PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Transplant Surgery: Stem Cells (14 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to monitor the effectiveness NHS England's delivery of immunisation services for patients who have undergone a stem-cell transplant.

Asked by:
Mark Tami (Labour)

NHS England has a specific role to commission the public health services set out in the National Health Service public health functions agreement and to hold to account providers to ensure that they deliver the contracts that have been agreed. The Department is the overall steward of the system and holds NHS England to account for delivery under the agreement.

As part of the delivery of the vaccination programme via NHS England’s Directed Enhanced Services, general practitioners identify the patients at risk and call them in for vaccination. Uptake and coverage is monitored at NHS England local team and regional level and forms a part of the accountability and assurance process with NHS England and across the tripartite arrangements between NHS England, Public Health England and the Department.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
21 December 2017