Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what procedures are in place to allow public consultation after the publication of NHS transformation and sustainability plans for Cheshire and Merseyside.

NHS providers, commissioners, local authorities, and other health and care services are coming together to propose how they, at local level, can improve the way that health and care is planned and delivered in a more person-centred and coordinated way.

In order to achieve this, NHS England, with other national health and care bodies, released guidance to the local areas developing Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) entitled ‘Engaging local people’ in September 2016 which can be found on their website:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf

The local organisations which are shaping these proposals will be leading public engagement processes on their STP plans, in line with the engagement guidance.