Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Vascular and Venous Disease All-Party Parliamentary Group, the Association of British HealthTech Industries and the Royal College of Podiatry, Making the case for reform in the vascular sector, published on 17 March; and whether they plan to implement the report's recommendations in the delivery of neighbourhood health policy.

In March 2026 we published a Neighbourhood Health Framework to empower local leaders to develop and scale neighbourhood health. The framework outlines the national minimum aims and objectives of neighbourhood health. This is the floor, not the ceiling. It is important that reforms are locally led, as integrated care boards and local authorities are best placed to design services that make sense for their local populations.

Local systems can choose to go further than the minimum aims set out in the framework, and this could include a focus on the recommendations in the report by the Vascular and Venous Disease All-Party Parliamentary Group, the Association of British HealthTech Industries, and the Royal College of Podiatry.

Delivering neighbourhood health will be an incremental process as local understanding develops and national reforms progress.