Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to create the role of a national allergy tsar within the NHS.

The Government has no plans to appoint a national allergy Tsar.

There is an established Clinical Reference Group (CRG) responsible for providing national clinical leadership for specialised immunology and allergy services. The group’s membership includes clinicians, commissioners, public health experts, patients and carers and is chaired by the National Speciality Advisor Dr Claire Bethune.

Information about the CRG can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/blood-and-infection-group-f/specialised-immunology-and-allergy-services/