Incontinence: Products
Commons · Question 31465 · Tabled 13 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 25 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of (a) avoidable skin infections, (b) pressure ulcers and (c) urinary tract infections that were (i) caused or (ii) aggravated by using continence p
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 25 Feb 2025
Neither the Department nor NHS England hold this information, although this type of data may be recorded and monitored at an individual trust level. Whilst trusts will report the incidence of associated adverse outcomes, such as pressure ulcers, it is unl...