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1122471

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date	23/04/2019
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	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to fund prescriptions for Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices following their addition to the high-cost tariff-excluded devices list for 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	246458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of prescriptions that have been issued for continuous glucose monitoring devices in each clinical commissioning group (CCG) area in not collected. CCGs are responsible for commissioning and funding diabetes services, including funding for prescriptions for continuous glucose monitoring devices, for their local populations. CCGs are clinically led organisations that have both the local knowledge and accountability to make commissioning and funding decisions in the best interests of their patients.</p><p>CCGs and providers should agree a local price for when these devices are in use, as they are not set by the national tariff but are in the high cost devices list in the tariff for 2019/20.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 246459 question first answered 01/05/2019 15:59:56 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1122475

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
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	Diabetes: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions have been issued for Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices in each clinical commissioning group area in (a) each year since 2015 and (b) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	246459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on the number of prescriptions that have been issued for continuous glucose monitoring devices in each clinical commissioning group (CCG) area in not collected. CCGs are responsible for commissioning and funding diabetes services, including funding for prescriptions for continuous glucose monitoring devices, for their local populations. CCGs are clinically led organisations that have both the local knowledge and accountability to make commissioning and funding decisions in the best interests of their patients.</p><p>CCGs and providers should agree a local price for when these devices are in use, as they are not set by the national tariff but are in the high cost devices list in the tariff for 2019/20.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 246458 question first answered 01/05/2019 15:59:56 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

1122137

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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	Prescriptions: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual cost is of administering NHS prescription charges.
tabling member constituency	Knowsley
tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
uin	245660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The annual cost to the NHS Business Services Authority of administering National Health Service prescription charges is around £75,000 per year. This figure covers the work of NHS Prescription Services, which includes the reimbursement and remuneration of dispensing contractors in England on behalf of the Department and NHS England. It does not include the work of the NHS Business Services Authority’s ‘Loss Recovery Service’ which involves checking prescription form exemption declarations, issuing Penalty Charge Notices and managing associated customer contact.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/04/2019 13:20:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth