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Written Question
Earwax: Medical Treatments
Wednesday 24th November 2021

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provision there is for micro suction for ear wax removal across NHS England; how many micro suction facilities are available in (a) England and (b) Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The information is not collected centrally.

Written Question
Earwax: Medical Treatments
Wednesday 24th November 2021

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the latest NICE guidance is on water syringing for the removal of ear wax.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Manual ear syringing is no longer advised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) due to risks associated, such as trauma to the ear drum or infection.

The NICE guideline on the assessment and management of hearing loss in adults includes recommendations on ear wax removal. The guidance suggests considering ear irrigation using an electronic irrigator, micro suction, or another method of earwax removal such as manual removal using a probe. Pre-treatment wax softeners are advised for use before carrying out ear irrigation. NICE’s guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng98/chapter/Recommendations#removing-earwax

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Nov 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"T8. As ear syringing is no longer being undertaken in local surgeries, and as self-care does not work for many people, will the Government make sure that microsuction is at least available in every primary care network area? Otherwise, we are leaving people to go deaf...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Oct 2021
NHS England Funding: Announcement to Media

"Thousands of new homes are being built to the east of Leighton Buzzard and to the north of Houghton Regis. Does my hon. Friend agree that those residents deserve a plan for a rational and budgeted increase in general practice capacity?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 22 Oct 2021
Health Incentives Scheme

"A few years ago the Food Foundation pointed out that healthier food is often cheaper in Europe than unhealthier food; perhaps we could look at that. The young people of Jamie Oliver’s foundation, Bite Back 2030, have identified that healthier options in schools are often more expensive and do not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Oral Answers to Questions

"Of course I agree with every word of that very fine tribute to our two lost colleagues.

I represent an area of high housing growth so general practice provision needs to increase as the houses go up, but my clinical commissioning group tells me that NHS capital often appears at …..."
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Written Question
General Practitioners
Tuesday 19th October 2021

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

What steps he is taking to increase patient access to GPs.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

On 14 October we published a comprehensive new plan to support general practitioners (GPs) and to make it easier for patients to see or speak to GPs and their teams.

Our plan is supported by a new £250 million Winter Access Fund to assist patients with urgent care needs to be seen by their practitioner on the same day, taking account of their preferences.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Covid-19 Update

"Covid has been tough for all health professionals, so will the Secretary of State wholeheartedly condemn the abuse that some GPs have been suffering recently? If vulnerable people are unable to get through on the telephone to their surgery, should it be the clinical commissioning group or the Department that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Covid-19 Update

"Can I thank my hon. Friend for his unfailing courtesy and diligence in responding to MPs week after week in respect of his duties, and also ask him if he could share with the House the results of the test to release experiment? Like many businesses in my constituency, the …..."
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