Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure good standards of urology care in the NHS.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have established the National Bladder and Bowel Health Project to improve continence care across the whole public health and care system. It has also published ‘Excellence in Continence Care’ a practical guide for leaders and commissioners.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have published ‘Transforming elective care services Urology’ a handbook that describes what local health and care systems can do to improve urology elective care services and ensure that patients receive appropriate care.