Department of Health written question – answered at on 15 March 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ensure that NHS England and clinical commissioning groups provide a choice of single-use catheter products for use outside the home for intermittent self-catheterisation users.
Commissioning appropriate care for patients is the responsibility of individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), or, in the case of some directly commissioned services, NHS England.
The legislation under which NHS England and CCG commission services requires them to arrange for the provision of services for which they are responsible, to such extent as they consider necessary to meet all reasonable requirements. For CCGs, this includes offering continence services as part of their obligation to provide community health. Although CCGs often focus on prevention and treatment, we would expect any standard continence service should include access to products.
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