Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) set out the timeframe for the NHS Supply Chain’s National Bladder and Bowl Health Project and (b) provide details of which stakeholders have been consulted in respect of that project.

NHS England established the National Bladder and Bowel Health Project to improve continence care, to further research and implement recommendations from ‘Excellence in Continence Care’ published in 2018. The Project is currently developing bladder and bowel care pathways to be shared with stakeholders, which was paused due to the pandemic. However, a timeframe has not been agreed and no stakeholders have been consulted with as yet.