Treatment Centres
(asked on 27th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of increasing independent sector provision for elective recovery on health inequalities.
This question was answered on 9th May 2023
When commissioning services, we expect NHS England and integrated care boards to uphold their duties to consider and deliver equalities under the Equality Act 2010, and to reduce inequalities under the National Health Service Act 2006 and Health and Care Act 2022.
No specific assessment has been made of independent sector provision and health inequalities.