Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they agree with the assessment of the Staffordshire Distressed Health Economy report by KPMG into the Staffordshire local health economy that the annual financial deficit across the NHS providers and commissioners in Staffordshire could reach £216.8m by 2018–19.

There are significant financial issues within Staffordshire which present a challenge for the local leaders.

The financial challenge is being addressed by the Transformation Strategy which will drive the service redesign of the Staffordshire health and social care economy to secure financial and clinically sustainable services in the long term. This work is being led by the Clinical Commissioning Congress - a joint body of clinical commissioning Groups and local authority commissioners.