Baroness Randerson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Randerson on 2016-03-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 11 February (HL5795), what is the value of payments made to Operational Delivery Networks (ODN) via the Commissioning and Quality Innovation payment network in (1) total, and (2) by ODN, for each of the last three financial years.

Lord Prior of Brampton

Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) provide expert specialist oversight of prescribing decisions on hepatitis C. They were established in August 2015, therefore funding information is only available for 2015/16.

In 2015/16, funding has been approximately £2.5 million. The majority of this amount has been via a central allocation.

It is not possible to confirm the payments made to each ODN for commercial reasons.

NHS England is funding ODNs via Commissioning Quality and Innovation in 2016/17 and 2017/18.