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Lord Kakkar (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 March 2025

Debate

NHS England Update

Contribution

My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my registered interest as chairman of King’s Health Partners. In the announcement made by the right honourable Secretary of State for Health in the other place, there was particular emphasis on identifying that in this period of transition, NHS England will focus on ensuring that local providers are better able to cut waiting times and to organise their finances appropriately. But NHS England has many other functions beyond those two important ones, and they will need to be delivered in what is a substantial transformation in reabsorbing NHS England into the Department of Health and Social Care. What reassurance can the Minister give your Lordships’ House that functions such as the recently integrated Health Education England function into NHS England, the NHS Digital function and many others, are going to be properly supervised and delivered during this period? They are as essential, in many ways, as delivering on waiting times and organising finances.

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