Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on deploying population health management solutions to support Integrated Care Systems to understand the areas of greatest health need and match NHS services to meet them; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are providing a range of support to sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) and integrated care systems (ICSs) during 2019-20 to put in place local population health management solutions. These include the National Performance and Population Health Dashboard which brings together national datasets to enable insight on system populations, the health and care they receive, identify system opportunities and support benchmarking across peer systems. This tool will be further developed to offer greater insight for STPs and ICSs.