PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Integrated Care Systems and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (5 June 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of deferring revised plans for sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated care systems until after the publication of the NHS Workforce Plan and the Social Care Green Paper.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and NHS Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan later this year. The Interim People Plan and the forthcoming Implementation Framework will provide the NHS with significant additional information to support their strategic planning.

Answered by:
Stephen Hammond (Conservative)
14 June 2019