Arthritis

(asked on 30th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 November 2020 to Question 105458 on Arthritis, whether NHS England plans to collect data on the proportion of people living with rheumatoid arthritis in England that are in remission.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 9th December 2020

Data is not collected centrally on the number of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis or the proportion of these who are in remission and there are no plans to do so in the format requested.

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