Genito-urinary Medicine: Greater London
(asked on 12th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2017 to Question 111309, on Genito-urinary Medicine: Greater London, how much funding from the Public Health England budget has been allocated to support the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme.
Co-commissioning and collaboration by commissioners offers an efficient way for delivery of sexual health services. To support commissioning bodies to ensure the delivery of high quality sexual health, reproductive health and HIV services, in line with their responsibilities set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, Public Health England (PHE) produced the Making It Work guidance in 2015. It is available at the following link:
Specialist advice to the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme has been provided by PHE as part of the collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to the programme on an ongoing basis. This included advice on the clinical specification as part of the
multidisciplinary clinical advisory group which produced a template specification for physical clinical services. Unwritten advice has been given on the evaluation which we would expect to produce written products in due course.
PHE has not allocated funding to support the London Sexual Health Transformation Programme.
Responsibility for commissioning open access sexual health services is devolved to local authorities through the Health and Social Care Act 2012. PHE does not engage in the detailed procurement process of individual services but we understand arrangements for physical or online service delivery are being put in place locally.