Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of withdrawing the experimental treatment for postural tachycardia syndrome trialled at York Hospital on patients with that condition.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has undertaken a comprehensive review of the evidence for saline fluid infusions for the treatment of patients with symptoms of postural tachycardia syndrome. The review found that there is not enough published evidence that this treatment provides sufficient benefit for patients to continue long-term intravenous treatment. The trust has therefore taken a decision to no longer provide this treatment, which is consistent with position of other National Health Service hospital providers.

No national assessment of the trust’s decision has been made by NHS England.