Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the national procurement deal secured by the NHS on direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to help realise the atrial fibrillation aims in the The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019.

As of February 2023, 877,000 patients on atrial fibrillation registers from their general practice who were eligible for anticoagulation received treatment. The percentage of patients treated with anticoagulation increased by 7% between April 2022 and February 2023, equivalent to over 130,000 additional patients.