Monica Harding MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Huntington's Disease: Medical Treatments and ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve treatment outcomes for people with Huntington’s Disease; and what research his Department is supporting into that disease.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease. One of the priorities of the Framework is improving access to specialist care, treatment and...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36983More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to establish a specialist Huntington’s Disease Centre in Surrey.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions a specialist service that provides ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of specialist clinical provision for people with Huntington’s Disease in Surrey.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for working with their local communities to und...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of integrated care boards have specialist clinicians for Huntington’s Disease; and whether Surrey Heartlands ICB has specialist clinicians for Huntington’s Disease.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions a specialist service that provides ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) is taking to (i) increase and (ii) improve the availability of specialist clinical provision for people with Huntington’s Disease.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions a specialist service that provides ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHydrocephalus: BabiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of infants with hydrocephalus initially present symptoms after 8 weeks of age.
Answer: It is vitally important that babies are diagnosed as early as possible so treatment can be provided. Current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends measuring the head circumference of babies in the first week, at appr...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHydrocephalus: BabiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of routine monitoring of infant head circumference after 8 weeks of age as a diagnostic tool for early identification of hydrocephalus.
Answer: It is vitally important that babies are diagnosed as early as possible so treatment can be provided. Current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends measuring the head circumference of babies in the first week, at appr...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: ClosuresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of community pharmacy closures on (a) local health provision and (b) patient outcomes in (i) England and (ii) Surrey.
Answer: Since 2019, there have been a total of 39 pharmacy closures in Surrey, and four in the Esher and Walton Constituency. In Surrey, this has broken down as: seven closures in 2019; six in 2020; four in 2021; two in 2022; and 15 in 2023, with a further five h...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community pharmacies have closed in (a) Surrey and (b) Esher and Walton constituency in each year since 2019.
Answer: Since 2019, there have been a total of 39 pharmacy closures in Surrey, and four in the Esher and Walton Constituency. In Surrey, this has broken down as: seven closures in 2019; six in 2020; four in 2021; two in 2022; and 15 in 2023, with a further five h...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGP Practice ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average GP practice patient list is; what the largest patient list was at a GP practice in 2023-4; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of GP list sizes on p
Answer: Data on patients registered at a general practice (GP) is published on a monthly basis, and is as follows for 2023/24: at the beginning of 2023/24, 1 April 2023, the largest practice had 106,308 patients, and the median average practice had 8,383 patients...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average per-patient funding for GP practices was in (a) England and (b) NHS Surrey Heartlands in 2023-4.
Answer: This data is published annually by NHS England in the NHS Payments to General Practice Report and will be available in due course.
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the (a) performance of and (b) patient experience at the GP practices in the bottom 5% of the 2024 GP Patient Survey.
Answer: We know that general practices (GPs) are working hard to deliver for their patients, and are delivering more appointments than ever before, however we know that some patients are struggling to access the care they need, and GPs are struggling to deliver i...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
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