The reopened Social care: funding and workforce inquiry seeks to establish how much extra money would need to be spent by government in each of the next five years to counteract the impact of a shortage of care on the NHS. Shortages in the social care workforce and what solutions …
The Committee will hear from Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE, the Government's preferred candidate for the role of Chair of NICE, to assess her suitability for the role in accordance with the Liaison Committee’s guidance.
The inquiry is considering the management of the coronavirus epidemic by the Government and its agencies. MPs are looking at measures to safeguard public health, options for containing the virus and how well the NHS is dealing with the outbreak.
Preparations of community services, the likely impact on routine NHS …
In its report, the National Audit Office (NAO) finds that NHS England has missed the Department of Health and Social Care's performance standard for the uptake of nearly all pre-school vaccinations in England in 2018-19.
Since 2012-13, nearly-all pre-school …
The Health and Social Care Committee will be holding an evidence session with the Chair, Chief Executive and Chief Inspectors of the Care Quality Commission to discuss its annual State of Health and Adult Social Care Services report.
A full call for evidence is not being issued in connection with …
The Health and Social Care Committee will be holding an evidence session on NHS capital funding. The session will examine the capital requirements of the NHS, difficulties experienced by provider organisations in accessing capital and plans for future expenditure.
The Health and Social Care Committee will be following up on its inquiry (Childhood obesity: Time for action), and its predecessor’s work (Childhood obesity: brave and bold action and Childhood obesity: follow-up) by holding an evidence session on childhood obesity.
The committee invites …
The state of dentistry in England is cause for public concern and the Committee is launching an inquiry into dentistry services.
Dentistry has been a part of the NHS since its inception in 1948. In 1951, charges for dentures, the first charges of any kind for NHS treatment, were introduced. …
The Committee heard from the Minister of State for Health, Stephen Hammond, on the Government's review of the impact of NHS Overseas Visitor Charging Regulation on Tuesday 25 June. Subsequent correspondence from the Minister may be found here.