Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2016 to Question 57868, when he plans to publish the outcomes of testing the new innovative approach to serious illness conversations at the New Care Model sites at Airedale and Southend.

As part of the Serious Illness Care Programme pilot, patient conversations are due to be completed in summer 2017. The Research and Innovation Directorate at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust will then evaluate the outcome data collected, so that they can complete the pilot report.

A variety of qualitative and quantitative measures will be collected and assessed as part of the pilots. This includes assessments of patients’ understanding and control of their health care, and their quality of life.