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Written Question
Podiatry: Bury South
Monday 17th October 2022

Asked by: Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)

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 (a) podiatry vacancy rates in the NHS in Bury South constituency and (b) the impact these vacancies will have on patient treatment for diabetic foot complications.

Answered by Robert Jenrick

The information requested is not held centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Edenfield Centre: Treatment of Patients

"(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if she will make a statement on the treatment of patients at the Edenfield Centre...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Edenfield Centre: Treatment of Patients

"Thank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. It has been 15 days since “Panorama” aired the deeply distressing scenes from the Edenfield Centre in my constituency, which brought tears across the country, including my own, yet we have heard nothing from the Department. The programme showed some of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"T9. Many people in the Chamber will know of my passion for addressing alcohol harm and addiction. However, 2022 marks a decade since the last alcohol strategy was introduced, and a decade of Government inaction. With deaths reaching the highest level in 20 years and the number of those drinking …..."
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Written Question
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
Monday 24th January 2022

Asked by: Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his letter to INFACT of 3 December 2021, in addition to the pregnancy prevention programme, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) the future safety and (b) further support is directly improved for people and families affected by Sodium Valproate.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

In addition to the valproate pregnancy prevention programme, future safety of valproate is managed within the Medicines in Pregnancy Valproate Registry, based on a core register comprising routinely collected data. The Registry currently includes all women in England who are receiving National Health Service-prescribed valproate and identifies when they are pregnant and accessing NHS care for that pregnancy. Work is ongoing to extend the registry to include women in the devolved administrations.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will shortly bring forward legislation to support the implementation of medicines registries and improve systematic collection of data. This will ensure that neurodevelopmental disorders associated with valproate are better characterised and identified earlier if associated with other antiepileptic drugs.

As set out in the Government’s response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, published on 21 July 2021, we are working to improve the care pathways for children and families affected by medicines in pregnancy, including valproate. This includes tackling the variation in access to services across NHS regions to ensure that care is co-ordinated.

Written Question
Ophthalmic Services: Digital Technology
Wednesday 24th November 2021

Asked by: Christian Wakeford (Labour - Bury South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to introduce digital tools for the (a) referral, (b) diagnosis and (c) management of patients with eye conditions in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

The Eye Care Electronic Referral and Image Sharing programme has been jointly commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHSX to deliver electronic referral management and image sharing which will facilitate improved management of patients with eye conditions. Implementation is currently being trialled with a small number of ‘early adopters’.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Health and Care Bill

"While an energy drink carries not only calorific information but a health warning that drinking too much can have a laxative effect, alcoholic drinks carry no calorific information and no health warning. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that that is a damning indictment of where we are in society and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Health and Care Bill

"Obviously, as the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on alcohol harm, I know that part of the issue with treatment—I am thinking in particular of new clause 16—is the stigma behind alcohol dependency and its still being seen as a personal choice. While we need to overcome the stigma …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Health and Care Bill

"That is greatly appreciated, Mr Deputy Speaker.

I would like to put on record my support for amendments 11, 12 and 13, and new clauses 15 and 16. I also thank the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden). We have heard why he cannot be here; I wish him …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Health and Care Bill

"I reiterate the comment I made earlier that the best way to treat alcohol addiction and dependency is to treat it like a mental health illness, because that is what it is. The best way to do that is to remove the stigma and put more money into mental health, …..."
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