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1177503

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date	10/02/2020
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	Aortic Dissection: Diagnosis
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 he is taking to ensure the adequate diagnosis of Aortic Dissection at A&E departments.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
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answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2020 answer text <p>We recognise that accurate and rapid assessment of suspected acute aortic dissection is crucial. Computerised tomography plays a central role in the diagnosis to allow expedited management and all acute hospitals with emergency departments have the capacity to make the diagnosis.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are aware of the findings of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch’s recent investigation into delayed recognition of acute Aortic Dissection, and these recommendations have been included in the actions being taken forward with hospitals.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement Specialised Commissioning is progressing the Thoracic Aortic Dissection service specification and have identified resource to support this as one of the priorities within the Specialised Vascular Clinical Group work programme.</p><p>It should also be noted that the NHS England and NHS Improvement’s Getting It Right First Time Cardiothoracic Review recommended that acute aortic syndrome patients are only operated on by rotas of acute aortic syndrome specialist teams. This is being actioned across cardiac and vascular teams. The NHS England and NHS Improvement Specialised Cardiac Improvement Programme has developed a guide and toolkit to support implementation with the first Region rolling out from April 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 18/02/2020 16:24:17 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

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date	25/04/2019
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	Aortic Dissection: Diagnosis
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 are being taken to help improve diagnosis of Aortic Dissection.
tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Mrs Pauline Latham
uin	247675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p>NHS England Specialised Commissioning has a published service specification for cardiac surgery, to support national standards, which include this highly serious condition.</p><p>It is recognised that survival rates for emergency interventions are better when care is delivered by a surgeon supported by interventional specialists undertaking higher volumes of these procedures. This point was also highlighted in the Cardiac Surgery Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) 2018 document, and the NHS England Specialised Cardiac Improvement cardiac surgery work stream is taking forward the GIRFT recommendations, which will also look at how pathways of care for this and other specialised cardiac conditions can be improved by better network working across providers.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 03/05/2019 13:03:21 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham