Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consultation he undertook prior to the decision to abolish NHS England.

Through our public consultation on the 10 Year Plan, the Government has shown that we are committed to engaging with the public, patients, and clinicians.

We have heard that those within the system believe it to be broken and in need of reform. Lord Darzi’s independent investigation said that the Government inherited a broken National Health Service. The report stated that the impact of the 2012 reorganisation was ‘disastrous…a calamity without international precedent’. My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has also heard from frontline NHS leaders that they are overwhelmed by micromanagement from the top.

The Government is committed to transparency, and once the necessary evaluations are finalised, we will ensure that all relevant information is made accessible to the public.