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 improve the management of urinary catheters in (a) NHS hospitals and (b) the community.
In 2019, the National Health Service published tools developed for hospitals and community settings as part of the antimicrobial resistance programme. The 2021/2022 programme supports integrated care systems to use Right Care data packs to plan and implement appropriate interventions, including the management of urinary catheters in these settings.