PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Corporate Governance (15 December 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to apply the proposed Integrated care systems requirement not to appoint individuals to the board who could reasonably be regarded as undermining the independence of the health service to all NHS bodies.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The Health and Care Act 2022 has provisions for integrated care boards (ICBs) to set out processes for board membership in its constitutions. The 2022 Act requires each ICB to maintain and make available to the public one or more registers of the interests of board members, members of the committees or sub-committees and employees.

Other National Health Service bodies are responsible for their own governance processes, including regarding board membership and there are no plans to review these arrangements further.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
21 December 2022