Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidelines on the recruitment of independent consultancies conducting leadership and governance reviews in the NHS.

In September 2017 NHS England published its guidance ‘Getting the most from developmental well-led reviews: Commissioning external suppliers and working with peer reviewers’ to help National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts to get the most out of developmental reviews of leadership and governance, including approaches to procurement. The guidance is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/WLF_supplementary_guide_23oct.pdf