Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

(asked on 28th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has received on the performance of the Pennine Acute Trust; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 5th December 2016

My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health meets NHS England and NHS Improvement on a weekly basis to discuss National Health Service performance at a local level.

It is the responsibility of NHS Trust Boards, their commissioners and regulators, and of the clinicians who work at trusts, to ensure service delivery meets the required performance standards.

A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified 10 items of correspondence received since 1 June 2016 relating to the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This includes letters from members of the public about their experience of care and treatment at the Trust, and Regulation 28 Reports to Prevent Future Deaths following inquests held into the deaths of patients who received care and treatment from the Trust.

This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.

In September 2016, the Department replied to the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton’s (Graham Stringer) Parliamentary Question 44138 about avoidable deaths at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

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