Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will begin collecting data on the cost-effectiveness of podiatric interventions.
There are no plans to collect data on the cost-effectiveness of podiatric interventions centrally.
The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) has established the Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) into Action programme, details of which can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ahp-action-transform-hlth.pdf
This will help to realise the potential of AHPs including podiatrists. As part of the programme, case studies are collected to demonstrate service improvements and are made available to a wider audience including provider organisations and commissioners.
The CAHPO has also established annual awards to recognise good practice. A podiatrist won the workforce transformation award in 2017 for clinical and cost-effective service development for people with peripheral arterial disease.