Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 16 Dec 2015
ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENTS (INNOVATION) BILL
"I will be brief. I have listened to the debate. The hon. Member for Torfaen put his case strongly, and there is a constructive and helpful offer on the table from the Minister. I simply ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw his amendment and to take up the offer to …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 16 Dec 2015
ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENTS (INNOVATION) BILL
"Obviously, I agree with the Minister, and I have discussed the matter with the shadow Minister. I know from my consultation on the Bill with stakeholders that we would need longer lists than those in the amendments. I hope that the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston will agree …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Wed 16 Dec 2015
ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENTS (INNOVATION) BILL
"Thank you, Mr Streeter. What a wise Chairman you are—one of the best Committee Chairmen ever.
I thank all members of the Committee for their forbearance, especially those who have distinct issues with parts of the Bill. The offers I made are real, and, if I cannot get the controversial …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Nov 2015
Junior Doctors Contract
"I welcome the statement, and I very much welcome the conversations that are going on. Many vulnerable and sick people have had letters from their local hospitals today saying that their operation tomorrow has been cancelled. Should we get good news later this evening, is it too late to allow …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Nov 2015
World Prematurity Day
"I beg to move,
That this House has considered World Prematurity Day.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. This subject does not get enough attention in this place, or indeed in the media. In the previous Parliament—in a Westminster Hall debate and elsewhere—I raised the …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Nov 2015
World Prematurity Day
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He is absolutely right, and I will come on to that later. I, too, have had a lot of contact from my constituents on this issue. In fact, at my very first surgery—or advice centre—as a Member of Parliament back in 2010, …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Nov 2015
World Prematurity Day
"I concur with my hon. Friend on that matter. I have heard many a story about that. I have also visited the John Radcliffe hospital to see its neonatal unit and talked to parents. In Northampton general hospital’s case, there is a way for someone to get their parking charge …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Nov 2015
World Prematurity Day
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and he is absolutely right. Statistics regularly prove that we are not doing as well as our Scandinavian colleagues, and we should look at that. I know that we are doing so—a lot of work is going on in the Department of …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Nov 2015
World Prematurity Day
"May I thank, through you Mr Hollobone, the Backbench Business Committee for allowing me and the House the time to discuss this important issue? I thank the hon. Member for Croydon North (Mr Reed), my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Victoria Prentis), the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) …..."Chris Heaton-Harris - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 9th November 2015
Asked by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the reasons are for the time taken to inform families involved in Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy procedures that funding for those procedures will cease.
Answered by Jane Ellison
NHS England has commissioned Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) procedures as part of its Commissioning through Evaluation (CtE) programme.
CtE schemes run in areas where the current evidence base on clinical and cost effectiveness of a particular treatment is insufficient to support routine funding, and where further research is unlikely to be forthcoming. In these circumstances, NHS England identifies funding for a CtE scheme to gather and support a review of the national clinical commissioning policy position. Each CtE scheme is funded on a time-limited basis, in just a small number of selected participating centres across England, with strict patient selection criteria.
The CtE programme is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which supports NHS England to identify the total number of patients that need to be treated under the scheme to answer the evaluation questions agreed. Schemes stop once the total planned number of patients has been treated and the data analysis can be concluded. In the case of the SDR scheme it is likely that the last patients will be treated by spring 2016.
The information provided directly by NHS England to stakeholders and participating centres in the SDR scheme has been consistently clear about the time limited nature of CtE and that the funding did not present a change to the current commissioning position of the treatment not being routinely funded by the NHS.
NHS England will continue to work closely with participating centres to ensure that messages are as clear as possible to families who may have wished to consider this treatment option.