Apr. 15 2024
Source Page: Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaksFound: control in adult social care settings Infection prevention and control in adult social care: acute respiratory
Found: Exposure to wildfire smoke can cause respiratory and cardiovascular health impacts over great distances
Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) These include respiratory diseases such as flu and diseases spread by contact, vector-borne or through - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) Next month, World Health Organization member states are expected to vote on the final text. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wheeler (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, it is now two years since the UK Health Security Agency replaced Public Health England. - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) That is how the UK Health Security Agency is making sure we have all the bases covered. - Speech Link
5: Lord Turnberg (Lab - Life peer) health laboratories dotted around the country. - Speech Link
Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department made of the potential risks of discontinuing routine covid-19 testing of hospital patients prior to their discharge to care homes before.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
The public health advice is that now is an appropriate point to end routine asymptomatic discharge testing for COVID-19, and move to a risk-based approach. A reduction in the severity of illness associated with the omicron variant, coupled with a high uptake of the vaccine among residents during the autumn COVID-19 vaccination booster, continued provision of infection prevention and control guidance, and the upcoming increased eligibility for COVID-19 treatments, demonstrates a reduced level of risk from COVID-19 in adult social care settings. In addition, epidemiological studies, and consensus reports from the early phases of the pandemic, suggest that hospital discharge was not dominant in the ingress of COVID-19 into care home settings.
The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) guidance on safe discharge and management of individuals with symptoms of an acute respiratory infection remains in place, and this will be kept under regular review. National Health Service trusts will have local discretion to re-introduce discharge or other forms of testing where clinically appropriate, following a risk assessment involving local authority public health teams, UKHSA Health Protection Teams, and care providers, as necessary in the decision making.
Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions his Department has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on a respiratory syncytial virus vaccination programme.
Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Ministers and officials across government meet regularly to discuss a wide range of issues, including routine and new vaccination programmes. If any RSV programmes are agreed to, they will be announced to the public and health professionals in due course.
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: Non-technical summaries granted in 2024Found: Investigating respiratory distress in poultry 369 45.
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: UKHSA spend over £25,000: 2024Found: -20 00:00:002024-03-01 00:00:00IT61610Software Maint & Support Costs_61610VEA712761P5086745SOW 20 - Health
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: UKHSA spend over £25,000: 2024Found: Pay_26205SPL0FTI003701P5084484QAT Non Functional Testing – Extension of Services122190DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Travellers urged check on vaccinations to protect against risksFound: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is reminding summer holiday-makers, as well as Hajj and Umrah
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Diagnostic checks rolled out to 160 sites under CDC programmeFound: delivered at 160 sites across England as part of the community diagnostic centre (CDCs) programme, Health