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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Feb 2021
Covid-19: Vaccines

"My Lords, we welcome the efficiency with which the UK is providing vaccines, but vaccines affect only part of the problem. As my noble friend Lady Thornton and the Minister said, this is indeed a global issue. Prompt diagnosis and early treatment with antivirals will become vital. Time is limited. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 19 Jan 2021
Health: Eating Disorders

"It is very helpful that the Minister recognises the seriousness of anorexia nervosa and other conditions. It remains puzzling, and the causes are not fully understood, but the long-term risks—for example, infertility or the loss of a child during pregnancy or childbirth—are very serious. Given that some of these patients …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Jan 2021
Mental Health Act Reform

"I congratulate the Government on getting Sir Simon Wessely to help them bring about this much-needed reform and will welcome seeing how it progresses in the next year. I want to draw attention to one of the problems about sectioning patients. Two members of my team at different times have …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Covid-19: Vaccinations

"My Lords, speaking from these Benches, I think it would be appropriate to thank the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, very much for the amazing amount of work he has been doing on this very difficult issue. I hope he will continue to take our concerns back to the Department of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Covid-19: Variant

"My Lords, clearly these variants are extremely—[Inaudible]—for all sorts of reasons. Regrettably, the Minister did not answer the question put by my noble friend Lady Thornton yesterday, when she questioned incomplete vaccination. Can the Minister give us clear figures on the risk of mutant varieties of the virus …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 07 Jan 2021
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation and Linked Households) (England) Regulations 2020

"My Lords, I had the privilege of sitting on the Select Committee that looked at the virus. The committee was brilliantly chaired by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, who has already spoken. One thing we heard was that this virus occurred from a mutation and that mutations were likely to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2020
Covid-19 Update

"I thank the noble Lord for repeating the Statement. I concur with what the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, said from the Front Bench. We know from the history of plagues that they occur through travel. This happened in the 1340s and again in the 1660s with the plague of London. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Jan 2020
Health: Sepsis

"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Grade, raises a very important point. Can the Minister tell us what percentage of patients with sepsis have the DNA profile of the bacteria recorded?..."
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Written Question
In Vitro Fertilisation
Monday 20th January 2020

Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many misdiagnoses have been recorded by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority following IVF with preimplantation diagnosis for a specific pathological mutation (1) at the preimplantation stage, and (2) following blastocyst biopsy.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority does not collect this information.

Written Question
In Vitro Fertilisation
Monday 20th January 2020

Asked by: Lord Winston (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what clinical, or other follow up, is being undertaken by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority of children born after (1) embryo biopsy and preimplantation genetic diagnosis of nuclear DNA, (2) chromosome analysis following preimplantation genetic screening, (3) egg and/or embryo cryopreservation, and (4) invitro culture and transfer of embryos at the blastocyst stage of development.

Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has not undertaken any clinical or other follow up in relation to the cohorts identified.