Written questions

1,057 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the mental health and wellbeing of the community pharmacy workforce.

6 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incontinence: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken an assessment of the impact of health interventions provided by Continence Advisory Services on patients' outcomes in respect of incontinence.

6 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incontinence: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department last made an assessment of the state of continence care in England.

6 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Incontinence: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) set out the timeframe for the NHS Supply Chain’s National Bladder and Bowl Health Project and (b) provide details of which stakeholders have been consulted in respect of that project

25 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endoscopy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using single-use endoscopes on (a) hospital-acquired infections, (b) patient safety and (c) the prevalence of antibiotic res

25 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Endoscopy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to help ensure providers enable patients choice on whether a (a) single-use or (b) reusable endoscope is used in their endoscopy treatment; and if he will make a statem

25 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Care: Endoscopy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of using single use endoscopes in community care settings; and if he will make a statement.

18 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of uprating overseas pensions.

18 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: British Overseas Territories

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps has her Department has taken to support pensioners living in British Overseas Territories.

18 May 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to support overseas British pensioners.

21 Apr 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Trees

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the difference between (a) arboriculture and amenity trees and (b) forestry and woodland.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help ensure that the implementation of the National Outpatients Transformation Programme’s guidance on improving personalised care follow up for chronic kidne

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the 11 renal clinical networks established by NHS England and NHS Improvement will report on local renal priorities.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what selection process her Department used for selecting the participants of the Renal Services Transformation Programme’s five clinical workstreams.

21 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Renal Services Transformation Programme’s clinical workstreams on (a) improving access, (b) identifying best practice, (c) developing solutions to chronic kidney disease, (d) acute kidney

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2022 to Question 135529 on Kidney Diseases: Health Services, what steps he is taking to implement the National Outpatients Transformation Programme’s guidance on

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2022 to Question 135529 on Kidney Diseases: Health Services, when the 11 renal clinical networks will report on local renal priorities.

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2022 to Question 135529 on Kidney Diseases: Health Services, what selection process was used for participation in the Renal Services Transformation Programme’s fi

14 Apr 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2022 to Question 135529 on Kidney Diseases: Health Services, what his planned timetable for the reporting of findings from the Renal Services Transformation Progr

29 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to tackle pressures faced by community pharmacies by increasing the size of the community pharmacy workforce.

29 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to implement a long-term vision for the future of local pharmacies.

29 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to expand the role of pharmacy teams to support public health.

29 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to ensure the clinical skillset of the community pharmacy workforce is more effectively utilised.

29 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy: Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he intends to use local pharmacy teams to increase capacity in primary care.

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Dialysis Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department plans to take to mitigate the potential effect of rising energy costs on health inequalities for people with kidney failure receiving home dialysis treat

28 Mar 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy: Dialysis Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government plans to take to help ensure that people with kidney failure receiving home dialysis treatment, which uses large volumes of electricity, are able to main

24 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) eliminate the shortfall in the overall number of women who underwent breast screening as a result of the covid-19 outbreak and (b) catch up with the estim

24 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the proportion of urgent referrals for suspected breast cancer that met the 28 day faster diagnosis standard was (a) in general and (b) according to diagnosis outcome in each month for the las

23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take steps to identify vulnerable groups who will continue to be entitled to free covid-19 lateral flow tests after 1 April 2022; and whether those groups will in

23 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which vulnerable groups of people will be able to continue to receive free covid-19 lateral flow tests after 1 April 2022; and whether tests will be made available to people with symptoms of covid-

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