| Heading: |
Urinary Tract Infections |
| Question ID: |
1785510 |
| UIN: |
38740 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5103 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Luke Taylor
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Luke Taylor
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ask the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to recognise chronic urinary tract infections as a distinct illness in its guidelines. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-21 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
Classifying a condition as a distinct illness is outside the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) remit. The NICE has no plans to develop guidance on chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs) at this time, and the topic has not been co... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |