Mentions:
1: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Melton) half report either being in an accident or knowing someone who has been in one. - Speech Link
2: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab - Gower) Will she alert and raise this issue with the relevant Ministers and Departments, and advise me on how - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) It is running outreach and undertaking casework, and operates both inside and outside the UK. - Speech Link
4: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) At Harvard, they have torn down the stars and stripes and raised a foreign one, and at George Washington - Speech Link
5: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) billion share buy-back scheme to inflate its own share price, rather than to help tackle the climate emergency - Speech Link
Asked by: Catherine West (Labour - Hornsey and Wood Green)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to NHS A&E departments to ensure staff are aware that A&E services are free of charge regardless of immigration status.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department issues guidance to the National Health Service on charging overseas visitors for some NHS services. This guidance is reviewed regularly and makes it clear that some services, including accident and emergency, are free at the point of delivery for everyone. NHS England works with Overseas Visitor Managers in NHS trusts to operationalise this guidance effectively.
Apr. 30 2024
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Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Defence Land Safety and Environmental RegulationsFound: Defence Land Safety and Environmental Regulations
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Defence Land Safety and Environmental RegulationsFound: Defence Land Safety and Environmental Regulations
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Defence Land Safety and Environmental RegulationsFound: Defence Land Safety and Environmental Regulations
Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024
Inquiry: Children’s social careFound: Disabled Children’s Partnership, National Network of Parent Carer Forums, and Kids Oral Evidence
Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) feel able to meet patient need, and 70% of departments are more concerned about out-patient backlogs - Speech Link
2: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) might be things such as the treatment people need when they are in urgent care after a road traffic accident - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) is clear that we are facing a sight loss health emergency, and there is an urgent need for a national - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) on ophthalmology hospital departments. - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) impact of the availability of treatment for people in urgent care after, for example, a road traffic accident - Speech Link
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Civil justice statistics in Scotland 2022-23Found: moving to all other case type s, were enabled by Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 emergency legislation
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to publicise opt-out testing for HIV to those attending emergency departments.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
HIV testing is essential, as it allows those with HIV to be offered lifesaving treatment, and prevents its onward transmission. This is why we have committed to scaling up HIV testing in our HIV Action Plan. As part of the HIV Action Plan, NHS England made an initial £20 million available over three years to 2025, for HIV opt-out testing in 34 emergency departments (EDs) in areas with extremely high HIV prevalence, areas with five or more HIV cases per 1,000 residents aged 15 to 59 years old. The plan also included Blackpool in 2019, at 4.9 HIV cases per 1,000 residents aged 15 to 59 years old, and the whole of London, including some local areas with high HIV prevalence supported with additional funding from NHS London.
In November 2024, the Government announced new research, commissioned through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, to evaluate an expansion of blood-borne virus opt-out testing, including HIV, in 47 additional EDs in local areas of England with high HIV prevalence. These would be areas with two to five HIV cases per 1,000 residents aged 15 to 59 years old, and would include the Wexham Park Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital in Slough. The research project is currently in the set-up phase, and funding will support 12 months of testing for each ED, although it is at the discretion of individual sites when the testing will commence. It is the responsibility of individual EDs to make service users aware of the availability of HIV and other blood-borne virus opt-out testing, as appropriate.
HIV opt-out testing in EDs in areas with extremely high HIV prevalence has shown very encouraging outcomes so far, and at 21 months has delivered 2.6 million HIV tests, and found more than 1,000 people with undiagnosed or untreated HIV, including those who would not have been found via other testing routes. Making HIV testing routine in a front-line health care setting such as an ED, raises the awareness of HIV and helps remove the stigma associated with HIV testing.
We are also working to improve workforce training in the National Health Service to increase HIV awareness, and in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), to continue to monitor the levels of stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV within the health and social care system, as well as within community settings. The UKHSA published the positive voices survey report in early 2024, which presents key indicators for HIV stigma, and is available at the following link:
Further work is underway to develop key indicators for monitoring quality of life and stigma for people living with HIV.