Health Services: Standards

(asked on 19th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the consequences are of non-adherence to NHS England’s Service Specifications for different treatments and conditions.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 26th April 2023

NHS England, together with integrated care boards when a specialised service is commissioned jointly in 2023/24, is responsible for assessing compliance with service specifications.

Actions resulting from non-compliance will vary depending on the reasons for and nature of non-compliance, as well as the location and availability of alternative service provision. Examples of typical actions currently taken forward by NHS England include enhanced reporting and monitoring requirements; the agreement of an improvement plan; agreeing mitigations which can be put in place whilst working towards compliance or in a small number of cases, the de-commissioning of the service at a specific provider.

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