Research Briefing
UK’s Position in Medical Research
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate on medical research in the UK (28 March 2017).
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Research Briefing
Neglected Tropical Diseases
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate on neglected tropical diseases.
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Research Briefing
Assisted Dying Legislation: North America and England and Wales
This House of Lords Library briefing sets out the law in Canada and selected states in the United States ahead of the question for short debate on 6 March 2017 on whether recent legislative changes on assisted dying in North America provide an appropriate basis for legislation in England and Wales. It also provides an overview of the law as it currently stands in England and Wales, as well as a brief legal history of the changes and attempts to change it.
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Research Briefing
End of Life Care: Clinical Commissioners and the Review of Choice in End of Life Care
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate on clinical commissioners and the Government’s response to the Choice in End of Life Care Programme Board’s report What’s Important to Me: A Review of Choice in End of Life Care.
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Research Briefing
Global Standards of Nutrition for Women and Girls
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate on global standards of nutrition for women and girls.
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Research Briefing
Role of Parents in Supporting Young People with Mental Health Problems
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming QSD on the what plans the Government have in light of the Association for Young People’s Health briefing 'There For You', which discusses the role of parents in supporting young people with mental health problems.
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Research Briefing
World Cancer Day, 4 February 2017
This House of Lords Library briefing provides information on World Cancer Day, marked on 4 February each year, and recent estimates of the incidence of cancer both globally and in England.
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Research Briefing
Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions Etc Bill [HL]: Briefing for Lords Stages
This House of Lords Library briefing provides information in support of the House of Lords consideration of the Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions Etc Bill [HL] 2016-17 on 3 February 2017.
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Research Briefing
Improving Neurological Services in England
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming QSD on neurological services in England.
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Research Briefing
Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill: Briefing for Lords Stages
The Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on 7 December 2016 and is due to receive its second reading on 21 December 2016. The Bill seeks to amend and extend the provisions of the National Health Service Act 2006 which relate to the control of the cost of both health service medicines and other medical supplies.
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Research Briefing
Service User Representation in Health and Social Care
This Lords Library briefing provides information on service user representation in health and social care and Healthwatch.
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Research Briefing
World AIDS Day, 1 December 2016
This House of Lords Library briefing provides information on current progress towards the UN General Assembly-mandated effort to ‘end AIDS by 2030’.
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Research Briefing
Social Care
This Briefing Pack contains a selection of material for the forthcoming debate on the challenges in the current system of social care, proposals for reviewing it and longer-term reform of the system.
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Research Briefing
Parity of Esteem Between Mental and Physical Health
This briefing pack contains a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate on parity of esteem between mental and physical health on 28 November 2016.
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Research Briefing
Evidence-based Drug Policy
This briefing pack contains a selection of material in preparation for the forthcoming debate on 21 November 2016 on drugs policy, following the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Policy in April 2016 that called for the introduction of more evidence-based measures to promote public health, rather than a prohibition-based approach.
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