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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken a review into the impact on different ethnic groups of differing levels of medical care, following the 2015 publication of ‘Patients with ulcerative colitis from diverse populations: The Leicester experience’ by Farrukh and Mayberry in Medical-Legal Journal, which found that some ethnic groups have less access to certain treatments, fewer reviews by consultants, more frequent discharges from hospital care and poorer access to surveillance colonoscopy to detect early cancer development. 

Question HL1062: tabled on 11 December 2023 and due for answer by 27 December 2023

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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath to ask His Majesty's Government whether they have undertaken a review into the impact on different ethnic groups of differing levels of medical care, following the 2015 publication of ‘Patients with ulcerative colitis from diverse populations: The Leicester experience’ by Farrukh and Mayberry in Medical-Legal Journal, which found that some ethnic groups have less access to certain treatments, fewer reviews by consultants, more frequent discharges from hospital care and poorer access to surveillance colonoscopy to detect early cancer development.  HL1062
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Tuesday 19 December 2023

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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Labour
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