Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Health Services

(asked on 22nd November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which trusts have been identified by Getting It Right First Time as part of its Further Faster pilot to deliver rapid clinical transformation for patients with (a) Crohn's disease and (b) ulcerative colitis.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th November 2023

The Further, Faster pilots aim to accelerate service transformation across a range of specialities. Within gastroenterology, the pilots are driving forward interventions such as the introduction of Patient Initiated Follow Up, which can be beneficial for patients with chronic conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.

The following trusts are participating in the pilots as part of Cohort 1:

- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Barts Health NHS Trust;

- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust;

- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust;

- Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust;

- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust;

- Medway NHS Foundation Trust;

- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust;

- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust;

- Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust;

- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust;

- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust;

- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust;

- Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust; and

- Wye Valley NHS Trust.

The following trusts are participating in the pilots as part of Cohort 2:

- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust;

- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust;

- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Isle of Wight NHS Trust;

- James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust;

- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust;

- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust;

- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust;

- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust;

- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust;

- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust;

- University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust;

- Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;

- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; and

- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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