Urinary Tract Infections: Screening
(asked on 14th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to UTI testing, what steps he is taking to support (a) better pain management, (b) treatment options and (c) additional education for the medical profession for that type of testing.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance has provided guidance for clinicians to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of urinary tract infections (UTIs), which includes advice on self-care and pain management. In October 2018, NICE published ‘Urinary tract infection (recurrent): antimicrobial prescribing’ in order to improve treatment, which is available at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng112
NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Accelerated Access Collaborative are working with NICE and the National Institute for Health and Care Research to identify the technologies which could potentially be accelerated into adoption in the National Health Service in England.
In addition, NHS England and NHS Improvement’s RightCare Programme have developed a dashboard incorporating metrics relevant to monitoring the quality of care of patients with UTIs. This dashboard supports senior leaders in integrated care systems in assurance and oversight of UTI care and health professionals with quality improvement. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s UTI workstream focuses on developing a co-ordinated pathway-based approach to improving the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of UTIs.
Health Education England’s e-learning for healthcare has also added a new session to the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infections eLearning programme, which is available at the following link: