Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the forthcoming NHS Bill will support patients' ability to receive the most effective therapeutic innovations as early as possible in their treatment.

The upcoming Health and Social Care Bill will build on the work of the National Health Service to support integration, joint working and the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.

It will put integrated care systems on a statutory footing focusing resources on effective treatments and innovations and working to streamline referral and patient pathways as far as possible. This will support the NHS to deliver the most effective therapeutic innovations as early as possible.