Draft Health and Social Care Information Centre (Transfer of Functions, Abolition and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023

Nigel Mills Excerpts

Tuesday 17th January 2023 General Committees

[Nigel Mills (Amber Valley) (Con)]

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Latham.

It is tempting to ask whether any of the Lansley reforms from decades ago have survived, and whether we have abandoned them all. We may be considering the last surviving bit to keep. Do the Government now believe that the right structure for the NHS is to have as few organisations as possible and to have them doing everything? We are seeing that with integrated care boards across the country, and now we are bringing stuff into NHS England. What is the Government’s vision for how the NHS should look? Will we see a plan under which we unravel a few more of the trusts that are still stuck around and for which none of us could quite understand the reason? Is that the vision: fewer organisations doing more gives a better outcome than lots of different things doing specialised work?