Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase home dialysis provision for chronic kidney disease patients on the NHS in England.

The Department is working with NHS England to implement the Renal Services Transformation Programme, which aims to increase the provision and accessibility of home dialysis treatment for chronic kidney disease patients.

NHS England has established 11 renal clinical networks to work with integrated care systems and renal providers and appointed a National Clinical Advisor for dialysis care to develop and share best practice, providing recommendations to all renal services to increase the provision of home dialysis. The Programme’s objectives are being developed with patient groups, clinical and non-clinical colleagues and will be published in April 2023.