PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Staffordshire (14 November 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with (a) the Accountable Officer for Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group, (b) Stoke-on-Trent City Council, (c) Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust and (d) University Hospital of the North Midlands Trust on the Care Quality Commission review of local health and the social care system.

Asked by:
Gareth Snell (Labour)

Following the budget announcement of additional funding for adult social care in the March 2017, the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government asked the Care Quality Commission to undertake a programme of targeted system reviews in 20 local authority areas. One of these was Stoke-on-Trent.

As part of the review of Stoke-on-Trent, the Care Quality Commission Review Team interviews included discussions with the Accountable Officer for Stoke-on-Trent Clinical Commissioning Group, the City Director of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the Chief Executive Officer of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust, and the Chief Executive Officer and senior managers at the University Hospital of the North Midlands NHS Trust. The Department’s Deputy Director of Social Care System Oversight attended the Stoke-on-Trent area summit held on 9 November.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
20 November 2017