NHS: Standards
(asked on 4th November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will include commitments on the quality and provision of urgent care in his next annual Mandate to NHS England.
The Government is currently consulting on how we set the next mandate to NHS England. The consultation document can be found here:
The consultation document proposes that the new mandate will be based on the priorities that Government believes are central to delivering the changes needed to ensure that free healthcare is always there whenever people need it most. It states that, as part of achieving the Government’s vision for a 7-day National Health Service, we want everyone to have effective 24/7 access to urgent care.
The consultation closes on 23 November, and the final mandate will be published in the light of responses and taking account of the outcome of the Spending Review.