Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 9 January 2015 to Question 219449, what progress has been made in improving wheelchair services following the NHS England review.

Alistair Burt

Following the conclusion of its review NHS England has set up an improvement support programme working with 11 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to improve services for wheelchair users. The 11 CCGs are:

– North Yorkshire (NHS Harrogate and Rural District;

– NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby;

– NHS Scarborough and Ryedale;

– NHS Vale of York CCG;

– North West London (NHS West London);

– NHS Hounslow;

– NHS Ealing;

– NHS Central London;

– NHS Hammersmith and Fulham;

– NHS Barnet; and

– NHS Brent.

NHS Improving Quality is supporting the programme which will run from September 2015 to March 2016 and include creating guidance, evidence and material to share with other organisations and communities.

NHS England has also introduced a new national wheelchair dataset with the aim of providing information centrally on the volume, expenditure, access to, and patient experience about wheelchair services to enable transparency and benchmarking. From July 2015, data are being collected quarterly from CCGs.