Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on developing a neuromuscular managed clinical network for the North West region.

NHS England is responsible for commissioning specialised services, including neuromuscular services.

Officials from NHS England’s North West Specialised Commissioning Team have recently met the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign to talk through the logistics of establishing an Operational Delivery Network for Neuromuscular Conditions in the North West. Operational Delivery Networks are one of two types of network replacing Managed Clinical Networks (the other being Strategic Clinical Networks) and are owned and led by providers, with commissioner support.