Lord Markham: ...have managed to get screening times down the most. We have the opportunity to put CDCs in the areas of most need. We all agree that there is unprecedented demand and that we have to expand supply; there is no other way to meet that demand but to expand supply.
Lord Markham: ...cardiovascular disease in later life, and an ambitious prevention agenda to tackle the most common preventable diseases among older people. For example, encouraging people in mid-life to stop smoking, reduce their alcohol consumption and improve their diet to help reduce the risk of developing dementia, disability and frailty in later life. The Government will also publish a Major...
Bob Blackman: ...and Social Care, how much money NHSE planned to allocate to Integrated Care Boards to fully implement the NHS Long Term Plan tobacco dependence treatment services in 2023-24 as at February 2022; how much money was allocated to ICBs for those services after the publication of the Spring Statement 2022, CP 653; and whether any, additional funding has been allocated by NHSE during financial...
Lorna Slater: ...Parliament, elected by the people of Scotland, so chose. That is why Labour, in those early years, took a distinctive path on homelessness reform, for example, and led the way in the UK on the smoking ban. Since then, this Parliament has continued to choose a distinctive path for Scotland, on tuition fees, the child payment, free bus travel for under-22s, the rent cap and so on. The...
Helen Whately: ...years of good health and taking action to reduce the risk factors for cardiovascular disease that are also risk factors for vascular dementia. For example, encouraging people in mid-life to stop smoking, reduce their alcohol consumption and improve their diet to help reduce the risk of developing dementia, disability and frailty in later life. The Government recently announced that it will...
Andrew Lewer: ...ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of WHO's implementation of harm reduction strategies to help reduce smoking; and will he make a statement.
Neil O'Brien: ...cost attributed to each of the risk factors outlined are explained in the following reports. The estimated air pollution related costs to the NHS can be found in the Public Health England report ‘Estimation of costs to the NHS and social care due to the health impacts of air pollution: summary report’ (2018) which is available at the following link:...
Earl Howe: ...begin by addressing Amendments 449 and 450 in the name of my noble friend Lord Holmes of Richmond, to whom I listened with great care and respect. These two amendments relate to the definition of “relevant highway”. The Government support making it as easy as possible for businesses and local authorities to facilitate outdoor eating and drinking through the use of the streamlined...
Richard Foord: It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for North Devon (Selaine Saxby) for securing this debate. I will spend a few moments thinking about the local, national and international aspects of plastic pollution in the oceans. Turning first to local things, plastic pollution in my part of Devon is being dealt with by enthusiastic...
Gareth Davies: ...duty escalator, with additional increases being made for hand-rolling tobacco and to the minimum excise tax on cigarettes. Smoking rates in the UK are falling, but they are still too high. Around 13% of adults are smokers. Smoking remains the biggest cause of preventable illness and premature deaths in the UK, killing around 100,000 people a year, and about half of all long-term users. We...
Neil O'Brien: ...to reduce obesity and smoking, which are both massive risk factors for sight loss. We have made good, long-term progress in reducing smoking rates among adults, which have come down from about 21% in 2010 to 13% now—the lowest on record. Of course, that still means that we have one in seven adults smoking, which is why on 11 April I announced a package of new measures to achieve our...
Neil O'Brien: ...a date for that paper yet, but it will be out relatively shortly. We are tackling the major conditions because these health disparities that we are all concerned about are not mediated by magic; they are mediated by physical things that happen. First among them is probably smoking. Smoking rates are highest in the poorest places, and that is a powerful driver of all of these other major...
Lord Markham: ...policy agenda that sets out a shift to integrated, whole-person care. The Strategy will tackle conditions that contribute most to morbidity and mortality across the population in England: cancers; cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes; chronic respiratory diseases; dementia; mental ill health; and musculoskeletal conditions. An interim report will be published in the summer.
Geraint Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which public health factors created the 10 largest direct cost impacts on the NHS in 2021; and how much the NHS spent in 2021 on tackling the health impacts of the following public health factors: (a) air pollution, (b) alcoholism, (c) obesity, (d) excessive salt consumption and (e) smoking.
Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of adults that have been hospitalised due to second-hand smoke inhalation in the latest period for which data is available.
Neil O'Brien: We have no current plans to make an assessment. There is clear evidence that vapes are substantially less harmful to health than smoking and are an effective tool to help smokers to quit. On 11 April 2023, we announced a new national swap to stop scheme offering a million active smokers across England a free vaping starter kit alongside behavioural support.
Lord Markham: ...right. I was speaking to Minister Caulfield about this very subject this morning. She pointed out that a lot of the reasons for the differences are underlying health conditions and factors such as smoking, weight and alcohol consumption, as well as diabetes. Education is a key part of this, as is continuity of care, and making sure that there is prenatal and postnatal care is absolutely a...
Gareth Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase awareness of the health effects of switching from smoking to vaping.
Neil O'Brien: I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Dr Hudson) for securing this very important and timely debate on youth vaping, and for his excellent speech. Lots of Members have made important contributions to policy in this area, and I pay tribute to them for that, as well as for their contributions today. Until recently, our regulations—including on the minimum age of sale,...
Claire Baker: ...loneliness is often challenged by the evidence. The Mental Health Foundation Scotland has identified those most at risk of severe or lasting loneliness. That group includes: people aged 16-24; people going through life-changing experiences such as being widowed; and people who can be marginalised, including those from the ethnic minority or LGBTQ+ communities. That information was gathered...
