Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Health and social care integration: joining up care for people, places and populations White Paper, published on 8 February 2022, if he will develop a single shared outcomes framework to replace existing ones ensuring that key partners are focused on meeting a small set of shared national outcome targets.

As part of the shared outcome setting process, the Government is reviewing alignment with other priority setting exercises and outcomes frameworks across the health and social care system. We do not intend that shared outcomes should add to the overall burden of national requirements.

We have committed to consult stakeholders and design a framework with a concise number of national priorities and approach for developing additional local shared outcomes. These activities will inform the overall outcomes framework, and its relation to existing priority setting exercises and outcomes frameworks. We will set out this approach by spring 2023.