Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the updated Renal Service Specification is expected to be published.

The specification is being worked on by NHS England in line with their national service specification methods process, which is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/methods-national-service-specifications/

Stakeholder testing was recently undertaken. The timing of full publication has yet to be decided upon as the feedback from stakeholders is being considered, alongside any changes required. NHS England will set out the expected date of publication as soon as this is available.