House of Commons Debate - NHS Hysteroscopy Treatment (31 January 2022)

Summary

This is an Adjournment Debate from the House of Commons on the 31 January 2022 on NHS Hysteroscopy Treatment, tabled by Lyn Brown MP.

Content

What is an Adjournment Debate?

There is a 30 minute Adjournment Debate at the end of each day's sitting of the House of Commons. They provide an opportunity for an individual backbench MP to raise an issue and receive a response from the relevant Minister. Unlike many other debates, these take place without a question which the House of Commons must then make a decision on.

NHS Hysteroscopy Treatment

In this debate Lyn Brown MP outlined the issue of significant numbers of women who experience extreme levels of pain when undergoing hysteroscopy, highlighted by groups such as the Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy. She shared several patient testimonies, highlighted concerns about healthcare professionals dismissing and ignoring patients concerns and emphasised the need for NHS trusts to offer patients who need a hysteroscopy a full range of anaesthetics and to inform them accurately about the risk factors for serious pain.

You can read the full transcript of the debate here.

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Related Reading

• Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy: patient stories, September 2018
• Patient Safety Learning, Improving hysteroscopy safety, 6 November 2020
• Patient Safety Learning, Minister acknowledges patients’ concerns about painful hysteroscopies; but will action be taken?, 20 January 2021
• Patient Safety Learning, Ministers respond to patients’ concerns about painful hysteroscopies: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 15 February 2021
• Patient Safety Learning, Through the hysteroscope: Reflections of a gynaecologist, 26 January 2021
• Richard Harrison, “Pain-free hysteroscopy”, a blog by Dr Richard Harrison, 6 November 2020