Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the report by the NHS Forum on the creation of a fully integrated service and seven-day working has not yet been published.

Work on fully integrated seven day services has moved on and the NHS Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014, now sets out how the health service needs to change over the next five years if it is to close the widening gaps in the health of the population, quality of care and the funding of services. This overarching strategy also establishes service integration as a design principle for the new care models emerging from it. More information about new care models is attached and can be found at:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf