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date	30/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that NICE publishes its reasons for including a recommendation on the use of C-reactive protein testing for patients presenting with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care in its guidance on pneumonia but not in its pneumonia draft quality statement.
tabling member constituency	Erewash
tabling member printed	Maggie Throup
uin	14209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The prioritisation of topics for inclusion in quality standards is a matter for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE has advised that its Quality Standards Advisory Committee considered the inclusion of a quality statement on the use of C-reactive protein testing for patients presenting with lower respiratory tract infection in primary care in its draft quality standard on pneumonia, but felt that this was not an area to be prioritised.</p><br /><p>The minutes of Quality Standards Advisory Committee meetings are published on NICE’s website at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/get-involved/meetings-in-public/quality-standards-advisory-committee" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/get-involved/meetings-in-public/quality-standards-advisory-committee</a></p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 09/11/2015 16:07:25 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup

425122

registered interest
date	30/10/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Respiratory System: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will assess the (a) potential effect on the number of antibiotic and (b) potential change in annual prescription and dispensing costs prescriptions of using C-reactive protein testing for patients presenting with respiratory tract infections in primary care.
tabling member constituency	Erewash
tabling member printed	Maggie Throup
uin	14222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to do so.</p><br /><p>The UK Government is committed to tackling antimicrobial resistance. The UK Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy, published in September 2013, proposed strong, cross-government action to manage this problem. The UK strategy recognises the central part diagnostics, like C-reactive protein tests, play in getting the right antibiotic drug to the right patient at the right time. A working group is actively looking at what can be done to improve diagnostic services.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 09/11/2015 16:11:41 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup