Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53151, if the Government will ensure that the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme begins to collect data on patient experience and outcomes.
Answered by David Mowat
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), on behalf of NHS England, Wales and other devolved administrations. The programme currently consists of over 30 national clinical audits, six clinical outcome review programmes and the National Joint Registry. The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme is one of the NCAPOP topics.
Patient Reported Experience Measures and Patient Reported Outcome Measures are not routinely commissioned through the NCAPOP.
The design of the clinical audit is a matter for HQIP on behalf of NHS England and the Royal College of Physicians.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53101, on strokes, what criteria NHS England uses to renew or develop condition-specific strategies.
Answered by David Mowat
The National Health Service will continue to build on the successes of the current Stroke Strategy. There has been significant, sustained improvement in the quality of stroke care over the last decade and we will continue to deliver our ambition for truly world leading care. That is why the NHS rigorously audits the quality of stroke care across the country each year. It means that we now have some of the fastest improvements in hospital recovery rates for stroke and heart attacks in Europe.
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England. As NHS England has moved away from disease specific strategies towards guidance that is more cross cutting, and because the stroke strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues, NHS England has no current plans to renew it.
NHS England’s approach to priority setting was set out in its Five Year Forward View, available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
NHS England makes decisions about commissioning on advice from its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, full details of which can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 7 February 2017, Official Report, column 226, to the hon. Member for St Ives, what steps his Department is taking to produce a detailed implementation plan to improve stroke services in England.
Answered by David Mowat
The National Health Service will continue to build on the successes of the current Stroke Strategy. There has been significant, sustained improvement in the quality of stroke care over the last decade and we will continue to deliver our ambition for truly world leading care. That is why the NHS rigorously audits the quality of stroke care across the country each year. It means that we now have some of the fastest improvements in hospital recovery rates for stroke and heart attacks in Europe.
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England. As NHS England has moved away from disease specific strategies towards guidance that is more cross cutting, and because the stroke strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues, NHS England has no current plans to renew it.
NHS England’s approach to priority setting was set out in its Five Year Forward View, available at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
NHS England makes decisions about commissioning on advice from its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, full details of which can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53101, what meetings took place on the National Stroke Strategy between (a) Ministers and officials of his Department, (b) Ministers of his Department and representatives of NHS England and (c) officials of his Department and representatives of NHS England in each month since October 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
Ministers and officials have met with a range of stakeholders interested in stroke and have discussed a number of topics including the National Stroke Strategy.
Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps are being taken to ensure physiotherapy is available to people with muscle-wasting conditions at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust as a result of his Department's review of that hospital's therapy service provision.
Answered by David Mowat
The Department has made no review of therapy provision at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. That is a matter for the local National Health Service.
NHS England advises that Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Nottingham North and East CCG, Nottingham City CCG and Nottingham West CCG this year undertook clinically-led reviews of services that fall outside the national tariff payment mechanism. The reviews were initiated because the CCGs need to ensure they are getting the best value for money when commissioning publicly funded health services.
As part of this work, the CCGs identified some services currently delivered by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust that could be delivered in a community setting, closer to patients’ homes, providing better value to the local NHS and capacity within local hospitals. The CCGs are committed to continuing to provide the three neurological services provided by the Trust as a single specialty neuro-rehabilitation service provided in the community. This will be supported by the same level of clinical expertise and care as is currently provided.