Health Services
Commons · Question 68718 · Tabled 16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Coleman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the merits of highly specialised services being commissioned directly by individual hospital trusts.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 23 Jul 2025
In preparation for the merger of the Department and NHS England and the integration of their functions under one organisation, and alongside the 10 Year Plan's ambitions to establish integrated care boards as strategic commissioners of local health servic...