Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help people who were born with HIV to transfer from paediatric care to adult clinics; and what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that those adult clinics are able to meet the needs of young adults.

Children and young people living with HIV receive care from paediatric services commissioned according to the paediatric HIV service specification. This includes specific reference to supporting the transition to adult services. Children and young people are supported through the individual options discussed with their health professional on the transition process. The delivery of the clinical care is supported through the data recorded by the Children’s HIV and Aids Reporting System (CHARS) database. All children and young people living with HIV in England seen for paediatric HIV care are monitored by CHARS until the transition to adult services. This enables the clinical teams to record treatment and prescribing information and supports the continuity of care.