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Written Question
Allergies
Friday 21st July 2017

Asked by: Jon Cruddas (Labour - Dagenham and Rainham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the level of knowledge which doctors are expected to have on allergies; and whether that level of knowledge is tested both at undergraduate and postgraduate level examinations.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The Department does not set curricula for the education and training of the health and social care workforce and therefore does not hold the information requested.

The standards around the education of healthcare professions are set by the appropriate regulatory body. In the case of doctors this is the General Medical Council (GMC), while the Nursing and Midwifery Council sets the standards for the education of nurses and midwives, including health visitors.

The GMC sets the educational standards for all United Kingdom doctors through undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. It ensures that this reflects the needs of patients, medical students and doctors in training, and the healthcare systems across the UK.

Written Question
Allergies
Friday 21st July 2017

Asked by: Jon Cruddas (Labour - Dagenham and Rainham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that health visitors, midwives, community doctors and nurses are allergy-aware.

Answered by Philip Dunne

The Department does not set curricula for the education and training of the health and social care workforce and therefore does not hold the information requested.

The standards around the education of healthcare professions are set by the appropriate regulatory body. In the case of doctors this is the General Medical Council (GMC), while the Nursing and Midwifery Council sets the standards for the education of nurses and midwives, including health visitors.

The GMC sets the educational standards for all United Kingdom doctors through undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. It ensures that this reflects the needs of patients, medical students and doctors in training, and the healthcare systems across the UK.

Written Question
Allergies
Thursday 20th July 2017

Asked by: Jon Cruddas (Labour - Dagenham and Rainham)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Minister of his Department leads on policy relating to allergies.

Answered by Steve Brine

As the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care, I am responsible for policy relating to long term conditions, including allergies.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Apr 2016
World Autism Awareness Week

"Last Saturday, anticipating today’s debate, and in his customary elegant way, Guardian columnist John Harris wrote an excellent summation of some of the issues around autism. He ended his piece with these words:

“Our culture still too often couches autism in terms of pity or fear as an essentially Victorian …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 28 Apr 2016
World Autism Awareness Week

"The issues that some of us planned to raise in the debate that was cancelled on Monday evening concerned precisely some of the pressures on the system, especially for special needs children. That takes us back to a point that I wished to raise about problems with diagnosis, entry points …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 15 Jul 2015
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

"I will be brief, given that I want to leave sufficient time for the shadow Minister and the Minister to respond. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) on securing this debate.

From the contributions so far, I think we would all agree on what …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Nov 2011
King George Hospital

"I echo every point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) in her powerful speech, which I think will resonate with the local community. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) on securing this debate and on the extensive speech …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 08 Nov 2011
King George Hospital

"I agree. The point has been made in Havering, Barking and Dagenham, and Waltham Forest, as well as Redbridge.

The fourth point relates to evidence of no gains from the previous transfer of services in the sub-region. There has already been a long, ongoing transfer of services form King George …..."
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