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Dialysis Machines: Temperature

Commons · Question 33432 · Tabled 25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 3 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Mary Glindon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Kidney Care UK entitled Left Out in the Cold, published on 30 March 2023; and if he will take steps

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 3 Mar 2025

There are no plans to undertake an assessment of the potential merits of standardising reimbursement for all types of home dialysis, or to reduce variance in payments. Commissioned renal providers in England have a contractual obligation to reimburse the ...