Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) I beg to move,That the Committee has considered the draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) We are engaging with key stakeholders such as NHS England, and proposals will be made. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) We all remember that during the covid-19 pandemic the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) We no longer live with the constant fear that the NHS could be imminently overwhelmed—at least not by - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) pandemic and the emergency measures that were taken by the Government and Parliament in implementing the Coronavirus - Speech Link
2: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) NHS waiting lists were at record levels even before the pandemic hit. - Speech Link
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the impact that long covid has had on the NHS workforce.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
No assessment has been made of the potential merits of collecting data on the prevalence of long COVID. On 25 April 2024, the Office for National Statistics will be publishing additional analysis from the fortnightly Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study, including data on trends in ongoing symptoms of COVID-19. This article will expand on the existing analysis published in the Winter Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Study’s data tables, to look more in depth at trends in self-reported symptoms of COVID-19, including ongoing symptoms and associated risk factors. No assessment has been made of the impact that long COVID has had on the National Health Service workforce.
Mar. 01 2024
Source Page: Statement of Excesses 2022-23Found: Commissioning Board, known as NHS England, (including Clinical Commissioning Groups), NHS Providers
Laid - 29 Apr 2024 In Force Not stated
Regulation 2 amends regulation 24 of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/335), which provided exemptions to the requirement that a medical practitioner must be a general medical practitioner included in the medical performers list in order to perform primary medical services. It amends the exemption …
Found: included in the medical performers list may administer a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
Asked by: Baillie, Jackie (Scottish Labour - Dumbarton)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether long COVID data from the Scottish Health Survey have been used in the development of its long COVID service design.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Data from the Scottish Health Survey did not inform the development of ‘Coronavirus (COVID-19): Scotland's Long Covid service’, published on 30 September 2021. This is because the results of the Scottish Health Survey 2021, which included questions on long COVID for the first time, were published on 8 November 2022.
Responsibility for service delivery rests locally with NHS Boards who configure services taking into account local circumstances and the reasonable needs of their patient populations.
Asked by: Clark, Katy (Scottish Labour - West Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government to what extent the effects of long COVID are informing its (a) policy on mask mandates and (b) COVID-19 winter booster vaccination roll-out.
Answered by Minto, Jenni - Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Our guidance to stay well and help others in winter can be found here Respiratory infections including Coronavirus (COVID-19): staying well and protecting others - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . We have no current plans to mandate the wearing of face coverings.
It is due to the success of vaccines in protecting people, driving down cases and the availability of treatments that the guidance on wearing masks was withdrawn.
The Scottish Government follows JCVI for clinical recommendations for vaccination and their current assessment of the evidence does not support the inclusion of long COVID as an eligible at risk health criteria. We intend to continue to be guided by the expert independent advice of the JCVI on this issue.
We continue to monitor studies on COVID-19 vaccination and their relationship to long COVID. There have been a selection of international studies that suggest that receiving COVID-19 vaccination, before infection, can reduce the risk of receiving a diagnosis of long COVID. It is therefore important that we continue to work to improve uptake of our COVID-19 vaccination programmes to potentially prevent more instances of long COVID, but also to continue to protect those at higher risk from severe illness, hospitalisation and death and to protect our NHS.
Mentions:
1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) enabled Covid-19 and flu vaccines to be moved safely between premises by providers operating under NHS - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Testing Requirements and Standards) - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) The regulations themselves are entirely sensible as tidying-up legislation after the coronavirus pandemic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) the UK Health Security Agency has noted, accreditation was not mandatory prior to the pandemic but NHS - Speech Link