Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the variation in survival rates for patients receiving dialysis at home compared to those receiving it in-centre.

No recent assessment has been made of the variation in survival rates for patients receiving dialysis at home compared to those receiving dialysis in-centre. Data on survival rates between home and in-centre dialysis is currently unsuitable for detailed comparative analysis, as there is a natural patient selection bias.

Information regarding the socio-economic and ethnic background of home dialysis patients is not collected centrally. As such, no specific assessment has been made of any variation in access to home dialysis. NHS England’s Renal Services Transformation Programme aims to increase the provision of and equitable access to home therapies for kidney dialysis patients, following the recommendations of the Getting it Right First Time (GiRFT) national report on renal medicine published in September 2021.