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star this property date less than 2024-03-22more like thismore than 2024-03-22
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Suicide more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2024 to Question 16027 on Suicide, how much of the £57 million allocated for suicide (a) prevention and (b) bereavement services has been allocated to local authorities; and by what date must the funds be spent. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency St Albans more like this
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Daisy Cooper more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>The £57 million of funding was made available across the period from April 2019 to March 2024. Neither the Department nor NHS England holds information centrally on how much of this funding has ultimately gone to local authorities. NHS England allocates funding to integrated care boards, who in turn commission activities across local authority and health settings.</p> more like this
star this property answering member constituency Lewes more like this
star this property answering member printed Maria Caulfield more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T16:29:29.217Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T16:29:29.217Z
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star this property label Biography information for Maria Caulfield more like this
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unstar this property label Biography information for Daisy Cooper more like this
1697800
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Electronic Cigarettes: Sales more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of non-compliant vapes sold on the UK market. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Windsor more like this
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Adam Afriyie more like this
star this property uin 19830 more like this
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unstar this property is ministerial correction false more like this
star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>The Department works closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Trading Standards, and other regulatory enforcement agencies to ensure that products sold in the United Kingdom comply with regulations for all e-cigarette products, and that non-compliant products are removed from the market.</p><p>In April 2023, the Government announced £3 million investment over two years to enhance work on illicit vape enforcement. Led by National Trading Standards, this builds on existing work by local trading standards officers across the country. Through this work, they identified that 2.1 million illicit vapes were seized across England by Trading Standards between 2022 to 2023.</p><p>To strengthen our enforcement activity, the Government will also provide an additional £30 million of funding per year for enforcement agencies, including Trading Standards. This increase in investment will help to stamp out criminal activity by boosting the enforcement of illicit tobacco and vapes.</p>
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T16:32:13.207Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T16:32:13.207Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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1586
unstar this property label Biography information for Adam Afriyie more like this
1697801
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Trading Standards more like this
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star this property pref label House of Commons more like this
star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding will be allocated to each local authority trading standards for enforcing the (a) disposable vapes ban and (b) generational tobacco ban. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Windsor more like this
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Adam Afriyie more like this
star this property uin 19831 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>The Government has committed to increasing investment for enforcement agencies by £30 million per year. The additional funding in England will boost agencies such as local trading standards, to enforce the new age of sale and vaping measures. It will also scale up HM Revenue and Customs and Border Force activity, to stamp out opportunities for criminals in the illicit tobacco trade.</p><p>Of this funding, over £100 million over five years will support HM Revenue and Custom’s and Border Force’s new illicit tobacco strategy, published on 29 January 2024. We are working closely with Trading Standards to consider how the new funding can best support their programmes of local-level enforcement.</p> more like this
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T15:51:02.347Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T15:51:02.347Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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1586
unstar this property label Biography information for Adam Afriyie more like this
1697832
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Electronic Cigarettes more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of taking steps to create a vape-free generation. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency York Central more like this
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Rachael Maskell more like this
star this property uin 19908 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>Smoking is the number one cause of ill-health, disability, and death, responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom, causing around one in four cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service. There is no more dangerous product that is legally sold in our shops than tobacco, a product that will kill two thirds of its users.</p><p>The health advice on vaping is clear, vaping can play a role in helping adult smokers to quit, but if you don’t smoke, don’t vape. Vaping should never be used by, or targeted at, children, especially given the highly addictive nature of nicotine.</p><p>This is why we have announced strong measures to reduce the appeal, availability, and affordability of vapes to children, whilst ensuring that vapes remain an available quit aid for adult smokers. We will also ban the sale and supply of disposable vapes, which are clearly linked to the recent rise in vaping in children.</p>
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T15:52:24.903Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T15:52:24.903Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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4471
unstar this property label Biography information for Rachael Maskell more like this
1697833
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Nutrition more like this
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25259
star this property pref label House of Commons more like this
star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward further policies to help reduce the (a) sugar, (b) fat and (c) salt content in diets. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency York Central more like this
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Rachael Maskell more like this
star this property uin 19909 more like this
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unstar this property is ministerial correction false more like this
