Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the London Ambulance Service on their level of engagement with the Patient's Forum.

The Department has recently been made aware by London Ambulance Service Trust that a significant number of the Patients’ Forum Ambulance Services (London) executive committee had resigned following serious concerns about the Forum’s governance processes.

The Trust also has some concerns about the Patients’ Forum’s ability to work in partnership.

The Trust has written to the Patients’ Forum to express its concerns and awaits assurance that there is a robust governance process in place.

The Trust’s approach to the Patients’ Forum Ambulance Services (London) is supported by its commissioners, NHS North West London Clinical Commissioning Groups on behalf of all London clinical commissioning groups. The London Ambulance Service remains committed to working with patient representative groups and the wider public, to further improve the care it delivers for Londoners.