NHS: Finance

(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all representations made against aspects of the National Tariff Payment System 2019/20 will be published by NHS Improvement.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 25th March 2019

Nationally NHS Improvement identified authorised responders who are the representatives of organisations who have an ability to accept or reject the tariff proposals. NHS Improvement primarily collects feedback via their online survey. However they also receive and consider letters from stakeholders and representative bodies. When the feedback comes in, NHS Improvement treats them all the same regardless of who it comes from.

Once all the feedback has been considered by NHS Improvement’s subject matter leads, the joint pricing governance process and boards of NHS Improvement and NHE England decide if any changes should be made.

NHS Improvement does not respond individually to the feedback it receives, as to do so would take an excessive amount of time and resource.

NHS Improvement is considering whether it would be desirable to publish the survey feedback they have received as part of the consultation.

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