Transplant Surgery: Stem Cells

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will discuss with NHS England the necessity for a review of the care and support that patients receive after a stem cell transplant.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 16th October 2017

Post-transplant care for patients is important. NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning team and Clinical Reference Group for Blood and Marrow Transplants (BMT) are undertaking work to map care needs post-100 days.

There are no current plans to review the responsibilities of services commissioned by NHS England and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for BMT at this time. NHS England will be assessing BMT in more detail over the next 18 months and will take the opportunity to further support improved pathway planning and commissioning of services that it and CCGs fund.

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