Kidney Diseases: Medical Treatments

(asked on 15th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions, if any, they have had with the NHS about updating the National Tariff Payment for dialysis to encourage greater uptake of home haemodialysis therapies.


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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 16th April 2021

NHS England and NHS Improvement are undertaking a national Renal Transformation Programme starting later in 2021. As part of this, ways to incentivise home dialysis will be considered, which may include use of tariffs or other commissioning levers.

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