Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date did each NHS trust in the North West sign up to NHS England's voluntary scheme to reduce the sale of sugar sweetened drinks in NHS canteens, shops and vending machines introduced in 2018; and which NHS trusts in that region have yet to sign up to that initiative.
Of the 35 National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in the North West region 27 are signed up to the scheme. They are below as follows, shown by the quarter by which they joined.
Q1 2017/18
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Q2 2017/18
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Q3 2017/18
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
East Cheshire NHS Trust
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust
Q4 2017/18
North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The trusts and foundation trusts not signed up yet are:
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust