Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that Integrated Care Systems implement NHS England’s Dermatology National Outpatients Transformation Programme guidance.

NHS England is supporting integrated care systems (ICSs) to implement the National Outpatients Transformation Programme’s guidance, including through baseline self-assessment tools and guidance on patient pathways. NHS England has delivered webinars to support understanding of the guidance, implementation and sharing best practice case studies for National Health Service regions, ICSs and provider trusts. Case studies from providers which have implemented improvements in dermatology services have been published on the FutureNHS platform.

Regional teams will assure delivery through the system oversight framework and priority planning framework. The NHS has launched a rapid access teledermatology advice and guidance service for general practitioners and is implementing technology such as digital imaging. A teledermatology roadmap is also available to ICSs to provide recommendations on optimising triage and specialist advice.