star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>Restrictions on the advertising and volume price promotions, such as buy-one-get-one free or three for £2 offers, for less healthy foods will come into force on 1 October 2025. The advertising legislation will lead to the introduction of a 9:00pm television watershed and restrict paid-for advertising of less healthy products online, United Kingdom wide.</p><p> </p><p>Impact assessments already published for these measures show that the volume price promotions restrictions are expected to accrue health benefits of £2 billion, and National Health Service savings of £180 million over 25 years. The advertising restrictions are expected to deliver health benefits of £2 billion, and NHS savings of £50 million over the next 100 years.</p><p> </p><p>Voluntary guidelines to reduce levels of sugar and salt in, and improve the labelling of, commercial baby food and drink aimed at those aged up to 36 months old, are currently being finalised and will be published in the spring.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses are being given until the end of 2025 to deliver the sugar and calorie reduction targets through the voluntary reformulation programme. These targets were due to be delivered earlier than this, but businesses have been given additional time because of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food system. The Government will continue to monitor this area, but will explore other levers if progress is not made. Through the sugar reduction workstream of the overarching reformulation programme, between 2015 and 2020 reductions in sugar levels were delivered in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed flavoured milk based drinks of 14.9%, 13.5%, and 29.7%, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Discussions are also underway to establish a Food Data Transparency Partnership (FDTP). This is a multi-year partnership between the Government, industry, and civil society to improve access to, and the availability of, data to build consistent reporting requirements for businesses on key health and sustainability objectives.</p>
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T15:49:32.273Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T15:49:32.273Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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4471
unstar this property label Biography information for Rachael Maskell more like this
1697834
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Obesity more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of obesity; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle obesity. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency York Central more like this
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Rachael Maskell more like this
star this property uin 19910 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>The Government is delivering a wide range of measures to reduce the numbers of both adults and children who are overweight, or living with obesity. To date this includes legislative measures to limit the advertising, and location and price promotion, of less healthy products, and to ensure calorie levels are provided on menus when eating out of the home. Impact assessments for the legislated measures suggest there will be substantial health benefits, as well as savings to the National Health Service, accrued.</p><p>We have seen important successes through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), which between 2015 and 2020 has seen sugar levels reduced by 46% in, and over 46,000 tonnes of sugar removed from, products in scope of the levy. Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey from 2019 shows that sugar intakes have fallen for some age groups. In older children and adolescents, this appears to be partly driven by soft drinks contributing less to sugar intakes, likely as a result of the changes made to drinks included in the SDIL. Further information from the survey is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-9-to-11-2016-to-2017-and-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-9-to-11-2016-to-2017-and-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>A paper on the association of obesity in primary school children and the SDIL suggests that the reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks delivered by the SDIL could have prevented up to 5,000 cases of obesity in girls in the last year of primary school. Reductions were greatest in girls who attended schools in the 40% of the most deprived areas. Further information from the paper is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160" target="_blank">https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160</a></p><p> </p><p>The voluntary reformulation programme requires businesses reduce levels of sugar, salt, and calories in everyday food and drink. Levels of sugar have reduced in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed milk-based drinks by 15%, 13.5%, and 29.7% respectively, between 2015 and 2020. Levels of salt have reduced in some products by 20%.</p>
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T15:54:41.86Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T15:54:41.86Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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4471
unstar this property label Biography information for Rachael Maskell more like this
1697835
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Nutrition more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with the food and drink sector on taking steps to provide healthy alternatives to products that are high in (a) fat, (b) sugar and (c) salt. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency York Central more like this
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Rachael Maskell more like this
star this property uin 19911 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-27more like thismore than 2024-03-27
unstar this property answer text <p>Discussions have been held by officials with the food and drink sector on taking steps to provide healthier alternatives to products that are high in salt since 2004, high in sugar since 2014, and high in calories since 2017. Provision of healthier alternatives to products that are high in saturated fat have been part of those discussions.</p><p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets regularly with external stakeholders on a variety of issues. These ministerial meetings are routinely published on a quarterly basis in arrears on the GOV.UK website. However, my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care will recuse herself on departmental issues relating to outside interests, all of which have been declared to the House and under the Ministerial Code.</p> more like this
star this property answering member constituency South Northamptonshire more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrea Leadsom more like this
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less than 2024-03-27T16:23:14.35Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-27T16:23:14.35Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom more like this
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unstar this property label Biography information for Rachael Maskell more like this
1697846
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Sexually Transmitted Infections: Notifiable Diseases more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: proposed amendments which closed on 15 November 2023, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the inclusion of (a) gonorrhoea and (b) syphilis in the list of notifiable diseases on the (i) principle of confidentiality for sexual health service users and (ii) willingness of individuals to access sexual health services. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Romsey and Southampton North more like this
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Caroline Nokes more like this
star this property uin 19850 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-26more like thismore than 2024-03-26
unstar this property answer text <p>Patient confidentiality is of vital importance to retain patients’ trust in sexual health services, and to encourage access to advice, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).</p><p>A public consultation seeking views on proposals to amend the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 was held between 12 July and 15 November 2023. This included the proposal to add specific STIs to schedule 2 of the regulations to strengthen surveillance. The consultation asked for views on the consequences of this change, including whether it could negatively impact public trust in the confidentiality of sexual health services and data and risk creating a barrier to accessing sexual services.</p><p>The Department and the UK Health Security Agency are considering the responses to the consultation and are grateful for stakeholders’ continued engagement on this topic.</p> more like this
star this property answering member constituency Lewes more like this
star this property answering member printed Maria Caulfield more like this
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less than 2024-03-26T13:28:20.747Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-26T13:28:20.747Z
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4492
star this property label Biography information for Maria Caulfield more like this
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4048
unstar this property label Biography information for Caroline Nokes more like this
1697848
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Sexually Transmitted Infections: Notifiable Diseases more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to consult key sector stakeholders before final decisions are taken on proposed sexual health reporting amendments included in her Department's consultation entitled Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: proposed amendments which closed on 15 November 2023. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Romsey and Southampton North more like this
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Caroline Nokes more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-26more like thismore than 2024-03-26
unstar this property answer text <p>Patient confidentiality is of vital importance in sexual health to retain patients’ trust in services, and to encourage access to advice, testing, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. A public consultation seeking views on proposals to amend the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations (HPNR) 2010 was held between 12 July and 15 November 2023. This included a commitment that any decision on adding specific sexually transmitted infections to schedule 2 of the regulations would be shaped by consultation responses and engagement with stakeholders.</p><p>The Department and the UK Health Security Agency are considering the responses to the consultation and are grateful for stakeholders’ continued engagement on this topic.</p> more like this
star this property answering member constituency Lewes more like this
star this property answering member printed Maria Caulfield more like this
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less than 2024-03-26T13:36:20.957Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-26T13:36:20.957Z
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4492
star this property label Biography information for Maria Caulfield more like this
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4048
unstar this property label Biography information for Caroline Nokes more like this
1697887
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star this property date less than 2024-03-21more like thismore than 2024-03-21
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Department of Health and Social Care more like this
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star this property answering dept short name Health and Social Care more like this
unstar this property answering dept sort name Health and Social Care more like this
star this property hansard heading Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Drugs more like this
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star this property question text To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to give patients access to information on stock levels of ADHD medication at high street pharmacies; and whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving patients access to the Medicines Supply Tool. more like this
star this property tabling member constituency Dulwich and West Norwood more like this
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Helen Hayes more like this
star this property uin 19915 more like this
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star this property date of answer less than 2024-03-26more like thismore than 2024-03-26
unstar this property answer text <p>There were 10,558 community pharmacies in England on 29 February 2024, including 405 distance selling pharmacies. These contractors are independent private businesses contracted to provide services within the National Health Service. While the Department does not monitor their stock levels, it does have a role in managing supply at a national level to help ensure stocks are available from manufacturers to meet demand from patients across the country. We are often made aware of supply issues. Thankfully the vast majority can be managed with no impact to patients.</p><p>We work with the industry, the NHS, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and others working across the supply chain to manage issues and we provide guidance for health care professionals about medicines that are experiencing supply issues on how to manage patients during a disruption where necessary.</p><p>The Medicine Supply Tool is designed to provide information and guidance for healthcare professionals, rather than members of the public. However, a public-facing page on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medicine supply is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-available-medicines-to-treat-adhd/" target="_blank">https://www.sps.nhs.uk/articles/prescribing-available-medicines-to-treat-adhd/</a></p><p>Any patient who is worried about the supply of their medication should speak to their clinician, in the first instance.</p>
star this property answering member constituency Pendle more like this
star this property answering member printed Andrew Stephenson more like this
star this property grouped question UIN 19916 more like this
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less than 2024-03-26T15:22:10.277Zmore like thismore than 2024-03-26T15:22:10.277Z
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star this property label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson more like this
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unstar this property label Biography information for Helen Hayes more like this