Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: NICE annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023Found: piloted a health inequalities calculator while developing guidelines on weight management and metastatic spinal
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: NICE annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023Found: piloted a health inequalities calculator while developing guidelines on weight management and metastatic spinal
Jan. 25 2024
Source Page: NICE annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023Found: piloted a health inequalities calculator while developing guidelines on weight management and metastatic spinal
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether the absence of special provisions in the NHS to provide routine diagnostic tests such as mammograms and cervical smears to women who are paralysed following a spinal cord injury and are wheelchair bound complies with the Equality Act 2010.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Under the Equality Act 2010 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012, National Health Service screening providers have a legal duty to make sure screening services are accessible to everyone, including people with one or more protected characteristics.
NHS England is committed to improving the accessibility of the screening programmes it commissions under the Public Health Services (S7a) agreement, particularly for under-served groups in society such as those with disabilities. Contractually, providers of NHS screening services are required to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that their services are accessible for people with disabilities.
Services make reasonable adjustments within the constraints of equipment, to ensure that disabled people are offered the opportunity to have screening, however there may be situations where this is not possible. Providers will deal with these on a case-by-case basis and offer an alternative approach as necessary.
Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that routine diagnostic tests, such as mammograms and cervical smears, are made available on the NHS to women who are paralysed following spinal cord injury and are wheelchair bound.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Under the Equality Act 2010 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012, National Health Service screening providers have a legal duty to make sure screening services are accessible to everyone, including people with one or more protected characteristics.
NHS England is committed to improving the accessibility of the screening programmes it commissions under the Public Health Services (S7a) agreement, particularly for under-served groups in society such as those with disabilities. Contractually, providers of NHS screening services are required to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that their services are accessible for people with disabilities.
Services make reasonable adjustments within the constraints of equipment, to ensure that disabled people are offered the opportunity to have screening, however there may be situations where this is not possible. Providers will deal with these on a case-by-case basis and offer an alternative approach as necessary.
Jan. 22 2024
Source Page: Brain and central nervous system cancer: clinical quality performance indicators - engagement documentFound: magnetic resonance imaging in cases of glioma: Distinguishing tumor recurrence from postresection injury
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 26 December 2022Found: infections Candida infection 1 0 Vulvovaginal candidiasis 1 0 Central nervous system and spinal
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 17 October 2022Found: 2 0 Site specific injuries NEC Limb injury 1 0 Skin injuries NEC Contusion 20 0
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 17 October 2022Found: Skin bacterial infection 1 0 Vaccination site cellulitis 3 0 Central nervous system and spinal
Jan. 17 2024
Source Page: Freedom of Information responses from the MHRA - week commencing 24 October 2022Found: not resolved) 83 Hypothyroidism, Raynaud's phenomenon, Immunodeficiency, Myelitis transverse, Spinal