Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will support the dissemination of the Versus Arthritis Surgery Toolkit to all ICSs.

Integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning the majority of services for people within the geographical boundaries of their integrated care system and should use guidance from a range of sources as clinically appropriate. To support the health of people with arthritis while they are waiting for elective treatment, NHS England has worked with Versus Arthritis on their Joint Replacement Support Package, a six-point package aimed at local health systems to be provided to patients.