Department of Health written question – answered at on 19 March 2015.
Nigel Evans
Conservative, Ribble Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) funding and (b) other support NHS England provides to clinical commissioning groups to help improve the quality of care services available to patients in areas with poor diabetes care and outcomes.
Nigel Evans
Conservative, Ribble Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups use the NHS England diabetes service specifications.
Nigel Evans
Conservative, Ribble Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of NHS England's annual budget is spent on resources to help local clinical commissioning groups improve variations in the quality of diabetes care.
Jane Ellison
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
As well as NHS England providing clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) with information to compare the quality and outcomes in diabetes care through the Clinical Commissioning Group Outcomes Indicator Set (CCG OIS) and the NHS Outcomes Framework, the National Diabetes Audit measures the effectiveness of diabetes healthcare against the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines and quality standard. NHS Improving Quality, hosted by NHS England, is also working to improve health outcomes for people by providing improvement and change expertise. As part of its ‘Living Longer Lives’ and ‘Enhancing quality of life for people with long term conditions’ work streams, it is working with primary care and CCGs to support improvements and transformational change which will improve the quality of care for people with diabetes.
Data on the proportion of NHS England's annual budget spent on resources to help local CCGs improve variations in the quality of diabetes is not available. Information on improving variation in the quality of diabetes care could potentially be drawn from several budgets but it is not possible to disaggregate it to provide the information requested.
A sample diabetes service specification, designed to meet the NICE diabetes quality standard, was published on the NHS Commissioning Assembly website in July 2014. This was provided for CCGs to use if they choose and so no information is collected on the number of CCGs that use it.
Yes1 person thinks so
No3 people think not
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