Jan. 10 2024
Source Page: UK/Norway: Agreement on Reimbursement Arrangements for Healthcare Costs [TS No.3/2024]Found: This Agreement shall enter into force on the date on which the Convention on Social Security Coordination
Jun. 28 2024
Source Page: Independent Review of Adult Disability Payment: consultationFound: Security Scotland’s Local Delivery service • the opening of Social Security Scotland’s Dundee office
Aug. 14 2024
Source Page: Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) 2023-24Found: of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation9.
Oct. 14 2010
Source Page: Reform of the Coroner System Next Stage: Preparing for Implementation. 70 p.Found: ACPO felt that this would enable valuable lessons to be learnt regarding social care issues, especially
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1: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) That includes our NHS dental payment reform, free universal NHS-funded eye examinations, our NHS pharmacy - Speech Link
2: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Medical research is moving faster than ever. - Speech Link
3: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) It has benefits for players’ physical health. - Speech Link
4: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) security, access to exercise, and healthy food and wellbeing via reductions in poverty and social isolation - Speech Link
5: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) EMI partnered with the then Department for Health and Social Security, which invested £600,000 in the - Speech Link
Dec. 21 2023
Source Page: Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill: consultationFound: Social Security can also be called benefits .
Jul. 01 2011
Source Page: Impact Assessment of regulation of primary medical and dental care providers under the Health and Social Care Act (2008). 98 p.Found: Impact Assessment of regulation of primary medical and dental care providers under the Health and Social
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1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency, said that this anonymised, aggregate death by vaccination - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) risks—the medical profession will always acknowledge that—but is it not about a balance of the benefits - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Despite undergoing extensive examinations, a recent diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder has - Speech Link
4: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) We heard from people from what is now the UK Health Security Agency but was then a named part of the - Speech Link
5: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Routine treatments and access to appointments are difficult even now, given the backlog of examinations - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many assessors trained and qualified in autism will work in each of the five regions under the Department for Work and Pension's Health Assessment Advisory Service.
Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department and the Health Assessment Advisory Service (HAAS) are fully committed to supporting those with mental health conditions.
All health professionals (HPs) within the five regions of HAAS are fully qualified in their health discipline and have passed strict recruitment and experience criteria. They must also be registered with a relevant regulatory body such as the General Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council or European Economic Area equivalent. The department has not specified that HAAS employ HPs who are specialists in specific conditions or impairments. Instead, the focus is on ensuring they are experts in disability analysis, focusing on the effects of health conditions and impairments on the claimant’s daily life.
All HPs receive comprehensive training in the functional assessment of mental health conditions and disabilities, including Autism. From 09 September 2024 the educational material for all HAAS HPs was provided by DWP. As part of our review, we identified best practice in the NHS and have implemented the Oliver McGowan training as part of the mandatory training requirements for every HP. This training is recognised to be of significant value to HPs in ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to provide safe, informed, and compassionate assessments to claimants with autism and learning disabilities. This is in addition to our comprehensive education programme for HPs.
Following the completion of core training to undertake the role, HPs will engage in an annual training programme, and HAAS has been provided with materials (such as Continual Professional Development modules) to support the development of their HPs where learning needs are identified. This approach ensures that both service wide and individual training needs are met and will be of benefit to those with neurodiversity where applicable.
Asked by: Baroness Browning (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what qualifications are stipulated for assessors of people on the autism spectrum by the Health Assessment Advisory Service.
Answered by Baroness Sherlock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The department and the Health Assessment Advisory Service (HAAS) are fully committed to supporting those with mental health conditions.
All health professionals (HPs) within the five regions of HAAS are fully qualified in their health discipline and have passed strict recruitment and experience criteria. They must also be registered with a relevant regulatory body such as the General Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Health and Care Professions Council or European Economic Area equivalent. The department has not specified that HAAS employ HPs who are specialists in specific conditions or impairments. Instead, the focus is on ensuring they are experts in disability analysis, focusing on the effects of health conditions and impairments on the claimant’s daily life.
All HPs receive comprehensive training in the functional assessment of mental health conditions and disabilities, including Autism. From 09 September 2024 the educational material for all HAAS HPs was provided by DWP. As part of our review, we identified best practice in the NHS and have implemented the Oliver McGowan training as part of the mandatory training requirements for every HP. This training is recognised to be of significant value to HPs in ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to provide safe, informed, and compassionate assessments to claimants with autism and learning disabilities. This is in addition to our comprehensive education programme for HPs.
Following the completion of core training to undertake the role, HPs will engage in an annual training programme, and HAAS has been provided with materials (such as Continual Professional Development modules) to support the development of their HPs where learning needs are identified. This approach ensures that both service wide and individual training needs are met and will be of benefit to those with neurodiversity where applicable.