Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 26284, what steps NHS England has taken to deal with potential conflicts of interests in the support offered by Deloitte to the development of its clinical commissioning policies; and if he will make a statement.

Ben Gummer

Deloitte is contracted to provide consultancy and advice to NHS England in support of its policy development programme for commissioned specialised services.

Deloitte is acting in an advisory capacity only and all decisions and governance processes associated with the policy development and adoption process have been retained by NHS England.

Where there has been potential for commercial in confidence information, this data and any associated analysis has been handled by NHS England alone.