Health services and medicine
Health services and medicine news from UK Parliament.
Major prevention inquiry turns to harms caused by alcohol, drugs, gambling and tobacco
MPs will consider harms, including addictive behaviours, in the next stage of their major inquiry into preventing ill-health
09 November 2023
Postcode lottery in urgent and emergency NHS care highlighted by PAC report
Committee publishes report Access to urgent and emergency care
24 October 2023
MPs to debate IVF provision
MPs to debate IVF provision
20 October 2023
MPs to hold a debate on menopause
MPs to hold a debate on menopause
20 October 2023
Chair Comment on Care Quality Commission report
Health and Social Care Committee Chair Steve Brine MP responds to Care Quality Commission report
19 October 2023
Government admits target to eliminate paper prescribing by 2024 will be missed
The Government has acknowledged that it will not meet its commitment to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and introduce digital or e-prescribing across the entire NHS by 2024
19 October 2023
MPs to hold a debate on birth trauma
MPs to hold a debate on birth trauma
16 October 2023
Short debates in the Lords
Members discuss the migration as a result of climate change, prescribing of controlled drugs and bloodstock industries.
15 September 2023
Chair comment on publication of NHS waiting list data
Health and Social Care Committee Chair Steve Brine MP responds to today’s publication of the latest data on July waiting times for hospital care
14 September 2023
MPs launch new inquiry on the work of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee today launches its yearly review of the PHSO annual report and accounts for 2022-23
13 September 2023
Chair Comment on UK rejoining the Horizon science research programme:
Chair Comment on UK rejoining the Horizon science research programme:
07 September 2023
Government rejects action to boost NHS specialist digital workforce
Government responds to the Health and Social Care Committee's report, Digital Transformation in the NHS
06 September 2023
MPs to hold a debate on community pharmacies
MPs to hold a debate on community pharmacies
06 September 2023
MPs to debate PANS and PANDAS
MPs to debate PANS (Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome) and PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections)
06 September 2023
MPs to debate football and sport-related neurodegenerative disease
MPs to debate football and sport-related neurodegenerative disease
06 September 2023