May. 14 2024
Source Page: New levelling up powers to fill empty shops across EnglandFound: Allergy. 2015;70(2):195 - 202. 44. Vanaken GJ, Danckaerts M.
Found: supported by the British Paediatric Respiratory Society (BPRS) and the National Paediatric Respiratory and Allergy
Mentions:
1: Shailesh Vara (Con - North West Cambridgeshire) The coroner’s inquest has not yet reported, but on average, two children in every class have a food allergy - Speech Link
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1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) allergic to dogs—that is an unavoidable fact—but only taxi and minicab drivers can hold exemptions due to allergy - Speech Link
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1: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) they are worse at night or if they occur when you react to a trigger such as exercise, weather or an allergy - Speech Link
May. 07 2024
Source Page: Communal accommodation settings: infectious disease transmissionFound: Statistical analysis: Multivariable model adjusting for gender, age, hours spent indoors, family member allergy
Oral Evidence May. 02 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: Caroline Woollam: We have lots of allergy sufferers in our family, so we have to read through what
Correspondence Apr. 30 2024
Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)Found: Food allergy labelling in restaurants My Committee raised the issue of food allergy labelling in
Asked by: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of operation of law in relation to the provision of adrenaline auto-injectors on commercial aircraft.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Following their review, the Adrenaline Auto-injector Expert Working Group (AAI EWG) recommended in principle that adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) should be made available in public locations, for use in treating anaphylaxis in unforeseen and critical circumstances, provided suitable safeguards can be implemented to ensure their effective and safe use. Challenges lie in ensuring correct and secure storage of AAIs, to ensure that the adrenaline does not deteriorate, and the device remains functional. Cinemas offering food for sale and other food outlets were identified as examples of locations where emergency AAIs might have particular potential to save lives.
The legislative change will therefore concern AAI supply, to specify or define individuals or organisations with the necessary competence to obtain and store AAIs for use in the event of an anaphylactic emergency. The AAI EWG advised the need for access to AAIs in a broad range of settings such as restaurants, gyms, cinemas, childcare facilities, youth groups, and music festivals. To support such wide-ranging access, the scope of legal supply will need to be linked to a requirement for training, to support safe use.
An Expert Advisory Group for Allergy was established in 2023, across the Government and clinical organisations, and chaired by the National Allergy Strategy Group and the Department, to recommend further action by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education, and the National Health Service. The Department of Health and Social Care and the MHRA are currently considering updates to the 2017 guidance, to ensure that any updated clarifications are supported by evidence, and that any open questions are answered.