Accountable Care Organisations

(asked on 27th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2018 to Question HL5353, for what reasons the consultation on the contracting arrangements for Accountable Care Organisations was not launched in March 2018.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 2nd May 2018

NHS England has decided that the consultation on the draft Accountable Care Organisations (ACO) Contract will not be launched until two ongoing Judicial Reviews have been concluded. This will allow the Department and NHS England to take into account the outcome of both challenges.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive of NHS England regularly meet to discuss to discuss a broad range of NHS England policy issues, of which the ACO policy is one of them.

The Department has been clear that it does not expect any contracts to be signed prior to this consultation concluding. Furthermore, the Department has been clear that it will not make the necessary Directions or lay the proposed regulations until NHS England has completed this consultation.

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