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• Reference: 2015/4341
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Do you support the calls from NHS staff and the Royal College of GPs for 'ChemSex' to become a public health priority in London to help reduce health inequalities relating to HIV, sexually transmitted infections and mental health problems?

• Reference: 2015/4347
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

Following the cross-party health select committee's decision to support proposals for the introduction of a 20 per cent levy on soft drinks and in line with your role to tackle health inequalities, would you consider backing the introduction of such a levy in London as a means of reducing health inequalities related to obesity and diabetes?

• Reference: 2015/4349
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 December 2015

How much funding, if any, has the GLA given to the LAS over this mayoralty? Could any figures be broken down on a year-by-year basis?

• Reference: 2015/3720
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Following the news that 90% of hospital chief executives in England support the launch of a 'sugar tax' and in line with your role to tackle health inequalities, what measures would you consider appropriate for London to tackle excess sugar consumption?

• Reference: 2015/3732
• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 18 November 2015

Have you had a chance to read the recent report 'Time Critical', and do you support its core recommendation that there should be a co-responding pilot in London that would see medically trained firefighters attending specific types of emergencies, such as cardiac arrests, alongside paramedics to improve response times?

• Reference: 2015/3266
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Concerns have been raised that London's share of the 'Car-Hill Formula', deciding which proportion of NHS funding is allocated to each city, is not weighted correctly to London's health needs. How important do you think it is that London receives its fair share to enable our health service to help reduce health inequalities?

• Reference: 2015/3268
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 21 October 2015

Following your appointment of Zandra Rhodes as Ambassador for Breast Cancer, what measures have been put in place to raise awareness of the steps that can be taken to reduce breast cancer in London?

• Reference: 2015/2601
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

A study published in the online journal, BMJ Open, found that one in five maternity staff have come into contact with a patient they knew or suspected of having been trafficked, but most healthcare workers report little knowledge or training in how to identify or help victims. What steps are the Metropolitan Police Service in conjunction with NHS London putting into place to ensure that healthcare workers have the knowledge necessary to deal with victims of human trafficking?

• Reference: 2015/2603
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

The government are proposing that every patient in hospital will be assigned their own unique code to ensure they receive the correct medication and treatment as part of plans to make the NHS "paper free" by 2020. Would you see this proposal as a way to assist in the reduction of health inequalities in London?

• Reference: 2015/2604
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 September 2015

Following research by the financial regulator for NHS England , Monitor, which found that a third of patients find it difficult to get a GP appointment, what measures do you think need to be taken to improve access to GP services across the capital, reducing health inequalities in regard to patient care?