Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the objectives of the Major Conditions Strategy will be.

The objectives of the Major Conditions Strategy are to; alleviate pressure on the health system, reduce ill health related labour market inactivity and, improve care and health outcomes for those living with multiple conditions and an increasingly complex set of needs. These objectives are an essential part of our commitment to gain five extra years of healthy life expectancy by 2035, and our levelling up mission to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030.

Monitoring the impact of the strategy will be essential to determining its success. We are looking at opportunities within existing performance measures and frameworks to ensure we have an up-to-date understanding of progress against the Strategy’s key aims and objectives. The Government is providing additional funding of £3.3 billion in 2023-24 and £3.3 billion in 2024-24 to support the National Health Service in England.

As part of the Strategy, we will identifying innovative actions to help alleviate pressure on the NHS, such as maximising use of new technologies to screen individuals for conditions. A timetable for the publication of the interim report this summer has not yet been finalised, and we will further consider to the timing of the final report once the Interim Report has been published.