PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health: Working Hours (7 November 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of night work on (a) the level of risk of diagnosis with diabetes, (b) the level of risk of diagnosis with cardiovascular disease and (c) other health outcomes.

Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)

We have made no such assessment.

The Major Conditions Strategy will set out how we intend to tackle conditions that contribute most to morbidity and mortality across the population in England which include cancers; cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes; chronic respiratory diseases; dementia; mental ill health; and musculoskeletal conditions.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
9 November 2023