Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to help ensure there are effective feedback processes in place for women undergoing hysteroscopy procedures, before and after surgery.

There are arrangements in place for patients to provide feedback, raise a concern or complain about their care, including a National Health Service wide complaints system. These arrangements are an important means of enabling the patient’s voice to be heard and identifying where and how NHS services can be improved.

Hysteroscopy can be done as day case procedures under general, spinal or epidural anaesthesia, and it is important that all information covering both benefits and risks are provided to women, so they can make informed choices about their care. Doctors or nurses carrying out hysteroscopies should ensure that before a woman consents to the procedure, she must be clear on what to expect and be offered pain relief options. NHS England are clear that all doctors or nurses carrying out hysteroscopies must make sure women are listened to before, during and after their procedure.