Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

(asked on 7th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent guidance his Department has issued on the the commissioning of healthcare treatments and services for patients with pulmonary hypertension.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 14th March 2018

NHS England commissions work on specialised Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) through the Specialised Respiratory Clinical Reference Group (CRG) which is delivered through regional specialised commissioning teams.

The CRG is chaired by Professor Mike Morgan, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Respiratory Disease. The CRG and commissioners actively engage with PH clinicians and the patient community in supporting policy development. The Pulmonary Hypertension Association was encouraged to apply both as patient voice members and to register as a stakeholder to the CRG.

NHS England has published a service specification which sets out what the related centre and shared care model should look like. In the last year, NHS England has completed a peer review of this service and local commissioning leads are following up with each hospital service identified for improvement.

NHS England also commissions the National Audit of Pulmonary Hypertension which covers the care of patients treated by the pulmonary hypertension services in eight United Kingdom centres.

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