Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 2016-04-13.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, in the review of the Staffordshire Transforming End of Life Care procurement, the patient consent and information governance aspects will be considered, including the transfer of information about patients on the End of Life Care Registers to private companies, even if the patients themselves do not know they are on such a register.

Lord Prior of Brampton

This is a matter for NHS England, which is reviewing the cancer and end of life service procurement in Staffordshire in the light of its review of the termination of the contract between Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and UnitingCare Partnership (UCP).

NHS England advises that issues around information governance and patient consent were not included within the scope of the original review into the termination of the UCP contract with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG and currently are not included within the scope of any follow-up investigations.