Results 1-20 of 45 for smoking speaker:Rosie Winterton

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Local Government: Standards (19 Oct 2009)

Rosie Winterton: ...fires: secondary (excluding vehicles) 206iv Deliberate fires: secondary (in vehicles) 207 Fires in non-domestic premises 208 Escaping unharmed from accidental dwelling fires 209i Smoke alarms: activated 209ii Smoke alarms: not activated 209iii Smoke alarms: none fitted

Written Answers — Health: Strokes: Ethnic Groups (28 Jun 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...prevention through the production of materials and the dissemination and distribution of these materials. The risk factors which increase an individual's chances of suffering a stroke include smoking, drinking alcohol, poor diet and lack of physical activity. Strokes are also more likely in those who suffer from hypertension and diabetes. Through the public health White Paper "Choosing...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Prisons (25 Jun 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...for prison health services has been fully devolved to primary care trusts (PCT). For each of the financial years 2003-06, the Department provided an additional £500,000 funding to bring smoking cessation services into prisons in England, including nicotine replacement therapy, in line with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines. Resources are now contained...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Prisons (21 Jun 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...practitioner. This would include those prisoners attending for court appearance from prison. For each of the financial years 2003-06, the Department provided an additional £500,000 funding to bring smoking cessation services in prisons in England, including NRT, in line with National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines. Resources are now contained within baseline...

Written Answers — Health: Strokes (21 Jun 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...1993-95 to 2002-04. For people aged 65 to 75, the death rate has dropped by 30 per cent. over the same period. The risk factors which increase an individual's chances of suffering a stroke include smoking, drinking alcohol, poor diet and lack of physical activity. Strokes are also more likely in those who suffer from hypertension and diabetes. Through the public health White Paper...

Written Ministerial Statements — Health: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (12 Jun 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...on the 31 May. Anne Lambert, Deputy Permanent Representative to Brussels represented the United Kingdom. The main item on the agenda was an exchange of views on the Commission, consultation on smoke-free environments. Also covered was political agreement on a regulation on advanced therapy medicinal products, and general approaches on three food improvement agents regulations. There was...

Written Answers — Health: Macular Degeneration (9 May 2007)

Rosie Winterton: The main risk factors for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) include smoking and poor diet. The White Paper "Choosing Health" sets out the wide range of action being taken to reduce smoking and improve diet and nutrition. In September 2003, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommended the use of Visudyne in photodynamic therapy for the treatment of wet AMD...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (24 Apr 2007)

Rosie Winterton: Can the hon. Gentleman give me an example of how somebody who smokes a lot of cigarettes will be captured under the Bill because of the changes that we have made?

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (24 Apr 2007)

Rosie Winterton: I am also interested in the hon. Gentleman’s example of the person who smokes a lot of cigarettes potentially being detained because of the changes that we are proposing to the 1983 Act. Which of the exclusions that the hon. Gentleman wants to see would prevent such a person from being detained?

Ivf Treatment (26 Mar 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...that, but we should also look into ways in which infertility can be prevented in some cases—not only through chlamydia screening, which I talked about, but also by addressing issues such as smoking, obesity and general sexual health, so that we can be sure that we are taking account of prevention strategies. We have had a thoughtful discussion of some of the key issues to do with...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Diseases: Irish (26 Mar 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...most prevalent in Irish men and women. The survey also looked at risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Significantly, it shows that Irish men were more obese and that their prevalence for smoking and drinking was higher than the general population. Irish women have higher blood pressure and both drink and smoke more than the general population. These are all risk factors for CVD...

Written Answers — Health: Cholesterol Levels (8 Jan 2007)

Rosie Winterton: ...them derive from the Framingham prediction equations, which estimate CHD risk based on patients' age, gender, blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density cholesterol, presence of diabetes and smoking habit. Relative risk reductions in CHD events in the statin trials appear similar regardless of baseline risk and baseline cholesterol except where baseline cholesterol is less than 5.0...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (4 Sep 2006)

Rosie Winterton: The survey "Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People in England" collects information on secondary school children's smoking behaviour. This includes information on the proportion of children who: are regular smokers; are occasional smokers; have tried smoking; used to smoke, that is, have now given up; have ever smoked; and have never smoked. The methodology for this survey is...

Written Answers — Health: Bowel Cancer (29 Jun 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...is to eat a healthy, balanced diet that is high in fibre, fruit and vegetables, low in fat, and containing a moderate amount of red and processed meat. Other known risk factors include obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption.

Men's Health (28 Jun 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...men; 73 per cent. of adults who go missing are men. Too high a proportion of men suffer from mental health problems, and instead of seeking help they are more likely to turn to drugs, alcohol and smoking to try to alleviate those problems. It is important to raise awareness of men's mental health problems and to have programmes to tackle in a broader sense some of the stigma and...

Asthma Services (7 Jun 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...at a local level for people with asthma. The Minister of State, Department of Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint), who is responsible for public health, has discussed smoking policies with Asthma UK, and I know that she found that very useful. Asthma UK has done a lot of work at a local level. There is a project in West Sussex that provides swimming lessons...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Priorities (5 Jun 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...which will require particular attention in 2006-07, to ensure delivery of national targets by 2008 and beyond: "health inequalities, focusing on life expectancy at birth by focusing initially on smoking cessation; achieving a maximum waiting time of two months (62 days) from urgent referral to treatment and one month (31 days) from diagnosis to treatment for all cancers; achieving an...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer (15 May 2006)

Rosie Winterton: The greatest risk factor for causing lung cancer is smoking tobacco, which causes 90 per cent. of cases of lung cancer in men and 80 per cent. of cases of lung cancer in women. Other risk factors include exposure to industrial carcinogens, such as asbestos, exposure to radon gas and its decay products, and air pollution. Scarring from previous lung disease has been related to increased risk,...

Written Answers — Health: Stroke (3 May 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...patients who have had a stroke or TIA. In addition, the QAF includes points for managing other key risk factors such as treatment and care for atrial fibrillation, management of diabetes, recording smoking status and giving advice on smoking cessation, and setting up and maintaining an obesity register. The Department has commenced work on an 18-month programme to develop a national...

Written Answers — Health: Infant Mortality (18 Apr 2006)

Rosie Winterton: ...year of 1998 (the average of 1997–99) to the target year of 2010. The Department has a number of initiatives aimed at tackling this gap in infant mortality. These include reducing maternal smoking as it is a risk factor for infant mortality, improving breastfeeding rates through a range of initiatives aimed at new and disadvantaged mothers, and improving neonatal services...