Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for the health of children with liver disease of continuity of care as they make the transition to adult services.

The transition from children’s to adults’ health services is a matter for National Health Service providers and commissioners. To support effective transition commissioners and providers should be drawing on best practice and guidance such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guideline, Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services which was published in February 2016.