Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take with NHS England's (a) clinical chairs and (b) device working groups to refine the process for the inclusion of new devices and range extensions within the existing national catalogue; where those processes are published; and what steps he is taking to ensure clarity for external stakeholders.

Under the Specialised Service Devices programme, clinical chairs and advisors in the device working group are continuing work to refine the inclusion process for new devices, while also developing range extensions within the existing national catalogue. This is alongside continuing work on device category specifications.

Device working groups will develop a clinical utilisation methodology designed to reduce unwarranted variation in the extensive range of available devices, while NHS Supply Chain will deliver price reductions in devices purchased.