Inflammatory Bowel Disease
(asked on 6th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the provision of specialist nurses for inflammatory bowel disease.
This question was answered on 13th July 2017
It is the responsibility of individual National Health Service providers to ensure they have sufficient staff to provide safe and effective services.
Complex Inflammatory Bowel Disease is recognised as a specialised service which is commissioned by NHS England. The standard NHS England contract to commission this service contains a requirement that commissioned providers should train and maintain the specialist nurses in order to provide the service.