Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) role and (b) remit of National Clinical Directors will be following the abolition of NHS England.
Two medical directors have been confirmed in the NHS England transformation executive team. One for secondary care, the other for primary care.
Ministers and senior Department officials are working with the new executive team in NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to determine the leadership, structure, and requirements needed to support the creation of a new centre for health and care.