Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group adheres to the revised NICE guidance on hearing loss in adults, published in June 2018, on the provision of hearing aids to people with mild and moderate hearing loss.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for the provision of hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss to meet the needs of their local population. As with other services CCGs commission, they should take into consideration assessments of local need and any relevant guidance, such as that published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE clinical guidelines are not mandatory, although we expect service commissioners to take them into account alongside local priorities in the design of services.
Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the total sleep-in back pay liability for care providers in the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) on 26 February 2018 to Question 128962.