David Simpson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Simpson on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to introduce new care models across the UK similar to those introduced in England to date.

David Mowat

New care models have been proposed by NHS England as an approach to address the three major challenges facing the health and care system highlighted in the Five Year Forward View: the health and wellbeing gap, the care and quality gap, and the funding and efficiency gap.

NHS England has no jurisdiction over any of the other health services within the United Kingdom and therefore not within our remit to impose plans upon them.

Decision making is devolved and therefore it is for each of the separate health services to determine individually.