Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, If she will make an assessment of the potential impact on women's health of the Government's progress on implementing the recommendations of the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review entitled First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Patient safety and women’s health is a top priority for this Government.
That’s why since the ‘First Do No Harm’ report we have:
o Appointed England’s first Patient Safety Commissioner
o Setup specialist centres for women impacted by mesh
o Piloted ways doctors can declare their interests
o And launched a national mandatory Medical Device Outcome Registry.
Beyond this, we published the first Women’s Health Strategy for England, which set out our plans for improving how the health and care system listens to women.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of harm reduction approaches for people using tobacco and vaping products to end their dependencies.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Smoking is responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom, and causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It also costs our country £17 billion a year, and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service. Smoking is an addiction and there is no liberty in addiction. It causes harm to not only to the smoker but to the whole of society. That is why we have introduced the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, to create the first smokefree generation and enable us to further crack down on youth vaping. In addition, we are investing an additional £70 million per year, over five years, to support local authority commissioned stop smoking services. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is available at the following link:
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3703.
Quitting smoking completely, immediately, and permanently is the best thing a smoker can do for their health, and smokers are three times as likely to succeed with stop smoking services (SSS) when compared to an unsupported quit attempt. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published recommendations on supporting people who do not want, or are not ready, to stop smoking in one go, to reduce the harm from smoking. The NICE’s guidance advises that the health benefits from reducing smoking are unclear, but if smokers reduce their smoking now, they are more likely to stop smoking in the future.
Mar. 18 2024
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Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: from the ‘First Do No Harm’ review, we acknowledge the appointment of a Patient Safety Commissioner
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: My first point is that leadership is challenging at the best of times in the NHS, but even so, there
Written Evidence Feb. 07 2024
Inquiry: The Coroner Service: follow-upFound: Even when we do find effective solutions to prevent avoidable harm, these are shared slowly and implemented
Apr. 23 2024
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Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to implement all of the recommendations contained in the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review was clear in its finding that the healthcare system failed to listen to patients’ concerns on the issues covered by the review. The Government’s 2021 response to the review set out which of the review’s recommendations the Government had accepted. We also published an update in an online-only format in December 2022 setting out progress made against those recommendations, which includes appointing the first ever Patient Safety Commissioner in England to champion patients’ voices in relation to the safety of medicines and medical devices. In April 2023, the Government also responded to the recommendations made by the Health and Social Care Committee in its report ‘Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response’, published in January 2023. A copy of the follow-up report is attached.
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review was clear in its finding that the healthcare system failed to listen to patients’ concerns on the issues covered by the review. The Government’s 2021 response to the review set out which of the review’s recommendations the Government had accepted. We also published an update in an online-only format in December 2022 setting out progress made against those recommendations, which includes appointing the first ever Patient Safety Commissioner in England to champion patients’ voices in relation to the safety of medicines and medical devices. In April 2023, the Government also responded to the recommendations made by the Health and Social Care Committee in its report ‘Follow-up on the IMMDS report and the Government’s response’, published in January 2023. A copy of the follow-up report is attached.
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