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Prevention in health and social care

Status: Closed Opened: 18 Jan 2023 Closed: 30 May 2024 14 recommendations 11 conclusions 2 reports

The Health and Social Care Committee has announced ten themes to be examined in its major new inquiry into preventing ill-health. The subjects, ranging from early years and childhood to alcohol and gambling, were chosen after MPs received more than 600 submissions from researchers and organisations involved in preventative healthcare. The inquiry will examine social …

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Reports

2 reports
Title HC No. Published Items Response
First Report - Prevention in health and social care: health… HC 484 19 Jan 2024 15 Responded
Tenth Report - Prevention in health and social care: vaccin… HC 1764 27 Jul 2023 10 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
10 Recommendation Tenth Report - Prevention in health and… Accepted in Part

Prepare regulatory and delivery systems for future personalised preventative healthcare innovations.

Exciting innovations are on the horizon and have the potential to transform preventative healthcare. While the timeframe for such innovations, like a personalised cancer vaccine, is unknown, future planning must be done on the assumption that personalised therapeutics will become available. NHS England, and the MHRA and JCVI, need to …

Government response. The government outlines existing effective regulatory and delivery processes for new medicines and states it monitors partner organizations. It highlights £10 million funding allocated to MHRA to accelerate bringing innovative medicines to UK patients, aligning with the goal of faster …
Department of Health and Social Care
11 Recommendation Tenth Report - Prevention in health and… Accepted in Part

Require DHSC and NHS England to submit plan for regulatory readiness and resourcing.

The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England must lay before Parliament a plan for how they intend to ensure all relevant regulatory and delivery systems are ready to assess and deliver these new innovations to patients. As part of that plan, the JCVI and the MHRA must …

Government response. The government describes existing regulatory processes and monitoring for new medicines, detailing how it supports JCVI's modelling capabilities and allocates £10 million over two years to MHRA for accelerating innovative medicine delivery, but does not commit to laying a formal …
Department of Health and Social Care

Oral evidence sessions

9 sessions
Date Witnesses
20 May 2024 Adrian Chiles, TV presenter and author of The Good Drinker, Ailsa Rutter OBE · Fresh and Balance, Alice Wiseman · Association of Directors of Public Health, Sir Ian Gilmore · Alcohol Health Alliance View ↗
6 Feb 2024 Andy Tighe · The British Beer and Pub Association, Asma Khalil · The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), Hazel Cheeseman · Action Against Smoking, Karen Tyrell · Drinkaware, Matt Lambert · The Portman Group, Professor Peter Hajek · Wolfson Institute of Population Health Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London, Sandra Ionno Butcher · The National Organisation for FASD View ↗
5 Feb 2024 Professor Javed Khan OBE · Equi View ↗
18 Oct 2023 Chris Naylor · The King's Fund, Dr Mark Green · University of Liverpool, Julia Thrift · Town and Country Planning Association, Simon Reeve · Office for Health Improvement and Disparities View ↗
5 Sep 2023 David Finch · The Health Foundation, Dr Henry Burridge · Imperial College London, Dr Jill Stewart · University of Greenwich, Helen Garrett · Building Research Establishment View ↗
11 Jul 2023 Chris Boardman · Active Travel England, Mark Lawrie · StreetGames, Tom Hollingsworth · Sport England View ↗
23 May 2023 Dr Nikki Kanani · NHS England, Maria Caulfield · Department of Health and Social Care View ↗
18 Apr 2023 Ben Lucas · The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), Doctor Mary Ramsay · UK Health Security Agency, Professor Dame Jenny Harries · UK Health Security Agency, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard · Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, Rebecca Catterick · Sanofi Vaccines UK & Ireland, Stuart Carroll · Moderna View ↗
21 Feb 2023 Dr Jeanelle De Gruchy, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England · Department for Health and Social Care, Jonathan Marron · Department for Health and Social Care, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England View ↗

Correspondence

4 letters
DateDirectionTitle
18 Oct 2023 — Correspondence from the Secretary of State, Steve Barclay MP, on a Smokfree Gen…
18 Oct 2023 — Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Neil O' Brien M…
18 Oct 2023 — Correspondence from Diabetes UK on consideration of obesity in the prevention i…
5 Sep 2023 — Correspondence from the Chief Executive of Sport England, Tim Hollingsworth fol…