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	date	10/06/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the accuracy of financial charges made by private clinics.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	262369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>It is not the role of the Department to ensure the accuracy of charges made by private clinics for patient self-funded treatment. Where patients feel that they may have been incorrectly charged for treatment provided privately they should make a complaint to the private clinic concerned, or if a subscriber to its independent healthcare sector complaints adjudication service</p><p><br> If a private provider provides services directly to the National Health Service it would be the responsibility of the commissioning party (clinical commissioning group or trust) to ensure that invoices for services are accurate.</p><p><br> <br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/06/2019 10:59:41 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

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	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Private Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, if he will set out the circumstances in which a patient will be offered private care, funded by the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	257403
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s position is that the National Health Service is now, and always will be, a public service free at the point of delivery.</p><p>The independent sector has been providing care for NHS patients under successive Governments. Local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), alongside NHS England commissioners, with their clinical expertise, are responsible for commissioning high quality care for their populations. We are clear that patients should be able to access the best possible treatments based on quality of care, and not type of provider.</p><p>Under the NHS Choice Framework, published by the Department, those choosing where to go for their first appointment as an outpatient have a legal right to choose any provider which provides clinically appropriate care for their condition, and has been appointed by the NHS to provide that service, meaning it has been commissioned by a CCG or NHS England to provide this NHS service. This may be an NHS provider, a voluntary, charity or social enterprise organisation, or an independent sector provider.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 07/06/2019 13:08:53 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas