Arthritis: Health Services
(asked on 21st July 2020) - View Source
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 NHS trusts and integrated care systems, resuming services as covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased, carry out their statutory duty to consult people with arthritis on those services.
Guidance has been issued to the NHS on the process of starting to restore urgent non-COVID-19 services, as well as encouraging the public to access the care they need when they need it. The most urgent treatments should be brought back first, and this will be driven by local demands with infection prevention and control as a guiding principle. The approach is being locally tailored according to capacity and demand in different parts of the country, but the reset will be gradual. The guidance is available at the following link: