PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
HIV Infection: Clinics (10 January 2023)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that contracts awarded to HIV clinics require those clinics to conduct annual audits of (a) the number of people in the local area requiring HIV care and (b) the capacity of those clinics to provide that care.

Asked by:
David Mundell (Conservative)

Answer

Contracts awarded to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clinics are the responsibility of NHSE specialist commissioning groups and local authority commissioners who assess the need in their local populations and set the requirements of the contracts. Data on HIV treatment and care are collected from HIV services by the United Kingdom Health Security Agency and reported back centrally to assist commissioners and service providers in monitoring performance.


Answered by:
Neil O'Brien (Conservative)
16 January 2023

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