Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential (a) merits and (b) implications for his Department's policies of the Joint Replacement Support Package created by Versus Arthritis.

The recommendations made in Versus Arthritis’s Joint Replacement Support Package have been factored into NHS England’s planning for the care and support needed by people with arthritis waiting for treatment.

NHS England has also embedded Versus Arthritis’s ‘Let’s Move for Surgery’ toolkit on the My Planned Care website, which helps people waiting for surgery, and includes appropriate physical activity, help with managing pain and mental health support. The toolkit is available at the following link:

https://www.myplannedcare.nhs.uk/care-support/