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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 91865, tabled on 6 November 2020

Question

Mr Virendra Sharma
Labour
Ealing, Southall
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the ability of the (a) NHS and (b) CQC to ensure that BAME populations in deprived areas with (a) heart failure and (b) other long term conditions are represented in (A) audits, (B) guidelines, (C) clinical trials, and (D) medical research.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

18 November 2020

The specific assessment mentioned in the question has not been made. NHS England and NHS Improvement launched the independent NHS Race and Health Observatory with NHS Confederation this year, which will work to identify and tackle the specific health challenges facing black, Asian and minority ethnic populations in deprived areas. NHS England and NHS Improvement has a programme of work on cardiac conditions, and in common with NHS Long Term Plan objectives, this has a focus on reducing health inequalities, including using data from clinic audits to review and improve NHS services.

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