Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of independent healthcare providers who have provided data to the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ national audit project on life-threatening allergic reaction during surgery; and what steps, if any, they intend to take to encourage such providers to provide such data.

We have made no assessment of the number of independent healthcare providers who have provided data to the Royal College of Anaesthetists. We encourage transparency and data sharing in the interest of improving care.

Private providers providing National Health Service funded services should meet all of the requirements in respect of information governance that we place on NHS organisations and the quality of services would be monitored through the commissioning contract.

The Paterson Inquiry, which is due to report its conclusions and recommendations in summer 2019, will consider how and when information is shared between the NHS and the independent sector.