Kidney Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 21st April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the 11 renal clinical networks established by NHS England and NHS Improvement will report on local renal priorities.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 27th April 2022

All Renal Services Transformation Programme workstreams intend to make key deliverables available by April 2023. This will include documentation outlining best practice, a data dashboard of metrics to support better decision making and support the review of the renal service specification led by NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Renal Clinical Reference Group.

The clinical leads for the five workstreams were appointed by a competitive process. Once in post, clinical leads, supported by the programme team, recruited individuals with expertise in the relevant areas of the overall work plan. The teams are multi-professional with involvement by patient and public voice partners. Membership is not funded and is under continual review to ensure representation from relevant subject matter experts. Membership will continue to evolve as the workstreams develop. The clinical networks are at varying stages of resourcing and developing annual work plans. These workplans will include their local renal priorities and are currently being developed for review and agreement by regional commissioning teams by the end of the first financial quarter in 2022.

Guidance has been developed for specialist advice and the implementation of personalised care follow up for chronic kidney disease and transplants. This is available to providers via the National Outpatient Transformation Programme Futures platform. While NHS England and NHS Improvement do not intend to mandate the guidance, its use will be recommended to support providers and networks in the recovery of outpatient services following the pandemic.

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