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 discussions Ministers and officials of his Department have had with NHS England on the expiry of the National Stroke Strategy in December 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England.
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) collects detailed data on the processes of care that a stroke patient receives in hospital. SSNAP covers all of the key aspects of care identified in the National Stroke Strategy. It also collects data on the care that discharged patients receive from community stroke teams (early supported discharge and community rehabilitation teams as well as bed based rehabilitation facilities) and provides the opportunity for clinicians to enter follow-up data six months after the stroke occurred. However, SSNAP does not collect data on patient experience and outcomes, areas highlighted as important in the 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 meetings Ministers and officials of his Department have had on the National Stroke Strategy since October 2016.
Answered by David Mowat
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England.
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) collects detailed data on the processes of care that a stroke patient receives in hospital. SSNAP covers all of the key aspects of care identified in the National Stroke Strategy. It also collects data on the care that discharged patients receive from community stroke teams (early supported discharge and community rehabilitation teams as well as bed based rehabilitation facilities) and provides the opportunity for clinicians to enter follow-up data six months after the stroke occurred. However, SSNAP does not collect data on patient experience and outcomes, areas highlighted as important in the 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, which key indicators defined as important in the National Stroke Strategy are not currently measured by the sentinel stroke national audit programme.
Answered by David Mowat
Decisions on whether the stroke strategy should be renewed are a matter for NHS England.
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) collects detailed data on the processes of care that a stroke patient receives in hospital. SSNAP covers all of the key aspects of care identified in the National Stroke Strategy. It also collects data on the care that discharged patients receive from community stroke teams (early supported discharge and community rehabilitation teams as well as bed based rehabilitation facilities) and provides the opportunity for clinicians to enter follow-up data six months after the stroke occurred. However, SSNAP does not collect data on patient experience and outcomes, areas highlighted as important in the 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, if he will publish his evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy for England and the Government's approach to outpatient rehabilitation services for stroke survivors.
Answered by David Mowat
There has been no formal evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy. However there is a continuous evaluation of the quality of stroke care via the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). This measures most of the key indicators defined as important in the strategy and findings are freely available on the SSNAP website:
The Government’s approach to outpatient rehabilitation services for stroke survivors is to encourage clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to commission evidence based care such as early supported discharge and longer term neurorehabilitation. There are some areas where these services are incomplete and NHS England is working with CCGs and the Sustainability and Transformation Plan footprints to address this.
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 the cost to the public purse has been of storing, maintaining and facilitating research access to the Corsellis Brain Collection in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by George Freeman
The excess costs of maintaining the collection compared with the income from specimen preparation over a number of years have rendered the collection unsustainable as a research resource. West London Mental Health Trust has therefore decided - once it has responded to current requests for samples - to respectfully dispose of those tissue samples for which no scientific purpose can be envisaged. Some tissue has also been requested by the University of Hong Kong for training purposes for their neuropathology students, which the Trust is providing as a more appropriate use of such clinical material than respectful disposal. The Trust has obtained the appropriate Human Tissue Authority licenses for this work. We understand that the collection will close by the end of June 2016.
The Trust has provided figures for each of the three years to 2014/15. In each case the cost has been borne by the Trust, offset (to a relatively small extent) by fees received for tissue sample requests and - in 2014/15 - by a donation. The figures are shown in the following table.
Financial Year | Cost | Income | Donation |
2012/13 | £101,126 | Nil | Nil |
2013/14 | £84,561 | £7,016 | Nil |
2014/15 | £80,684 | £1,003 | £69,316 |
The Medical Research Council supports a range of brain tissue banks which have been set-up around specific disorders and diseases generally to collect post-mortem brain tissue from consented donors.
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 information his Department holds on the future of the Corsellis Brain Collection at the West London Mental Health NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by George Freeman
The excess costs of maintaining the collection compared with the income from specimen preparation over a number of years have rendered the collection unsustainable as a research resource. West London Mental Health Trust has therefore decided - once it has responded to current requests for samples - to respectfully dispose of those tissue samples for which no scientific purpose can be envisaged. Some tissue has also been requested by the University of Hong Kong for training purposes for their neuropathology students, which the Trust is providing as a more appropriate use of such clinical material than respectful disposal. The Trust has obtained the appropriate Human Tissue Authority licenses for this work. We understand that the collection will close by the end of June 2016.
The Trust has provided figures for each of the three years to 2014/15. In each case the cost has been borne by the Trust, offset (to a relatively small extent) by fees received for tissue sample requests and - in 2014/15 - by a donation. The figures are shown in the following table.
Financial Year | Cost | Income | Donation |
2012/13 | £101,126 | Nil | Nil |
2013/14 | £84,561 | £7,016 | Nil |
2014/15 | £80,684 | £1,003 | £69,316 |
The Medical Research Council supports a range of brain tissue banks which have been set-up around specific disorders and diseases generally to collect post-mortem brain tissue from consented donors.