Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will establish a multi-disciplinary centre of excellence with leadership from a senior clinician to focus on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.

Care for patients with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) in an outpatient setting will typically be within local allergy clinics, available in most hospitals. These services are commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups. There are no current plans to designate or commission the care of patients with MCAS as a prescribed national specialised clinic or service.

A list of local allergy clinics can be obtained from the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology at:

http://www.bsaci.org/professionals/allergy-specialists

The Royal College of Physician’s Improving Quality in Allergy Services scheme at:

www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/improving-quality-allergy-services