Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 68718

Health Services

Tabled: 16 July 2025

Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

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

Karin Smyth

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...

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