Inflammatory bowel disease: Health Services
(asked on 7th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with NHS England on reducing variation in care for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis patients across the UK.
No specific assessment on reducing variation in care for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis has been made.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance ‘Crohn’s disease: management, published in May 2019, and Ulcerative colitis: management’, also published in May 2019, set out best practice to improve and standardise the quality of care in the diagnosis, treatment care and support of patients with the condition. The NICE guidance can be found at the following links: