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Coronavirus: Medical Treatments

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 144585, tabled on 27 January 2021

Question

Dr Alan Whitehead
Labour
Southampton, Test
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the work of the Wessex Neurological Centre on safely treating patients with covid-19 using advanced centrifugal plasma exchange technology in an outpatient setting is shared across the NHS.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Jo Churchill
Conservative
Bury St Edmunds
Commons

Answered on

8 February 2021

NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that it has not been approached by the Wessex Neurological Centre regarding the treatment of patients with COVID-19 using plasma exchange technology.

NHS England and NHS Improvement will consider any published evidence as an outcome of research completed in line with its published clinical policy process. This is available at the following link:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Methods-National-clinical-policies-updated-July-2020.pdf

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