Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve services for patients with long term conditions not covered by his Department’s Major Conditions Strategy.

The majority of services for patients with long term conditions are commissioned locally by integrated care boards, who are best placed to plan the provision of service improvement subject to local prioritisation and funding.

The Department will continue work to improve the treatment and care people receive for a range of long term conditions through work such as the ME/CFS Delivery Plan, the Women’s Health Strategy and the Acquired Brain Injury strategy. The Department is also working closely with NHS England on a range of service improvement initiatives, including the Neurosciences Transformation Programme and the Renal Services Transformation Programme.