PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships (8 February 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals he has received on the organisational form of the new body to be created from the merger of NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships; and what role sustainability and transformation plans will play in determining that organisational form.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The Department is developing plans to establish a new National Health Service property organisation, in response to early recommendations made by Sir Robert Naylor’s ongoing review of the NHS estate. A key function of the new organisation will be to provide a single strengthened source of strategic estates planning expertise for the NHS. This will build on the support that existing teams in NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships have been providing to the NHS locally, including in the development of estates proposals as part of sustainability and transformation plans.

Further details on the proposed new organisation, including its organisational form, will be set out in due course. We are committed to ensuring that the new organisation fully supports and reflects the needs and priorities of the NHS.

Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
24 February 2017