Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he is making on implementing NHS sustainability and transformation plans.

The publication of ‘Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View’ marked the evolution of the Sustainability and Transformation Plans into Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs), as local areas develop the means to deliver the plans and build partnerships between local organisations.

STPs are the NHS’s own plan for delivering the ‘Five Year Forward View’. The Government was clear that it will back STPs where they are clinically led and locally supported. However, no substantial reconfiguration will occur without public consultation and there are long standing processes in place to ensure that happens.

A dashboard will be published shortly showing key metrics for each STP, which will enable the public to compare progress in each area.