Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to implement the recommendations of the report by NHS England entitled An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience, published on 10 January 2023.

Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are responsible for commissioning musculoskeletal services for their local populations. The NHS England report ‘An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience’ supports ICSs, which are responsible for delivering support, to improve access to commissioned musculoskeletal therapies services. It includes defining principles and recommended actions across primary, community and secondary care and further resources which should support and enable local leadership to adapt and adopt the recommended actions.