Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish details of what the deliverables were for the contract awarded to Thinks Insight, Kaleidoscope Health and Care and the Institute for Public Policy Research in relation to the engagement exercise for the 10 Year Health Plan.

To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.

Full information on the deliverables of the initial contract is available at the following link, on pages 172-174:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/80963989-c4d6-4a16-8e12-c31b43a81dda

In summary, the deliverables were to:

• design and run deliberative events;
• open and operate an online portal;
• develop and disseminate assets for local organisations to run engagement events;
• design an analytical framework for data collection;
• report interim findings every three weeks;
• co-design the engagement plan with the Department; and
• produce an engagement exercise report.

We committed to co-designing the engagement exercise with our delivery partners following the awarding of the contract, therefore, the scope and requirements were reviewed and adjusted during the contract.

A detailed 10-Year Health Plan engagement report will be published shortly, which will set out the methodology and results of this engagement exercise.