Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 22157

Urinary Tract Infections: Analgesics

Tabled: 6 January 2025
Answered: 15 January 2025

Question

Luke Taylor

Liberal DemocratSutton and Cheam

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to provide better pain relief for people suffering from chronic urinary tract infections.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Treating clinicians use National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, which helps practitioners and commissioners get the best care to patients, when assessing, signposting to, and prescribing pain relief medications. It is a prescriber’s du...

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