Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the Sciensus Group's performance on its NHS contracts.

In England, there are 12 providers of homecare medicines services and approximately 500,000 patients in receipt of a homecare medicines service. Sciensus Group provides services to over 200,000 of these patients. However, information is not collected centrally the value of these contracts. NHS England is not aware of any specific issues concerns regarding the performance of Sciensus Group in National Health Service contracts or framework agreements.

As part of the quality assurance and governance processes, homecare providers, including the Sciensus Group, are assessed on a monthly basis against key performance indicators (KPIs) and through meetings with the National Homecare Medicines Committee and NHS England. Where a provider does not meet the relevant KPIs, action will be taken to ensure that levels of service return to the agreed standards.