups, general practitioner surgeries and non-health settings.
The Department is investing over £3.5 million to deliver the National HIV Prevention Programme, to work alongside local prevention activities by developing resources for populations most affected by HIV that can be adopted locally and used in a range of settings.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to implement the Women's Health Strategy on tackling health inequalities and ensuring equitable access to and experience of services for women.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
A priority running through the Women’s Health Strategy for England is ensuring that all women have equitable access to and experience of services and disparities in health outcomes between men and women and groups of women are reduced. Last year we appointed Professor Dame Lesley Regan as the Women’s Health Ambassador for England to ensure women that experience health disparities are heard. The Department will update Parliament on the implementation of the Women’s Health Strategy annually.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is focused on improving the nation’s health and tackling health disparities. The health levelling up mission, stated in the Levelling Up White Paper, to improve healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035 and narrow the gap by 2030 remains Government policy. A significant proportion of ill health is preventable. By focusing on the major conditions that contribute to early death and reduce years of good health, as well as the behaviours that drive those conditions like smoking, poor diet and alcohol consumption, which disproportionately impact some places and communities, we will make progress on reducing health disparities and improve the health of women.
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
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 tackle health inequalities affecting women.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
A priority running through the Women’s Health Strategy for England is ensuring that all women have equitable access to and experience of services and disparities in health outcomes between men and women and groups of women are reduced. Last year we appointed Professor Dame Lesley Regan as the Women’s Health Ambassador for England to ensure women that experience health disparities are heard. The Department will update Parliament on the implementation of the Women’s Health Strategy annually.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is focused on improving the nation’s health and tackling health disparities. The health levelling up mission, stated in the Levelling Up White Paper, to improve healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035 and narrow the gap by 2030 remains Government policy. A significant proportion of ill health is preventable. By focusing on the major conditions that contribute to early death and reduce years of good health, as well as the behaviours that drive those conditions like smoking, poor diet and alcohol consumption, which disproportionately impact some places and communities, we will make progress on reducing health disparities and improve the health of women.