Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many local contracts are in place with independent hospitals to ensure the provision of Priority 2 cancer surgery operations in England.
A Contract Award Notice in respect of each of the 26 individual contracts entered into by NHS England with independent sector hospital providers has been published on 16 October 2020 by the Official Journal of the European Union. The Notice is available at the following link:
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:492193-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML