Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of NHS England’s performance against its delivery of the 2016-17 mandate objective to implement the agreed recommendations of the Accelerated Access Review.

The Department regularly reviews NHS England’s performance against the objectives, deliverables and requirements in the Government’s mandate to NHS England. The result of this assessment is set out in the Department’s annual assessment.

NHS England is an active partner in the newly established Accelerated Access Collaborative, which will identify and support the most exciting innovations and we are working closely with NHS England to implement key recommendations from the Review, including delivering the Test Beds programme and expanding the role of the Academic Health Science Networks.