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Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cosmetic Surgery: Regulation (20 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: The General Medical Council and the Royal College of Surgeons are developing a cosmetic surgery credential. The credential will set out the expectations of doctors working in this area of practice and strengthen regulation and patient protection by ensuring surgeons have appropriate training, qualifications and experience. The cosmetic surgery credential will not be mandatory. However, we...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Down Syndrome Act 2022 (20 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: No specific funding has been allocated. The Down Syndrome Act 2022 requires the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to issue guidance to relevant authorities on the appropriate actions to meet the needs of people with Down Syndrome in the exercise of the relevant functions. The guidance will be developed and published in due course. An assessment of any funding requirements will...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Coronavirus: Screening (20 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: The UK Health Security Agency regularly engages with the diagnostics industry in the United Kingdom and others on the Coronavirus Test Device Approvals (CTDA) process. We will review the CTDA process due by the end of the year and consider its efficiency and transparency.
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Immunosuppression: Coronavirus (20 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: This information is not held centrally.
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (20 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: While there was no specific early engagement programme, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) recent review of its methods and processes for health technology evaluation was overseen by a steering group and working group. The organisations which participated in these groups are as follows: Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, NICE; Centre for Guidelines, NICE;...
International Healthcare Outcomes - Question (19 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: I assure the noble Baroness that I am only too happy to answer the Question standing in her name. The Government value the use of robust international comparisons to help improve and reform health services, and work closely with the OECD in compiling such statistics. The Civitas report is based on data already known to the Department of Health and Social Care, which highlights both where the...
St George’s Hospital: Patient Deaths - Question (18 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: NHS England and Improvement will review the coroner’s prevention of future death reports and respond within the agreed timescales. The coroner’s investigations are ongoing. The Government are committed to improving the standard of investigations into serious patient safety incidents in the NHS to create a culture of learning from mistakes and to improve patient safety.
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Immunosuppression: Coronavirus (18 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: The information requested is not held centrally.
Queen’s Speech - Debate (5th Day) (17 May 2022)
Baroness Barran: My Lords, I am pleased to be here to close today’s debate on Her Majesty’s gracious Speech. I pay tribute to Her Majesty for her gracious Speech and her 70 years of service in this jubilee year. I thank your Lordships for their thoughtful remarks and contributions throughout this debate; I also thank my noble friend Lady Stedman-Scott for her introduction. Before I go any further, I pay...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Coronavirus: Screening (17 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: Current delays in the Coronavirus Test Device Approval (CTDA) process have been due to further information being sought from applicants during the validation process. However, to ensure applications meet the required standards, expert support has been provided by officials, with 60% of approvals being processed in the last three months. The number of scientific advisors has also been...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Coronavirus: Screening (17 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: The Department’s online only impact assessment included a cost analysis and calculations on the implementation of the Coronavirus Test Device Approvals process. It is intended that this regulation should be cost neutral for taxpayers and as such, the Government recovers the costs from applicants, while ensuring fees are as low as possible. However, through engagement in a public...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Standards (17 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) commits to publishing draft recommendations on new medicines approximately at the time of licensing, with final guidance within three months of licensing wherever possible. In 2021/22, guidance was issued within three months of a licence for 100% of new medicines where NICE proceeded to appraisal and 98 technology appraisals were...
Written Ministerial Statements — Department of Health and Social Care: Correction to HL7677 (12 May 2022)
Lord Kamall: I would like to inform the House that I wish to correct the formal record in relation to a written answer to The Rt Hon. Lord Blencathra on 25 April 2022. The question stated that: "To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impartiality of the individual who is rewriting Annex B of the NHS document, Delivering Same-Sex Accommodation, published in September 2019."...
Queen’s Speech - Debate (1st Day): Motion for an Humble Address (10 May 2022)
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park: My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, and the noble Lord, Lord Newby, and I join them in congratulating my noble friends Lord Sherbourne and Lady Fraser on their excellent speeches. Like all of them, I thank His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for delivering the gracious Speech and send our warmest wishes to Her Majesty the Queen. The whole House knows the...
NHS Mental Health Patients in Private Hospitals - Question (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: Non-NHS providers have always played a role in delivering NHS services for patients since the founding of the NHS. The CQC regulates both NHS and independent providers to deliver care to the highest quality. The Government and the NHS have an ambitious transformation programme to increase investment in community mental health services and to introduce new models of care so that more people...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cystic Fibrosis (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Heart Diseases: Diagnosis (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: No specific assessment has been made.
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Respiratory System: Diseases (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: Systems have been asked to work towards restoring asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) registers and spirometry checks for adults and children to pre-pandemic levels in 2022/23. The Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) for 2022/23 includes respiratory indicators in relation to the diagnosis of asthma and COPD which was fully re-instated in April 2022. For people with a...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Lung Diseases: Death (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: The NHS Long Term Plan proposed interventions which included early and accurate diagnosis, increasing service provision for pulmonary rehabilitation, medicines optimisation, a care bundle for community acquired pneumonia and self-management of respiratory conditions. We are expanding pulmonary rehabilitation into less served communities and improving self-management support for patients with...
Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Multiple Sclerosis: Nurses (28 Apr 2022)
Lord Kamall: Data on the number of multiple sclerosis (MS) specialist nurses working in the National Health Service is not held centrally. Services for adults with MS are part of local neurology services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups. NHS England is leading a programme to develop optimal neurology pathways including, MS services. The MS pathway includes access to specialist nurses for all...