Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the University of Edinburgh's recent study which found that a common steroid could reduce heavy menstrual bleeding.
NHS England and NHS Improvement will await guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on whether the findings from this research should be used to develop best practice care. Currently clinical commissioning groups have a duty to give due regard to implementing NICE’s guidance. NHS England and NHS Improvement encourage all providers to adopt NICE’s guideline NG88, ‘Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management’, which covers assessing and managing heavy menstrual bleeding and also helps healthcare professionals to investigate the causes.