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date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Kawasaki Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he is taking to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of Kawasaki disease among NHS health professionals.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	214517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Guidance is available from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the assessment and initial management of fever in children under five, and this guidance includes recommendations on recognising the symptoms of Kawasaki disease.</p><p> </p><p>NICE’s clinical guidelines help healthcare professionals deliver the best possible care based on the best available evidence; the guidelines are not mandatory, although health and care commissioners are expected to take them fully into account.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and complications of Kawasaki disease is also available on the National Health Service website.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, learning information and resources for clinicians about Kawasaki disease is available from Societi, The UK Kawasaki Disease Foundation. Societi engages with a range of NHS stakeholders to raise awareness of Kawasaki disease, and has a number of senior clinicians on its Scientific Advisory Board who work in leading NHS institutions and who have expertise in relevant clinical areas such as vasculitis and paediatric cardiology.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/02/2019 15:22:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485638

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Kawasaki Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to support children with Kawasaki disease.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	32239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government published the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases in November 2013. The strategy contains over 50 commitments to ensure people living with a rare disease, such as Kawasaki disease, have access to the best evidence-based care and treatment that health and social services, working with charities, researchers and industry can provide.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricular to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care. This includes training in both scarlet fever and Kawasaki disease.</p><p>Health Education England works with bodies that set curricula such as the General Medical Council and the Royal Colleges to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.</p><p>The Department and its arm’s length bodies have not published any specific guidance on the similarities between Kawasaki disease and scarlet fever.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline on the assessment and initial management of fever in under 5s sets out the circumstances in which a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease should be considered, and Public Health England (PHE) has endeavoured to keep healthcare professionals, schools and the general public informed of the increased incidence of scarlet fever through timely information, news stories and updates on the PHE website and by using social and other media. These awareness raising measures assist general practitioners and other frontline healthcare professionals in reaching a correct diagnosis more quickly and encourage patients to seek medical advice early so that suspected cases receive prompt antibiotic treatment to reduce the risk of complications and limit further transmission.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 32354 32355 32365 question first answered 12/04/2016 16:27:33 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

485657

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Kawasaki Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure accurate and early diagnosis of Kawasaki disease.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	32354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government published the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases in November 2013. The strategy contains over 50 commitments to ensure people living with a rare disease, such as Kawasaki disease, have access to the best evidence-based care and treatment that health and social services, working with charities, researchers and industry can provide.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricular to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care. This includes training in both scarlet fever and Kawasaki disease.</p><p>Health Education England works with bodies that set curricula such as the General Medical Council and the Royal Colleges to seek to ensure training meets the needs of patients.</p><p>The Department and its arm’s length bodies have not published any specific guidance on the similarities between Kawasaki disease and scarlet fever.</p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline on the assessment and initial management of fever in under 5s sets out the circumstances in which a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease should be considered, and Public Health England (PHE) has endeavoured to keep healthcare professionals, schools and the general public informed of the increased incidence of scarlet fever through timely information, news stories and updates on the PHE website and by using social and other media. These awareness raising measures assist general practitioners and other frontline healthcare professionals in reaching a correct diagnosis more quickly and encourage patients to seek medical advice early so that suspected cases receive prompt antibiotic treatment to reduce the risk of complications and limit further transmission.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 32239 32355 32365 question first answered 12/04/2016 16:27:33 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland