Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2016 to Question 53151, if the Government will ensure that the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme begins to collect data on patient experience and outcomes.

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) commissions, develops and manages the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), on behalf of NHS England, Wales and other devolved administrations. The programme currently consists of over 30 national clinical audits, six clinical outcome review programmes and the National Joint Registry. The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme is one of the NCAPOP topics.

Patient Reported Experience Measures and Patient Reported Outcome Measures are not routinely commissioned through the NCAPOP.

The design of the clinical audit is a matter for HQIP on behalf of NHS England and the Royal College of Physicians.