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Written Question
Hospital Wards: Females
Wednesday 1st May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they plan to strengthen the privacy and dignity of female patients in NHS hospitals.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government is committed to upholding the rights of women and girls and ensuring they are properly represented in healthcare services, communications, and guidance.

That is why we are currently consulting on updates to the NHS Constitution for England to shape the principles and values of the National Health Service and ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients, including women, are embedded in how it operates.

Our proposed changes to the NHS Constitution reinforce the NHS’s commitment to providing single-sex wards and will empower patients to request that intimate care is carried out by someone of the same biological sex, where reasonably possible.

Select Committee
Centre for Policy Studies, University of Oxford, and City, University of London

Oral Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Communications and Digital Committee

Found: did stories uncovering someone who worked in the NHS who had faked her credentials, abused her patients

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030
Document: AIaMD (PDF)

Found: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030
Document: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030 (webpage)

Found: MHRA’s AI regulatory strategy ensures patient safety and industry innovation into 2030

Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: India: UK Science and Innovation Network summary
Document: (PDF)

Found: This builds on a series of discussions flowing out of the AI Safety Summit.

Select Committee
Department of Health and Social Care
 PRT0081 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: This forms part of the Government’s National Maternity Safety Ambition, which also seeks to halve

Select Committee
PRT0015 - Preterm Birth

Written Evidence Apr. 30 2024

Inquiry: Preterm Birth
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Preterm Birth Committee

Found: unable to be started without NICU bed availability for both babies at the start of the induction for safety

Non-Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: Impact of AI on the regulation of medical products
Document: (PDF)

Found: More efficient regulatory services will lead to earlier access to medical products for UK patients and

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) two-state solution is required, with both Palestine and Israel living behind secure borders in peace and safety - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) The safety of our staff is paramount, and a decision was taken in November 2019 to move the last UK base - Speech Link
3: Philippa Whitford (SNP - Central Ayrshire) almost total destruction of the healthcare system and the impact of widespread starvation on their patients - Speech Link

Westminster Hall
Glaucoma and Community Optometry - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) A significant number of patients—some 2,000 to date—have been discharged to the scheme. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) As a result, many glaucoma patients are diagnosed only during routine eye tests. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) That will help us to improve access for patients and deliver quality treatment. - Speech Link