Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) start date is and (b) panel members are for the independent investigation into Liverpool Community Health.

The Liverpool Community Health Investigation was launched in June 2019 and work has begun. The Investigation comprises three Stages. Stage 1 covers the scale of the issues and Stage 2 is a clinical and structured judgement review alongside Stage 1. Preliminary work on Stages 1 and 2 was completed in August 2019.

Stage 3 will investigate individual serious patient safety incidents identified from the previous two stages to establish the nature and scale of deaths and patient harm at the Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust from 2010 to 2014.

The Investigation has identified a number of expert advisors to assist the Chairman and details will be confirmed when the Terms of Reference are published in Parliament.