Asked by: Lord Glendonbrook (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform the National Health Service; and what plans they have to ask the charitable sector to help in any such reforms.
Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The 10-Year Health Plan will form a crucial part of the Government's Health Mission and will tackle the challenges set out by Lord Darzi of Denham in his independent assessment of the National Health Service.
To make this a reality, we will be listening to the public, people who work in the health and care system, and partner organisations, as part of a national conversation on the future of the NHS. Organisations are encouraged to log onto the online portal on the change.NHS.UK website, and submit a response by 2 December 2024.
We are also publishing a Workshop in a Box that will support organisations to conduct their own local engagement activities, with insights being collected in a consistent format. This will be available from the community engagement tab on change.NHS.UK website from Monday 18 November 2024, with insights gathered to be uploaded to the portal by 14 February 2025.
In addition, we have established 11 working groups to take forward policy development that will feed into the plan. These working groups include representatives from the charitable sector.