To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who the members are of the NHS England high cost devices steering group; and what the role of that group is.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting lists for echocardiograms.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential economic benefits of reducing the prevalence of sight loss.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to introduce a national leadership role for inherited cardiac conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to raise awareness of inherited cardiac conditions among GPs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to introduce self-referral forms for family members of people with genetic cardiac conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to reduce regional variations in outcomes for patients with (a) hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and (b) other inherited cardiac conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to reduce regional variations in diagnosis rates of (a) hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and (b) other inherited cardiac conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to increase the number of genetic councillors for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to raise awareness of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling appropriately qualified optometrists to issue certificates of vision impairment.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are block contract payment models in use for cardiac services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the use of block contract payment models in cardiac services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to expand the eligibility of familial mapping services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to improve the reach of screening programmes for inherited cardiac conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to publish a (a) commissioning policy and (b) policy statement on the use of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in the Tricuspid valve.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of issuing a commissioning policy for the use of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in secondary mitral regurgitation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the Clinical Priorities Action Group are meeting each year; and what the dates are for each meeting in 2024.