Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how her Department measures NHS trusts in respect of long term chronic and long term fluctuating chronic conditions and how this is reported.

National Health Service trusts are not assessed through a single measure specifically for long-term chronic or fluctuating conditions. NHS England oversees trusts through the NHS Oversight Framework 2026/27, which focuses on high-level system accountability, financial overrides, and operational metrics rather than granular clinical guidelines. However, the framework directly impacts the management of long-term fluctuating, and chronic conditions through the systems it monitors.