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 adequacy of his policies for treating scoliosis in children.

The commissioning of care for scoliosis is coordinated by integrated care boards, which are best placed to plan the provision of services. NHS England directly commissions some specialised services.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in 2022 on vertebral body tethering for idiopathic scoliosis in children and young people. Within this guidance, NICE recommends that this procedure should only be carried out in specialist centres by spinal surgeons with specific training in anterior spinal surgery.