Dialysis Machines: 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 Specification for Haemodialysis to treat established renal failure performed in a patients home.


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 commissioning teams, jointly with integrated care boards where a specialised service is being jointly commissioned in 2023/24, assess compliance with service specifications and will determine what, if any, action should be taken where a provider may be non-compliant with aspects of the service specification. Each service specification will contain both core and developmental standards and, for the latter, there should be a phased implementation plan. As with any contract, actions resulting from non-compliance will vary depending on the reasons and nature of non-compliance, as well as the location and availability of alternative service provision.

Examples of typical actions 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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