Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that those Clinical Commissioning Groups which are not commissioning adequate multi-disciplinary community rehabilitation services change their practices.

There is significant work surrounding community rehabilitation, with leadership from a stroke programme board in March 2018, co-chaired by the NHS England National Medical Director, Professor Steve Powis and Juliet Bouverie, CEO of the Stroke Association. The Board is overseeing the development of a stroke plan, which will include a strong focus on rehabilitation.

A review of community performance reporting is also underway to help the National Health Service to understand variations in clinical rehabilitation across services and patient groups. This will support clinical commissioning groups to target improvement initiatives in rehabilitation services.