Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what data is used to inform the quality dashboard programme developed by NHS England to monitor the quality of HIV care; from what sources that data was derived; how frequently such data is published; and when equivalent data will next be published.

The data for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) quality dashboard are provided by Public Health England (PHE) using the national HIV surveillance and monitoring system which uses data directly submitted to PHE by HIV service providers. PHE uses the data to inform clinically important metrics of the quality of HIV care. These include late HIV diagnosis, time from HIV diagnosis to entry into HIV care, retention in HIV care and effectiveness of HIV treatment and care.

In 2015, the annual national dashboard information will be published in the autumn (data to the end 2014); trust level information (to end 2013) will be circulated (not published) to trusts and commissioners in June 2015.

Trust level data are used to monitor the quality of care and outcomes of HIV services to drive service improvement. The dashboard metrics are published online at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/spec-dashboards/