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Select Committee Inquiry
NHS leadership, performance and patient safety
Inquiry Opened: 23rd Jan 2024
Health and Social Care Committee

The Committee is examining the relationship between leadership in the NHS and performance/productivity as well as patient safety. It will consider the findings of and implementation of recent reviews of NHS leadership, such as the Messenger (2022) and Kark (2019) reviews as they relate to patient safety, as well as …


Select Committee Inquiry
Men's health
Inquiry Opened: 20th Jul 2023
Health and Social Care Committee

This inquiry on men’s health will explore a range of issues relating to male health outcomes. Life expectancy for men is consistently lower than for women and fell in 2020. This inquiry is an opportunity to consider the factors driving that difference.

The Men’s Health Forum, a registered charity with …


Select Committee Inquiry
Pharmacy
Inquiry Opened: 8th Jun 2023
Health and Social Care Committee

The pharmacy inquiry will explore issues impacting different types of pharmacy, with a particular focus on community, primary care and hospital pharmacy services.

 

During a time of change and reorganisation across the health and care system, and following upheaval driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, the inquiry will assess the current …


Select Committee Inquiry
Future cancer
Inquiry Opened: 21st Mar 2023
Health and Social Care Committee

The Future Cancer inquiry will explore innovations in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

It will look at the innovations with the greatest potential to transform cancer diagnosis and treatment for patients in the short, medium and long term, and it will examine how innovations in diagnosing and treating cancer can best …


Select Committee Inquiry
Prevention in health and social care
Inquiry Opened: 18th Jan 2023
Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention inquiry: call for proposals

The Health and Social Care Committee is launching a major new inquiry into prevention.

For the first stage of this inquiry, we want to hear from researchers, organisations and individuals interested in or working in preventative healthcare. This is your opportunity to get involved and …


Select Committee Inquiry
The situation in accident and emergency departments
Inquiry Opened: 12th Jan 2023
Health and Social Care Committee

The Health and Social Care Committee will examine pressures on emergency care and whether they contributed to the high number of excess deaths reported for the last week of December.

In a topical session to be held later in January, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Dr …


Select Committee Inquiry
Ambulance delays and strikes
Inquiry Opened: 15th Dec 2022
Health and Social Care Committee

NHS England, ambulance services and paramedics will face questions about what is being done to provide a safe level of emergency cover to the public during strike action.

The topical session is being held on the eve of the first planned strike expected to involve up to 10,000 ambulance workers …


Select Committee Inquiry
NHS dentistry
Inquiry Opened: 7th Dec 2022
Health and Social Care Committee

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an inquiry into dentistry following a survey that showed 90% of practices across the UK were not accepting new adult NHS patients.

MPs will consider to what extent the current NHS dental contract disincentivises dentists from taking on new patients. They will …


Select Committee Inquiry
Assisted dying/assisted suicide
Inquiry Opened: 5th Dec 2022
Health and Social Care Committee

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched an inquiry into assisted dying/assisted suicide.

We would like to hear your views, which will inform the report we write and the recommendations we make to the Government.

At the same time, we can’t help you with individual problems. If you have …


Select Committee Inquiry
IMDDS Review follow up one-off session
Inquiry Opened: 1st Sep 2022
Health and Social Care Committee

MPs will examine government progress on recommendations made by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review in a report, ‘First Do No Harm’, published in 2020 which specifically looked into sodium valproate, hormone pregnancy tests and vaginal mesh. An update by Ministers on progress to implement the government’s …