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  • Coronavirus: Screening

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to guidance that a follow up PCR test is not required following a positive lateral flow test, what measures are in place...

  • Sickle Cell Diseases: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve sickle cell patient care in response to avoidable deaths and failures of care for sickle cell patients...

  • Mental Health Services: Staff

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2022 to Question 113694 on mental health support teams, how many staff make up the average mental...

  • Alcoholism: Rehabilitation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold a consultation with (a) hon. Members and (b) Directors of Public Health on local approaches, initiatives and challenges...

  • Care Homes: Coronavirus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the UK Health and Security Agency will publish data on covid-19 outbreaks in care homes.

  • Care Homes: Coronavirus

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with stakeholders on bringing covid-19 self-isolation guidance for care homes in line with national guidance.

  • Mental Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 25 January 2022, what plans his Department has to...

  • Social Services: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to address inequalities in adult social care receipt by (a) age, (b) gender, (c) ethnicity and (d) geography.

  • Social Services: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to reconsider the funding formulae for local authorities’ social care, service planning and...

  • Care Homes: Visits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the human rights implications of his recently updated care home visiting guidance on the right to private...

  • Sexual Offences

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether prioritisation is given to victims who go through the police referral route to Sexual Assault Referral Centres in England over...

  • Care Homes: Inspections

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inspections have been carried out by the Care Quality Commission to ensure care homes adhered to the guidance with respect to...

  • Mental Health Services: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what changes have been made to mental health services provision for children to help those services respond to increasing demand as a...

  • Mental Illness: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children aged 5-16 have a clinically diagnosable mental problem; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of...

  • Hospitals: Nottinghamshire

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the national discharge taskforce has made on improving the rate of discharge of medically fit patients from hospitals in...

  • Members: Correspondence

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 12 November 2021 and 6 January 2022 on behalf of...

  • Mental Health Services: Schools

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government plans to make changes to the Mental Health Support Teams model to ensure that it is fit for purpose in SEN schools.

  • Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reviewing the prescription charges exemptions list to include...

  • Protective Clothing: Ports

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of personal protective equipment are in storage in shipping containers at UK ports; how many shipping containers are being...

  • Nurses: Training

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been trained as nurses in the last twelve months.

  • Cancer: Health Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the funding announced in the Spending Review 2021 will be allocated to training new staff for key cancer professions.