Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether integrated care systems or NHS England has responsibility for continuing to commission specialised services for muscular dystrophy.

NHS England will remain responsible for commissioning specialised services, accountable for those services and set the national standards.

However, NHS England has established a programme to determine whether it is appropriate to delegate commissioning specialised services to integrated care boards (ICBs). The programme is yet to determine whether NHS England or ICBs will commission specialised diagnostic services in the future.