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Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 10 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 12 March 2015. It was answered by George Freeman (Conservative) on Tuesday, 17 March 2015 on behalf of the Department of Health.


NHS: Finance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Question 224945 of 2 March 2015, what estimate he has made of the number of decisions taken by screening panels which are made in error; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

NHS England has advised that decisions taken by screening panels are made in accordance with its interim commissioning policy on individual funding requests, which is available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cp-03.pdf

Its individual funding request screening panels are skilled, experienced and trained in their role and NHS England does not consider that any decisions are made in error.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
227028
Session
2014-15
Related items
NHS: Finance
Monday, 2 March 2015
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Disclosure of information Finance NHS Medical treatments Screening
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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