Dialysis Machines: Cornwall

(asked on 14th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which locations have provided renal dialysis in Cornwall; how many dialysis patients attended each such location; what transport charges were made to patients attending each location in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 27th June 2016

NHS England advises that the main dialysis unit in Cornwall is at Treliske and satellite units are at Penzance and Bodmin. The information requested on how many dialysis patients attended each such location is not collected centrally. The Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group confirms that it does not charge its patients for transport to renal dialysis and it has no plans to start charging for this.

Information on whether any patients were sent out of Cornwall for kidney dialysis treatment in each of the last five years and how many patients from Cornwall who were able to access a kidney transplant took the option of conservative care in each of the last five years is not held centrally.

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